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What WP Plugins Do They Use?
Not-so-well-known WordPress Plugins famous bloggers use
Matt Cutts (Google)
Cookies for Comments
This plugin adds a stylesheet or image to your blog's html source code. When a browser loads that stylesheet or image a cookie is dropped. If that user then leaves a comment the cookie is checked. If it doesn't exist the comment is marked as spam. The plugin can also check how long it took a user to enter a comment. If it's too fast it's probably a spam bot.
Website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cookies-for-comments/
problogger.net
Hello Bar
Specially made for developers, Hello Bar Solo is a self-hosted, fully-customizable JavaScript solution for building notification bars.
Website: http://www.hellobar.com
SEO.COM
WP Category Post List Widget
WP Category Posts List is a WordPress Widget & Shortcode plugin to show your posts filtered by category.
Built on the latest WP widget class, it has multiple widget instance support. Also you can modify the HTML structure of the widget in what ever manner you want.
Website: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-category-posts-list/
Laughing Squid
Advanced Recent Posts Widget
Advanced Recent Posts Widget is a light widget advanced version of the WordPress Recent Posts widget allowing increased customization to display recent posts from multiple categories or from custom post types.
Website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-recent-posts-widget/
GIGAOM.COM
go Social
go social plugin displays the social media sharing / bookmarking icons for your blog posts . It has buttons for Facebook , Digg, Google Buzz, Twitter & more to be added soon, It also displays number of likes and shares for twitter and facebook in a very neat and clean compact web 2.0 way .
BOINGBOING.NET
Embedly
The Embedly plugin allows bloggers to embed videos, images, PDF, and article previews from "any" source with just the URL. It uses the Embedly API to get the embed code and display it in a post.
allthingsd.com
Twitter Blackbird Pie
Add awesome looking embedded HTML representations of actual tweets in your blog posts just by adding simple shortcodes. Please read the blog post at http://themergency.com/twitter-blackbrid-pie-wordpress-plugin-03/ for more info and see a demo of the plugin in action at http://themergency.com/twitter-blackbird-pie-wordpress-plugin-demo/.
Website: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie/
Author: Jacob Jarnvall
Even though I have been involved with traditional SEO for over ten years, I describe myself as a data-driven digital marketer who tries to synchronize search, social, and content to get found more often, more effectively, by more customers.
I often use WordPress when I build sites and blogs and I am always on the lookout for new exciting plugins which might improve the experience of my visitors.
Email: hi@jacobjarnvall.se
Website: jacobjarnvall.se
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Twitter: @jacobjarnvall