There are thousands of WordPress plugins available on the internet, but today I am going to talk about the top 10 WordPress plugins that every blogger must install on their website. So without wasting your valuable time let’s see what those plugins are.

1. WordPress SEO – With this SEO plugin you can make your website search engine friendly and also optimize your posts individually so that they can rank higher on search engines. WordPress SEO also builds a sitemap for your site which you can submit on Google’s webmaster tools to help them index your site more quickly. Overall this is the best free SEO plugin that you can install on your blog.

2. BackWPup – You must install this plugin on your website if you really care about your sites security. With this plugin you can backup your full WordPress database and you can store the backup files on services like Amazon S3, Google Storage, Dropbox, SugarSync. No matter what happens to your website, you can always get everything back as long as you have the backup files.

3. WP-Optimize – You can easily save tons of database space with this plugin. When you create a post, by default WordPress automatically creates post revisions. With Wp-Optimize plugin you can easily delete your post revisions, auto drafts, spam comments, unapproved comments, and optimize your database tables with just a few clicks.

4. WordPress.com Stats – If you don’t use Google analytics on your website then you should install this plugin instead. WP Stats shows you your top posts, pages, referrers, search engine terms, outgoing clicks, and of course live traffic stats. This plugin will appear on your wp-dashboard page so that whenever you will login to your account you can instantly see your traffic stats.

5. Better WP Security – Every website is incomplete without a security plugin. I’m sure you’re constantly reading news about companies getting hacked every other month of so. The most recent one, as of April 2013, was LivingSocial. 50 million users were affected! Security isn’t a joke, your website needs to have proper security plugins like Better WP Security.

6. Broken Link Checker – Google hates broken links. If your website even has one, you need to remove it as soon as possible. Broken links can and will hurt your search engine rankings. Why should you waste your time manually finding and removing your website’s broken links? Simply install the Broken Link Checker plugin and remove any broken link with a click of your mouse.

7. Simple Feed Copyright – Many people will steal your website content through your RSS feed. You obviously should stop this from happening. Simple Feed Copyright plugin will add a copyright notice at the end of a post in full text RSS feeds so that Google can easily find the real content.

8. WP Super Cache – This awesome plugin is recommended by almost every hosting company. This plugin will speed up your website’s page loading time and reduce the bandwidth usage of your hosting account.

9. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – If your website bounce rate is very high then you can fix this problem by displaying related posts at the end of your article. This plugin shows very accurate related posts which will increases pageviews and reduce your bounce rate.

10. WP Smush.it – Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance series recommends optimizing images in several lossless ways: stripping meta data from JPEGs, optimizing JPEG compression, converting certain GIFs to indexed PNGs and stripping the un-used colors from indexed images. Smush.it performs these optimizations for faster loading. With a click of your mouse you can reduce all the images at once or individually in the image library. This is a must have plugin for websites that use tons of images.

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WordPress and Google in a way are entwined. A WordPress powered website once setup requires Google to advertise and rank the website. On the other hand, Google provides plugin versions of its popular services to cater to the millions of WordPress powered websites. So in this way, the assertion that WordPress and Google are entwined is justified. Of the many Google plugins available on WordPress.org, I have elaborated below few must-have Google Plugins for your WordPress website.

Google Calendar Events:

This popular Google plugin displays and feeds schedules in a calendar list or grid style. In addition, the plugin collects feeds from multiple Google Calendar and displays it in a single list. The collected feeds and lists will be displayed on all pages and posts. Users can customize the scheduled information and also modify schedules, reminders and cache duration. The plugin requires WordPress 3.0 and higher versions and is compatible up to WordPress 3.4.2. The plugin has received over 125,000 downloads to date, garnering an average rating of 4.8 out of 5. To download this plugin, click the following link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-calendar-events/

Google AdSense Plugin:

Last updated on August 2012, the plugin allows users display ads on their website. With this plugin, you can customize display parameters such as images, links, color, size and formats. Another interesting feature of the plugin is that it lets users adjust the appearance and layout of the ad, and the number of ad units displayed in a page. Requiring WordPress 2.9 and higher versions, the Google AdSense Plugin is compatible up to WordPress 3.4.2. Receiving more than 55,000 downloads to date, the plugin has gathered an average rating of 4.7 out of 5. To download this plugin, click the following link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adsense-plugin/

Google Custom Search:

The Custom Search plugin searches for content within your website. The default search application in WordPress is good, but at times it tends to be sluggish with larger websites and blogs. This is even more apparent when your site is quite large and you have many posts and/or pages. This custom search plugin will be a perfect fit for large websites and provides prompt results by relevance.

Moreover, the Google Custom Search plugin can also be configured with the help of Google to look up information from multiple websites and domains. Last updated on June 2012, the plugin has received close to 47,000 downloads garnering an average rating of 4.5. The plugin runs on versions released after WordPress 3.4 and is compatible up to WordPress 3.4.2. To download this plugin, click the following link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-custom-search/

XML Google Maps:

You no longer have to insert Google Maps or Google Earth locations manually into a page. The XML Google Maps plugin requires you to just add a link to your location from My Google Maps or Google Earth. The plugin also inserts maps from your GPS, as it accepts GPX file formats. In terms of certain GPX tracks, this plugin lets you display even speed and elevation charts with the help of Google Charts API.

The XML Google Maps plugin also works in tandem with Open Street Map and Google Earth Plugins. Requiring WordPress 2.5 and above, the plugin is compatible up to WordPress 3.2.1. Last updated in August 2011, the plugin has been downloaded more than 170,000 times. To download this plugin, click the following link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-google-maps/

Google Analyticator:

This plugin is an apt alternative for the outdated Google Analytics plugin. The Google Analyticator plugin runs the required JavaScript codes to make sure that Google Analytics automatically monitors WordPress blog’s traffic. Consequently, you no longer have to edit the template code to run the Analytics. Google Analyticator also comes with a host of widgets for exhibiting the analytics and site related information in the admin area. The plugin supports traditional Google Analytics tracking with the help of the advanced tracking methods.

Additionally, the plugin offers full control over the website options and you can also disable any feature if required. Requiring WordPress 3.2 and greater versions, the plugin is compatible up to WordPress 3.4.2. The plugin has received a whopping 1.9 million downloads to date, garnering an average rating of 3.6. To download this plugin, click the following link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/

Google XML Sitemaps:

Sitemaps are essential sections of a website that help both users and search engine crawlers find specific pages. The Google XML Sitemaps plugin automatically renders an XML sitemap once installed in your website. Search engine crawlers’ value XML sitemaps during indexing because it lets them understand the complete structure of a website. This plugin supports all types of WordPress generated web pages and URLs.

In addition, it also pings to all the prime search engines every time a new post is created in the website. The plugin requires WordPress 2.1 or higher versions and is compatible up to WordPress 3.5. Having received more than 8.8 million downloads to-date the plugin has garnered an average rating of 4.6 out of 5. To download this plugin, click the following link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

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UberMenu – WordPress Mega Menu Plugin - $16

UberMenu is a user-friendly, highly customizable, responsive Mega Menu WordPress plugin. It works out of the box with the WordPress 3 Menu System, making it simple to get started but powerful enough to create highly customized and creative mega menu configurations.

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RoyalSlider – Touch Content Slider for WordPress – $20

RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and responsive layout. It has user-friendly admin area where you can manage slides, change slider settings, customize interface and add blocks-captions using custom WYSIWIG editor.

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Visual Composer for WordPress - $25

Visual Composer for WordPress will save you tons of time working on the site content. Now you’ll be able to create complex layouts within minutes! It’s build on top of the Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery UI framework – get the best from world leading experts!

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Slider PRO – WordPress Premium Slider Plugin - $25

Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress on the market (some buyers have been saying that it’s actually the best).

The slider is fully responsive and mobile-ready. It provides 150+ customizable properties, 100+ possible transition effects, from simple ‘fade’, ‘slide’ or ‘swipe’ effects to more complex ‘slice’ effects, 15+ skins and much more. Also, the slider’s administration area is very powerful and uses the default WordPress design, which WordPress users are already familiar with.

This slider plugin is carefully coded, using WordPress development best practices, to avoid conflicts with other themes and plugins that are well coded. Please take a look at the list of features below and visit the slider’s dedicated website, sliderpro.net, for more information, screencasts and examples.

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Styles with Shortcodes for WordPress - $25

Styles with Shortcodes lets you customize content faster and easier than ever before by using Shortcodes. Choose from 100 built in Shortcodes like; jQuery Accordion, Tabs and Toogle, Tooltips, Column Shortcodes, Gallery and Image Shortcodes, Button Styles, Alert Box Styles, Pullquotes, Blockquotes, Twitter buttons, Retweet button, Facebook Like, Follow me on Twitter buttons, Linkedin, Google +1, Flattr  and many more!

You can even create your own Shortcodes and share them with friends and other people who also uses the Styles with Shortcodes plugin. It has never been easier to add nice looking styling elements to your WordPress powered website without any knowledge of coding.

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uBillboard – Premium Slider for WordPress - $20

uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It is a jQuery based slider with a multitude of transitions and options for you to be able to customize it to your needs while not overwhelming you with options you never wanted or needed. Version 3 was a revolutionary release with most of the codebase rewritten from scratch. This has enabled us to integrate many features that you have been requesting during the first year. In version 3.5 we’ve added mobile support with touch controls, responsive design, retina graphics and performance improvements.

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Video Gallery WordPress Plugin /w YouTube, Vimeo - $15

The most advanced stock video gallery in the world! Now as a WordPress plugin! It features: Three skins for you to choose from. So now it can fit perfectly in your site design; A custom admin panel prepared for the gallery; Feeds from self hosted videos, videos hosted on s3 amazon, youtube, vimeo, images, vimeo or even audio ( so it’s a media gallery ); Has html5 functionality so that it can display on iPhone / iPad; and is cross-browser compatible. Works on every major browser.

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Quform – WordPress Form Builder - $25

Quform WordPress is a brand new plugin that allows you to build multiple forms in WordPress easily and quickly with total control. If it’s a complex quote or booking form or just a simple contact form, Quform plugin will allow you to do this without touching any code. In a few clicks you will have a fully functional form. It’s that simple.

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CSS3 Web Pricing Tables Grids For WordPress - $15

This is a pack of pure CSS3 Web Pricing Tables Grids For WordPress with 2 table styles and 20 predefined color versions including hover states.

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White Label Branding for WordPress - $25

Are you a WordPress developer or a Web Designer who uses WordPress to develop websites for your clients? Have you ever wished that it was easier to customize the menu’s and logo’s in WordPress and to decide which menu’s the users have access to? With White Label Branding for WordPress you can do exactly this. Take full control over the branding in wp-admin and decide who has access to what features. With the latest version of White Label Branding you have the ultimate tool for customizing WordPress admin and your login screen.

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Keep in mind that when creating your own job board website, you don’t have to take the shotgun approach. Catering to every single niche is extremely difficult and not to mention time-consuming. Instead, I suggest taking a sniper approach. Find a specific group of people that you want to benefit from your product.

The following WordPress themes and plugins will not only make your life easier, but will also provide you with flexibility. You no longer need to spend thousands of dollars on a complex website. We hope this roundup of job based WordPress themes will help you with your future project. Enjoy!

High Quality WordPress Themes

WordPress Job Board $119

JobPress converts the simple WordPress website into a full fledged job portal with tons of features including job and resumes management, job seekers and employers dashboards, featured listings, payment gateway, and much more. JobPress allows you to easily setup a website for your business and begin earning money right away. It is easy to customize and understand, and has been a successful job board model around the world for many years.

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JobHub $45

Create your own Job Board site easily in wordpress.

JobHub transforms your WordPress install into a fully functional Job Board website with complete backend administration. Easily manage free / paid job listing with tonnes of features. You’ll be online, selling job listing space, and accepting new resumes within minutes.

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Nine to Five $40

Nine to Five offers over 50 powerful features to allow you to setup the perfect jobs board with WordPress 3+, whatever your needs.

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Job Jockey $59

JobJockey is a premium WordPress application theme that will help you start your own job board with practically no effort. As your business grows, you’ll need to attract new talents and that won’t be easy. You’d be busy searching for talents but we can help with the technical stuff.

JobJockey is a cost-effective solution that handles job posting and application within a WordPress environment. Alternatively, you could use JobJockey to turn your website traffic into money by letting people post job vacancies and apply for those on your own WordPress-powered website.

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Job Board $65

It transforms your wordpress install into a fully functional Job Board website with complete backend administration. Easily manage free / paid job listing with tonnes of features.

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JobPress – Free

Jobpress is a very special theme from web2feel. I am very proud of it. I wanted to create a free Job board based on wordpress. I was not very sure of getting this done as a complete solution when I started. But what can I say, the WordPress community is so awesome, help is just a mouse click away when you need it.  With this theme you can host your own Job board for free. Registered users can submit job listings on your site and an admin can review and publish it.

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Job Board Plugins

Job Manager

A plugin for managing job lists and job applications on your WordPress site. It supports all the features you need to manage your organisation’s job openings.

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Zartis Job Plugin - $9.95 a month

The easiest way to post jobs and manage applicants in a WordPress site. Connects with SmartRecruiters, the free Open SaaS recruiting software.

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Job Manager by SmartRecruiters

The easiest way to post jobs and manage applicants in a WordPress site. Connects with SmartRecruiters, the free Open SaaS recruiting software.

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WPCareers

The plugin allows you to build an online jobs/resume website, where the applicants will be able to search, update, add/remove or edit their resumes/profiles. This plugin is for standalone WordPress sites.

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My Job Application

My Job Application is a WordPress plugin developed using PHP and MySQL. It provides a simple way of using the Indeed.com API feed in your WordPress blog. It also allows you to create a job database using your own job sources.

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Job Listing

Allows you to create a fully customisable job board for your WordPress site. You will get an affiliate id which would give you commission for any employer who posts a job.

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WordPress Jobbin - $15

Offer job listings on your site with Jobbin! Your users can add jobs or browse jobs apply via the suggested method. The administrator can approve/deny any job and controls publishing status. The plugin offers manual payment for several types of jobs: full time, part time, freelance, internship/apprenticeshipand work from home.

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WpJobBoard – $99 a year

When using WPJobBoard you are not limited to just a job board or a blog, you can have BOTH. You can still have all the WordPress plugins, themes and features, keep your community – but add a professional job board!

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I could very well see that there is a mad rush for social media utilization. Though some of the social media sites are created with an intention to cater to personal needs, they have grown up to become a huge contributor in the business front as well.

Let us take a look at some of the top free social media plugins that provides you with the much needed result of driving more traffic towards your website:

Digg Digg

This is one among the most sought after free plugins which are known to produce good results in driving traffic to a particular website. I tried it out myself and I would say it works the best. It offers with a comprehensive social sharing plugin for blogs and websites. One can easily get the social sharing icon placed in the blog in a most convenient way. It also provides for floating bar buttons on the blogs and includes some of the best social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn and much more for impeccable use.

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AddToAny

AddToAny is a well-known WordPress plugin that facilitates the sharing, emailing and bookmarking facilities over some of the most popular sites that include that of StumbleUpon, Digg, Google, Delicious and lot more of them. These plugins are also customizable and can be made more easily. I optimized the pages and blogs on certain social sites that proved to be of great help when bringing in more traffic to the site.

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Sharebar

Sharebar is yet another phenomenal free WordPress plugin that provides a more reliable box with click buttons and sharing facility. It has both a vertical sharebar as well as horizontal ones that could be fitted as a specific blog or website’s needs. The auto mode facility proves to be of immense help.

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Facebook Like Box

There is no denial over the fact that Facebook turned out to be one of the most sought after social media and networking system and it is wise to make use of in the right way, by posting blogs and website pages on Facebook. If you want to get across the blog post, you can very well get the Facebook Like Box’s free WordPress plugin. It is easy to activate this particular widget with a code and it is possible to adjust the width, height and length in an easy way.

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Sexy Bookmarks

This is a reliable WordPress plugin system and it is being widely used to drive more traffic towards the website or blog. All that you need is to get it fixed on your toolbar and you are sure to see good results in just a few days.

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Get Social

Get Social offers a lightweight and sharp floating social media sharing box on the blogs and the posts that you put up from time to time. With this WordPress plugin system, it becomes easy to add on as many social media buttons you would like.

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Socialize

Socialize is one of the most convenient methods to add actionable social bookmarks to your blog posts in a selective manner. It is a great social plugin, as it supports different versions and also manages the social bookmarks in an effective manner. For all those, who are making use of the social bookmarks, proper management and organizing is essential to keep it going in a proper way.

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Apart from this, the visual appeal factor to WordPress can be added best with WordPress Genesis themes. If you are starting an Internet business, consider using these free plugins and watch your online presence increase.

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Google Maps contain many features, offering street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike, kayak,or public transport as well as an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.

In June of 2001 Google launched Google Maps API which allows developers to integrate Google maps into their websites. Google Maps API makes it possible to embed a Google Maps site into an external website, on to which site specific data (placemarkers, information boxes, etc.) can be overlaid.

Google Maps is one of the most popular and effective ways for a website to provide geographical data to its visitors. According to the site BuiltWith, almost 800,000 sites are currently using Google Maps.  They are used on all kinds of sites including business, education, government, travel, real estate, reference and others.

There are a number of plugins available on WordPress that allow developers to create and manage Google Maps on their sites; here are a few of them:

1. Basic Google Maps Placemarks

Developer: Ian Dunn

Website: wordpress.org

Last Updated: January 13, 2012

Basic Google Maps Placemarks allows users to create and manage the embedded Google maps on their websites, providing several options for  setting the map type (street, satellite, etc), center location, size, zoom level,  and navigation controls, to name a few.

Users can insert markers with unique custom icons, shared common custom icons, or default icons. Placemarks can be assigned to different categories, with different categories displayed on different maps. Basic Google Maps Placemarks is compatible with WordPress MultiSite and comes with many filters  that allow users to customize and extend the plugin, as well as extra shortcode to output a text-based list of markers for mobile devices, search engines, etc.

2. Comprehensive Google Map Plugin

Developer: Alexander Zagniotov

Website: initbinder.com

Last Updated: April 1, 2012

The Comprehensive Google Map Plugin is a fully documented Google map plugin that installs as a widget and a short code. With an intuitive and user friendly Facebook style interactive interface, this plugin makes it easy to configure any Google map and manage multiple map markers.

The Comprehensive Google Map Plugin features over 250 custom marker icons to choose from and allows users to aggregate all their post markers in one map. Users can insert Google-like directions into their maps – driving and walking, distance shown in miles or KM, where to avoid tolls and highways options.

The plugin auto generates a unique ID for each map and offers extensive configuration options for Google map marker, controls, size, KML files, location by latitude/longitude, and location by address, info windows with custom text, traffic/bike lanes and more.

3. Effortless Google Maps

Developer:  cyber sprocket

Website: cybersprocketlabs.com

Last Updated: February 05, 2012

Effortless Google Maps makes putting Google Maps into your posts and pages…well, effortless.

Focusing on ease of use, Effortless Google Maps lets users add a map to a post or page using a simple shortcode. Users can modify the look with a few simple added attributes. Effortless Google Maps works on all modern web browsers and uses Google Maps V3 (no API key required). Widgets are provided.

Multiple plugin themes are available that allow users to adjust the look, position, and other style attributes of the “map box” without affecting the rest of the site. Users can also create their own custom plugin themes as well.

4. Google Maps Made Simple

Developer:  Matthew Schwartz/ WP-G-Mappity

Website: wordpresspluginfu.com/wpgmappity

Last Updated: March 27, 2011

Need to build a Google Map outside of WordPress?  No problem: Google Map Builder by WPGMappity.

Google Maps Made Simple, also known as WPGMappity, is a free and open source WordPress plugin that lets users insert Google Maps into their posts without difficulty.  Unlike some of the other plug-ins that requires the use of XML data or JavaScript coding, building a map is accomplished completely in a WYSIWYG web form inside of WordPress.  This form functions just like the media upload forms used to add images and attachments to a page.

The current release of this plugin allows users to add Markers with custom icon graphics; add routes; select map type, size and zoom levels; and insert clickable markers to open a Google Maps HTML window with text and links.

5. WP Google Maps

Developer:

Website: wpgmaps.com

Last Updated:  March 05, 2012

WP Google Maps gives users the ability to create a custom Google Map pinned high quality markers that contain locations, descriptions, images and links. Users can quickly and easily add their customized maps to WordPress posts and/or pages with the provided shortcode.

With WP Google Maps users can create as many map markers as they need by simply typing in the address or dragging the markers to an exact location. Markers can be edited with the click of a button

This plugin uses the Latest Google Maps API (V3), is Google Streetview supported and lets users choose from four different map types: roadmap, terrain, satellite or hybrid.

6. XML Google Maps

Developer: dschuesae

Website: www.matusz.ch

Last Updated: August 18, 2011

The XML Google Maps plugin allows users to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into their pages.  This plugin provides users with a multitude of features including:  automatically converting GPX or KML file links into a Google Map; geocoded NextGEN Gallery pictures can be integrated with the aid of a simple parameter this plugin reads the EXIF data of NextGEN Gallery images and then displays them on a map; it supports the new Google Earth Browser Plugin feature of the Google Maps API as well as Open Street Map and Open Cycle Map map types. The XML Google Maps plugin is available in English and German versions.

In addition to Google Maps, plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. For more information about Google Maps and other WordPress plugins, visit http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins.

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- Great Plugins for Photographers -

1. Online Booking Calendar

This is a WordPress Calendar that lets clients check your availability, and make appointments. They will also be able to register to any upcoming events you’re offering.

Features:

• Book reservations via the calendar
• E-mail notifications
• Admin panel to manage booking
• Easy integration
• Booking calendar widget
• Validation
• Multi-language support

2. Membership

The WordPress Membership Plugin is capable of transforming your site into a completely functional membership site. This allows you to provide members with access to downloads, videos, forums, and more.

Control access to:

• Downloads
• Pages
• Categories
• Comments
• Posts
• Tags
• Galleries

Create levels of subscriptions:

• Free memberships
• Renewing memberships
• Indefinite of finite subscriptions

3. All In One SEO Pack

This plugin will optimize your website for search engine traffic. This will drive extra traffic to your blog, and allow you to better monetize your website.

Features:

• Google Analytics support
• Custom post support
• Advanced canonical URL’s
• Fine tune navigation links
• Built-in API
• Provides SEO integration for e-commerce sites (only plugin to do this)
• Nonce security
• Supports CMS installations
• Automatically optimizes titles
• Automatically generates META tags
• Avoids duplicate content
• Friendly to both beginning and advance users
• Backwards compatible with other plugins

4. ShareThis

ShareThis is probably one of the most effective social media plugins available today. It has a sleek, flash-based user-interface. It also allows you to choose the amount of social media sites that you’d like to include. It’s one of the easiest ways to get content submitted to social media sites.

Features:

• Share content at any social media site
• Real-time sharing
• Google Analytics integration
• Influence insights
• Easily customized
• Browser sharing

5. Flickr Feed Gallery

The Flickr Feed Gallery plugin allows users to easily integrate Flickr photo’s into a WordPress website.

Features:

• Public photo stream
• Friend’s feed
• Group photo stream
• Favorite’s photo stream
• Customization options

6. Post Layout

The WordPress Post Layout plugin will allow you to easily format and monetize your website, without any coding. Essentially, this plugin gives the user the freedom to add just about anything they want without coding. It’s particularly good for monetizing your website with Google Adsense, Chitika ads, Amazon ads, and more.

Features:

• Google Adsense code
• JavaScript/HTML
• Regular coding
• PHP code
• Mobile Google Adsense
• Ad code
• Page layout

7. Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments will allow people to sign up for an e-mail notification of new comments or entries. It includes a completely functional subscription manager that will allow the users to customize their subscription options.

Features:

• View subscriptions
• Subscribe and unsubscribe feature
• Change e-mail address
• Manage subscriptions

- Great Themes for Photographers -

1. Specere

Specere caters to people who want to showcase their images at full-screen capacity, with zero hassle. The theme includes a completely animated gallery.

Features:

• Full-screen gallery
• Image panning
• Scrolling thumbnail navigation
• Unlimited galleries
• Multi-image uploader
• Unlimited color options
• Custom typography
• Social integration
• Twitter widget
• Flickr widget
• Related posts
• SEO
• Google Analytics

2. Kin

Kin is designed for magazine style photography, and has both an image and video gallery.

Features:

• 2 skins
• Admin control panel
• Category and photo customization
• Featured albums
• Magazine style gallery
• Styled typography
• Image zoom
• Video content viewer
• Blog

3. Photocrati

Photocrati is like several themes in one. There are 15 different theme styles to choose from, that can be paired with 4 different gallery styles.

Features:

• 15 theme styles
• 4 gallery styles
• iPad/iPhone compatible
• Gallery management
• eCommerce galleries
• SEO
• Copyright protection
• Lifetime rights

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1. Theme test drive

This tiny plugin will allow you to test drive any themes as an administrator when the site is LIVE but the users can’t see the changes you made in your blog. So you can easily customize the template and preview the changes you have made, when you think the changes works perfect then you can make it live for the users.

2. WP Touch

A powerful mobile theme for your blog, it automatically transforms your blog into a form that can be viewed from all smart phones such as iOS devices, Blackberry, Android mobiles and much more.

3. Theme Switch and Preview

It’s a must plugin for theme development as you can make changes to your blog templates without affecting visitors. You can also use it for presentation to show various templates.

4. Theme Tweaker Lite

This is little script which displays all colors of your existing template and give you the color picker tool to pick the right color code of the part you hover to replace them with your favorite colors. It also allows you to preview the changes you have made and activate the changes once it gets finished.

5. Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC)

This is one of the most mandatory plugin you need to install in your blog. There are many free themes available on web and they are not 100% secure to install it in your blog because they may contains malicious code or hacking scripts which may cause severe damage to your side.

By installing this plugin, it will take care of all themes related issues. It will scan your templates from top to bottom for any malicious or unwanted PHP code hidden in your templates. Once it found anything suspicious it will highlights the path, line number with a small snippet of suspect code. Then it’s up to you to remove the code or find any solution to fix it.

6. WP Scheduled Themes

Auto schedule theme for special occasions and holiday seasons so your reader will very much impressed on your blog. Before auto scheduling any template please make sure whether it works perfectly with your blog in order to avoid any theme related issues.

7. Theme to browser (T2B) Control

Very advanced theme management plugin for your wordpress blog. It automatically display different theme based on browser the visitor use. Excellent admin panel of this plugin allow these transformation possible.

8. Solid Code Theme Editor

An advanced theme editor which displays all of your files and folders in a better tree view.

9. Power Code Editor

It will do a similar function like notepad++. It will highlight syntax of the themes or plugin which makes easier to edit all wordpress templates.

10. WP Live CSS Editor

It allows you to edit, preview and save your CSS files of your templates in real-time. My advice is to have a data back up before editing by using this plugin because wrong usage of this plugin will lead to malfunctioning of your template.

11. Themes Shorcodes

It has collections of shortcodes provided as a plugin. The aim of this plugin is to collect all shortcodes in one location.

12. Multi Themes

This plugin allows to have different wordpress themes to different networks in multisite atmosphere. Once installed, this plugin will create separate templates into different directories so they are only accessible to the network you choose.

13. Theme My Login

There are some pages in wordpress like Registration, login page and pass recovery page which will be totally different from the theme you are using for your blog. By installing this plugin in your blog it will customize the login section, registration forms etc., of your wordpress blog according to the current template you use.

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If however you are left wondering why your WordPress blog has been quite inactive lately, and there is not much happening, its perhaps because you have failed to use all the attributes of WordPress to augment the popularity of your blog. One of the most profitable feature of WordPress, other than being highly search engine friendly and extremely user friendly, is the fact that it support plug-in architectures. Plug-ins are specialized software fragments which increases the scope and functionality of the larger software as a whole.

In this write up we will discuss various plugins which may prove to be highly productive for you in making your web blog more social, lively and interactive,

Plugins Dedicated to a Single Site

Provided below is the list of Plugins aimed for a single specific site covering how you can make your website more popular across specific sites like Digg, Twitter and etc.

Digg Digg – With this WordPress plugin you can easily add the Digg button in the posts and also provides you with commands which will let you choose its float attribute to eiter left or right side, whether you wish to publish the same after the content or before the content and other similar settings.

Digg This – now this is an intelligent WordPress plugin which only adds the Digg button after realizing that your post has been published to a popular website. It is better because it saves you from the sulking feeling of seeing zero Digg badges, in case your post hasn’t been that popular lately.

Dugg Widget – this plugin will put across a widget in the sidebar and will inform you the recent ten posts from your blog which has been through with the Digg.

FriendFeed Activity Widget – this helps you connect on a personal level with your users by sharing all the FriendFeed activities with your readers who frequents your blog.

FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin – this WordPress plugin carries the reference of Mashable which has employed this plugin in order to learn which article has been marked as “favorite” and how many times by the users. This plugin will also display the comments directly from the FriendFeed discussion panel, on your blog or site.

Stumble Reviews – With this you will be able to easily add the reviews of a given page on the StumbleUpon platform and will display the same on the suitable page.

Twitter Updater – With Twitter Updater you will be able to deliver a Tweet to your own account one Twitter each time you publish anything new on your blog. And the Twit will be optimally adjusted through TinyURL.

WordPress Twitter Widget – with this you can easily see your Twitter feeds in the sidebar and convert the “@username” and related information into the links along with being able to sew the avatars of the users.