I probably could have chosen a different name besides Important WordPress Widgets, because in all reality most Widgets are not an item you would call Important. The word important still invokes some sort of urgency in me, now only if it did to my kids too. Anyway back to blogging stuff. The other day I wrote a blog post listing what I thought were Must Have WordPress Plugins and by the time I was done doing that I realized I should probably follow it up with some of the Important WordPress Widgets that go with the WordPress Plugins I listed earlier. Below is a list of the WordPress widgets I use on Extreme John and some of my other blogs as well.
List of Important WordPress Widgets:
WordPress Polls Widget – this will give you the ability to place Polls anywhere on your site once you have the WP-Polls Plugin in place.
WP-Post Views Widget – this widget will display total post views for how many ever posts you would like to display in your sidebar.
WP-User Online Widget – this widget will display information about the current users on your blog at any given time and it will do it in your sidebar.
There are other cool widgets available for your sidebar and I see them all the time, I just wish I was a better bookmarker I would actually install a few more of them. If you have any Widgets for WordPress or Non WordPress Widgets you would like me to check out or would like to add, simply comment and remember Extreme John is a Do Follow blog.
Cool Non WordPress Widgets:
Feedburner – has a few excellent widgets you can add to your side bar, one of them is the Subscribe by email option you see at the top right of my blog in the sidebar.
Blogged – offers a blog rating system for your sidebar or anywhere else, where you can allow your guests and users to give you crappy ratings on all the stuff you bust your beans writing.
Recent Readers – this is a cool sidebar widget that Blog Catalog offers, it shows a small thumb sized image of your recent visitors along with their name.
Widgetbox – offers a few different widgets to use on your sidebar, not exactly sure why but I picked the one you see on my sidebar now. Either way thanks to all of you the EJ blog is consistently Ranked #2 and has been Ranked #1 a few times. Thank you, and check out the widget.. I have the Humor Category set as mine.
My Blog – offers the My Blog widget for the sidebar which will show recent visitors that are in the My Blog community.
I guess I could have included the WordPress Widgets I use from above on my other post I just didn’t have much time that day so enjoy the shorty from me today, if anything exciting happens I will make another blog post today. See how commited I am.
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Well, I know about all of the wordpress widgets this time. So, don’t think you know more about wordpress than me. However, I didn’t really pay attention to that blogged thing. Might have to try that out.
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I really like the Widgets for the polls, it makes the blog an interactive one. The problem is that I have blogger platform
Thanks for your info!
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want to know the best widget for top posts that show them neat and can customize
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John, This is pretty much older post. Don;t know if you will notice this or not but i wanted to show “Recent Readers” using blogcatalogs plugin. Problem with such plugin is that, it cuts pageload time. Takes too much time to load and since page load time is a new factor for SEO, Don’t really think such plugins will make sense.
awesome will be adding some to my site taks
I love poll’s widget. It can easily make a website look a big portal! However, adding so many widget mean more load to server. I usually avoid which takes so many processes.
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I agree Pavan, I don’t use many widgets at all nowa days.