Wordpress is used by people from different levels and sectors. Personally, I think it the best way to create a site. Just upload the files, create a database and you are ready to roll, er, I mean blog The following list of plugins is the best according to my usage. If anyone has any issues with them, ask me and I would love to help you’ll out. The top 10 plugins are in RANDOM ORDER.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a plugin that included by default in the Wordpress blog files you download. It automatically scans every comment that is generated and categorises it into spam if it feels so. I am using it since 1 year and 99.9% of the comments that it automatically distinguished as spam were really spam. Thanks to Wordpress for such an amazing plugin.

2. SexyBookmarks

SexyBookmarks is a plugin that places itself on the page of your posts. Suppose the reader of your blog likes your post, SexyBookmarks allows him to spread it on Social Networking sites like Twitter, Digg, Technorati, Delicious among many others. Also, it has a clean and sophisticated look. It ads a cute looking signature type text on the top saying ‘Sharing is Caring’ or ‘Sharing is Sexy’.

3. Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator is a small widget that allows the site owner/admin add the necessary Analytics javascript code to enable Google Analytics. Google Analytics is definitely better than all other free stat counters just because they give you amazing facts about the visitors that visited your site that will help you build your site.

4. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin generates a sitemap so that a search engine will find the links of your posts easily and add it to their search engine. This is recommended because generally websites get their traffic from search engines.

5. Limit Posts

This is a sort of trick to make more page views on your site. If you put the whole post on the front page, then the visitor reads it an then leaves your site. But if you just give a summary of your posts, it makes the reader more curious to read which ultimately gives you more traffic. I am using it on the home page so as to give it a neater and professional look.

6. Add To Any : Subscribe Button

The following plugin gives the users to subscribe to your blog in many ways like getting updated through Google, mail, Windows live, feeds and the list continues. A must download plugin for every site that needs frequent visitors.

7. Similar Posts

In simple words, this plugin shows a list of posts that match the post the user is currently seeing. In complex, it scans the common words from all the posts, the tags, their categories, and shows the related posts.

8. Wordpress Database Backup (Wordpress DB Backup)

Backing up your site is as important as backing up your PC. You never know when you may do some wrong setting that may end up blowing your site up. This is the best plugin if you hate taking up backups manually through PHP MyAdmin in your cPanel. Just set up this plugin once and you will never find the need of manually backing up again. It will send you a mail or download to your desktop according to your preferences.

9. Ultimate Tag Warrior

Tags are one of the most important things of your post. It helps you in SEO and it may be the deciding factor on getting traffic. This plugin is one of the best tools for getting automatic genuine traffic.

10. WP Cumulus

One of the best plugins available on Wordpress is WP Cumulus. This plugin is a flash based one which rotates the tags used in your posts in a cloud format. Easy to use and looks amazing. One of the top recommended plugins.

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