10 most downloaded wordpress plugins

Wordpress — July 19, 2009 at 12:29

WordPress blogging platform is the best to unlease your knowledge. More than that its features win the all bloggers to choose it as a first blogging platform, especially its support for the plugins. We can amazingly customize wordpress with the help of plugins which is easy to use.

There are more than 5300 plugins available for wordpress blogging platform. Among them the most 20 popular WordPress plugins from their download number are listed here with detail.

1. All in One SEO Pack: The most important plugin that gives you better index in Google and other search engines. The plugin is best suited for wordpress blog and by this time it has been downloaded more than 2425493 and counting.

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2. Akismet: The plugin gives you fully automation protection from the spam comments and tracbacks. Akismet comes together with WordPress and need to enter API key which You can get by signing up at wordpress.com. By the time it has been downloaded more than 1552896 and counting.

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3. Google XML Sitemaps: The plugin is very usefule for SEO and generates a XML sitemap for your wordpress blog and let Google,and other search engine know new of new content. It is fully automated and give powerful index to your content is search engine. It has been downloaded more than 1415528 and counting.

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4. Nextgen Gallery: The plugin is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. The plugins allows you to add image effects, custom templates with other useful functions like watermarking and zip upload. It has been downloaded more than 934302 times and counting.

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5. Contact Form 7:
   The plugins build you a contact form for yuor wordpress blog. It is very easy to use and insert anywhere in the blog as a page, post or widget. The plugin has been downloaded for more than 572728 times and counting.

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6. WP Super Cache: The plugin help you to generate dynamic html files instead of heavy worpdress php file which will help your blog to perform fastand your web server runs effectively. More than 557915 wordpress user has downloaded this plugin and counting.

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7. Google Analyticator: The plugin is just to add your Google Javascript so that you can track your blog form Google Analytic with ease. This plugin also includes several widgets for displaying Analytic data in the admin and on your blog. It has downloaded more than 392328 times and counting.

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8. Google Analytics for WordPress: The plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. Moreover It can also use to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin. The plugin has downloaded 385098 times so far.

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9. Viper’s Video Quictags: The plugin is for adding videos from differnet video sites like youtube, metacafe,vimeo etc with ease to your wordpress. It has been downloaded 328635 times and counting.

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10. Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Buttom: The plugin is for social media share for your wordpress blog. Using this plugin to wordpress makes readers toare, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The plugin has downloaded more than 233836 times and counting.

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These are the plugins which currently occupies the top ten spot of wordpress database plugins. I found most of the useful plugins like wordpress automatic update, wp-database backup, etc are missed to occupy top ten spot. But they are more essential to have in any wordpress blog.

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