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7 Must Have WordPress Plugins 2010

26 May 2010 and last modified on June 5th, 2010 at 5:44 pm, No Comment

1) WordPress Related Posts

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WordPress Related Posts Plugin

Related posts is a great way to improve retention and page views as it encourages visitors to remain on the site and explore further. It also aids navigation and offers another way for visitors to find content they are interested in.

2) Top Commentators Pluign

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Top Comments WordPress Plugin

The plugin comes with a widget that displays a list of top commentators on the sidebar of your blog. You can choose to display top commentators by month, week or from the start. This is an effective way to attract participation from users as it provides a dofollow back-link to users who contribute towards the content of your website.

3) WP-PageNavi

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WordPress Pagenav Plugin

This is a simple plugin that improves the navigation of WordPress. By default WordPress displays links for ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer Posts’ at the bottom of the blog to allow users to navigate through the posts. WP-PaveNavi replaces this will more usable page buttons so users can go directly to the page they want as well as keep track of the page they are on. Page number links are more standard and look more professional.

4) Twitter Tools

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Twitter Tools for WordPress

This WordPress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It offers a number of features including tweet count and retweet button on posts, automatic posting of posts to your twitter account as well as retrieving your tweets as new blog posts. It offers powerful customisation options in admin and includes latest tweets widget for sidebar.

5) Sociable

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Sociable WordPress Plgin

Sociable is social bookmarking plugin for WordPress that allows visitors to easily share your website link with others. More than 99 social networking websites are supported by the plgin. You can choose what social bookmarks are listed. The design is visually appealing and includes icons instead of standard links.

6) Adsense Deluxe

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Revenue generation is one of the key considerations for many bloggers. Inserting ad code manually into your posts can be time consuming and difficult to manage. Adsense deluxe (formerly known as Adsense Manager) offers advanced options for displaying and managing Ad units on your WordPress blog. It supports leading Ad networks including Google Adsense and Yahoo YPN. It makes the management and administration of ads much easier.

7) Akismet

Akismet WordPress Plugin

Comment spam is one of the most common issues faced by blog owners and can take considerable time to manage. Akismet is one of the most widely used plugin for dealing with comment spam. It comes built into WordPress by default but needs to be activated. It has a built in spam filter that captures spam and makes the approval process easier.

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