Alright, you have installed wordpress, made your settings and now what? You gotta complete it with great plugins to your use. Here is a great list of plugins that you should have with all your wordpress installations:
1. All-in-one SEO Pack
Although this is a complex plugin, it is really useful for your site. Once you made the settings, your site becomes more lovely for search engines. Search Engines will love your site more ;)
This simple plugin allows you to add contact form(s) to your site. It is really weird that contact forms doesn’t come packed with wordpress. This plugin fills in the blanks!
This simple plugin comes with a super-duper audioplayer button. And allows you to add a customisable audiplayer to your site. You can either use the button interface or you can use shortcodes to add your media.
Late for the new year maybe, but i created a flash countdown widget today. It allows multiple instances and you can customize colors and the event text on the fly! Just drag and drop the counter to your sidebar and fill in the event details. For now it only counts down, but later maybe i can add “since” also. You can preview the widget live on my sidebar → until the 2nd of January. Hope you like the new widget ;)
Subpages widget plugin is available for download now. This plugin shows subpages of the current page making it easier to surf through your wordpress blog. It also allows you to easily list subpages of a page with its powerful shortcode [subpages]. It is great if you like using wordpress pages for your site content. It will be an automatically updating index on your top level page. See my wordpress page for a preview of the shortcode in action.
Since 2.8, Wordpress allows us to use widgets whereever we like. This made creating websites easier as well as creating professional themes. Now we can use any widget in our headers, footers or our page templates even if we don’t have a sidebar there.
First release of dropdown menu widget is ready. The plugin allows you to add CSS based high quality drop down menus. It supports multiple instances. You can create your pages menu or categories menu so easily with this plugin. You don’t have have to write any code, plus it comes with 5 beautiful themes. In order to use this widget you need a wordpress theme with a widget area on the header. You can download the first release of dropdown menu widget here.
With the help of google you can easily save favicons of your favorite sites. You can also use this link for your link lists so that they will display favicons of your sites next to your blogroll links.
Well, i have more than 5 sites now and i am constantly changing them, posting things and stuff. I know a developer needs more time (especially for fighting those little coding bugs!) on working. So why not consider enabling gears and get rid of wasting time on wp-admin refresh. To enable gears on your wordpress follow those simple steps:
You can see some blog sites include related links, advertisements, and post relevant tags in their feed. This is very useful for your site’s popularity and increasing page hits. You can also add copyrights to your blogfeed to prevent RSS theft. Here i will explain you how to add any text in your wordpress feed.
Wordpress announced 2.8 Release named “Baker“. This new version has tons of features you wished for and they really made a great new widget system. Now you can install themes easier with the theme browser! See the video below for a quick overview:
January 19th, 2010 
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