Since moving to WordPress as my preferred platform I have tried a number of the different plug ins available as I am often looking for ways of improving the navigation and structure of my various Blogs. Currently, my favourite WordPress Plug-ins are shown below together with the homepage address and a brief description of the purpose of the plug in.

 If you have any favourite WordPress plug ins feel free to share them in the comments.

• AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
  http://www.addthis.com/
  “Help your visitor promote your website or blog“
• Advanced-Admin-Menus

  http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/admin-drop-down-menus/

  “Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels“

• Akismet
  http://akismet.com/
  “Checks comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not“
• Articles
  http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
  “Display posts in an ‘Articles’ list.“
• Digg This
  http://www.aviransplace.com/digg-this-wordpress-plugin/
  “Adds Digg story link on detection on Digg referrer“
• Evermore
  http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/evermore-wordpress-plugin/
  “Abbreviate all posts when viewed on multiple post pages.“
• FeedBurner FeedSmith

  http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart

  “Detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed“

• Google XML Sitemaps
  
  “Generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.“
• Homepage Excerpts
  http://www.dailyblogtips.com/homepage-excerpts-wordpress-plugin/
  “Displays excerpts on the homepage“
• Similar Posts
  http://rmarsh.com/plugins/similar-posts/
  “Displays a list of posts similar to the current one by comparing the way they use words.“

Some other plug ins that I’m currently testing including cformsII, wp-cache and Tinymce Advanced.

Other sites that talk about their favourite WordPress plug ins include:

• Top 10 Underrated WordPress Plugins
• Top WordPress Plugins
• Top 10 WordPress Plugins To Improve Readers Experience
• Top 10 WordPress Plugins
• Lists of Your Favorite WordPress Plugins
• Top 20 list of WordPress plugins for bloggers

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