When I was browsing through the search pages trying to find plugins that did the functionality i was after and checking the review/rating to see if it works or is the best or at least good..... what a farce!
You find good plugins from searching the million different posts that collate the 'top 30 wordpress plugins', 'top 100 wordpress...". Hours! The way I found the best plugins was to see them in use at other peoples wordpress blogs, where I found linkwithin, very good, lijit search, or when I received an email from a friend using mailchimp. I remember I tried to find a google suggest (predict your search) like plugin, I tried loads of plugins, myabe it was my limited knowledge of being able to tweak php, but non worked, eventually I did find one, ajax... even css customizable, works on a smart phone too! MAKE YOUR OWN! Design I wanted to group them into categories, find a pattern that I could use. But some plugins crossed between categories, overlaps. The all work in conjunction with each other. I uploaded them to windows live shared space and made some bit.ly/WP15 associated to each plugin so you can download them and it saves on space for the design. They all stem from the center, around my blog. Dislikes I am not entirely satisfied with the bottom list with the referring creator of the plugin and the download address. Usability Just download the full image, there is enough quality to see the download link from bit.ly and plugin description. PLUGINS HYPERLINKS| adsense My Wodpress Plugin | Askimet Matt Wullenweg | Amazon auto link Joost De Valk | Blog Icons Joost de Valk | |
| bit.ly/myWP3 | bit.ly/myWP45 | bit.ly/myWP58 | bit.ly/myWP29 | |
| Blogger To WordPress Rahul bansal | DropCap First Letter Rodney Campbell | Google Analytics for WordPress Joost de Valk | ||
| bit.ly/myWP40 | bit.ly/myWP27 | bit.ly/myWP1 | ||
| Broken Link Checker Janis Elsts | Categroy Cloud Lee Kelleher | Comment Luv Andy Bailey | DoFollow Denis de Bernardy | |
| bit.ly/myWP56 | bit.ly/myWP23 | bit.ly/myWP47 | bit.ly/myWP46 | |
| Executable php widget Otto | FD FeedBurner John Watson | FeedburnerCount Guillermo Rauch | Global translator Davide Pozza | |
| bit.ly/myWP26 | bit.ly/myWP38 | bit.ly/myWP37 | bit.ly/myWP31 | |
| Google Sitemaps Generator Arne Brachhold | HeadSpace John Godley | Hot Linked Image Cacher linewibie | jQuery LazyLoad Andrew Ng | |
| bit.ly/myWP2 | bit.ly/myWP10 | bit.ly/myWP52 | bit.ly/myWP50 | |
| Kau-Boys Auto Completer Bernhard Kau | Link Harvest Alex King | LinkWithin LinkWithin | No Spam Sven Kubiak | |
| bit.ly/myWP17 | bit.ly/myWP57 | bit.ly/myWP54 | bit.ly/myWP44 | |
| Optimal Title Aaron Schaefer | Retaggr Retaggr | SEO Friendly Images Vladimir Prelovac | ||
| bit.ly/myWP11 | bit.ly/myWP49 | bit.ly/myWP8 | ||
| Ozh Better Feed Ozh | Populist John Lawerence | Post rank Trevor Creech | Print Friendly Vamsee Kanakala | |
| bit.ly/myWP39 | bit.ly/myWP12 | bit.ly/myWP14 | bit.ly/myWP32 | |
| Search Engine Query in wordpress Francesco Castaldo | Search everything Dan Cameron of Sprout Venture | Search Meter Bennett McElwee | Sensitive Tag Cloud Rene Ade | |
| bit.ly/myWP18 | bit.ly/myWP19 | bit.ly/myWP15 | bit.ly/myWP24 | |
| Sphinder for wordpress Ando Saabas & WP integration by Vizion Interactive. Inc | Sexy Bookmarks Josh Jones & Norman Yung | Share This Share this | Smart Updater Pinger Christian Daven | |
| bit.ly/myWP16 | bit.ly/myWP34 | bit.ly/myWP33 | bit.ly/myWP4 | |
| Top 10 Ajay d'souza | Tweet Suite Dan Zarrella | Twounter Muhammad Haris | Type kit amila sampath | |
| bit.ly/myWP13 | bit.ly/myWP35 | bit.ly/myWP36 | bit.ly/myWP28 | |
| WordPress mobile edition crowd favourite | wp-utf8-excerpt Betty | Wp ajx edit comments Ajay D'Souza, Ronald Huereca | Wp Auto Tagger iDope | |
| bit.ly/myWP30 | bit.ly/myWP25 | bit.ly/myWP48 | bit.ly/myWP22 | |
| wp since last visit alex king | wp smush.it dialect | wp super cache donnacha o caoimh | wp tuner mr pete | |
| bit.ly/myWP43 | bit.ly/myWP51 | bit.ly/myWP53 | bit.ly/myWP42 | |
| zemanta zemanta ltd. | Wp security scan michael torbert | yet another related post plugin mitcho (michael yoshitaka eriewine) | ||
| bit.ly/myWP20 | bit.ly/myWP41 | bit.ly/myWP55 | ||
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