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Plugins are essentials to enhance your WordPress blog. There are tons of Plugins you can download at wordpress.org. However, what are coolest is not important. What are useful to you is the key. The below ones are what I am using. Do you like them?

Akismet 2.2.2
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg. http://akismet.com/ 

AskApache Password Protect 4.6.5
Advanced Security: Password Protection, Anti-Spam, Anti-Exploits, more to come… By AskApache. http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/htaccess-security-block-spam-hackers.html

Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.0.1
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/

Sociable 2.9.5
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Go to Settings -> Sociable for setup. By Joost de Valk.  http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable/

Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith.  http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

Twitter widget 1.5
Sidebar widget to display your Twitter timeline. The widget allows you to choose to display your twitter username in front of your updates. You can also choose whether to display the time before or after the twitter post. By Sarah Isaacson.  http://www.velvet.id.au/twitter-wordpress-sidebar-widget/

WordPress Related Posts 1.0
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress By Denis. http://fairyfish.net/2007/09/12/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/

WP-Polls 2.31
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/

WP-Polls Widget 2.31
Adds a Poll Widget to display single or multiple polls from WP-Polls Plugin. You will need to activate WP-Polls first. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/

WP-PostViews-Plus Widget 0.1
This is a widget based on wp-postview-widget by Lester “GaMerZ’ Chan(http://lesterchan.net). Adds a PostViews-Plus Widget to display most viewed posts and/or pages (with time span) on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-PostViews Plus first. By Richard Zhao. http://sbin.cn/blog

WP-PostViews Plus 1.1.13
Enables You To Display How Many Times A Post Had Been Viewed By User Or Bot. By Richer Yang. http://fantasyworld.idv.tw/programs/wp_postviews_plus/

WP-Stats 2.31
Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/

WP-Stats Widget 2.31
Adds a Stats Widget to display stats from WP-Stats Plugin. You will need to activate WP-Stats first. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/

WP Security Scan 2.3
Perform security scan of WordPress installation. By Michael Torbert. http://semperfiwebdesign.com/plugins/wp-security-scan/

WP Super Cache 0.8.5
Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once activated, you must enable the cache. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada. By Donncha O Caoimh. http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/