Every month I like to make a list of top wordpress themes and plugins that i would use if i make more blogs or wp powered sites for projects, this month the list has themes and plugins that are focused on flexibility and usability rather then fancyness.
Plugins
Psychic search
Stats on what your readers are searching for, good for strategic content development
WP download manager
Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog with stats and seo urls
PDF24 Posts to PDF
“Posts to pdf” allows you to convert posts (blog entries) into a pdf-file. Therefore a little box will be shown in the sidebar, where you can fill in your e-mail address. If you send the form, a pdf-file with all posts of the current site of the blog will be generated and sent to the indicated e-mail address.
MXP Favicon Generator
Instant favicons for blogs, eyecandy for readers, its a good addition to a blog, quick and painless.
MXP Click Maximizer – Blogrush
Helps you maximize clicks on blogrush to get more traffic.
MXP Stripe Ad
Adds one more adspot to your blog.
MXP Popups
These popups can not be blocked, could help in monetizing.
Devowelizer
The Devowelizer plugin for WordPress replaces the vowels in most “bad language” within your own content and within comments left by visitors.
SEO Image
This plugin will optimize images in all your posts for SEO which will positively affect your image search results resulting in more traffic to your blog.
Themes
Magadine Magazine Theme – Demo
This is a really cool theme with a really attractive front page style, perfect for magazines, If you know minimum coding then its really customizable.
Chronicles – Demo
A 3 column dark brown wordpress theme, great for maximum monetization, perfect for “funny pic” type sites.
Black Red Wordpress Theme – Demo
2 column red & black wordpress theme with a place great for ad spots, the main post bit is really wide so its great for daily bloggers.
Widget Zone II – Demo
Widget Zone II is a liquid theme for WordPress with a fully widgetized homepage whose layout is manageable by the visitor.
Elegance Wp theme – Demo – Download
Elegance is a vibrant and a well designed wordpress theme with bright colors on a black canvas, this theme really stands out.
Usable Images
A post on Smashing Magazine highlighted an awesome collection of usable images for blogging, these images are perfect to insert into posts to make it more interactive and more readable. Some of those images are below, really well designed and glossy too with a 2.0 feel. Head over to Smashing Magazine for the download info.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Problem with Elegance Wp theme. It’s broken link
February 17th, 2009 at 8:32 am
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