In his talk There’s a Plugin for That at WordCamp Detroit (#wcdet) in Novi, Michigan, Anthony Montalbano talked about the plugins that extend WordPress. Anthony’s recommendation for finding plugins: visit the WordPress Plugin Directory and use search. There’s likely a plugin for what you’re seeking. I was amazed when he said there were almost 12,000 plugins!

My head was spinning from all the plugins Anthony discussed, I couldn’t keep up. Here’s a partial list:

• After the Deadline – spellchecker, style and grammar checked using artificial intelligence
• Akismet – manages spam on your site
• All-In-One SEO – optimize your websites for search engines
• Contact Form 7 – contact form for your site
• Google Analytics for WordPress – logfile analysis of your site
• Google Translate – provides translation of pages
• NextGen Gallery – photo gallery with lightbox effects
• podPress – allows you to host a podcast
• SexyBookmarks – adds social networking menu to your post or page
• Subscribe to Comments – make it simple to follow the conversation in comments
• Twitter for WordPress – include your Twitter stream on your site
• User Role Editor & Adminimize – work together to modify users roles and the administrative area
• WP Auto Tagger – will read the content you just wrote and add tags to your post
• WP-DB-Backup – backup your WordPress database regularly (best practice: set up a unique gmail account and have all backups sent to that email account)
• WP-e-Commerce – add a shopping cart to your site
• WP-Invoice – create and send invoices and setup recurring billing for your clients
• WP-PageNavi – adds pagination to your posts
• WP Super Cache – handle heavy loads on your site. Makes site pages load faster when you have lots of traffic.

Anthony graciously shared his presentation online.

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