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When it comes to blogging, you can have the best content, the best navigation, look and feel. But, there’s one thing you MUST have in order to make your blog functionable and interactive and that’s wordpress plugins. Not just any wordpress plugins though, you have to have the RIGHT wordpress plugins. I composed a list of 31 of the most useful and effective wordpress plugins of 2009.
Top 31 Most Banging Wordpress Plugins Of 2009…
#1 – All In One SEO Pack – Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
#2 – Contextual Related Post – Show user defined number of contextually related posts.
#3- Delete Duplicate Post – View and delete those pesky Duplicate Posts on your WordPress blog.
#4 – Drafts Dropdown - Easy access to your WordPress drafts from within the web admin interface. Drafts are listed in a drop-down menu.
#5 – DropCap First Character - DropCaps the first character of each post and page automatically.
#6 – Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
#7 – Live Comment Preview – Supply users with a live comment preview.
#8 – MobilePress - Turn your WordPress blog into a mobile website/blog.
#9 – No Ping Wait - Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php.
#10 – One Click Plugin Updater - Upgrade plugins with a single click, install new plugins or themes from an URL or by uploading a file, see which plugins have update notifications enabled, control how often WordPress checks for updates, and more.
#11 – Popularity Contest – This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values.
#12 – Post Plugin Library – Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins.
#13 – Robots Meta - This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
#14 – SEO Friendly Images - Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.
#15 – SEO Slugs - Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.
#16 – SEO Smart Links - SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
#17 – Shylock Adsense - Insert Adsense code in your pages without modifying the template. Show different ads for articles older then 7 days (or as old as you wish).
#18 – Sociable - Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
#19 – Spam Karma – Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress.
#20 – Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess
#21- Tweetmeme Retweet Button - Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.
#22 – Twittar – This is a simple but yet powerful plugin for wordpress that lets you show your users Twitter avatar together with their comments in your website.
#23 – Twitterlink Comments - Plugin to show a link to follow the comment author on twitter if they have entered in their username at least once in the comment form.
#24 – Ultimate Plugins Smart Ping Updater - Replaces the built-in ping/notify functionality. Pings only when publishing new or future posts, not when editing. The new post’s url is pinged, not the main url. Also includes reverse order logfile.
#25 – Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
#26 – Wordpress Database Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
#27 – Wordpress Gravatars – Makes use of Gravatars and MyBlogLog Avatars, places Gravatars, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or MyBlogLog Avatars in the comments section.
#28 – Wordpress Thread Comments – wp thread comment allow user can reply comment and same comment On display, can choose ajax or not.
#29 – Wp Contact Form - Allows you to input a simple and effective contact form on your blog.
#30 – WP Grins - A Clickable Smilies hack for WordPress.
#31 – WP Super Cache - Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
You now have 31 of the most useful wordpress plugins, there are a lot of them out there, most of them you don’t need, I consider this the “must” have checklist to make your blog function smoothly 
Do you have any wordpress plugins suggestions?
To The TOP,
Terrance Charles
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Topics: Blog Marketing / Web 2.0, Internet Marketing Tips, Web Traffic Generation | 11 Comments »
4:01 am on December 11th, 2009
Great list man. I used some of them.
Thank and be blessed.
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Twitter: filipinojuan
4:01 am on December 11th, 2009
Wow! Great post bro.
These are defiantly some tools i need.
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4:25 am on December 11th, 2009
Whoa, fantastic post.
I haven’t even heard of some these plugins before! 
As always, goes to show that the experts are awesome at fishing out the best in certain fields. 
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11:29 am on December 11th, 2009
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Twitter: halomlmer
3:55 am on December 12th, 2009
This is a great list of plugins, and there are a couple here that I haven’t heard of before. So thanks for that
~Angel
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Twitter: joelosborne
6:57 pm on December 12th, 2009
Great list! I’ve only used a handful of the listed plugins, so I guess it’s time for me to check out all the others
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Twitter: horstgraebner
3:48 pm on December 19th, 2009
Hi Terrance,
just stumpled upon your blog and saw this list of wordpress plugins. Great list, very helpful. I would at least add this ones to the list: Dofollow and Smart404.
Have a nice xmas …
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Twitter: stuartstirling
4:28 am on December 28th, 2009
nice list…some there I’ll definitely be using on my new blog.
Stuart Stirling
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8:59 am on February 5th, 2010
Thank you all who commented or retweeted on this post, I appreciate every one of you
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