I have been using worpress blog since some time and as I spend more time with it I came across many useful plugins that should be added in every blog. Here are some of them with download links,

1) Sociable
It Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. It adds famous twitter, dig, facebook etc icons to your page. Download it at here.

2) Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. Akismet is free for personal use. You just need API key to activate it that you can get from your wordpress blog for free. Download Akismet plugin from here.

3) Contact-form 7
It is just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
• Supports multiple contact forms.
• You can customize form and mail contents with simple markup.
• AJAX submitting with jQuery Form Plugin.
• Spam filtering with Akismet.
• Bot prevention with CAPTCHA.
Download it at here.

4) All-in-one SEO pack
It optimize your wordpress blog for search engines. It generates meta tags automatically according your content. Also changes titles so that search engine finds it easily. More features and download link at here

5) Tweeter tools
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin. Download it at here.

6) WP-security scan
Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.
-passwords
-file permissions
-database security
-version hiding
-WordPress admin protection/security
Downlaod it at here.

7) WP-postview / WP-Email / WP-Postratings / WP-Print

These are the basic plugins which can be included in your blog to provide post view count, email post, post ratings and print post facility respectively.
Download them at here.

8 ) WP-o-Matic
It automatically scans the RSS/ATOM feed and creates blog posts from the feed. You just need to create campaign with RSS feed of desired and create a cron job to fetch the content automatically. It generates duplicate contents so pageranks given by search engine will decrease. This for lazy blogger !! Download it from here.

9) Post layout

It adds HTML o javascript code before, after or in the middle of the content of pages or posts without modify the theme. It is easily used to incorporate adsense codes in between your blog posts and pages. Download it from here

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