Selected Wordpress plugins

A few Wordpress plugins of use.

Smart YouTube

An excellent plugin to embed YouTube videos in your posts with incredible ease. Highly recommended if you like showing lots of YouTube vids on your site.

Website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube/

StatPress SEOlution

This featured filled plugin will allow you to track visits to your website as well as get a really nice overview of search engine spider activity.

Once installed and activated you’ll see a “Statpress” entry in the admin menu.

Website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress-seolution/

NextGEN Gallery

If you’d like the ability to embed many photos, slideshows and image galleries on your site then this plugin is for you. You’ll want to read the Installation and FAQ notes to learn how to use this plugin.

Once installed and activated you’ll see a “Gallery” entry in the admin menu.

Website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

Exclude Pages

If you’d like to have Pages not show in your menu, then this plugin is for you. It adds a checkbox, “include this page in menu” next to the Page edit form in admin.

Website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/