Hi ha més de 14000 plugins disponibles per Wordpress, molts d'ells fan tasques semblants, fet que dificulta el triar quin és el més eficient o el que més s'ajusta a les nostre necessitats. Al final, moltes vegades la decisió final l'he pres seguint un procés en dues fases. A la primera he fet una tria preliminar en base a la descripció del plugin, a la seva popularitat i nota d'avaluació, a la data de la darrera actualització, i a comentaris i recomanacions a Internet. A la segona fase, he instal·lat, configurat i provat el plugin més ben valorat, i llavors he decidit si el mantenia o no.

En aquesta pàgina es recull el llistat de plugins del Wordpress instal·lats o descartats, i els motius de la decisió presa. Òbviament aquestes decisions i preferències es poden canviar i segurament canviaran a mida que actualitzem el programa Wordpress i els plugins siguin substituïts per altres de millors.

Aquests són els llistats de plugins recomanats que he consultat,

• The 15 Best WordPress Plugins to Use in 2011, by Nicholas Cardot in Sitesketch-101.
• Recommended Plugins for WordPress,

by Editorial Staff in WordPress Plugins.

• http://speckyboy.com/2008/01/26/top-30-wordpress-plugins-that-are-actually-useful/
• http://www.dailyblogtips.com/top-10-underrated-wordpress-plugins/
• http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wordpress/best-wordpress-plugins-blog-administrators/

• No Self Pings evita que WordPress enviï pings al propi lloc, així ens estalviarem els avisos per pingbacks i que els enllaços a posts del mateix blog s'afegeixin automàticament a la llista de comentaris i que després s'hagin d'esborrar.
• Co-authors-plus permet assignar més d'un autor a un post, de forma que si escrivim quelcom entre dos o tres o deu, tots podrem sortir com a co-autors.
• Authors widget mostra la llista (o núvol) d'autors a la barra lateral.
• Sharedaddy facilita que els lectors comparteixin els posts a través de xarxes locals com Facebook, o per email, o a través d'altres mitjans.
• After the Deadline utilitza la intel·ligència artificial per comprovar la ortografia, el estil, i la gramàtica a WordPress. Per més informació consultar Support Proofreading.
• WP-DBManager manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
• Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
• Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!
• Statpress Visitors. This plugin (a highly improved fork of StatPress Reloaded) shows the real-time statistics on your blog. It corrects many programming errors of Statpress and statPress Reloaded. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS, etc., as Statpress Reloaded. It is compatible with all plugins Statpress derivative.

• WP Super Cache is a very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. Cal estudiar si realment el necessitem, dependrà de si les pàgines es carreguen prou ràpidament.
• HeadSpace2 SEO controls almost every aspect of your site's meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site. Visit the HeadSpace page for a video demonstration. M'he de mirar amb més detall què fa el plugin i quins avantatges ens aportaria. Per cert, SEO o “Search engine optimization” és el procés de millorar la visibilitat d'un lloc o pàgina web als portals de cerques a través dels resultats de les cerques (traducció de la Wikipedia).
• WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. Instal·lar en cas de que el plugin WP-DBManager no funcioni o no permeti backups automatics.
• Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog. The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog. It can manage posts from multiple authors too.
• Revision Control allows finer control over the Post Revision system included with WordPress. The plugin allows the user to set a site-global setting (Settings → Revisions) for pages/posts to enable/disable/limit the number of revisions which are saved for the page/post. The user may change this setting on a per-page/post basis from the Revisions Meta box.
• Thank you redirects commenters who just made their first comment to a page of your choice.
• WP SlimStat is a simple but powerful real-time web analytics plugin for WordPress. It doesn't require any subscription to external statistic services: all metrics are kept on your local server, private and accessible to your eyes only. Features the famous one-click install-and-go.
• Podria ser complementari de l'instal·lat? WP-Statistics displays Summary statistics of blog. This plugin displays: Total Posts, Total Pages, Total Comments, Total Spams*, Last Post Date, Feedburner Subscribe And Total Blog Hits.
• WP-Stats-Dashboard. Display your blog's stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard. See how you're ranking on Alexa, check out your Technorati authority, monitor your ranking across multiple sites and much more. Once you install this plugin you'll wonder how you ever managed to track your social media worth without it.
• Visitor Maps and Who's Online Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who's Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. Includes a Who's Online admin dashboard to view visitor details. The visitor details include: what page the visitor is on, IP address, host lookup, online time, city, state, country, geolocation maps and more. No API key needed. Easy and Quick 4 step install. sembla interessant, però millor esperem a tenir més visitants, no fos cas que algú es desanimés al principi

• Advanced Search provides a bunch of advanced search options to tune the search. It also uses a much more effective search method: MySQL’s fulltext search. Advanced Search can be either used as a full-blown form on a dedicated page, or it can be used in the sidebar as a lightweight form (AS Lite). And the best: All the great options and features can easily be fine-tuned by you, the blog owner! The Advanced Search plugin is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.
• WordPress Search plugin. This plugin is actually a package of three plugins. The first plugin installs the API that lets other plugins do the searching. The other two plugins use the API to provide search systems that we think will please most users who are dissatisfied with the built-in WordPress search results: MySQL Fulltext and Google Custom Search. (The Google plugin requires a Google account.) For the search-savvy, Justin also wrote a Sphinx-based plugin, Sphinx Search. This last one involves installing additional software on the server.
• Helping WordPress Search With WordPress Plugins. Inclou llistats de plugins per diferents tipus de cerques,
  • WordPress Search WordPress Plugins: If you want to stick with a WordPress Plugin to improve the search on your WordPress blog, here are some options…
  • External Resources Search WordPress Plugins: Just as feeds can bring information from outside of your WordPress blog into it, so can various search functions and options bring search results from off-site sources to your WordPress blog.
  • Search Statistics: I’ll be covering more blog statistic WordPress Plugins soon, but here are some search specific WordPress Plugins you can use to keep track of what people are searching for on your WordPress blog.
• BEST SEARCH PLUGIN ? Search Unleashed extends the standard WordPress search with customisable search engines, including MySQL’s full text and Zend’s Lucene, as well as word highlighting and the ability to search across posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, and meta-data.
  • Altres plugins del mateix autor.
• http://rankexploits.com/musings/2009/five-good-wordpress-search-plugins/
• Google Custom Search Plugin for WordPress
• WP to Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your WordPress blog using either the Cli.gs or Bit.ly URL shortening services to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.
• BEST TWITTER PLUGIN ? Simple Twitter Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Twitter functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you'd like. First, you activate and set up the base plugin, which makes your site have basic Twitter functionality. Then, each of the add-on plugins will let you add small pieces of specific Twitter-related functionality, one by one.

• Small caps reconeix les abreviatures de forma automàtica, i les mostra en versaleta (small-caps en anglès) on les majúscules tenen la mateixa mida-alçada que les lletres minúscules. L'he provat, però no m'ha agradat el resultat.
• SEO Tag Cloud Widget mostra els autors en forma de núvol de paraules.
• Cool Author Box adds a stylish author box with author name, bio, Gravatar and links after the content in posts and/or pages. The Cool Author Box plugin adds information about the author to the bottom of the content of posts and/or pages. The information is gathered from the profile info set inside WordPress. Aquest plugin afegeix una bonica casella amb informació sobre l'autor d'un post al final del post… ens acabaríem cansant de tant veure els nostres noms.
• Author Information Widget mostra la informació dels autors (text “about me”, gravatar, dades de contacte, etc.) dels autors del blog. Per poder mostrar la informació hauríem d'afegir una segona barra lateral i amb això perdríem espai pel contingut del blog.
• Jetpack és un plugin que afegeix vàries millores al servidor blog. Com que no totes em semblen interessants, i les que m'agraden estan disponibles individualment, he preferit instal·lar-les individualment.
• WordPress.com Stats connecta el blog al servei d'estadística de Wordpres.com per mostrar informació detallada de l'activitat del blog. No m'agrada la idea de que un tercer (Wordpress.com) monitoritzi la nostra activitat. A més, requereix obrir un compte a Wordpress.com.
• Thank Me Later (TML) will automatically send an e-mail to your those who leave a comment at your blog. Use this plugin to say 'Thanks' to your visitors, and prompt them to further engage with your blog. No volem agrair la participació dels usuaris que facin comentaris enviant-los email que podria semblar spam.
• ReplyMe sends an email to author automatically when someone replies to his comment. You can customise the content that you send. Note: You must enable threaded (nested) comments and deactivate any plugin like `Wordpress Thread Comment`. La versió actual de Wordpress ja incorpora aquesta funcionalitat, aquest plugin seria redundant.

• Millorar la privacitat, per exemple, amagar les adreces d'email.
• Gestió dels comentaris. En particular, evitar spam als comentaris.
• Permetre la subscripció via RSS i fer més visible la subscripció per email.
• A mig termini, un cop tots els serveis estiguin en marxa, ens podria interessar integrar totes les novetats i missatges de canvis al Twitter.