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Well, actually, not every blog needs all 20 plugins, but, you shall be tempted to install most of these to your blog! I have compiled the Top Wordpress Plugins List and posted them here for you!

Here is the list of:

• The 4 Essential Wordpress Plugins
• 4 Plugins That Bring Back Readers
• 5 Wordpress Plugins to make readers happy
• 4 Plugins That Get You More Readers
• 2 Money Making Plugins for Wordpress

The 4 Essential Wordpress Plugins

These are must-have Wordpress plugins. They speed up, optimize, and backup your blog - which is what blogs need like humans need food, water, shelter and clothes.

WP Super Cache
With Super Cache, the HTML files are ready before you open your blog! This significantly reduces the amount of time taken to open your blog - and as a direct effect, your readers are happier and you dont have to answer to those complaining readers threatening never to visit your blog again.

All in one SEO
Every blog needs this - if it wants to be popular.  SEO is a method of getting visitors to your blog, and with this plugin, you don’t need to know how to SEO. It’s all done for you! Just install and voila! Your blog will be easily search-able by anyone through search engines liek Google, Yahoo, etc.

WordPress Database Backup
This will create database backups of your Wordpress. It doesn’t backup files though, so you will need to backup files manually. But, this plugin still is important since your database keeps your posts, settings and more!

Google XML Sitemaps Generator
This will create a sitemap, which has links to all the pages you have. Why make a sitemap? Well, because search engines need it to understand your website structure and to find all your pages successfully. Letting search engines do that will allow people to find your blog more easily.

The 4 Plugins That Make Your Blogging Life Easy

TinyMCE Advanced
You need this! This adds more functionality to your wordpress content editor (TinyMCE) . You get extra functions like a color picker, clean HTML, insert pagebreak, font-seize, font-family, and more!

WP-ReCaptcha!
Add image verification to your forms - to keep out the spam!

Exec-PHP
This allows you to add and execute  PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets. No more FTP programs!

NextGen Gallery
This is THE image gallery. It also has a Flash Slideshow option. Check it out! It also allows easy image uploading with a thumbnail generator.

5 Plugins That Bring Back Readers

Subscribe Me!
This adds a widget so you have a few buttons for people to subscribe to your blog via RSS, Google, Yahoo and more.

YARPP
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of  related posts and/or pages to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. Good to let them keep on reading!

Wordpress Thread Comment
I cant tell you enough how important this plugin is.  It puts replies to a comment under it. So what you get is a comments area where people can respond to comments! This plugin is extremely useful for bringing back visitors and also for making heated discussions about your post.

Subscribe to Comments
This plugin allows people to subscribe to your comments via email. Once they subscribe, they get notifications by email every time there is a new comment by other people. It is located under your comments form - well thought of and very useful!

FeedBurner FeedSmith
The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed and optionally, your main comments feed as well.

4 Wordpress Plugins to make readers happy

Gravatar
Globally Recognized Avatar - Every blog should have this. it really gives a sense of community :) People like to be known, you know.

Show Top Commentators
This will surely encourage your readers to comment on your posts. Why? Because you provide a link back to their blog. A nice little treat for your readers. In return, you get an active blog with lots of discussions.

WP-PageNavi
This plugin adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog. It is good for easy navigation through your blog.
» Example: Pages (17): [1] 2 3 4 » … Last »

Show Number of Post Views
Why install this plugin? It may not occur to you immediately, but it actually helps your readers find good posts in your blog. Naturally, interesting posts have more page views - so your readers might like to see what is so interesting about that post.

4 Plugins That Get You More Readers

Sociable
This nifty plugin adds a few buttons to share your posts in popular social networks like Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, and more!

Google Analyticator
Enter in your Google Analytics “unique code” to monitor your web site traffic. Google Analytics is the best FREE web site tracking and statistics web site - so you can track every user & where they came from, etc.

Title Tag Plugin
This plugin lets you enter titles for your tags. To view the title, put your mouse over a tag link. Why do this? Well, simply because it gives your blog more keywords for people to find you through search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, and many more.

Simple Tags
The best  Tags Plugin - ever! It features autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Tags, Mass edit tags !z

2 Money Making Plugins for Wordpress

BankRoll
Google has been penalizing blogs for selling links or text-advertisements. Well, now bloggers have come up with a better way to make money. This plugin lets people buy your posts - or in other words, they pay you to write a post. They will also have the option to write a post ans pay you to post it.

Easy Adsenser
This is the easiest way to add adsense to your blog. Enough said ;)

Do you have a list of great plugins too? Share it!

Well, I really wish this is the Perfect Wordpress Plugins List, but the truth is that nothing is perfect. So with your help, I am going to collect a list of useful plugins and make The Best Wordpress Plugins List. So share whats missing from the above post!

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