if you’re looking for an opt-in plugin, here are some features you should consider:

• control of email templates
• editing ability for signup and confirmation pages
• export and import of the list of email contacts
• ability to put the signup form where you want (sidebar, page, post)
• ability to manage more than one list
• interface with email marketing services, such as Aweber, MailChip, etc.
• ability to tie confirmation to something, like a free download, video, ebook, etc
• double opt-in confirmation of email signups

I have to say – I’m not completely happy with what I found, but I did find a great free plugin: G-Lock Double Opt-In Manager

It has most of the features. You can import, export, control the email, signup, and confirmation pages. And in the welcome email you can add a link to a download, but that’s of course only good for managing a single free thing. The good news is – you can export the email contacts, so if and when I find a better solution – I can export the emails to the new plugin.

What do you use for a Wordpress Opt-In plugin?

Privacy Page: Why do you need a privacy page? Adsense, and nearly every affiliate program out there requires that your have one to promote their products.

Breadcrumb NavXT: I’ve been creating and maintaining web sites for 15 years, and I still don’t understand why Wordpress and most modern CMS system don’t have better navigation. If google isn’t a clue, EVERY SINGLE PAGE on your web site should have what we call “breadcrumbs” at the top. It gives visitors a way “home” at all times and it shows where they are in your site (if you have multiple levels or sub-pages). Users expect that. The biggest sites have it – why shouldn’t you? There is NOTHING wrong with having redundant navigation in your header, sidebars, footer, and breadcrumbs – so long as it doesn’t clutter your site and make it more confusing.

WP PageNavi: The last thing your blog needs is to have those nasty “previous” and “next” post links on your homepage and single post pages. Lester Chan’s WP PageNavi plugin adds a bottom page navigation more like google’s. This doesn’t work automatically – you have to edit your wordpress home or index.php and single.php theme files on your own.

Subscribe to Comments: If you haven’t already, install and activate the “Subscribe to Comments” plugin. When I comment on a site if I can’t “subscribe” to any replies to my comment, I just get really annoyed.

If you liked those plugins, here’s some closely related post I wrote about Wordpress layout that are very popular:

Fixing your search results page: Custom Search Results Page and Template
Fixing your 404 Error page: Create a Custom 404 Error Page
Fixing your navigation: 10 Ways to improve your navigation
Fixing Categories: 9 things you can do with Categories
Fixing Tags: Hacking Wordpress Tags and Hacking tag pages
Fixing your comments: Rock Star Comments in Wordpress in 12 Steps

Broken Link Checker: I don’t use this in all my sites, but over time links get broken and this plugin can help. It monitors when people click on links going outside your site that are broken, and broken images. You get notified in the dashboard when you have a broken link. If nothing more, this plugin is handy because if you have affiliate links anywhere on your site and they break, this plugin will tell you the next time you login to the dashboard.

Cross Linker: Cross Linker is a great plugin because it boost your blog “inlinks” automatically. Let’s say you are selling an ebook with a custom workout. Add the keyword “workout” in crosslinker and the page you want it to go to on your site. Then every time you use the word “workout” in a post it will automatically link your landing page. You just give the plugin a list of words and pages you want it to cross link, and it will do all the work for you.

Pending Review: If you have people writing and submitting content for your review, or if you’re scheduling posts for your review later – this will give you a list in the dashboard.

Dashboard Scheduled Posts: This plugin lists your scheduled posts, great if you’re using WP Robot or datafeedr to stack up posts for you to rewrite and publish. I believe the current 2.9 WP dashboard shows you recent drafts, I don’t know how that compares to this.

Scheduled Posts Calendar: Maybe you have posts scheduled for the month and you’re more of a visual person. This plugin provides a calendar and shows all of your scheduled posts throughout the month.

What WP plugins do you use to help with links and pending, scheduled, and for ‘review’ posts?

Plugins features:

- export signups to CSV file
- API to send signups through your AWeber, MailChimp, etc. email based list service
- checkbox can be added to comment forms or registration signup pages
- complete control of text and layout
- add code before or after the signup block
- email notification of signups
- you can hide the checkbox from registered users

This is a premium plugin, it’s $37 (and worth every penny!). It’s a great (and easy) way to build lists for blogs, web sites, businesses, retail stores, or just about any purpose to build your brand or marketing based lists.

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Enter the Bulk Delete Wordpress plugins. Bulk delete posts by category, by date range, bulk delete categories and tags, I had my entire site cleaned up in about 30 seconds!

Now sometimes you may want to move posts from one category to another. That’s completely possible as well with the Bulk Move plugin. What plugins have you used in Wordpress for bulk operations?

Have you ever seen a Wordpress SEO plugin that:

- records SERP visits and tells you what position you were ranked for each visit?

- auto-tags your posts with better SEO tags?

- adds keywords to your titles?

- ranks your top incoming searches?

- can boost your rankings for long tail searches?

It’s an awesome plugin, click here to visit the SEO Booster Pro product page for more info.

I’ve tried quite a few different plugins, and some were either a real pain to setup or required editing code. This plugin allows you to change the login logo, the background and color of the screen, the login form background itself – and you can even add your own custom CSS style code to change it even more.

Check it out, this is the author’s custom login screen:

Make your own accordion menus in no time, or structure your pages in tabs so you don’t have to do multi-paged content!

You need this cool sidebar generator plugin – it can do all that and more. It’s really cool, easy to use, and once installed you just access it under “appearance->sidebars” in your wordpress admin dashboard. I love plugins that ‘finally’ fulfull a feature you’ve been looking for in Wordpress for a very long time!