WordPress 2.7 has finally been released and its time to check your plugins for compatibility issues and upgrade if necessary. We list below some of the most essential plugins that are necessary for your WordPress blogs.
Akismet – Akismet protects your comments against spam.
All in One SEO Pack – Automatically optimises your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimisation)
WordPress Related Posts – WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to the feed.
AdSense Manager – AdSense Manager simplifies managing AdSense and other Ads Networks on your blog.
WordPress.com Stats – Get simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stats system.
cformsII contact form – cforms II is the most customisable, flexible & powerful ajax supporting contact form plugin
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!
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.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.
NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
TinyMCE Advanced – Adds many necessary and advanced features to WordPress’s online editor.



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