25 Best WordPress Plugins

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Here is list of useful plugins.

  1. Akismet :Is a spam filter that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not, also checks the trackbacks for spam.
  2. Ultimate Tag Warrior : Best Tag system for WordPress. You can use categories and tag system on one website which is very cool.
  3. Exec-PHP : Execute PHP code in posts or static pages. When this plugin is on you can add php code to static pages or even posts.
  4. Google Sitemaps : This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
  5. No Ping Wait : Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php.
  6. PXS Mail Form : Creates a mail form with multipart verification, various messages and an auto redirect on successful send. It is much more easy to contact with website author.
  7. Super Archive : Implements a dynamic archive, the best archives system i know.
  8. SRG Clean Archives : Super clean archive. Very simple and useful.
  9. WP lightbox 2 : Overlay images on the current page for WordPress. You can turn it on and all images are now working with it.
  10. fQuick : Sidenotes, short notes for WordPress. You can place it for example in sidebar.
  11. CG-FlashyTitles : Nice graphical flash titles for WP. Very easy to install.
  12. flickrRSS : Integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. Show flickr photos on your website.
  13. Feedburner Feed Replacement : Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
  14. Gravatars : Adds a nice looking graphic next to the persons comments.
  15. Get Recent Comments : Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar or where you want.
  16. WP Paginate : Create pagination for pages. It is the best plugin for that makes navigation easy with many static pages.
  17. wp-notable : Add social bookmark links such as digg or del.icio.us to each blog entry
  18. Adsense-Deluxe : Support for AdSense ads and allows you to add ads to posts.
  19. WP-ContactForm : A way for people to contact you without actually emailing you, saves time, and great way to avoid spam.
  20. PodPress : Got a podcast? PodPress makes it really easy to post podcasts, also includes an inline media player.
  21. Related Posts : Link to related posts on your blog, which is based on the content of the post.
  22. WP-Cache : An extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.
  23. Live Comment Preview: Live Comment Preview Plugin is the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site. The preview is generated as the user types the comments.
  24. Reply to Comments: This plugin creates a “reply to comment” link for all the comments and allows readers to reply to a comment just below the comment itself.
  25. Popular Contest / Top Posts by Category: Popularity contest will help you see which of your posts are most popular and the Top posts plugin displays your top rated posts categorywise based on comments or page views.
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Easy backup your WordPress

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WP-DB-Backup - is another unique plugin that allows you to backup your wordpress mysql database in a nice way, ajax style. It shows you a progress bar, it allows you to backup the database on your FTP, gives you a download link or sends a direct email with a zip file attached.You can see a little demo bellow in the second part of the movie.

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Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

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Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

  1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
  2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
  3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
  4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
  5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
  6. Upgrades wordpress files.
  7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
  8. Re-activates the plugins.

The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

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