Plugins for blogs

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Plugin

Description

Basic Setup

Extended Setups

Akismet

Identifies and blocks comment and trackback spam using the Akismet web service.

All In One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Allows you to easily setup titles, descriptions and keywords for the search engines. You can do it page by page or let the plugin to do it automatically.

Adsense

Easily place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts.

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Sociable

Lets your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter and more.

Viper's Video Quicktags

Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, Google, Viddler, Vimeo, and Blip.tv into your posts.

What Would Seth Godin Do

Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors. A great tool for growing your feed subscriber list.

WordPress Database Backup

On-demand and automatic backups of your WordPress database. Don’t be caught without a backup!

BM TrackPing

Separates your trackbacks and pingbacks from your comments. Don’t know what these are? Don’t worry about it. It just cleans up your comment section and makes it easier to follow.

Contact Form

Contact Form allows users to easily contact you by filling out a form placed on a post or page.

My Page Order

Allows you to easily change the order of your pages with an easy to use drag and drop interface.

Google XML Sitemaps

Generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Google, Bing and Yahoo. (Produces a sitemap for the search engines.)

Sitemap Generator

Creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not an XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. (Produces a sitemap for the user.)

FeedBurner Feedsmith

Detects all ways to access your WordPress RSS feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track all possible subscribers.

Ozh Better Feed

Your feed, on steroids: adds a custom footer to RSS items with, for example, a copyright notice, a "Read More link, an "Add to Delicious" link, a list of related entries or anything really.

Google Analytics for WordPress

Adds your Google Analytics tracking code to all pages within your blog so you can monitor traffic statistics.

Related Posts

Gives the reader a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing them to other relevant content on your site.

Subscribe To Comments

Allows readers to subscribe to a post and be notified when new comments are made.

Top Commentators

Shows a list of the top commentators on your blog in your sidebar. It's a great way to encourage people to make comments.

TweetMeme

Installs a button so your visitors can easily retweet your blog posts.

Block Bad Queries

Decreases comment spam by protecting WordPress against malicious URL requests.

SEO Friendly Images

Automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes, an important factor in search engine optimization.

Redirection

Handles 301 redirects. A great tool for whenever you need to move a page or change the structure of your blog.

WP Super Cache

Helps your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other high traffic site.