The Voices Within

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THE MOST HELPFUL ONES:

Vocabulary Words -This widget will display random vocabulary words from the Word to the Wise dictionary to your web site visitors.

WP- Print-It displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page. Allows your readers to take a print out of your invaluable posts.

Thesaurus -Very simple AJAX based interface, which allows for thesaurus lookups without leaving the page, so you can lookup a word before you lose the thought.

Thank Me later-A plugin which will automatically send a thank you email to readers after they post a comment. It is effective as it will remind readers of their comments and gets them engaged with future discussion and your blog.

Articles- This plugin allows you to easily present a list of posts you select outside of your blog chronology. Very useful for featuring things that might otherwise slip into the nether regions of your archives.

©Feed- With this plugin, a report of copyright, a digital fingerprint and the IP of the feed reader can be added. In addition, some search engines are scanned for the digital fingerprint in order to find possible content theft. The feed can be also be supplemented with comments and topic-relevant contributions.

BLOGGING TOOLS:

WP Footnotes : Creating a footnote to make a strong point or quoting something, is dead simple with this plugin.

In Series- With this plugin, you can write a series of posts on Wordpress without having to deal with the hassle of manually writing up tables of contents or “next” and “previous” links in each post.

Random Redirect - The Plugin allows you to create a link to yourblog.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.

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

WP POLLS: Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.

Most Commented Posts:  A sidebar widget that lists your most commented posts within unordered lists.

Mobile Press:  MobilePress is a plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.

Top Commentators Widget:  With the Top Commentators widget on your sidebar, you can entice your readers into commenting more on your blog posts.

WP-Cumulus- The plugin allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting.

SRG Clean Archives-This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.

BLOG AUTHOR-COMMENTERS INTERACTION:

Comment Luv:  Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, with AJAX CommentLuv for Wordpress and Wordpress MU you can give something back to your community straight away by including a titled link for their last blog post on the end of their comment.

BBPress- bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.

Psychic Search -Secretly Discover What Your Visitors Want to Read on Your Blog with this wonderful plugin.

Subscribe to Comments:It is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.

Comment Relish- The Comment Relish plugin allows you to send  a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.

WP Wall:  WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page).

WP Email- With the wordpress email plugin, your visitors/readers can recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.

Mail Press:  With this plugin you will be able to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates for any e-mail notification issued for

* comments subscribers,
* your periodic newsletters (per post/daily/weekly/monthly),
* specific admin events : registration of a new user, comment to moderate, new comment on your posts.

GD Star Rating: The Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating system for pages and/or posts in your blog. Also includes the widget for displaying votes and rating statistics for all posts and pages with votes.

Brain’s threaded comments:  With Brain’s threaded comments, you can decorate your comments section and bring about increased interaction.

Enhanced WordPress contact form -As the name suggests, this indeed is an enhanced one, as it tells you the referring page on the site, what made people decide to contact you, and the original referer, showing from which page or search engine they came to your blog.

DISQUS Comment System - With this Plugin, you can change the default wordpress commenting system and switch to Disqus, a very prominent one!

DMSGuestbook- DMSGuestbook is an easy configurable guestbook with a lot of features. Easy to obtain feedback from your readers.

SEO:

SEO Smart Links – SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

All in One SEO Pack- This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. You don’t have to worry about the SEO part if you have this plugin.

Permalink Redirect-A WordPress plugin that replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archive’s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry.

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator : This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

MISCELLANEOUS:

Last Amazon Review – Writers mostly are readers. This plugin retrieves your latest Amazon review by scanning the Amazon RSS feed and allows you to preview it on your blog.

I love Social bookmarking: I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.

Wassup- Waasup helps you track your visitors in real time.It has a “current visitors online” view and a more detailed “visitors details” view where you can know almost everything your users are doing on your blog, it’s very useful for SEO or statistics maniacs.

GoCodes-Have you ever had to give someone a shortened version of a URL?  You can easily hide the affiliate program urls by using this effective plugin. affiliateprogram.com/affiliate.php?id=123456 will now look like yourblog.com/go/affiliateprogram(or any name you choose) Yes, it’s that simple!

WordPress Database Backup- The WP Data Backup plugin is a must-have for all! It creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.

Wordpress BankRoll Plugin- A wordpress plugin that will transform your current or new blog into a paid or free blogging site. You can use this to get free content from your readers, use to write paid reviews on websites, or just generally sell blog posts written by you or the sponsor.

eShop- eShop is a very effective plugin that helps writers create an ecommerce website and sell their books.

PS: Please check if the above plugins can be used with the latest version, WP 2.7. The Plugin compatibility list should help you.

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