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In today's article we see some useful plugins for WordPress I have made my life easier in the composition of the blog. Obviously the list not describe, and omit some plugins as important as “Akismet” because they already exist by default to every WordPress installation (not because it is useful, but because its benefits are undeniable).

WP Super Cache

It is one of the plugins in my opinion the most useful ever created for WordPress. WP Super Cache speeds very visitor access pages, creates a file HTML PHP caching the page visited by reducing de facto the use of resources on the server. In this way we have a dual advantage: the user load the page faster and the server save energy.

Auto SyntaxHighlighter

This plugin makes it easy syntax highlighting code inserted in our items. Fully supports : AppleScript, ActionScript3, Bash/shell, C#, C , CSS, Delphi, Diff, Groovy, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, Plain Text, Python, Ruby, Sass, Scala, SQL, Visual Basic and XML.

An example with PHP:

<?php
$GLOBALS['add-from-server'] = new add_from_server();
?>

And one with CSS:

div.intouch label {
    clear: left;
    display: inline;
}

div.intouch br {
    display: none;
}

div.intouch div.inputfield input, div.intouch div.inputfield textarea {
    clear: left;
    display: block;
}

Among its advantages:

• does not write data in the database,
• does not need of settings (creates a button changes in the panel of WordPress),
• even if disabled the code appears,
• respects W3C standards,

Intouch

This plugin allows the creating a contact form automatically. After installing the plugin you must create a static page (I have called “Contacts“), and add the string “<!--intouch-->” within the source HTML.

Among the settings you can specify the various fields, make them Required, Set up key “Send” (with an inscription of your choice), set a success message, one of failure and clearly the address to which the email will be forwarded.

jQuery lazy load plugin

This plugin as well as being “beautiful” Also to be seen is functional for the load server. Harnessing the power of jQuery, stops the loading of images on the page until surfers do not scroll the page down. When you arrive on the space where there should be a picture, “magically” it appears with a pleasant as almost imperceptible fade-in effect.

To give you an example, try to go on the homepage, each post has an image out. You will see the images appear scrolling the page downward.

jQuery Lightbox + add Lightbox

Another plugin that uses jQuery library, this time for view images. If we want to embed images in our articles of medium-sized (That's the thinking 700px width of eg) this plugin would suit our. The plugin is very “manual”, requires that to the HTML code of each image is added “rel="lightbox"“. To automate the process you can use the plugin “add Lightbox” which adds “rel="lightbox"” automatically to each image.

An example:

Bad Behavior

Bad Behavior is a PHP solution for blocking link spam and the robots that distribute.

Bad Behavior automatically acts on the file “.htaccess” preventing also often only access and reading the site to robots. This behavior reduces bandwidth usage and tiene puliti i log access allowing us to focus more on useful statistics.

Ultimate Google Analytics

Ultimate Google Analytics (as the name implies) is a plugin for wordpress that automatically integrates in the footer of the page the tracking code for Google for analysis and web statistics.

One of the interesting features of this plugin is the ability to exclude Adminstrator analyzes. When you login the plugin simply does not add the code javascript on page, in this way is not in the statistics compariremo. Obviously you can disable this option, but I think that one of the most useful functions.

WPaudio

This plugin simply displays a flash player files “mp3” reflected in Article, allowing listening without downloading. Obviously it is also possible to download, but if a user only interested in previewing this plugin makes life easier. Below is an example.

Smoke on the Water

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