Jason Oakley : The life of an Aussie geek!

I’ve been using WordPress plugins for years and I think it’s about time I give credit to the ones I really prefer to use on my various websites.

WordPress plugins add extra functionality to your website allowing you to embed advertisements, monitor statistics, allow different login authentication sites, syndicate information, convert your blog to different formats and more.

Here, I’ve added a bunch of WordPress plugins I find very useful for my various blogs. Some are used on this one and others are used on my other sites.

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Add Meta-Tags : This plugin enables adding your own Meta Tags to your WordPress site. WordPress doesn’t support Description and Keyword Meta Tags out of the box, strangely enough, so this one adds them to your site. Very handy.

Adsense Optimizer : Add Google Adsense to your site in the locations you specify. Extremely customisable. Highly recommended.

Download Counter : Since iPhones cannot view Flash, I use this one to link to the MP3 of my Podcasts and it counts how many times this link was clicked. Useful statistics.

FeedWordPress : I use this plugin to syndicate my WordPress posts from blog to blog. Configure how often you want it to check and what data to syndicate.

Find Me On : A simple plugin to add links to your social profiles.

Flexo Archives : A neat plugin to shrink your WordPress Archives sidebar to a simple dropdown menu. Saves space.

Google Analyticator : Enables Google Analytics.

Google XML Sitemaps : “This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.”

Odiogo Listen Button : Converts your posts into MP3 files to listen to live and syndicate.

Shashin : Add your Picasa photos to your blog easily.

WordPress.com Popular Posts : Display your most popular posts in your sidebar.

WPTouch iPhone theme : Adds a special theme to your blog which customises your blog to a mobile version when viewed with a mobile device such as iPhone, iPod Touch, Palm, Android.

Janrain : “Janrain Engage (formerly RPX) helps you effortlessly register and login users on your website with their existing accounts from Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, MySpace, Windows Live, AOL or other OpenID provider.”