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Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine, and the best part is – You don’t need to have great coding skills. Here is the list of the Wordpress plugins you need to spice up and maximize potential of your own blog. Some of them are sexy too!

I would recommend that you try these plugins for yourselves and read all documentation about every single plugin.

HeadSpace 2

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

WP Greet Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter.

Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

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

Google Analytics for WordPress

This plugin easily adds your Google Analytics tracking code (the new ga.js one!) to all pages within your blog.

WordPress Super Cache

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.

Sociable – Social Bookmarking for WordPress

Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites including Digg, Reddit, SU, Mixx, Propeller. It also supports TwitThis.

SexyBookmarks

SexyBookmarks is a Wordpress plugin that inserts a (X)HTML compliant list-based menu of social bookmarking site icons in each post to allow users to easily submit your posts to some of the most popular social bookmarking networks automatically.

Comment LUV

The plugin fetches the feed of the commenter while they type their comment and extracts the last blog post title with link and displays it below the comment form. When they submit their comment, the last blog post link gets added on the end of their comment for all to see!

New Wordpress Plugin – PingCrawl

This plugin will help you to get more links to Your blog. Every time you make a post on your blog it grabs similar posts from other blogs that allow pingbacks using the post tags. It then links to them at the bottom of the post as similar posts. It then executes the pingback on all the posts.

TweetMeme Button

The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.