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CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO PLUGINS

Popular Plugin Examples

Take a look at the ﬁ ve most downloaded WordPress plugins available to get a sense of their diversity:

All in One SEO Pack — Adds advanced search engine optimization functionality to

WordPress. Features include custom meta data for all content, canonical URLs, custom post

type support, and more!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all - in - one - seo - pack/

Google XML Sitemaps — Generates an XML sitemap of all content for submission to the

popular search engines such as Google, Bing, and Ask.com.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google - sitemap - generator/

Akismet — A popular comment spam ﬁ lter for WordPress. Checks all comments against the

Akismet web service to verify whether the comment is spam.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

NextGEN Gallery — Adds advanced image gallery support to WordPress. You can easily

create and manage image galleries and slideshows. Galleries can be embedded in posts or

pages.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen - gallery/

Contact Form 7 — Adds a contact form to any post or page in WordPress. Supports mul-

tiple contact forms, Akismet spam ﬁ ltering, and CAPTCHA.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact - form - 7/

As you can see, the preceding plugins can handle any task. The features added by these plugins are

universal and features that most web sites on the Internet should have.

Popular Plugin Tags

Now you will look at some popular tags for plugins. Plugin tags are just like blog post tags, simple

keywords that describe a plugin in the Plugin Directory. This makes it easy to search for existing

plugins by tag. Following are popular examples:

Twitter — Everyone loves Twitter for micro - blogging and sharing links. You can ﬁ nd an

abundance of Twitter - related plugins for WordPress.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/twitter

Google — With so many different services and APIs, Google is a popular plugin tag.

Everything from Google ads to Google maps have been integrated into a WordPress plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/google

Widget — Most plugins that include a widget also use the widget tag. This is great for

viewing the many different types of widgets available for WordPress.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/widget

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