10 Useful Wordpress Plugins For Your Blog

Talk about WordPress we can't separate about the plugins. There are hundreds even thousands of plugins that are provided on the internet. WordPress plugins are created and developed together by creative ideas that make them features appear without limit. However, the more plugins with similar functionality, maybe make us confused, confused choosing a plugin which actually better,a plugin which should be chosen from many plugins with similar functionality. On the one hand,a blog requires a plugin to make it better, but on the other hand a blog that use a lot of plugins would experience a decrease in performance.So in this case I dedicate to share about 10 useful wordpress plugins for your blog.

WordPress.com Stats
You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging
into WordPress.com's stat system.

WP Super Cache
A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.

All in One SEO Pack
Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all image and gallery plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple galleries and albums.

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu
All admin links available in a neat drop down menu. Go to any admin page from any admin page in 1 click. The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat CSS driven drop down menu.

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.

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.

All in One Adsense and YPN

All in One Adsense and YPN is a Free and Open Source Wordpress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly. It doesn't matter if you have 1 post or 100,000 posts, it will insert your ad code into all of them automatically. You can control all aspects of your ad's display and position. Just specify ad color and position in the plugin options, your ad code is automatically generated and inserted. Advanced users can add html and css code before and after the ad to have total control of the ad display.