Wordpress CMS Plugins

So, Wordpress is great. There are so many things that you can do with it that its versatility extends beyond a blogging tool and crosses into CMS territory. Northeast Web Design does a multitude of Wordpress installations on a frequent basis and use it as the foundation for a multitude of our clients. Being that this process takes a bit of time (however not much) we took steps to further streamline our business processes and create a bundled version of Wordpress CMS Plugins.

NEWD Wordpress CMS Plugins Distribution

The Wordpress CMS Plugins

Askimet – Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

All-In-One-SEO-Pack – Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines.

Yoast Breadcrumbs – Easily add breadcrumbs to your template.

cForms – cforms is a feature rich plugin for Wordpress, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.

Google Analytics for Wordpress – The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.

Google Sitemap Generator – This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

List Pages Plus – Alter the output of the wplistpages() function’s HTML. Add in your own classes, insert text into link title, add additional tags surrounding title. Top-level Parents and Children are set seperately for greater flexibility. You can also turn off parent links, useful when using collapsible menus.

NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

Peter’s Login Redirect – Define a set of redirect rules for specific users, users with specific roles, users with specific capabilities, and a blanket rule for all other users. This is all managed in Settings > Login redirects. Version 1.5 and up of this plugin is compatible only with WordPress 2.6.2 and up.

PODs CMS – Pods lets you create, manage, and display custom content types using WordPress. Like Drupal CCK, these content types can relate to one another, allowing for sites packed with interconnectedness. Automatic pagination, filtering, public forms, access control, menu editing and more are possible with the Pods CMS plugin.

Post Thumb Revisited – This plugin scans a post for the first image and then creates a thumbnail for it. I find this very useful in almost any situation.

Role Manager – Allows for the creation and alteration of Wordpress roles. Very useful for CMS based sites.

WPLite – WPlite (“Wordpress lite”) is a Wordpress plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the Wordpress administration menu—even the Dashboard. On top of that, you can also hide post meta controls on the Write page, so as to simplify the editing interface.