WordPress Plugins – Ultimate List – Part 2

Continuing off from the Plugins, Plugins Everywhere post – here is part 2 of (what I consider to be) some of the most uber cool plugins for WordPress. Don’t forget to check out part 1 too.

Comment Luv

Comment luv is a ‘share the love’ kinda plugin that rewards commenters with a link back to their last blog post.

As the blog author, it can encourage more people to leave a comment on your blog and enables you to discover lots more cool and interesting bloggers out there.

After a commenter types their reply, they get the choice of leaving a link to their blog, digg or Twitter stream. If a user chooses ‘blog’ then the plugin pulls back the title of their last post and add it to the reply.

A great plugin which really encourages participation and community spirit amongst your fellow bloggers.

Sexy Bookmarks

Sexy Bookmarks is a neat way to encourage your readers to bookmark your posts for better visibilty and traffic. I won’t add pictures of the actual layout as you can see it for yourself at the bottom of this post.

If you hover your mouse over the icons they pop up – which is a nice feature. This plugin did run into some issues with load time due to the high volume of icons that were added to it (over 80) but with the developer, Josh Jones, now switching to PHP5 and condensing the files in smushit – the plugin is now running seamlessly again.

So – encourage your readers to give your post a rise in popularity by installing the fantastic Sexy Bookmarks plugin – that really is very sexy.

WPTouch

If you are not yet optimized to recieve iPhone traffic then you are missing out on a huge potential of readers. Although the iPhome will navigate the Internet to a fashion, this plugin makes the whole process seamless when they arrive on your blog – this includes pesky stuff like loading time.

With the smartphone market taking over in terms of users vs PC users, it would be crazy not to make sure your site is fully compatable with these devices.

Being the owner of an iPhone myself, I can vouch for the huge difference it makes when loading sites – I’d highly recommend you get this today!

The WPTouch is compatable with the iPhone^TM, iPod touch^TM, Android^TM, or BlackBerry Storm^TM touch mobile device.

Part 3 will be coming soon and if any of you have iPhones – look out for a series on iPhone apps coming soon!

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