Top 7 Commercial WordPress Plugins
Although you can download tons of WordPress plugins for free, sometimes free just isn’t enough.
The BIG problem I have with free plugins is that most of them have a short shelf life. The hard working developers who create WordPress plugins sometimes get too many complaints and curses (and no donations), that they eventually abandon their plugins.
That’s not to say that some paid plugins suffer the same too. But overall, if a plugin is complex in nature, a commercial version of it tends to be better and longer lasting.
So here’s my list of the best 7 commercial WordPress plugins ever:
- Max Banner Ads Plugin – Allows you to display banner ads easily on your blog. You can also get complete stats to see how well each ad is performing, and it support Adsense or other Javascript based ads as well. A free version is available, with credits back to the plugin page.
- Ninja Affiliate Plugin – Allows you to automatically convert keywords on your blog to affiliate links. Extremely useful to automate affiliate marketing on your blogs, and even more useful if you have multiple blogs to manage.
- LightPop Plugin – Allows you to create a “lightbox” popup on your blog, which can be used to get new subscribers, display an ad, announce important information, or anything you want.
- Auto Social Poster – Allows you to automatically submit blog posts to a number of social bookmarking services. Te time-delay and random submission feature helps you
- WP Review Site – Allows you to create a product review blog using WordPress, complete with themes and additional stuff. You can automatically rank products on your main page, and you can choose to apply the plugin to certain categories only.
- WP Blaster – Create one post or content, and “blast” it to many different WordPress blogs that you own. Suitable for blog farm builders
- Synonymizer Plugin – Probably better known among niche blogging marketers, who use a lot of Private Label articles. Synonymizer automatically creates unique articles by replacing words with synonyms, and youo have complete control over how words are replaced.
I’m sure there are many other plugins that I’m missing out, some newer ones that I have never used, etc. Please feel free to mention them.
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13 Responses to “Top 7 Commercial WordPress Plugins”
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Great Post
I currently only use Max Banner Ads and am satisfied.
I will look at other plugins soon.
Thanks for great list.
The #7 plug-in – Synonymizer Plugin, I think it is similar to the product mass article control. The same thing happened there, replace some keywords with their synonyms, but it wasn’t automated.
I wonder if this one is. I think I’ll download it and give it a try, it looks interesting.
Thanks for this top 7 you put here, very helpful.
As long as you pay for the plugins to download it, you usually will see updates for a long time
-Mike
Sorry man, but this list is not even close to the Top 7 Commercial Plugins. There are quite a few that make these look like nothing. This is just a list plugins via your current top rated affiliate programs.
Thanks for this information!
As usual, you provide great stuff for your readers.
Thanks again!
Perhaps somebody should teach plugin writers how to market themselves.
The best ones offer “Free versions” of paid plugins.
Works real well as far as I can see.
I agree that commercial plugins do have a longer shelf life, that’s not to say that the more popular free plugins do not last the pace. As for your plugin list one or two are definitely useful for the power blogger, i use Max Banner Ads Pro which is excellent and i use ReviewAZON another premium plugin that posts off the huge Amazon catalog. One things for sure there will always be a high demand especially for Review plugins.
You forgot one of the most important plugins you can get for free – “The Ultimate Sidewiki Blocker” – which allows you to keep your blogs and sales pages safe from the scourge of Side-Wiki and negative comments from detractors and competitors.
It is in the Wordpress Plugin repository.
(and yes, I wrote it).
David T. McKee
I’ve never heard of that actually, but thanks for mentioning it
@ Chris – Indeed it does
I didn’t know that free plugins have a shelf life (Im somewhat new to this) so that is very good to know. Also some interesting feedback in the comments section.
Thanks for the information.
Im going to check out the WP Review Site – that could work perfectly for me.
Of all of the 7 you reviewed, I like the look of the LightPop plugin the most. Did you have any specific criteria (price, support, or otherwise) that you included in your comparison to arrive at this top 7 or what is popularity?
I’ve just released another commerical plugin for WP, called WordPress GeoTargeting.
You are welcome to have a look at what it does:
http://thewordpress.net/plugins/geotargeting/
Basically, it enables country-specific contents and performs redirects based on visitor’s country.