If you find a plugin that intrigues you, and it’s a premium plugin which means that it’s going to cost you $, do some additional research before purchasing it to see if there is a free/open source plugin out there that can do the job for you. It’s the free plugins that keep the Wordpress movement going. So take part in downloading and using those! Here are 5 alternatives to 5 well known premium Wordpress plugins.
WP-O-Matic instead of AutoBlogged
WP-O-Matic gives you all the features you need with feed aggregation. Import feeds automatically. Create multiple campaigns. Assign feeds to specific authors and categories etc. Save yourself $97 and use Wp-O-Matic instead.
WP-Ads instead of OIO Publisher
If you need ad management, WP-Ads plugin is flexible enough to give you all that you need. You can create ad zones anywhere in your theme and assign multiple ads to that one ad zone. You can put a “weight†to each ad and you can monitor how many ads are being served.
All in One SEO Pack instead of WP SEO Sniper
This one is a no brainer. The All in One SEO Pack gives your blog all the SEO you really need. Combine that with changing your permalink structure and you will be good to go in SEO. Just focus on writing good quality content after that.
SEO Smart Links, Link Cloaking, & WWW Redirect instead of NinjaAffiliate
SEO Smart links plugin can be used for automatically tagging specific keywords and phrases to specific links, meanwhile link cloaking plugin and WWW redirect can do exactly what they do which is self evident. A combination of which is basically what the NinjaAffiliate plugin gives you.
Vipers Video Quicktags instead of the FLV Plugin
This one is seriously a no brainer. I’m surprised that there is even a plugin that costs $ for this. The Vipers video quicktags plugin will give you the ability not only to easily embed Youtube and other social video into your posts, but also to easily embed your own video using the JW Flash Video Player.
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I can highly recommend All in One SEO Pack.
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If anyone knows of an alternative to http://www.wpsitelaunch.com i’d love to know about it!
How about MyAdManager instead of OIOpublisher?
Hey that’s a good one! I didn’t know about MyAdManager. Thanks for the info on that.
i really love all in one seo pack.
but what you suggest is necessary to try. thanks for sharing.
All in One SEO Pack is by far the best i have
ever used on any of my wp sites…
great plugin…
are there any alternatives for wp-o-matic? i am looking for a rss fetcher…