I earn money from this blog, but as I have hinted in the past, that isn’t my primary goal. I write paid reviews for products that take a fair amount of time, but nothing compared to the amount of time Wordpress plugin authors spend on their creations, only to give them away for free and often still provide support.
Admittedly I have been a little lax with my donations to other authors, though I have invested money in plugin development, only to publish the plugins myself under a GPL license, thus in my own way giving to the community.
What I have decided to do is to donate some of the income I receive from writing paid reviews back to the Wordpress community.
I currently receive $130 for a paid review, and it is my aim to give 50% of my paid review earnings to plugin authors, probably on a monthly basis.
To ensure that credit is given where credit is due, I am only going to start the ball rolling with 2 of my own personal favourites. All other suggestions are subject to an “open mike”.
Only one suggestion per person is allowed, and you are not allowed to suggest your own plugin.
Once the list reaches 20 plugins, I will open a new post for this months voting.
Each month the list will be rolled over with new suggestions added. Though we will see how workable it is to include all the suggestions in each month’s list, I reserve the right to only include a certain number from the top of the list, or to bump plugins up the list if I personally feel they are worthy of being included sooner.
There is always a variation in how much I receive for writing a review, but my aim is to make each payout “visible” – more than just beer money, so typically around $100 seems suitable.
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- Please suggest compatible, actively supported plugins only
- No commercial plugins (GPL compatible is not required however)
Also please try to provide me a link because it avoids confusion
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Awesome idea, Andy.
Great idea, I’d like to nominate Askimet and Semiologic’s DoFollow
One nomination per person please
Dofollow is added though Denis seems to have removed donation buttons.
Akismet is a commercial subscription service, so doesn’t really fall under the criteria.
Just did a search on “generous genius” – with actions like this one, you’ll continue to climb!
The Amazon Affiliates plugin. This one certainly deserves donations because it makes it easier for bloggers to earn money themselves.
Hi John
It would be good if you could provide a link to the one you mean, because I know of a couple
Great idea Andy! My nominations would be Bad Behaviour and Exec PHP, as well as, of course, Spam Karma.
I really should add DoFollow to my comments too.
Ken I took the first one you mentioned – one nomination per person.
Also there are so many variations of “Exec PHP” “PHP Exec” “RunPHP” etc, if someone wants to nominate a specific plugin, please provide a link.
I think I am going to add something about plugins currently being updated, supported and compatible to the list, just in case people nominate something that has fallen by the wayside
A plugin i would like to nominate but cannot locate is one that allows for creation of a custom URL. So for example this post:
/2007/03/wordpress-plugins-cash-donations-for-authors-up-for-grabs-suggestions.html
could be set by admin to something like:
/donations-for-popular-wordpress-plugins
You can actually already do that, as long as you are happy with the structure for the whole site.
1. Set your permalinks to only include the post title
/%postname%/
2. For each post enter a custom slug which only includes keywords you want.
There are plugins to optimize post slugs automatically, though I haven’t tried them.
http://pietersz.co.uk/2006/07/wordpress-slug-trimmer
http://www.york-newyork.com/seo-plugin-wordpress-urls/
Thanks Andy! one comment, the plugin at the very bottom of your page doesn’t load for me it says “can’t connect”.
Hi Andy,
Thats a great gesture… 50% ouch! Words are easy but that certainly shows your commitment :)
Anyway, here’s my nomination: http://www.semiologic.com/software/static-front/
ImageManager
http://www.soderlind.no/archives/2006/01/03/imagemanager-20/
not very SEO related, but seeing as my two top contenders are already nominated…
@12 Months – Denis has got one nomination, and I am sure he will end up with a donation “by hook or by crook” anyway, because he has done a lot of good work. Static front page is now a feture of Wordpress 2.1, so I am going to leave it off the list for now.
@ Andre – No need for any plugin to be specifically SEO related. A great nomination, and very well supported.
I like the most popular posts plug-in.
I think there are actually more than a couple with that functionality, and also most popular posts per category.
Whilst the most common plugin most refer to is “Popularity Contest” could you confirm which one you mean, possibly with a link?
SEO Title Tag for Wordpress
Application: Does exactly as it’s name suggests
Negatives: Won’t work with all wordpress themes.
LINK:http://www.netconcepts.com/
Here’s my nomination:
WYSIWYG Plugin For Wordpress (site contains NSFW Content)
Nice WYSIWIG and also provides an easy image uploader, also, within which you can resize the image, add alt text within user interface. Plugin involves a big buncha files and the post writing page lags a bit when loading, but the options are nice to have; it’s easy to add more buttons also and customize it to one’s liking.
Becky I will keep it as a reserve choice to add to the list, but it will most likely be added for lack of suggestions.
The reason being the plugin doesn’t seem to be as well supported as it could be, with many comments unanswered, and code suggestions from users not being incorporated.
Matt Keegan has suggested that I include WP-Cache in the comments of a recent update post on Best Wordpress Plugins.
I would like to suggest All in one SEO pack.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Its constantly updated, sometimes several times a day. It has really helped me getting some search engine traffic to my site.
I would like to suggest WPSpoiler…
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpspoiler/
It may sound simple, but i was looking for this feature and tried creating it but made a mess of links and so fourth. Great to hide the content you dont want readers to see. I use it for the answers to riddles.
i’d nominate search everything. search, by default is pretty decrepit. it’s a dead simple add-on that just works.
I would like to nominate Dagon Design’s Sitemap Generator. It generates an HTML sitemap for your blog. Something that I love for both SEO and usability purposes.
Thanks for a great site. I want to nominate All Passion Marketing’s LinkLove plugin. It’s a variation of DoFollow except it allows you to set a parameter before allowing your blog reader to attain no nofollow. Default setting is 10 comments but you can turn it up or down. I’m using it on my blog WhatSimplyWorks.com
Hey, is this ‘competition’ still open?
Can I nominate my own plugin?
Nofollow Reciprocity
Andy -
Do you use the feedlist 2.2 plugin?
Is that the one you have cached every 30 minutes that used to pull in headlines from your Technorati RSS feed?
Thanks,
Paula
The plug in we get the most use out of is for social book marking to directories such as Netscape and Diig.
Andy the more I read from you the more I like you.Very honest and moral person.If everyone could learn to do the same we could aleviate and abolish alot of the problems the world has today.As always keep up the good work!From the Work At Home Review Company
Sincerely,
John Kohr
Add the “edit your comment” plug-in to the list next time. It’s a god-send hehe.
WordsFinder, a small agency based in London UK, has launched a great SEO plug in that takes care of meta data, x rays web copy, suggests tags and boosts your blog traffic intelligently and for free. By auto-tagging your blog, readers would be able to dive straight into post deeply buried within your site allowing you to generate more page impressions.
Wordpress 2.3 ( the latest version of the popular blogging platform ) now includes tagging support by default, without any plug in. WordFinder plug in has been build on this new functionality, it automatically generate keywords and tags for the page and for the meta data. Optionally on the “write and edit post” page, when bloggers click on tags, they get added to the category list.
Not happy with Wordsfinder suggestions? You can add, remove, manipulate any keyword or tag. On the option page, bloggers would be able to limit the amount of tags retrieved by wordsfinder. Leaving them 100% in control.
Download and test the freeware http://www.wordsfinder.com/wordpress.php yourself.
All in One SEO Pack
Really one of the best for SEO is All in One SEO Pack.
I realize I’m a little late with nominations for the contest, but one you definitely need to put on your radar is WP-SpamFree. It can be used in conjunction with Akismet, but it stops spambots cold.
Let me say that i do admire the selfless nature of the wordpress plugin creators. Some of the plugins that have been created for wordpress are simply priceless.
Having said that, If someone knows a wordpress product review plugin that allows one to write reviews and then lets blog readers to contribute to the review and is nice and neat please share because i believe this would be a very useful plugin. People value reviews.
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