I got lots of emails recently from our blog readers asking about what WP plugins we are using on Famous Bloggers blog, most of them are carouse to know because they are planing their new blogs or need to enhance blog performance, and need some help to choose the right plugins, so I decided to write a this post as a start of a series posts to tell you all about main WP plugins we are using and really makes difference for our blog, we recommend this plugins for your Wordpress blog.
Administrative Plugins
1- Akismet plugin comes with Wordpress installations, Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. Until now Akismet catched over 2000 spammy comment on our blog. You need a WordPress.com API key to activate it.
2- WordPress.com Stats was our choice from all the Stats plugins we have seen because it’s not slowing our blog performance or eating our hosting server resources, Automattic created this stats system, and it’s necessary for every smart blogger who cares for collecting important information about his blog posts, traffic, visitors, and want to know what his reader like to read on his blog. I actually using this plugin since I created my first blog, and here I am, still using it. Also it needs WordPress.com API key to activate it so you can use it.
3- WordPress Database Backup plugin will backup your blog database everyday just in case, isn’t it nice to receive your blog database backup right into your email box, this plugin is a blog life saver, bad things happen, so stay safe!
4- Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu is great choice if you are tired from scrolling all the way down your Wordpress dashboard to edit your blog setting, check a plugin, or yeah! Edit some Thesis options at the bottom of the long WP admin page?! This plugin will bring everything on the top of your page by adding a nice Admin Drop Down Menu, you don’t have to take a taxi or spend extra money on gas anymore 
5- FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. Are you subscribed to Famous Bloggers feed?
6- MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin will save your Wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer, it will allow you to ping once when you publish a new post, and stop binging after that in case you needed to edit your post after publishing it.
7- Broken Link Checker plugin is your sensitive tools, you really don’t want to have broken links, search engines will not like you, and will not like your loose blog, even you will not like it when send your readers to the middle of nowhere in the internet space. Broken Link Checker is your plugin.
8- We run Delete-Revision plugin, as you may know, FamousBloggers.net is a multi-author blog, and also we are open for geust blogging, and while our contributors edit and save their posts, they leave a big amount of revisions behind, so Delete-Revision plugin delete these revision from our database, so our blog can easily lose lots of weight!
Speed up your WP V8 engine
I have to admit it, I removed lots of unnecessary plugin, I remember I did this while I was doing some blog cleaning that day, you will not believe that!
9- WP super cash plugin is retired, YES.. I have replaced it with a brand new W3 Total Cash plugin, can you feel the power of our blog speed?
Design and Usability
10- You may or may not notice that we are running Thesis theme on Famous Bloggers blog, and we managed to customize this them as much we as we could, and we work to enhance our theme when ever there is a chance. So if you are using Thesis, then you must install Thesis OpenHook plugin to have control on Thesis and embed your codes, ads, social buttons and any other code you want, with out having to edit your theme files.
11- WP PageNavi Now you can navigate through our blog, want to style it? Check how to stile your Thesis navigation page, mmm you don’t use Thesis on your blog? OK! No problem, you also need to check how to style Thesis navigation page
12- And if you are asking yourself how we can show our recent posts on the sidebar, the answer is this what YD Recent Posts plugin do, it give you a very nice widget with lots of options, and also it allow you to display automatic thumbnail images.
Mobilize your Blog
13- Lots of people use their cell phones, iPhones to brows and visit blogs, your blog could be one of them, so you really don’t want to lose those visitors, and probably you would like to give the ability to brows your blog faster, this was a suggestion to mobilize our blogs, so basically you have two great options to Make Your WordPress Blog Smartphone Ready, by using WordPress Mobile Pack or WPtouch iPhone Theme.
That’s it for today
Ok everybody, we reached the end of today’s post, and I am going to tell you more about other plugins we are using on my coming posts, I hope you like this administrative, design, speed, and mobilization Wordpress plugin collection.
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Dear, Can you please write any tutorial or recommend any plugin by using that I could present my content in more professional looking manner? There are some plugin like Dean’s FCKEditor or tinymce which help to provide better look content for people like us who don’t know coding. Please write a tutorial on this topic so that we can make our contents with stylist icon, bullet points, side notes etc.
(2694 comments) August 26, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Hi Adnan, I will put this on my plans and I will let you know if we published some useful tips!
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(1 comments) March 15, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Hesham,
Your blog has been recommended to us as a interviewee’s favorite blog!
We would like to do an interview with you about your blog for Blog Interviewer. We’d
like to give you the opportunity to
give us some insight on the “person behind the blog.”
It would just take a few minutes of your time. The interview form can
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Best regards,
Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas´s last blog ..Telling: Like It Is- Lalo Telling
(2694 comments) March 15, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Hello Mike, thank you so much for this opportunity , I will see if I have time to do it, so it’s not a promise
(26 comments) February 20, 2010 at 9:35 am
Hesham thanks for the list, I have been going through plugin heck lately. These may help me figure a few more things out. Thanks in addition to you and Karl for the discussion on broken links. That is an area that I have been meaning to learn more about an use the correct plugin, I will investigate both.
Jenny´s last blog ..Dial Up Internet – Humor For Humpday!
(2694 comments) February 22, 2010 at 2:42 am
There is a coming post with more useful plugin, probably I will post it this week, so stay tuned, I am sure you will like it.
and … hey.. where have you been?! contact me by email if you need anything.
(2 comments) February 17, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Great list. I’m planning on setting up Thesis in the near future and I’m bookmarking this page. This will help me greatly in knowing what to set up and why. Thanks!
(2694 comments) February 19, 2010 at 3:02 pm
There will be more plugins on coming posts, stay tuned… and good luck with your blog.
(244 comments) February 17, 2010 at 2:18 pm
When using Delete-Revision do you still have control of when to delete or is it automatic?
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(2694 comments) February 17, 2010 at 2:21 pm
It’s not automated, you have the control to do it when ever you want!
(244 comments) February 18, 2010 at 11:28 am
Excellent; downloaded.
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(1 comments) February 16, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Well.. it looks like you have done tons of great changes, but I have just noticed, that your blog has 10 script errors (8 of them relate to Google AdSense ads). So you better check them too, because errors extend page loading time like a rubber
iWoodpecker@website traffic, promotion´s last blog ..First Page of Google With 106 Millions Competitors: My First Time. How?!
(2694 comments) February 16, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Maybe because I didn’t remove the code completely, I keep it and added a !!
I will remove it soon, Thanks a lot!
(2 comments) February 16, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Thanks for posting your plugins. Just read an article this week on the importance of having your blog be smartphone compatible. That more and more people are accessing the internet that way, and if you don’t step up, you could be left behind
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(2694 comments) February 16, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Exactly, because people will not wait for your blog to load specially if it has some images on the posts or sidebar, so these plugins make it load is seconds.
(57 comments) February 16, 2010 at 10:10 am
I just knew about delete revision plugin, It seems really useful to make blog lighter — i think i will take a look of it.
Dana @ Blogging Update´s last blog ..Yes, This Blog is Having BuySellAds.com (BSA) Advertising Space Now
(2694 comments) February 16, 2010 at 3:15 pm
It’s very easy to use, and with one click it will drop all revisions from your database safely, I run it on 3 different blogs with no problems.
(286 comments) February 16, 2010 at 9:58 am
I’m waiting for SEO plugin here but you not mentioned one at all, lol! And I need a guide to using PageNavi, the plugin failed in my blog. Any suggestion, please guys. I’m using Streamline form studiopress.
Thanks
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(2694 comments) February 16, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Simply because I don’t use it anymore, I used to run the All in one SEO plugin but after Thesis you will not need any of the SEO plugin anymore.
(286 comments) February 17, 2010 at 2:50 am
Thesis can do all the SEO? Great!
(1 comments) February 16, 2010 at 9:31 am
There are a couple of plugins on your list that I am not using yet. Will have to try them out. Great list you have!
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(2694 comments) February 16, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Hey Shannon! nice to see you on our blog, glad you liked the list. Visit again latter because we will write about more recommended plugins we are using.
(3 comments) February 16, 2010 at 2:01 am
Nice plugin collection shared, Hesham. But you missed one thing from mentioning here, that you are using. Comment Luv.
(2694 comments) February 16, 2010 at 3:37 am
Yes.. Yes.. you mean the celebrity plugins?! I will be posting about it on my coming posts
You have a very nice blog, I will be checking it more latter, plz keep in touch!
Hesham´s last blog ..Dose a Blog Feels and knows it’s Owner
(170 comments) February 15, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Hesham, please check the lick for FeedBurner FeedSmith. I think the link is broken as it is returning a 404.
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(2694 comments) February 15, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Yes! they have changed the link, I didn’t notice that! I have updated it to the working one! Thanks a lot!
Hesham´s last blog ..Dose a Blog Feels and knows it’s Owner
(170 comments) February 15, 2010 at 8:27 pm
What an awesome lists of WP Plugins. Although am not using Wp on my main blog yet, I have plenty of blogs (which you know, lol) that are on WP and some of the plugins above are very useful. I am installing immediately the backup and feedburner plugins. Thanks bro for this. I hope all is well with you and soon I am comming with my next posts for the series:)
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(58 comments) February 15, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Great choices of plug-ins. I’m actually using all of the above you mentioned, please a few more.
(2694 comments) February 15, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Of course this is not a complete list of all plugins we are running, but I will be posting more plugins latter!
Why don’t you share a few not listed on this list?
(58 comments) February 15, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Some good ones are (too lazy to describe and put a link to them though
):
- Antispam bee
- Comment Reply Notification
- Filter Email Notifications
- Fluency Admin
- No Self Pings
-Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
a lot more actually O_o
I’m still using WP-SuperCache though (which works wonder already on my blog)
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(2694 comments) February 15, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I read some reviews and discussions on forums about “W3 Total Cash”, people say it’s better, so I give it a try and it works great! no big difference in the load time, but I don’t know why I feel the blog is more lighter in my browser!
Thanks for sharing these nice plugins! I hope everyone can share something on this post so we can find a catch!
Hesham´s last blog ..Dose a Blog Feels and knows it’s Owner
(17 comments) February 16, 2010 at 7:31 am
Think both of you have provided some impressive WP plugins.
Thank you guys so much for the info for I have way too indulged in social media apps lately.. there’s too many things to discover yet so little time. Good thing we have some reliable friends to review the WP apps (even tech-related items). ^^ I’m a supporter for Akismet & SuperCache too.. gotta try out the backup app too.
Voted! Good job, Hesham.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
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(2694 comments) February 17, 2010 at 2:10 am
Glad you found something helpful, the good things that I see is we can help each other each in his/her field of interest
(51 comments) February 15, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Great collection of plugins you are using on Famous Bloggers Hesham.
I like to use Xenu Link Sleuth to find my broken links (that reminds me, I should do that today); how resource heavy do you find the broken link checker plugin?
Karl
Karl Foxley´s last blog ..The Good Cook Guide To SEO: Baking To Perfection
(2694 comments) February 15, 2010 at 5:56 pm
OK! that’s good point Karl, I didn’t think of the resources effect, and actually I don’t know how to test a specific plugin! any ideas?
I have checked Xenu Link Sleuth, it seem to be a nice application, but maybe Broken Link Checker is more easy to use because you can edit, remove broken links directly inside it’s settings without having to work on an external application and copy the URLs of your post then edit the post, so you can do the work more faster!
mmm.. OK! let me give Xenu Link Sleuth a try, and tell you what happen!
OK! it seems to be a good tool, I have found some broken links, and the interesting thing is it’s on the “trackback list”, which means the Broken Link Checker plugin can not see all links on a page!
I will let the program running, and check it when it finish finding all links, I hope I can find some time to work on them
I think now I will deactivate Broken Link Checker plugin right now but I will keep it on the plugins list, and activate it only when I want to check broken links, so maybe it can be the step one to save some time! and then I will use Xenu Link Sleuth on the second step.
Thanks Karl, that was awesome!
Hesham´s last blog ..Dose a Blog Feels and knows it’s Owner
(51 comments) February 15, 2010 at 6:14 pm
I guess the way you’ve described using the plugin is actually a pretty neat way of catching those links that it can find, by activating the plugin only when you need it rather than having it activated the whole time. This way you can make the best use of it as part of a site maintenance schedule (along with Xenu
).
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