WordPress Admin Tools

Running your Wordpress blog can feel like a full-time job sometimes. We’ve compiled an A-Z list of more than 50 plugins to help you streamline everything you need to do out back. As with any plugins list, don’t install them all at once!
This post is part of a series on Wordpress tips – see also AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins and Plugins for Wordpress Comments.

—————404 Notifier – Gives you a log of all your 404 errors so you can see why your readers are ending up on broken pages.
Admin Dropdown Menus – Make your crowded admin panel menus neat and orderly by turning them into dropdown menus.
Admin Panel Comment Reply – Adds a “reply to comment” option in the comments section of the admin area.



Ajax Spell Checker – Uses a combination of dictionaries to check your posts.
Auto-hyperlink URLs – Gives you several options for having URLs automatically turn in to hyperlinks.
AWSOM Pixgallery – Designed to allow artists and webcomic creators to create a portfolio of their artwork.
Batch Categories – Adds a page to the category management, showing all the posts that belong to a category making it easier to add to another category, or when using an import tool from another blog.
Custom Admin Menu – Gives you the power to rename, hide or move just about anything you want in the admin area.
Custom Write Panel – Allows you to customize the “Write” panel of WordPress. Hide things you don’t need such as “Post Password” and add things you feel you may need.
Dashbar – Let admins have admin access while working in the frontend of the blog without having multiple windows open.
Dashboard Editor – Ever wanted to change the Dashboard to be more useful? This is the plugin you need.
DashNote – Adds a post-it note feature to the dashboard to jot down notes to yourself.
Digital Fingerprint – Adds a digital fingerprint to your posts so you can search the web to see if your content has been scraped.
Domain Mirror – Will allow one WordPress install to be accessed from multiple domains and will even change the name and URLs based on the address people access it with.
Download Counter – Counts and tracks the downloads of all your files.
Email Users – This plugin allows you to mail registered users on your blog based on their role.
Enforce WWW Preference – Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www to make sure your search engine indexing is uniform.
Excerpt Editor – Gives you more control over the excerpts such as length and auto creation.
FeedBurner FeedSmith – Make sure all your RSS feed sbscribers get counted along with the ones signed up via FeedBurner.
Fix Database – Will check your WordPress database for errors and attempt to fix them.
Genki Announcement – Allows you to add an announcement before your first post without editing your themes, can even run on a timer.

Genki Pre-Publish Reminder – Forget to set your categories before you publish? Write yourself a reminder!
Google Analyticator – Inserts Google Analytics on every WordPress page
Google Sitemaps Generator – Will create a Google compliant sitemap of your blog.
GT Post Approval – Adds “Approve” and “Reject” buttons to the administrators view on all posts, very handy for blogs with multiple authors.
Instant Update – Will handle the tedious chore of upgrading your WP install with just one-click.
Just Unzip – Upload a zip folder from the Write page; this plugin unzips the contents and associates them with the current post.
Khanh’s Instant Notepad (KIN) – Allows you to jot notes to yourself on a notepad.
Leprakhauns Word Count – Adds a Java powered word counter to your editing page, very useful for writers working to a word count on professional blogs.
Mass Post Manager – Allows you to move or delete all the posts in a category at once.
Mutliply – Allows you to control multiple blogs from one administrator.
NextGEN Gallery – Adds an image gallery to your control panel and can even add a flash gallery.
OneClick Install – Adds an extremely powerful uploader and installer for plugins and themes to WordPress, eliminates the need to unzip or FTP!
Page Link Manager – Allows you to easily rearrange pages, hide them, and move them at will.
Permacop – Allows you to redirect any URL to another.
Post2Page – Write a post that should really be on permanent display? Turn it in to a page with this plugin and have it handle the URL redirects to boot.
PlugInstaller – Point this plugin to a new plugin you want on the web, it takes care of obtaining it, uploading it and unpacking it.
podPress – Numerous features for bloggers wishing to add podcasts to their WordPress install. Previews, RSS feeds, adding cast to posts, and many, many more.
Search and Replace – Search all your posts at once for specified text, quickly replace it.
Share This – Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an e-mail-this function in one handy button.
Simple Pop-up Images – Add a thumbnail image to your post; when the user clicks on it, they get a larger pop-up of the picture.
Simple Tagging – Simplifies the tagging process to drop down menus, can import from your current tagging plugins.
Site Unavailable – Puts up a message your site is down, customize the message, all the while, the admins can still log in.
Throttle – Monitors your bandwidth and limits non-essential items during heavy load times to help performance.
Wikipedia-NoFollow – Written in response to Wikipedia’s implementing a “nofollow” rule to their outgoing links, a plugin to add nofollow to links you give to Wikipedia pages.
WordPress Mobile Edition – Strips your blog down for easy reading on phones and PDAs.
WordTube – Why use YouTube when you can host and stream your videos as you please? Includes a flash player.
WP Grins – Adds clickable smilies to both the administration area and comments section at once.
WPAds – Add rotating banner and text ads to any position you define in your blog.
WP-Custom Login – Allows you to modify the user login page logo to an image of your choice to allow you to brand your site more completely.
WP- DBManager – Gives you the power to optimize the database, back it up, restore, delete the backup database , drop emptied tables and run selected queries.
WP-phpMyAdmin – Gives you quick access to your PHP databases directly from the WP admin area without haveing to login to phpMyAdmin. Very handy.
WP Plugins Tracker – Will verify all of your plugins are the latest version by checking them against the wp-plugins-db.org database.

WP Super Edit – Gives you more control over the Visual editor including emoticons, layers, style attributes and more.
WP-Table – Allows you to add a table directly in the Visual mode or import from a spreadsheet.
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