The What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin is one of the reasons I got hooked on Wordpress. It showed me the easy to add marketing plugins that exist. Before Wordpress everything seemed a struggle.

WWSGD to its friends provides a way to show different messages to new and returning visitors. So you can change the message you give. The video gives you some ideas of how to use this plugin.

There are more advanced plugins of this type but it is a great start.

<strong>Rating:</strong> 4/5

<strong>Version Reviewed: </strong> What Would Seth Godin Do 1.7

<strong>Plugin Page:</strong> http://richardkmiller.com/wordpress-plugin-what-would-seth-godin-do

Flexipages widget gives a nice page list with control over how sub pages are displayed. Good plugin for page heavy websites such as corporate websites. A little imagination and playing with your templates combined with this plugin can give you some very advanced looking navigation.

Rating: 5/5

Version Reviewed: Flexi Pages Widget 1.6

Plugin Page: http://srinig.com/wordpress/plugins/flexi-pages/

The GD Star Rating Plugin is a granddaddy, monster of a plugin which does something so simple as providing a quality rating system. However it has so many custom changes you can make and is super flexible. From star ratings to thumbs up system to multi-rating blocks for product feature reviews.

You can try out the rating system below to rate each plugin. This is a long video and will be followed by another one once I have spent some more time with this. Great for review type websites.

Rating: 5/5

Version Reviewed: GD Star Rating 1.8.1

Plugin Page: http://www.gdstarrating.com/

Simple plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin. It allows you to easily exclude pages from the menu.

Rating: 5/5

Version Reviewed: Exclude Pages 1.8

Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

The Ozh Admin Drop Down Menu is the first plugin I install and activate on my blogs. It is a bit of a personal preference but I prefer the admin menu at the top with nice drop downs.

This plugin offers you a chance to shape the top of the admin menu in quite a few ways. I tend to install it and ignore the options but they are worth a look.

Rating: 5/5

Version Reviewed: Ozh Admin Drop Down Menu 3.3.6

Plugin Page: http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/

Display Future Posts wordpress plugin displays a list of scheduled posts along with the time to go before they are published. Good idea for membership sites to advertised future content.

I was a little unkind in the video that I couldn’t add a title to the widget. However when installing the plugin for this site I noticed a settings menu option. This allows you to set the title and add the time to go. However it does not seem to generate normal html markup for a widget and so the title and box did not work for this theme without a little editing.

Rating: 2/5

Version Reviewed: Display Future Posts 0.2.1

Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-future-posts/

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade adds a bit more robustness to the process of automatically upgrading. The standard upgrade reminds you to do a backup but doesn’t do one. This plugin takes you step by step through the process in a much more reassuring way.

This is an essential plugin for any installation I do.

Rating: 4/5

Version Reviewed: Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.5

Plugin Page: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html