Well day two has arrived and I am still cleaning up my mess. I made a list of all the WP plugins I have installed across the 6 domains I have registered and have identified the core plugins that I have found to be most useful 23 in all.

I have listed these in 6 categories

Advertising

  • Max Banner Ads
    provides simple banner ad management and placement.
  • Quick Adsense
    provides Google Adsense integration in Posts.
  • WP Clickbank Ad Display
    displays Clickbank Market products in a Adsense like list as a widget.
    this works in keywords placed in the widget I modified it to use post tags.

Post Creation and Management

  • WP Robot
    Auto posting software that pulls content from over 20 sourced and posts to my blogs Available Here
  • The Best Spinner
    I use this to get unique content onto my sites,also works directly with WP Robot to spin Auto posts Available Here
    Not sure if this is as effective as it use to be will need to run some tests.
  • Content Scheduler
    - Allows me to set an end date on a post so it will automatically be removed on that date
  • WP Touch
    - provided a Mobile theme for people who visit my sites from a smart phone
  • YQL Auto Tagger
    - Auto generates a list of possible tags to add to an article based on its content

Security

  • Secure WordPress
    Adds additional security fixes to make WordPress more secure
  • Login Lockdown
    Locks out user login after x number of failed attempts
  • Akismet
    Prevents Comment spamming

SEO

  • BWP Google XML Sitemaps
    Creates sitemap files needed for search engine spiders
  • cbnet Ping Optimizer
    Advanced Ping Management
  • Dagon Design Sitemap Generator Plus
    Creates user-friendly auto updated Site map
  • iRobots.txt SEO
    Creates Google Bot robot.txt file
  • Pretty Link lite
    Creates cloaked URL links to hide affiliate links
  • SEO Ultimate
    Advanced SEO management tools

Users Experiance

  • Five Star Rating Premium
    Tool to allow users to rate posts
  • Really Simple Facebook Twitter Share
    adds Facebook and Twitter share buttons
  • Register Plus Redux
    allows customization of sign-up form including adding additional field

Statistics

  • Google Analyticator
    integrated Google analytics Dashboard
  • StatPress Dashboard Widget Lite
    Simple Traffic dashboard
  • Statpress Visitors
    Detailed Traffic Stats

My next steps will be to update each site to standardize the plugins across each site