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Plugin is a success key for professional blogger and it can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In the below list you can find the best plugins for WordPress.

So I went through all those most popular lists and compiled my fav list of the plugins to see which of them were the most used in blogging world. Here are the results:

1. Akismet
   Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
2. WordPress.com Stats
   To focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.

3. Google Sitemap Generator
   This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
4. Google Analyticator
   Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.
5. Google Analytics for WordPress
   The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
6. All in One SEO Pack
   Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
7. Contact Form 7
   Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
8. Sociable
   Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
9. NextGEN Gallery
   NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
10. Plugin Manager
    Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
11. Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
    Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious and over 100 more.
12. Easy AdSense
    Easy AdSense manages all aspects of Google AdSense for your blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box. Easy and complete!
13. AdSense Deluxe
    is a plugin that allows you to easily insert AdSense, YPN, Chitika ads inside your blog posts and provides for easy management when and where the ads appear. A must have if you want use ads inside a blog post.
14. WP-PageNavi
    Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.
15. WP-Polls
    Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.
16. Twitter for Wordpress
    Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
17. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
    Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.
18. WP Ajax Edit Comments
    Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.
19. Redirection
    Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.
20. Popularity Contest
    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. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.
21. WP-DB-Backup
    WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
22. 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, on posts using an AJAXy box, and in posts using special syntax from external editors
23. Gravatars
    According to the Gravatar.com website, Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars, or an “avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.”
24. WP-Cache 2.0
    WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.
25. Page Flip Image Gallery
    Do you need to show your photos to the best advantage and post them in a speedy manner, don’t you? You need to make a bright and memorable presentation, portfolio or image gallery?

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