WordPress Plugins Site For Users and Developers

I’ve been a fan of Mass Automation’s WordPress plugins and tools for some time. These are high quality blog administration tools, for the most part, that save me a tremendous amount of time keeping my many blogs updated. If you’re just running one or two blogs, these are not for you, but if you’re like me and have a number of blogs, I highly recommend them.

The Mass Automation folks have recently opened a new site featuring free open source plugins for WordPress called PluginEdge. PluginEdge is a repository for WordPress users to get some very handy utility plugins. It is also a place for WordPress plugin developers to upload plugins for distribution and additional exposure.

I’ve installed several of the free plugins from PluginEdge and found them to be very useful. There are still others I’ve got on my list to check out when I have a chance to do so.

The PluginEdge home page lists the 10 most popular plugins in terms of downloads. Because the site is only a couple weeks old as of this writing, the list changes pretty frequently. As of today, the top 10 plugins are:

1. GAFMonitor – monitors the Get A Freelancer site for project requests
2. ScuttlePlus – create your own social bookmarking site
3. WP Bazaar – turn your blog into an online store
4. Plugin Remover – removes unwanted WP plugins without FTP
5. Robots.txt – creates a robots.txt file for your WP installation
6. WP Database Reverter – restores a WP database to its previous state
7. Trackback Search – search for and find trackback URLs to add to your posts
8. Comments Pinger – pings comments instead of posts
9. Set Permalinks – makes .htaccess file writable via FTP
10. WP Checkup – pings a list of your blogs and warns if any are unavailable

Since this site is so new, you’ll want to check it on a regular basis to see what new goodies are uploaded. Enjoy!

John The Geek