Here is a quick round up of my favorite wordpress plugins, and those I deem essential for a successful wordpress blog. All of these plugins I personally use, and recommend to others, so improve your blog today and check them all out!

• Number 10. Google (XML) Sitemaps - Google sitemaps is great for letting google know where your pages are so It can index your site more efficiently. But who wants to site their telling google where all your posts are? Thats where this plugin comes in handy, it generates an XML sitemap of your blog and submits it to google automatically. Great bit of kit.
• Number 9. Feedburner Feed Replacement - Feedburner is a great RSS feed publishing tool, and this plugin makes it a hell-of-a-lot easier to link the wordpress feed to your feedburner account.
• Number 8. SEO Title Tag - Changes page titles on your pages and posts to make them more search engine friendly.
• Number 7. Sociable - Shows nice little icons in your posts to allow users to submit them to social bookmarking sites, in turn leading to more hits for you in the long run!
• Number 6. Ultimate Tag Warrior - A behemoth of a plugin. Lets you tag posts to make them easy to find by visitors. Also lets you display tags in lists and clouds which is a very nice feature.
• Number 5. Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form - Hmm i wonder who wrote this plugin… eh-hem Forgetting I wrote this this plugin with Mike Cherim, it really is a wonderful bit of kit. I was using his contact forms well before we made this plugin, the plugin just makes adding a contact form to your blog a piece of cake. And with its unique anti-spam and security features, it really is a good deal.
• Number 4. Adsense-Deluxe - I like having adsense ads in my posts, *hopefully* to get me a little income for my hard work. Without this plugin I would have to copy and paste adsense code everywhere, which is boring and inefficient. With this plugin you just insert a simple tag into your posts (e.g.

  <!--adsense-->

  ) and voila, adsense appears. Magic.

• Number 3. Popularity Contest - This plugin tracks your post views etc to work out their popularity. A posts popularity is shown at the bottom of a post. Another great feature is the ability to show the most popular posts in a list, look at my sidebar to see this in action.
• Number 2. Paged Comments - Have popular posts? Have lots of comments? Have stupidly long pages because of this? This plugin is for you, it allows you to have comment pagination to show less on a page at once.
• Number 1. SRG Clean Archives - Makes your archives easy to view and use. I absolutely adore this plugin, it really is an essential plugin for your blog.

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