Wordpress plugins are genius. They are lovely little scripts that make your life so much easier and help you get the most out of your blog. I thought it was about time to give my readers links to some very useful ones. I have discovered a lot of these on the web and linked them here so you don’t have to go searching. Enjoy.

All in One SEO Pack
http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Updated regularly, this plugin helps optimize your website for Search Engines with a few very simple clicks. It helps with things like avoiding duplicate content, and defining your home page title, description and keywords, plus a lot more!

Brian’s Threaded Comments
http://meidell.dk/archives/2004/09/04/nested-comments/
This gives your readers the option to reply to an above comment and it will be nested below the comment you are replying to, so it does not get lost down the page.

Contact Form ][
http://chip.cuccio.us/projects/contact-form-ii
This plugin provides you with an easy configurable contact form plugin which is easy to put into any page in your blog to allow visitors to contact you.

Daiko’s Text Widget
http://www.daikos.net/widgets/daikos-text-widget/
This little plugin, will allow you to put php code into a widget so you can have those php scripts in your sidebars with simple widget drop.

Popularity Contest
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress (3rd plugin on his list down)
Add a popularity contest to your posts, determined on comments, views etc. From this you will be able to see which of your posts are being most looked at. Alex King also provides so many other Wordpress plugins that you may be interested in.

Show Top Commentators
http://www.pfadvice.com/wordpress-plugins/show-top-commentators/
Give something nice to your readers by using this plugin. If they comment you can show a list of top commentators. It provides a nice link to their website, and it spurs them to have more discussion.

Sociable
http://push.cx/sociable
Add the option to bookmark your post to large amounts of social bookmarking websites which will increasing your traffic by giving your post a larger audience.

WP-PostRatings
http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php
An AJAX rating system that allows readers to rate your posts, this will help you understand what posts people are enjoying. Another widget that comes with this allows you to display your most popular posts in your sidebar giving direct access to the posts your readers love. This website also provides you with other plugins that you may find useful.

WP-SpamFree
http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
Stop spam in its tracks, with a recent update it aims to stop your blog from recieving automated comment spam from bots.

WP Grins
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress (Near the bottom of the plugin list)
Easily allow your readers and you to add smilies by just clicking on it, no need to remember the syntax for it, just click and it will show.

NiceAdmin
http://www.douglaskarr.com/projects/niceadmin/
Get a cleaner Wordpress admin panel when working with wordpress, screenshot of the design in link.

I will add more plugins to this in the future, so make sure you bookmark this thread if you want to see more.
Updated: 24/01/2008

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