As now everybody knows Wordpress is not a Blogging Platform anymore. Its a CMS (Content Management System). Which makes life easy not only for creating Blogs but now, Websites let it be Static or Dynamic or even E-commerce. Wordpress and its Millions of Plugins have the solution !
Here I’m sharing with ya’ll 10 Unique Plugins that will make your Wordpress easily customizable CMS for you and your Clients.
Custom Admin Branding
Custom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to not only re-brand the WordPress login screen, but also the admin header and footer with your own custom images. This will actually give your client an idea that the CMS is tailor for his business.
The Exclude Pages Plugin:
As you are actually making a Website instead of Blog. Your Wordpress is going to rush with tons of written Pages, etc. Obviously you’d not like to show them all on your Navigation Bar (at the top mostly). This Plugin helps you show only the selected Pages on your Navigation Bar.
Written by Simon Weatley. This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).
Plugin Page: Exclude Pages
More Field
More Fields is a WordPress plugin that adds boxes to the Write/Edit page. These boxes contains input fields, so that additional (more) fields can be added to a post. This is extremely useful if you are making use of custom fields, it will make the way you input data through custom fields more user friendly.
MailPress
MailPress allows you to send beautiful styled HTML and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates. Very often, there will a need to have newsletter subscription on the site for the visitors. MailPress is awesome when come to handling newsletter, It can track the newsletter that have been sent out and even schedule for the blast with additional FREE addon modules.
User Access Manager
User Access Manager is useful if you need a member area or a private section at your blog. It will help to prevent unauthorized user to access restricted posts, pages or files.
WP CMS Post
WP-CMS-Post not only allows you to hides unwanted items like custom fields, trackbacks, revisions etc. but also gives you a whole lot more control over how WordPress deals with creating content! This helps to make WordPress more CMS like, and allow you total customization of what authors see and use.
WP eCommerce
WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online. This will come in useful if you want to sell something on your Blog or site, there is no need for a change in CMS.
cForm II
cForm II is a great and flexible contact form builder. It is a feature rich plugin, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.
Tinymce Advanced
Tinymce Advanced will add 15 more plugins to the default TinyMCE. This will help user that does not know much about HTML, to be able to draw table, insert break, search and replace and many more.
Lightbox Gallery Plugin
This plugin changes the view of galleries to the Lightbox view and also displays the associated metadata with the images. The caption for each image is viewed through a tooltip when you hover your mouse on a thumbnail.
Check it out here: Lightbox Gallery Plugin
Orite:
These were some great plugins that can make your Wordpress Installation Customizable, Easy and Beautiful. If you have something to add to the list, feel free to share via Comments. What Plugins do you use to make your Wordpress Installation out of the box ? And yeah, these were the plugins. Tips for Using Wordpress as CMS will be coming out soon !
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August 19th, 2009 at 3:17 am
Definitely very useful!
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August 19th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Awesome man awesome!
i really like 1st one (Custom Admin Branding)
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August 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
WordPress Admin extended is one nice to play with WP components.
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August 20th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Awesome list Enk!
I really like the look of the first one.. it’s downloading as I type this. I’ll see how it goes and let you know!
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August 26th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Wow, some really great plug-ins are listed here. I especially like the branded admin plug-in.
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August 26th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Thanks Seth,
Yeah most of the people like Branded Admin Plugin. It helps you create a friendly environment while working with Wordpress.
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August 27th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
A nice list of plugins. I was using a couple from before. I am looking into the more fields plugin, might be a good and simple way for me to add updates to my portfolio.
Is mailpress like an alternative to aweber and mailchimp, because I have been on the lookout for free alternatives to the two?
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August 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Oh! Didn’t notice the Custom Admin Branding the first time! Stupid me!
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September 1st, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Great compilation of wordpress plugin. Some of that is very effective.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 2:40 am
I’ve been looking at WP eCommerce as well as BuddyPress (for WP MU). It’s amazing what people have created out of the blogging platform.
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September 8th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Thanks for the great post and advices about plugins.
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November 30th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
The huge variety of plugins makes wordpress absolutely great for blogging.
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