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Best Wordpress Plugins

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Best Wordpress Plugins

It's the only list of the best Wordpress plugins that you'll ever need in 2012: these plugins will take the capabilities of Wordpress into new CMS-style heights.

From eCommerce to video lightboxes and social applications, only the most popular and most helpful plugins made the cut!

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Advertising Plugins

Wordpress "Ninja Affiliate" Plugin

Wordpress Affiliate Link Cloaking Plugin

Wordpress Ninja AffiliateThe only plugin that effectively masks affiliate links to make them look like a page from your site. For instance, your Commission Junction, Amazon (or any other) link can simply be made to look like "mysite.com/product." Search engine safe. Now available in single or unlimited license!

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Wordpress "WP125 Ads" Plugin

Wordpress Ad Management Plugin

WP125 ads Wordpress pluginDisplay ad spaces in one or two-column format, and let visitors "buy" ad space without ever having to personally interact with you. They can be shown as static or random, and each one can have a set "end date" once the payment term is up. A truly great solution for Wordpress on-site advertising.

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Comments Plugins

Wordpress "Disqus" Plugin

Wordpress Comments Plugin

Wordpress Disqus pluginDisqus is a 3rd party commenting system that overrides your Wordpress comments so that it is entirely run by the Disqus engine. It allows anyone with a Disqus account to post using their already existing profile. Your visitors can also choose to login with other social accounts, too.

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Wordpress "Facebook Connect" Plugin

Wordpress Comments Plugin

Simple Facebook Connect Wordpress pluginThis plugin includes a "Connect With Facebook" option for your Wordpress comments, as well as giving you a multitude of "share" options. When people comment on your WP blog using this commenting form, their activity will be displayed on their Facebook activity feed.

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eCommerce Plugins

Wordpress "Cart 66" Plugin

Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin

Wordpress Cart 66 PluginA very advanced shopping cart plugin, allowing you to sell both digital and physical products from your Wordpress site. Manage multiple payment types, subscriptions, promotions, even taxes by region! Includes free updates for life and works with any Wordpress theme.

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Wordpress "WP e-Commerce" Plugin

Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin

WP eCommerce Wordpress PluginThe most downloaded eCommerce plugin for Wordpress: a full-fledged shopping cart system that integrates seamlessly with Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net, Payment Express and other methods. Perfect for those doing dropshipping or wholesale sites!

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Wordpress "Shopp" Plugin

Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin

Shopp Wordpress pluginThis premium Wordpress eCommerce theme works well with other Wordpress themes, and seamlessly integrates into your site. Meant to create ecommerce sites quickly, but also allows for a great deal of tine-tuning. Easy to modify with plenty of documentation and support.

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Form Plugins

Wordpress "Gravity Forms" Plugin

Wordpress Form Creation Plugin

Gravity Forms Wordpress pluginThe most advanced Wordpress forms solution out there: limitless form creation options, conditional form fields ("if-then-else" actions), email routing, pre-filled state/province and country dropdowns, custom post fields and tons more. This is truly the only way to go for a serious site.

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Wordpress "Contact Form" Plugin

Wordpress Form Plugin

Contact Form Wordpress pluginCreate and customize multiple Wordpress forms that your users can fill out in order to contact you. It's code-driven and doesn't have any kind of user interface, but you can type in calls to create certain form elements, like type-in boxes, dropdowns and other things.

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Wordpress "Fast Secure Contact" Plugin

Wordpress Contact Form Plugin

Fast Secure Contact Form Wordpress pluginA spam blocking, CAPTCHA-loaded form builder for Wordpress that's super easy to use. Create multiple forms, and make them appear on whatever Post or Page you want with some simple shortcode. Make certain fields be mandatory, too.

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Graphics/Images Plugins

Wordpress "Nivo Slider" Plugin

Wordpress Image Slider Plugin

Wordpress Nivo Slider pluginSad about your Wordpress theme not coming with a cool front page image slider? Use this free plugin from Nivo to insert one yourself. It's a simple jQuery slider that has lots of features, transitions and clean code to ensure that it won't bog down your page's load time.

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Wordpress "Slider Pro" Plugin

Wordpress Image Slider Plugin

Wordpress Slider Pro ThemeA far more feature-rich image slider plugin for Wordpress that has over 100 customizable properties & transition types and over 10 unique skins. Easy to tweak. Beyond images, it also can show tool tips, and can slide video, Flash files and even HTML.

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Wordpress "Prettyphoto" Plugin

Wordpress Image & Video Lightbox Plugin

Wordpress Prettyphoto pluginI'll guarantee you that you won't find a better image lightbox plugin than Prettyphoto: you'll be able to post a thumbnail of an image. When clicked, the image can open up shadowbox-style into full size, an image gallery (different styles), or even open Youtube or other videos.

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SEO Plugins

Wordpress "All-In-One SEO Pack"

Wordpress On-Site SEO Plugin

All In One SEO Pack Wordpress PluginOne of the most popular Wordpress plugins of all time: this is the original site-wide SEO management plugin that makes defining your META tags easy on a post-by-post basis since Wordpress still refuses to include this feature.

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Wordpress "Platinum SEO Pack"

Wordpress On-Site SEO Plugin

Platinum SEO Pack Wordpress pluginThis plugin performs all of the same functions as the one above, but it also manages automatic 301 redirection for renamed pages, employ canonical URLs, and add tons of other SEO-related features to your site as well.

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Wordpress "All In One Webmaster"

Wordpress Site Maintenance Plugin

All In One Webmaster Wordpress pluginThis free plugin lets you manage Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster Central so that you can submit your sitemap to both of them at the same time without having to log into each one every time you add a new Wordpress page. It also updates Alexa and FB Insights, too.

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Wordpress "Google XML Sitemaps" Plugin

Wordpress Sitemap Plugin

Google XML Sitemaps Wordpress pluginThis plugin will create a full XML sitemap that automatically updates itself every time you add a new Wordpress Post or Page, and it also notifies all major search engines, as well. The plugin should have excluded the word "Google" from its title, as these sitemaps are compliant for all browsers.

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Wordpress "NoFollow Links" Plugin

Wordpress Blogroll Plugin

Wordpress blogroll nofollow pluginYour WP blogroll links are not NoFollow by default, and there's no easy way to set them to be. You're losing link juice to everyone on your blogroll or link list. This plugin creates a menu in your backend where you can selectively choose which links in your blogroll should be NoFollowed.

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Post/Page Plugins

Wordpress "Smart Pagination" Plugin

Wordpress Page Links Plugin

Wordpress Smart Pagination ThemeIf the default Wordpress pagination links don't cut it for your purposes, make them pretty with a whole bunch of different designs provided with this plugin. Smart Pagination features 11 different pagination link designs, labels, fonts, colors and other settings. Makes your pagination links look elegant!

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Wordpress "Page Links To" Plugin

Wordpress 301-Redirect Plugin

Page Links To Wordpress pluginHave you ever wanted to permanently forward a Wordpress page over to some other URL but were too lazy to write out the 301 redirects for them? That's what Page Links To will do for you. It will let you specify what link the Page should send you to when clicked (it can be external, too!)

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Wordpress "Redirection" Plugin

Wordpress 301-Redirect Plugin

Redirection Wordpress pluginThis plugin automatically redirects a page when its URL is changed. It has advanced 404 redirection monitoring and logging tools, as well as an RSS feed to keep up with your 404 issues. Unlike the "Page Links To" plugin above, this one is automated and requires no manual work at all.

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Wordpress "Table Reloaded" Plugin

Wordpress Table Creator

Wordpress Table PluginIf you use HTML tables often in your Wordpress posts or pages, stop wasting your time creating them manually! This plugin creates tables with style -- great 'hover over' effects, alternating row colors, images, spacing, insertion with a shortcode -- it does it all.

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Wordpress "Breadcrumb NavXT" Plugin

Wordpress Breadcrumb Plugin

Wordpress BreadcrumbsIf your Wordpress theme never came with breadcrumbs, you're really going to want to include them. Breadcrumbs are those links that take you "backward" from the page you're on, like "Home > Category > Page 1." They're a huge part of on-site SEO, and this plugin will automate them for you.

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Social Plugins

Wordpress "ShareThis" Plugin

Wordpress Social Sharing Plugin

Wordpress ShareThis pluginThis professional service lets you include a generic "ShareThis" icon which pops out with a handful of sharing options for your visitors, or, you can pick and choose which social networks you want to display. Alternately, you can insert a ShareThis script manually.

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Wordpress "AddThis" Plugin

Wordpress Social Sharing Plugin

Wordpress AddThis pluginAddThis is basically ShareThis' direct competitor, and offers an identical service. It also has a free Wordpress plugin for its social bookmarking icon set. The difference is that AddThis also offers an HTML-only version of its script, which can be post on HTML-only sites.

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Wordpress "Advanced Social Widget" Plugin

Wordpress Social Sharing Plugin

Wordpress Advanced Social WidgetThis plugin -- actually, a widget -- is perfect for anyone who wants social buttons in their widget instead of in the page body (note that this is surprisingly hard to insert without this plugin). It can link to your pages, act as share buttons, and it's easy to tweak in the backend.

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Wordpress "Google +1" Plugin

Wordpress Social Sharing Plugin

Google +1 Button for WordpressThe Google +1 feature lets Google Account users "vote" up a site, suggesting it to their "Friends" circle in the new Google Plus social networking system. If you need this button for Wordpress, you're now in luck! The button is available in a few different styles. Alternately, you can just drop in the code manually.

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Wordpress "Facebook Like" Plugin

Wordpress Social Sharing Plugin

Facebook Like Wordpress pluginThis plugin will use the simple script provided by Facebook, which creates a fast and easy way for your visitors to "Like" your page and have it appear on their wall. If you're leveraging Facebook for your website, this is perhaps the best plugin to do it with. Alternately, you can just insert the code yourself.

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Wordpress "Twitter ReTweet" Plugin

Wordpress Social Sharing Plugin

Twitter Retweet Plugin for WordpressTweetMeme created this widely popular "ReTweet" badge for Twitter that you've undoubtedly seen in all corners of the web. When installed, it will display this clickable counter badge directly in your post, wherever you specify.

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Video Plugins

Wordpress "JW Player" Plugin

Wordpress Video Plugin

JW Player for WordpressSupporting Youtube, Vimeo and other formats as well as your own FLVs, it now features an in-video advertising system (like Youtube's ads) and support for HTML5 video. JW Player is most widely supported video player anywhere; many Wordpress themes require it!

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Mobile Plugins

Wordpress "WP Touch" Plugin

Wordpress Mobile Plugin

WP Touch Wordpress pluginA true solution for anyone looking to have a mobile version of their self-hosted Wordpress site. WP Touch transforms your site into a "mobile friendly" version. It's also built to make your site easy to update on a mobile device, and displays either icons or post images.

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Wordpress "Mobile Pack" Plugin

Wordpress Mobile Plugin

Wordpress Mobile Pack pluginThis Wordpress plugin will let users choose between the original or mobile version of your site from their blog, and comes with multiple themes for different phone types (Android, iPhone, etc.) Also includes tools to make mobile blogging easy, with other treats like Google Mobile AdSense.

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Wordpress "Mobile Redirect" Plugin

Wordpress Mobile Plugin

Wordpress Mobile Redirect ThemeWith this plugin, you can have all mobile website visitors get instantly re-directed to the mobile version of your Wordpress website (provided that you actually have one). You can even redirect based on type (Android, iPhone, etc.) and view your redirect statistics.

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