Wordpress LogoAlmost everyone with a blog is using Wordpress, and if not they should be. It is by far the easiest software to install and everything needed to enhance it can be found on the Internet for free. There are thousands of different Wordpress Plugins out there and figuring out what ones to add is no easy task. For the most part wordpress plugins take less then five minutes to install and can enhance the wordpress theme right away. Below is a list that I have compiled of the best wordpress plugins, I will update it each time I add a new one to the blog. I had trouble finding the top wordpress plugins right away, so I figured why not blog about it so others will not have to waste the time that I did to find them. Be sure to leave me a comment if I am missing a plugin that you think is very useful.

Best Wordpress Plugins

Ordered List
Adds a clean and fresh layout to your Dashboard, making it easier to navigate.

Shylock Adsense
Allows you to place Google AdSense advertisements into your posts. Also allows you to not display them until a set amount of time has passed (getting them off your front pages so it doesn’t effect your regular readers).

Got Banners
Randomizes the display order of your website’s banners. Ideal for rotating 125 x 125 banners, as well as randomly displaying affiliate links

Live Comment Preview
Shows a preview of the comment as it is typed.

Link Love
WordPress plugin which turns off nofollow for all commenters who have posted a set number of comments (configured in the admin panel).

Search Meter
Shows detailed keyword stats to help determine where the users and coming from and what pages and posts are most popular!

Ultimate Tag Warrior
Ultimate Tag Warrior is a multi-headed hydra of a plugin. It allows you to add tags either through the Write Post page in wordpress in a tag box.

Related Posts
Automatically add links to related posts at the end of each post. Helps keep the users at your blog and reading the posts.

Subscribe to Comments
Plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries.

Popularity Contest
Keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. Great mod to encourage activity among your readers.

Adsense Deluxe
This plugin makes it a snap to add Adsense, YPN, or any other publisher to your blogposts. I found it to be the easiest. Just insert the (“<!–adsense–>”) tag in your desired location and it will put the preconfigured ad unit in that spot. No messing with the large code anymore, save valuable time with this plugin.

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