Widgets and Plugins

[jfhscribbles]

Originally Posted by rshillary

Excellent. However, Sociable doesn't offer icons for MySpace and Blogger unless it's using a spin on the name. Are you sure they have social media icons? I have Facebook, Digg, Stumble and Del.icio.us. In addition Technorati but I'm itching to take that off.

I'd say stick with StumbleUpon, Digg, del.icio.us and one other wildcard...like DesignFloat if your blog is related to design or Sphinn if it's related to marketing, seo, etc.

[boyohazard]

Originally Posted by rshillary

Excellent. However, Sociable doesn't offer icons for MySpace and Blogger unless it's using a spin on the name. Are you sure they have social media icons? I have Facebook, Digg, Stumble and Del.icio.us. In addition Technorati but I'm itching to take that off.

I wouldn't worry too much about MySpace or Blogger. You have the main "all-encompassing" ones covered any additional should be tailored to your blog audience like jfhscribbles suggested, so yeah it could be worthwhile leaving Technorati out.

- Marc

[capitanjan]

I am using SEO Title Tag from NetConcepts

Works great for SEO optimization and highly recomendable. Haven't found any issues with Thesis

[leequebee]

Great idea for a thread and I can see lots of useful things here.

On the weekend I wrote a post on all the plugins that I am currently using as I had a couple of questions, you can see it here My Blog - Dissected

Hope someone finds it useful :-)

And thanks to everyone that posted here, I see aseveral things that could be useful.

[reesmaxwell]

I'm setting up a store (using 1shoppingcart) and am beginning to integrate it into a Store page. Well, a subpage that uses the Store page as its parent.

That brings up an situation where I want to have a dropdown menu in the nav bar instead of a pile of links that show up when the page loads, so when I hover over Store, it will display a dropdown menu showing all the subpages.

It is beautifully represented at IberiaNature.com. I found a plugin that does this: Suckerfish Dropdown Menu plugin. (And also a new beta version.)

I'm experimenting with it now, and hope to figure out how to make it work for me as beautifully as at iberiaNature.com. (Not my site, only wish it was.)

[kllycat]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a related post plugin?

[jcherfas]

Originally Posted by phoenixreguy

You might also want to check out cformsII if you're looking for a contact form. Very robust and feature filled!

I second that. WP Comment Remix is also very useful.

[richscent]

One of my favs is the Platinum SEO Pack plugin. Awesome plugin!

Second choice would be the All in One SEO Pack plugin. It's been around a little longer and similar, but I didn't find it to offer the same power (IMHO).

They both claim to Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

[ryanm]

I am a big fan of activate-this. Nice and clean. I have in running on my site and others.

Ryan
Inside Assisted Living

[carbonoffsetsdaily]

I don't like AddThis because it seems their server is slow and always slows down the page load... so instead, I've added:

Sociable
Sociable - Social Bookmarking for WordPress - Yoast - Tweaking Websites
Puts unlimited number of social bookmarking links in your posts’ footer.

Now it is beautiful! Check it out at — Carbon Offsets Daily.

Originally Posted by boyohazard

Hi fellow Thesis users
I thought it would be a great idea to share the plugins/widgets we are using to enhance our Thesis powered blogs

I've only just installed Thesis so I've only added one so far:
Add This button - lets readers submit your post to social bookmarking sites
AddThis Blog Blog Archive AddThis Wordpress Plugin

So what are you using and how has it improved your blogging experience?

I'll post back here when I discover/add more and put a link to my site when it goes live, hopefully this week