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All WordPress users are aware that there is a veritable gaggle of plugins available to enhance your WordPress blogging experience. I decided that I’d publish the ones currently in use on this blog, along with links to the dedicated authors of WordPress plugins everywhere who make so much available to the community for free. If you find one you like, say thank you to the person who made it, and, if you can and they accept donations, help them out.

Of course, these are not necessarily THE best WP plugins, just the ones we use and think are great. I’m sure you all have your own favorites and if you think there is one we just shouldn’t be without, do please tell us.

WordPress Automated Upgrade Plugin – this one is new and promises to save a lot of people a lot of worry and heartache when it comes time to perform an upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. If you start biting your nails at the thought of performing an upgrade, this could be your salvation! Thanks to BloggingTips.com for the low down.

aLinks WordPress Plugin – another great idea that allows users to turn any word or phrase of your content into hyperlinks, they can be Amazon links, Clickbank, E-Bay, Wikipedia, links to other areas of your blog. A very cool plugin indeed, simple, effective and gives users total control. Author: Sean Hickey

All In One SEO WordPress Plugin – A Plugin that allows you to tweak your WordPress blog’s SEO friendliness. Now, who doesn’t want that? Author : Uberdose

Amazon Context Link Ads WordPress Plugin – Another Amazon plugin. This one will find phrases and keywords within your text that are relevant to Amazon products, and will insert a hyperlink for you. Just install the plugin, tell it your Amazon Associates ID and you’re done. Author : Patrick Chia

CAPCC WordPress Plugin – Installs Captcha for comment and registration forms. Excellent spam protection. Author : Coice

Do Follow WordPress Plugin - Join the movement of bloggers against the rel=nofollow tag. Removes the nofollow attribute from your comments. Author : Denis de Bernardy

Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin – Forward all WordPress feed traffic to your Feedburner feed. Original author : Steve Smith

Feed Footer Plugin – Allows the insertion of custom footer fields to your RSS Feed. Author : Sherief Mursyidi

First RSS Plugin – A Good Choice for easy insertion of RSS Feeds. Author : Chris Hatcher (website no longer online)

Google Sitemaps Plugin – Add a Google sitemap to your WordPress blog and help that Googlebot! Author : Arne Brachhold

Gregarious Plugin – Add Social Bookmarks To Your Blog. Author : Ankur Kothari

InlineRSS Plugin – Another option for those wishing to use syndicated feeds. Author : Cal Demaine

KB Advanced RSS Widget – Widget that gives much greater control over how feeds are displayed. Author : Adam R Brown

My Page Order Plugin – Gives you complete control over page order. Author : Froman118

Kontera ContentLinks MIVA Plugin – The simple way to get your ads working. Author : Rodney Shupe

Share This Plugin – Neat tidy social bookmarking function. Author : Alex King

Simple Trackback Validation – Additional simple spam defence. Works well. Author : Michael Woehrer

Subscribe Me Plugin – The neatest solution for your RSS subscription offers. Author : Denis de Bernardy

Footnote – The CAPCC plugin mentioned above may conflict with WP’s forced moderation options if you are using latest version of WP (2.2) resulting in all comments bypassing moderation. You may want to consider an alternative captcha plugin in this case.

It’s quite a list and there are several more plugins not currently in use. These are all simple to install/configure and use for bloggers of all abilities. Do you think we’ve missed any good ones? By all means let us know your own plugin preferences and why you like them so much.

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