I like Wordpress – It’s easy to use, easy to install, easy to customize and it has a lot of great features. What’s really great about Wordpress is a huge community behind. If you will need any help or anything like that I am pretty sure you are not the only one so you will quickly find an answer to your question online. Great thing about Wordpress is also a huge database of various plugins available for free.
I didn’t find any perfect software so far but Wordpress with some additional plugins could be almost perfect.

So here is my list of a top 10 Wordpress plugins (not necessary in that order):

1.) NextGen gallery
NextGen gallery allows you to create image galleries, image albums, watermark images … and you can easily insert image or image gallery into your post.

2.) FeedBurner
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

3.) Formidable
Create dynamic forms with a simple drag-and-drop interface. Upgrade to Formidable Pro for even more great features. You want to add additional forms on your site like contact us form or ask a question form with Formidable you can do this easy and fast.

4.) More Fields
Adds any number of extra fields, in any number of additional boxes in the admin. If you need additional cutom field in your posts or something like this this plugin is great for this.
For example if you need to turn your wordpress into a review site you can do this with this plugin and this little tutorial here. Simple 5 stars rating function (http://www.atechadviser.com/wordpress-snippets/php-wordpress-simple-five-stars-rating-function)

5.) Syntax Highlighter and Code Prettifier Plugin for WordPress
Simple and probably one of the best syntax highlighters in the market. This plugin integrates Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter Tool. Full Support for : Bash/shell, C#, C++, CSS, Delphi, Diff, Groovy, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, Plain Text, Python, Ruby, Scala, SQL, Visual Basic and XML.

6.) Zemanta
Contextual suggestions of links, pictures, related content and SEO tags that makes your blogging fun and efficient.

7.) WP Super Cache
It makes your pages load way faster and since it stores static versions of your site, it requires much less CPU processing than using WordPress all by itself.

8.) All in one Seo or HeadSpace 2: WordPress SEO Made Simple
You can try both and see which one suits you better. All in one seo is nice, a lot of users use it and it’s a good plugin with almost everything what you will need for seo. On the other hand Headspace 2: Wordpress SEO Made Simple is pretty new but it has a lot of great features. It’s hard to say which one is better but it’s depends what you will need and which one suits you better.

9.) WP-PageNavi
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. You don’t really like “Older posts” and “Newer posts” links on your wordpress and want to replace it with something more user friendly and better looking? Try this plugin.

10.) Autoclose
Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Comment spam is annoying and this is a great plugin to solve this problem.

11.) WordPress Backup
Wordpress Backup is an essential plugin for all Wordpress blog administrators by the Blog Traffic Exchange. It performs regular backups of your upload (images) current theme, and plugin directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. Don’t get caught without a recent backup of your theme or images or plugins.

12.) Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that allows you to do a two-way integration between your WordPress powered blog and Twitter. It has the following features: download and archive your tweets from Twitter, show your recent tweets in a sidebar widget, create a blog post from each of your tweets (you can set the category, author, tags, …) and much more.

13.) Stray Random Quotes
This plugin allows you to collect and display random quotes and words everywhere on your blog. The quotes can be reloaded with AJAX automation. The plugin is widget compatible, and the appearance of the quotes can be highly customized. It comes with a easy to use management tool and a option page.

14.) Upcoming Posts
It is good to update your blog regularly. But sometimes it is better to let your readers know exactly what and when you will post something. So I develop this plug-in for whom wants the readers be more curious about his blog.

15.) Smart Youtube
Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.

16.) EasySMS
EasySMS is a great way for Wordpress administrators to txt message their readers and broadcast a new post to users cell phones. Admins can group subscribers together for more productive SMS messaging. This plugin is great for organizations or churches to stay in touch with their employees, volunteers, or constituents.

17.) Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

18.) Store Locator
Provides Mapping, Display, and Search of Locations For: Those of you who create sites for clients using WordPress, Those of you who want to show your important locations (stores, buildings, points of interest, etc.) in an easily searchable manner.

19.) Smart Ads
Automatically adds advertisements to the beginning and end of posts based on the post length, age of post, category, or blog member status. Also allows you to insert custom ads anywhere in a post or page using the [smartads] shortcode. Enter your ad code directly from the settings menu, no messing with pasting code into a separate PHP file.

20.) MobilePress
MobilePress is a free WordPress plugin which turns your WordPress blog into a mobile friendly blog when viewed on a cell phone. MobilePress also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different handheld devices and mobile browsers such as the iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile

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