Top 10 Best Plugins for Wordpress

Wordpress  Plugins 

There are several thousands of WordPress plugins in the WordPress community and new plugins are coming out everyday. However, not all plugins are useful, in fact some are very bad written that will mess up your site or harm your WordPress installation. So how do you know which plugins are right for you? Well, here is a list of plugins that I have used or played around before. Hopefully you will something useful here.

1. WP CacheTo save your SQL server resources, WP Cache works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. It is a very useful plugin if you have a high traffic site or low performance server.
2. WP eCommerceWant to sell stuffs on your blog? You must check out this WP eCommerce plugin byInstinct. It is an Ajax powered shopping cart, very easy to use. You can setup your shop in minutes through the Admin panels.
3. Intouch Ajax contact formI've been using this contact form for over a year. It works very good and filters all the spams. Seriously, NO SPAM at all. It also allows you to customize the email subject, thank you messages, and adds addition form fields
4. Secure and Accessible Contact FormAnother contact form by Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley. Although, I have never used this contact form before, but I've been hearing good rating on them. So, give it a shoot.
5. SideblogOne of the popular WordPress plugins, Sideblog is the best way to post short notes on the sidebar. I use it for Best Web Gallery. It gives you options to define the sideblog category, how many entries to display, and whether to exclude from RSS feeds.
6. WP PageNaviWP PageNavi adds a better paging navigation to your WordPress site. It is nice if you have a lot of posts because it allows your visitors to skip from page to page. I use it onN.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery.
7. SociableSociable appends a list of the social bookmarking sites (ie. Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit) at the end of your posts and allows your visitors to bookmark. I used this plugin before and it worked very well.
8. Ajax Post RatingWP Post Ratings adds a 5-star Ajax rating system to your posts/pages. It works like a charm. Hint: most CSS gallery sites use this pluginfields filled correctly (so your visitors will never see the default error messages), and also makes sure to avoid comment duplication, and has flood protection capabilities as well.
9. Ajax Inline CommentThis plugin gives your visitors an Ajax live comment preview. It is great if they need to enter HTML tags in your comments. So, no more syntax errors in your comments.