Comments on: Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins

By: Mark.Jones

Mark.Jones — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:00:59 +0000

That is an interesting article. In our experience website owners find it difficult to understand visitor behaviour even with good systems such as Google Analytics.

We have recently come across an excellent piece of software that not only allows them to monitor individual user behaviour in real time, but also facilitates direct engagement between visitor and user. This has been increasing conversions by an average of 15% in the websites we have implemented it in.

It seems that the individualised data gives a more enlightening perspective.

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What a fantastic list! I already use CForms II and Search Everything for my clients but the rest are really great!

By: Giles Smith

Giles Smith — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:17:54 +0000

There are some really good tools there, I use a couple of them already, but I will be checking out the page links to one.

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By: Gugnin

Gugnin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:25:18 +0000

Alex C: somebody in Russia is already doing such a thing — he’s ceatring a socialnetwork-plugin for WP.

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By: Christina Fowler

Christina Fowler — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:46:01 +0000

What a fantastic list! I already use CForms II and Search Everything for my clients but the rest are really great!

By: Alex C

Alex C — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:19:21 +0000

@Mosey That’s a real shame to hear that plugin isn’t being updated anymore - it sounded abssolutely perfect for using WP as a CMS.

My next stage of using WP as a CMS is to investigate WP MU and see how I can get a community of bloggers together for Huck.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:06:25 +0000

@Alex C: I really loved Custom Write Panel and had it working on one of my sites, but last time I checked it wasn’t being updated any more, although someone on the forums had already patched it for 2.3.3. With 2.5 just round the corner, I’m hoping that Joshua (I think) will be back to support it. Such a clever but under-rated concept!

I’d also like to plug Alex Rabe’s Table plugin. How many times have people wanted to just create a TABLE (not a database table) within their content? Alex Rabe is the same guy who brought us NextGEN gallery (http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins)

For the other plugins recommended, I definitely agree with ‘page Links to’ ‘Subscribe2′ and also Google Sitemap Generator. I’d be interested in testing out pageMash as well as Search Everything. One day if i get into Ecommerce, I think that plugin will be amazing as well

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By: Carabus

Carabus — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:43:18 +0000

“Some people load up on plugins; I am in favor (instead) of installing just a few of the most useful. I use three or four on this list and may try a couple more for my WP/CMS sites.”

This is so true for me, i load up on plugins. I feel bad for doing so, though. Plugins is a little cheatish, isn’t it?

By: Alex C

Alex C — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:22:47 +0000

Interesting list - there’s a couple on there I’ve never heard of and might investigate. One of the most useful I’ve found is ‘Custom Field GUI’ which looking at the page is going to be superceded by somethign called ‘Custom Write Panel’.

Love the idea of this plugin - it gives different ‘Write..’ buttons for individual categories so ‘Write Book Review’ could be one for example. They’re looking to combine this with the Role Manager plugin so you can say who sees what. Genius.

PS My latest (and biggest) site using WP as a CMS was a website for a magazine called Huck, WP works a treat.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:27:18 +0000

@mark- thanks for the post, I’m glad the list is helpful.

@chris - we do stick to the few relavent plugins per client. Most clients don’t have use for more than 3 or 4.

By: Charles Wilson

Charles Wilson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:23:19 +0000

I will say a great list. Very useful for those non-profits site. Great to use a blog as a notice board with the calendar plugin.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:15:07 +0000

Some people load up on plugins; I am in favor (instead) of installing just a few of the most useful. I use three or four on this list and may try a couple more for my WP/CMS sites.

By: Ted Clayton

Ted Clayton — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:37:25 +0000

Excellent topic! Some of the items on the list, I see right off how they CMS … others I’ll need to look into more. Good idea, collecting them. Thanks!

By: GeekMadness

GeekMadness — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:27:25 +0000

Good list.