In our Stretch Your Mind And Body Blog Talk Radio segment last week, Connie asked me about the PlugIns I would recommend for a basic blog setup.  There are a LOT that I would recommend, so I thought it would be best to detail them here, with their links….. (I’ve also linked last weeks show at the bottom of this post, so you can hear what we really discussed).

So here they are, grouped by function:

Audio / Visual

1 Pixel Out Audio Player

An excellent Wordpress Plug-In that inserts an audio player right into your post.  Completely customizable so that you can match your blog theme.

MightySeek Podpress

To syndicate your audio content, use a Podcasting plug-in to send your audios to Podcast directories (including iTunes).  An excellent way to increase the reach of your content.

Social Bookmarking & Commenting

Comment Luv

A cool little plug-in that will find the last post of the commentor and display it near their comment.

Live Comment Preview

Allows commentors the chance to edit their comment for a predefined time after submitting.

Share-This

Allows site visitors to bookmark your site to their favorite bookmarking or social networking site!

Tweet This

Allows visitors to tweet your post on Twitter

Post Ratings

Get your visitors to rate your posts!

Subscribe To Comments

Commentors can subscribe when they comment on your post and receive updates when other comments are added.

Other Post Management Tools

WP-Email

Visitors can email your post to friends

WP-Print

Produces a printer friendly version of your blog post

Page-Navi

Allows you to define your page navigation to be more user friendly

Contact Form

Add a contact form to your post or page, protect your email address!

Add Affiliate Links Automatically To Your Post

Choose your key phrase, select your affiliate link or enter your Amazon Associates ID and have your link automatically inserted into your post everytime.

Blog Management

All In One SEO Pack

Make your blog more SEO friendly.

Configurable Tag Cloud

Add a Tag Cloud to your blog - configurable text sizes and colors.

Site Map Generator

Make your blog userfriendly - automatically produce a site map quickly and easily

One Click PlugIn Updater

Quickly and easily add plugins and themes automatically to your blog.  No more FTP!

Exec-PHP

Be able to execute PHP code in your blog posts.

Firestats

Statistics monitoring for your blog

Feedburner Feedsmith

Use Feedburner to increase the reach of your RSS feeds

Page Link Manager

Select which pages appear in your page navigation

Redirection

Add redirection links to your blog

Tag Management

Tagalize It

Technorati Tags

Enjoy these plug-ins - please let me know how they go.

For videos on how to use many of these plug-ins visit How To Videos Central Blog