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Plugins play a major part in all wordpress blogs. They are used for just about anything and everything but which plugins should you use and just what do they do. If you wanted to you could probably spend hour upon hour searching the internet and find all these plugins yourself. I just thought i would save you the time.

I have compiled a list of 104 wordpress plugins and categorized them all of which are extremely useful.

Your Blogs Layout

Angsumans Multi Page – Enables you to create multiple pages for your articles so if your article is exceptionally long you can break it up into multiple pages.

Page Link Manager – This plugin allows you to exclude posts from your blogs navigation.

Stopping The Spam

Asimet - Wordpress default spam blocker.

Spam Karma – Great spam plugin with optional extras.

Email Immunizer – This will cloak email addresses with your wp files and prevent them being found by email harvesters.

Referer Bouncer – One of the simplest spam tools.

Wordpress SEO

Jeromes Keyword Plugin – Allows you to associate your posts with your keywords.

All In One SEO Pack – Probably the best and most popular.

Tags in The Head – Places your posts tags in the meta tags.

External Links Plugin – Enhances your outbound links.

SEO Title Tag – Places SEO title tags in a custom field.

Ultimate Tag Warrior – Automatically create your tags as your write your posts.

Head Meta Description – Inserts meta descriptions for your posts and pages.

Optimal Tag – Places your blogs name after your posts title.

Angsumans Permalinks Migration – Permanent redirect for your posts and pages.

Deans Permalink Migration – Generates 301 redirects for your posts.

Google Sitemap Generator – Creates xml site-maps and submits them to Google and Yahoo.

Bunny`s Technorati Tags – A technorati tags plugin.

Blog Money Making plugins

Ad Rotator – Rotates your banner and Adsense ads.

Adsense Beautifier – Places images next to your adsense.

Chitika eMiniMalls Widget – Display eMiniMalls in a sidebar widget.

CafePress – Sell your own products or CafePress affiliate products.

alinks – Creates phrases into links to Ebay, Amazon and clickbank.

Wp-Amazon – Places Amazon products at the bottom of your posts.

OIOPublisher – Sell banner ads on your blog and keep 100% of the sale. As used on this blog.

MaxPressStripeAd – Place text ads at the top of your blog.

All in One Adsense and YPN – Excellent plugin for adsense and YPN placement.

Kontera TXT Plugin – Automatically insert kontera txt ads into your blogs.

DealDotCom – A simple Plugin to add a DealDotCom Widget to your Blog.

Make Yourself Known

Subscribe Me – Let your readers sign up to your RSS Feed.

Digg This – Place a Digg button in each of your posts.

Sociable – Allow readers to bookmark your website.

Socialize It – Allows multiple submissions in one click.

Feedburner Plugin – Great plugin to manage your feed via Feedburner.

Better Feed – Enhance your Feed.

Marketing and Your Email

Wordpress Email Notifacation – Sends emails to users when you post.

Secure Form Mailer – Prevents your blogs form from being spammed.

Subscribe2 – Robost Subscription management.

WP Camapaign Manager – Allows you to send email campaigns and keep track of the stats.

WP-Polls – Add polls to your worpress blog. See our Entrecard Poll.

Newsletter Manager – Adds a newsletter to your blog.

Survey Manager – Add surveys to your blog.

Posting and Navigation

Advanced Search – Adds an advanced search to your blog.

Automatic Sitemap – Creates a site-map of your blog for your readers to navigate.

PHPExec – Allows you to add PHP code into your posts.

Search Reloaded – Enhanced search engine for your blog.

Search Meter – Keeps track of what people are searching for on your blog.

Popularity Contest – Rates your posts and displays the most popular.

Breadcrumb Navigation XT – Shows the path back to your homepage for your visitors.

Related Posts – Shows similar posts at the end of each post.

Most Popular Categories – List your categories by the amount of posts in them.

WP-Print – Allows your readers to print your posts.

WP-Forum – Adds a forum to your blog.

XDForum – Another forum plugin.

Live Comment Preview – Shows your comments as you type them.

Wordpress Global Translator – Converts your blog into 9 different languages.

Vidoe, Sounds and Images

Lightbox JS – Overlays images onto your posts.

WPG2 – Displays images in your sidebar and allows for user submissions.

Gallery2ImageChooser – Choose images from within your writing window.

Flickr Photo Album – Displays images from your Flickr album.

Flickr Related Images – Uses technorati tags to find 3 images related to your posts.

Targana`a Del.icio.us MP3 Player – Plays mp3`s in your posts and gives the reader an option to submit to Del.icio.us.

Audio Player – An mp3 player ideal if you are a podcaster.

Automatic WP Player – A wav music player for your blog.

Video Player – Allows you to ad Google and Youtube Videos just by inputing the video i.d from the hosting website.

WP-FLV – Inserts flash videos into your posts.

WP-Ploop – Lets you insert .mov and .swf videos into your posts.

Wpvideo – Inserts Youtube, Google and other videos into your posts with an option to include the title and video author.

Podpress – A dream plugin for all you podcasters.

MaxPress Favicon – Easily add favicon to your blog without editing any wordpress files.

Blog Statistics

WP-Stats – Displays your blogs stats.

Google Analytics – Adds the analytics code to your wordpress blog.

The Mint – Another stats plugin ($30)

Slimstats – Sophisticated blog stats.

Crawl Rate Tracker – This is a plugin to log every visit by search engine robots, and show the results in different reports.

WassUp – Wordpress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics.

Your Blog Admin Skins

WP Tiger Admin – Themes for your admin.

Admin Dashboard Replacement – Replaces your admin panel and reduces resources.

Blog Administration

Maintenance Mode – Lets you turn off your blog while you upgrade.

Unavailable For Maintenance – Allows you to have a custom maintenance message.

WPDBManager – Auto backup your database.

Smart Update Pinger – Prevents pinging when editing existing posts.

Frame Buster – Stops your blog being loaded in frames from sites like auto surfs.

Unfancy Quote – Overrides wordpress`s fancy quotes.

ADD Copyright to Your RSS Feed – Adds a copyright to your feed.

deUncategorize – Prevents new posts accidentally being placed in uncategorized category.

Snapr – Works like a tool tip.

Antileech – Prevent errant parties from stealing your content and bandwidth.

Comment Email Responder – Emails commenter when an admin replies to the comment, if commenter is not subscribed to email updates via Subscribe-to-Comments.

Commentluv – Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Currently parses with wordpress, blogspot, typepad and blogs that have a feed link in the head section of their page.

Comment Relish – Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your weblog.

Recent Comments – Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.

NoFollow – Remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options.

Blog Tools

TurboWPThemerator – A Unique Template System, you can configure the header graphics, the positioning of left or right side bar and its components with just a few clicks.

InstantNicheHeaders – When a visitor lands on your site, the first thing they see will be your header. Get a matching Niche Header to better represent your site and grab the attention of your visitor to hold them to your site.

Wordpress Mass Installer – The Wordpress Mass Installer is the solution to install and blog to multiple blogs. It is a solution that not only able to install multiple blogs but to manage all your blogs from a central Admin Panel. It will also Auto-Post your content to your blog and to specific category.

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