10 Best WordPress Plugins Of 2009

There are lots of WordPress plugin developed and used by WordPress bloggers. But here in this article I will focus on 10 most downloaded plugins during the year of 2009. (Akismet is not included as it comes with the default WordPress installation)

1. All in One SEO Pack (200,000 times)
All in One SEO Pack Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

You can get  “All in One SEO Pack” plugin from here

2. Google XML Sitemaps (954,459 times)
Google” XML Sitemaps, the automatically generated sitemap is actually also supported by Ask, MSN, and Yahoo. It’s nice to be able to customize a few settings and then never having to think about your xml sitemap again.

You can get “Google” XML Sitemap” from here

3. NextGEN Gallery (715,819 times)
The famous NextGen Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Features include custom templates, AJAX thumbnail generator, sortable Albums, Zip file uploads, Watermark function, Lightbox Effects, Sidebar Widget, Flash Goodies and much more.

You can get “NextGen Gallery” from here

4. WordPress.com Stats (712,71 times)
You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system.
You can get “WordPress.com Stats” from here

5. WP Super Cache (492,637 times)
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

You can get “WP Super Cache” from here

6. Contact Form 7 (393,916 times)

Contact form is essential on every blog or website because you can’t share your email ID on that. Different contact forms for different purposes may require and that should send you the data in your mailbox as the format you want.

You can get “Contact Form 7″ form here

7. WordPress Automatic upgrade (288,600 times)

WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org

You can get “WordPress Automatic upgrade” form here

8. Sociable (284,117 times)
Sociable allow readers to share your articles/post on different social websites like facebook, digg and many more. This can be a great way of getting more traffic to your blog. And alternative might be even better is “Add this”

You can “Sociable” form here

9. Viper’s Video Quicktags (254,807 times)
Viper’s Video Quicktags allow you to embed a video from your favorite video site into a WordPress post and didn’t want to go through the trouble of copying and pasting the embed HTML from the source site?
You can get “Viper’s Video Quicktags” form here

10.  Simple Tagging (254,353 times)

The successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is THE perfect tool to perfectly manage your WP tags.

You can get “Simple Tagging” form here