Wordpress is a fantastic platform for bloggers. My blog is a wordpress blog and it has been working very well for the past 1 year plus.

The reason why Wordpress is so good is because it is a very user-friendly platform and allows you to download & install powerful plugins for free. There are plugins that help you to achieve better rankings with SEO, faciliate blogging, encourage more interaction between you and your readers.

Now, let me share with you some of the top Wordpress plugins you must have:

1. All in One SEO Pack. This plugin allows you to update your Title and Meta description easily. It automatically optimize your blog for search engines.
2. Ultimate Tag Warrior. Best tagging system on Wordpress that allows you to tag pages/posts easily.
3. Akismet. This is a spam filter that automatically checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not. Thank god there is Akismet!
4. Google XML Sitemap. This plugin will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. XML sitemap is very important because it allows search engines to discover all the pages and posts of your blog.
5. NextGen Gallery. This is a fully integrated image gallery for wordpress blog.
6. Related Posts. Links to related posts on your blog based on the content of the post.
7. Get Recent Comments. This plugin displays the recent comments/trackback on your blog.
8. Exec-PHP. With this plugin, you can add php code to static pages or even posts.
9. Feedburner Feed Replacement. Forward all feed traffic to Feedburner.
10. Google Analytics for Wordpress. This allows you to easily install Google Analytics code to track your blog traffic statistics.
11. Sidebar Widgets. This allows you to add various cool widgets (small applications developed by others) into your sidebar without any HTML knowledge.
12. Simple Tags. A plugin to generate simple tags for Technorati.
13. No Ping Wait. No more waiting after you click on the “Publish” button. The reason why it takes a while for your post to be published because Wordpress is notifying various blog search and monitoring services that new blog post is coming up. So this plugin will seperate posting from pinging and you don’t have to wait anymore.
14. PodPress. If you are into podcasting, you need this plugin. It allows you to add, manage and play podcasts and other media files on your blog easily.
15. Wordpress Database Backup. Allows you to backup your content of your blog easily.
16. Adsense Deluxe. Allows you to easily insert AdSense, YPN, Chitika ads to your blog posts and control for when and where the ads appear.
17. Popularity Contest. Allows you to hightlight your best post to your readers.
18. Intense Debate. Replaces default comment system with advanced commenting, threaded replies, karma points (not for individual comments), Gravatars, RSS, and the ability to reply to comments from email (great to reply from your Blackberry). All in one management from the website for users.
19. WP Super Cache. Generates static HTML files for your dynamic php posts. After a html file is generated your web server will serve the HTML file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
20. WP-PostViews. Allows you to display the number of views for each blog post.

Did I miss out any good Wordpress plugin? If you have other plugins that are good for your blog, please share with us by commenting to this post.

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