Chapter 14
Ten Popular WordPress Plugins
In This Chapter
Finding popular WordPress plugins
Using plugins to enhance your blog
In this chapter, I list ten of the most popular plugins available for your WordPress blog. This list isn’t exhaustive by any means; hundreds of excellent WordPress plugins can, and do, provide multiple ways to extend the functionality of your blog. And if these ten plugins aren’t enough for you, you can find many more at the official WordPress Plugin Directory (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins).
The greatest plugin of all is Akismet, which I describe in Chapter 10. Akismet is the answer to comment and trackback spam; it kills spam dead. It’s installed with WordPress. Chapter 10 contains information on how to locate, download, unpack, install, activate, and manage plugins in your WordPress blog.
Jetpack
Developer: Automattic
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/
Jetpack is not just one simple plugin; it’s a suite of plugins that connects your self-hosted website running WordPress.org with the hosted WordPress.com service — and brings you many of the features that WordPress.com users enjoy. Jetpack bundles great features such as
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