The Best WordPress Plugins So Far

Do you have a WordPress blog? Is it living up to its full potential?
What I mean is, have you optimized it with great plugins?
These are some of my favorite WordPress plugins:

Adsense-Deluxe makes handling Google Adsense or any other ads on your blog is simpler.

Archivist allows you to display a random post from your archive of posts. I turn this on when I go on vacation. It keeps the front page of your blog looking and smelling fresh. Well, maybe not smelling fresh.

Articles by the master plugin maker Alex King lets you set up a 'Best Of' page filled with your favorite articles.

Akismet keeps the spam out of my comments. Every now and then it catches a non-spam comment, but by and large the darm thing works and works well. I don't know why but I get a TON of spam. Akismet makes it so you, the reader, never have to see it.

DoFollow makes comment links standard links instead adding the rel=nofollow tag to them. It rewards commentators with outbound links to their blogs and websites. They like that.

Google Sitemaps helps Google index your WordPress blog. As you know, helping Google index your site is key to getting visitor traffic.

Google Analytics makes the easy set up of analytics even easier.

Share This is an excellent plugin. It condenses all those other bookmark plugins for individual services like del.icio.us and digg into one little button at the end of each post. And you can set up your own style sheet to go with it so the popup page matches your site. Also has a feature for visitors to email your posts to their friends.

Sidebar Widgets makes modifying your sidebars (or top section) easy. If you want to add buttons or ads or links you can do it simply.

WordPress Reports makes viewing basic Google Analytics data possible within the WP dashboard. Shows you a weeks worth of reports in simple bar charts.

*This blog is not a WordPress blog but the writer uses WordPress in another blog.

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