Must have WordPress plugins
While Drupal has its place among the most powerful CMS solutions out there, WordPress too has a number of interesting plugins that gives developers the framework to make beautiful small/medium sized websites. Like my earlier blog entry, every client is different but here are ones I find myself utilizing quite a lot.
- Contact Form 7
This remarkable plug-in is highly customizable and allows you define contents in an intuitive way. The contact pageon our website is an example of this in action.
- More Fields
This plugin enables you to define various input boxes for custom fields in the CMS and therefore, making the custom values functionality in WordPress a lot easier to manage.
- Adminimize
Working with clients that may or may not be familiar with some of the more technical aspects of WordPress, this plugin helps hide unnecessary functionality that may confuse them.
- qTranslate
Multilingual content can be tricky at times but this easy to use plugin has immensely helped. What I like most are the functions available for developers and the fact that you can directly embed short-code in posts and such.
- All in One SEO Pack
Having a great website means nothing if no one is reading it. This plugin is easy to use for anyone while also giving advanced users the ability to fine-tune a lot of settings.
- NextGen
One of the most popular plugins out there. Works quite well out of the box but offers a lot of options in the way of customization. In conjunction with NextGen, the NextGen smooth gallery is also a fantastic plugin.
- wordTube
From the author of NextGen, the wordTube plugin is a great media player that is easy to use and of course, highly customizable.
