The guys at TechTreak.com have made a list of the The Best 35 Most Popular WordPress Plugins which are really help full for bloggers to boost your wordpress blogs right from traffic, content, feeds, comments, ajax, make money, sitemaps and more.

Check out the most popular wordpress plugins below:

• Get Recent Comments – This plugin displays excerpts of the latest comments or trackbacks of your posts in your sidebar. You will have a comprehensive control on how they appear. It ranges from the number of comments, to the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. This plugin also lets you to order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply sort them by date. Even you can filter the unwanted pingbacks, which originate from your own blog. And it is a widget.
• Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator – This is really a smart plugin that generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. The generated formats are supported by Google, MSN, Yahoo and Ask.com Search. XML-Sitemaps will help you to get indexed by the major search engines.
• All in One SEO Pack – This plugin Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engine Optimization(SEO). To help your blog better index.
• WordPress Database Backup – WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.
• Gravatars – Automattic, the company behind WordPress, recently acquired Gravatar. In case you don’t know, gravatars—or “globally recognized avatars”—are images that you can associate with an email address, so a picture of your choice can appear alongside your comments on many others’ blogs.
• Akismet – Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
• AJAX Comment Preview – Other preview plugins don’t know what sort of changes WordPress will make to a visitor’s comment, but this plugin uses AJAX to send each previewed comment through WordPress’ inner voodoo in order to figure out those changes.
• Subscribe to Comments – Subscribe to Comments is a simple wordpess plugin that allows commenters on your blog to 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 – This is one of the rare and most wanted plugin for a blogger to boost there feeds. When a reader makes his first comment on your blog then it will send a Thank you mail to his email.
• Most Commented – Retrieves a list of the posts with the most comments.
• Skype Smilies with WordPress – If you are really bored with the normal yahoo and msn smilies then you must try these sweet Skype Smilies which your readers will love to leave a comment with them
• WP Ajax Edit Comments – WP Ajax Edit Comments allows users and admins to edit comments in a post. Users are enabled to edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments anytime.
• WP-Cache – WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.
• Popularity Contest – Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.
• WP-PostRatings – Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
• NextGEN Gallery – The NextGEN Gallery plugin really simple to installed and display your photos or pictures in cool style.
• Simple Tags – Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect plugin to manage your WP 2.3 and 2.5 tags. It was aimed with this philosophy : more secured, best performances and brings a lot of new functions.
• Embedded Video – The plugin is made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and integrated as well. Additionally a corresponding link to the video on the particular video portal page or a download link to the local file can be generated automatically, if demanded. The linktext is also configurable individually. Furthermore a fixed prefix for the linktext can be determined. The videos can be integrated easily by using the built-in WYSIWYG editor. The plugin generates XHTML-valid code and works from WP 2.5.
• pb-embedFlash – PB embedFlash is a filter for WordPress to show any flash content in valid XHTML 1.0 Strict code offering the possibility to specify attributes and parameters individually. It is really a easy to use but the final appearance of your embedded files can be modified heavily.
• Lightbox 2 – Lightbox 2 allows you to present images in a slick window, while darkening the rest of the page. It makes your site look professional, and adds very little to page load times. It does not require any browser plugins to work, and works on just about every web browser out there! When a browser doesn’t support javascript, the code fails gracefully.
• WordPress PocketPC(windows mobile) PDA & iPhone – This plugin lets your readers to view your blog in a pda or iPhone browser.
• NoFollow Free – This is one of the most usefull WordPress plugin that removes the “nofollow” attribute from your wordpress blog comments (precisely from the author’s links) or from the comments text links and it inserts (if you want) an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NOFOLLOW FRE” to encourage your users to submit comments.
• Flickr RSS – This plugin allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams. The plugin is relatively easy to setup and configure via an options panel. It also has support for an image cache located on your server.
• OIO publisher – OIOpublisher is aimed at blog owners and webmasters. It is being continually developed into a complete advertising solution, which means not only creating the ultimate sales solution, but also focusing on traffic and content development.
• AdSense Manager – AdSense Manager is a WordPress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.
• WP-o-Matic – WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.
• Broken Link Checker – This plugin will monitor your blog and looks for any broken links and let you know if any broken links are found.
• RSS Footer – This plugin makes it easy to add a line of content to the beginning or the end of all the articles in your feeds, for instance to display a link back to your blog.
• Simple Twitter – SimpleTwitter allows WordPress blog owners to add Twitter messages to their templates. Once installed, the plug-in is used by adding the following call in a template.
• Full Text Feed – WordPress 2.1 introduces a nasty “feature” to feeds. Instead of abiding by your feed preferences, WordPress will truncate your feed’s content anywhere you insert a more tag. Full Text Feed undos this functionality, allowing your feeds to contain the full text regardless of usage.
• Commentluv – Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Currently parses with wordpress, blogspot, typepad and blogs that have a feed link in the head section of their page.
• Download Counter for WordPress – This is nice plugin to display your product download stats in your admin panel or even you can show them to your readers too
• Digital Fingerprint – This a smart plugin that detects any content theft.
• Related Posts – This is must plugin for your wordpress which enbles your readers to spend more time on your blog by showing the Related Posts in your blog posts.
• Random Stripe Ads Plugin – This plugin helps you to keep as many as referral links or any single line information at the very top of your blog which rotates randomly, each time the page is loaded or when the visitor clicks on the “Next Tip” link just after your refferal link at the top.

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(Via TechTreak.com.)