Comment plugins are designed to help you do various things with the ability to comment. There are also some plugins that have other useful features for comments that may be needed on your blog.

Cap Comments – This plugin is designed to cut the ability for commenting once a certain number of comments is reached. This prevents spam and allows you to moderate out rubbish comments as well.

Comment Count – This is a useful plugin that allows the comment number to be included as well as the ability to count how many comments have been left for a post on your blog
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Templates make it possible to quickly create styled posts that do not require much more than writing the content and adding in your images. This makes it much simpler for many writers, especially if they create their post templates by hand and want it ready for use right away.

Post Templates – This changes the post template for individual posts or even for entire categories if you specify. This is very useful for blogs that need to change the default template for their posts quickly.

Simple Post Template – This plugin allows bloggers to really take advantage of their posting format by adding a template to their posts. It is highly customizable and easy to use.
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Analytics of your WordPress site are important because they offer you the ability to analyze traffic and other statistics about your website. The added benefit of this is that you can easily learn what is bringing in the most traffic to your website so that you can add more related content.

Google Analyticator – A useful plugin tool that is designed to offer you the ability to insert the Google JavaScript needed to your page to properly be used with Google analytics.

Ultimate Google Analytics – This plugin allows you to add the needed JavaScript without the need to make changes to your site template. Very useful for any WordPress blog that needs statistics tracked through Google.

Going Up! Web Analytics – This is a free web analytics application that can be used to track live data as it happens on your site. It uses tools like “site spy” which offers these capabilities.

Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin is designed to automatically track all links and segments for everything through Google analytics. This is a very useful tool if you need to know where your traffic is going after they visit you.

AdCenter Analytics – This is designed to add the Microsoft AdCenter tag to your WordPress blog. It is very useful to track clicks and other statistical data.

Many companies make use of podcasting which is simply a way of distributing information through sound clips or videos that can be used on popular devices such as the Apple iPod.

Podcasting – This plugin takes a file from anywhere on the web and offers it through an iTunes like feed on your WordPress blog. This is useful to also play the file on the web with a special player that is included.

Podcasting – Blubrry PowerPress Podcast Plugin – This is a plugin designed to offer full podcast support through iTunes and offers a large amount of customizable interfaces. It was created for podcasters by podcasters.
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Download management on your WordPress blog is essential, especially if you are hosting many files that tax on your data transfer allowance. The can also be used to limit the amount of files downloaded by specific users, IP addresses and much more.

Downloads Manager – Easy to implement plugin that is designed to offer downloads to the public. Allows the admin to monitor how many downloads of a specific file have occurred.

WordPress Download Monitor – This is a plugin that allows you to upload and manage downloads with added statistical data such as download hits and links to the download.
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Feeds are useful tools that can be used to help readers keep in touch with your WordPress blog, even if they are not on your site. There are plugins that allow you to display feeds as well as offer them through RSS and other interfaces.

Adsense for Feeds – This allows you to put Google RSS ads on your feeds. This is a great way to get some extra revenue off of your WordPress blogs.

Feeds Widget – This is a very useful widget that allows you to display links to relevant feeds on your blog. The intended use of this widget is to allow you to offer feeds that are useful to your readers.
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Print plugins for WordPress can have a wide range of options for your blog when someone wishes to print your posts. You can add information that is not shown on your original posts or simply make it easier for readers to pick and print what they need off of your blog site.

WP Print – This plugin makes it possible to print out the blog post without all of the extra formatting on the page. It is a great tool to make it simple for readers to print information.

HP Blog Printing – This is a wonderful plugin designed by HP and offers the ability for readers to pick and choose what is printed. This plugin can omit sidebar and other limiting features of your blog.
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CAPTCHA WordPress tools are designed to prevent unwanted spam posts, registrations and comments on your WordPress blog site. This can be used by any blog with the appropriate plugins put into place.

Simple CAPTCHA – A very simple and secure plugin that allows the prevention of spam posts on your WordPress blog. It is very easy to use by simply installing and activating the plugin.

WP CAPTCHA Free – This is actually a system of blocking tools that prevents the need to use a CAPTCHA code on your comments and other portions of the WordPress blog.
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Using the default page order interface is very clumsy with WordPress and can end up making your page order hierarchy more difficult to deal with. The following plugins help to correct this issue.

My Page Order – Helps to manage a large number of pages at once and replaces the existing page management system that is available in WordPress and makes the process of page management more efficient.

Shift This Order Pages – This plugin was designed to make your page rearranging much more flexible, even with more than one page at a time. Very useful in making updates in page order very quickly.
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Having YouTube videos on your WordPress blog site is a very simple way to show your viewers a wide range of things. Whether it is a product commercial to an emotional video, viewers respond to them well.

YouTube Brackets – This is an easy to use plugin which allows for YouTube videos to be inserted with simple bracket tags. This can be done on any WordPress blog installation with ease.

Genki YouTube Comments – This allows you to post comments on your YouTube videos onto your WordPress blog without having to copy and paste them. Automatically updates itself when there are new posts on your videos.

WP YouTube – This is a great YouTube video management system that only requires you to have the video ID. The system calls up and formats the video how you need it for your WordPress Blog.
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