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1. Digg This – Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.When a digg is first recognized an email is sent to the site’s admin and the button appears on the site.
2. ShareThis – Is very known sharing service with its green ShareThis icon put to your blog. People can quickly submit your articles to the most popular social sites or just email them to their friends.
3. Sociable– Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. You can design the css, images and decide wich social networks you link to.
4. LifeStream –Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog. Out of the box, Lifestream is just streams in RSS/Atom feeds and prettying them up, but deep down it’s a very flexible platform allowing developers to integrate any kind of activity they desire..
5. Meet Your Commenters – When someone comments on your blog and writes a comment with his/her URL, is leaving more information than you think. This wordpress plugin displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can add them as friends if you are in the same social network. You will be able to know the profiles of your visitors in social networks like flickr, twitter, facebook,….
6. SocialBoaster – fun little script that’ll aggregate your Digg, Twitter and Del.icio.us activity and post it to your WordPress blog. It uses the WordPress cron system and can be configured to search for updates by the hour or on a daily basis. SocialBoaster works by grabbing the contents of your Twitter Tweets, and Digg/Del.icio.us bookmarks and creating posts for them on your blog. SocialBoaster is designed to be unobstrusive. As such, each post SocialBoaster makes will be given a metadata value in order to make SocialBoaster posts easily distinguishable from regular blog posts.
7. DandyID Services – DandyID is a free service that enables you to connect, manage, and share all of your online identities from a single location. With approximately 330 social networks supported, the DandyID Services plugin is one of the most extensive available.
8. TweetMe is a simple WordPress Plugin that posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post. You decide what actually gets posted to your Twitter feed. The link to the post is shortened to around 18 characters using the bit.ly service.
9. Twittertools – A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.

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1. Mailpress- is the the most powerful newsletter system available for WordPress, it will manage the users.  Simply put form on your frontpage and user can register through it, you can also mass import older mailing lists.  After you make your custom template for your mail, just send directly to the list through WordPress.
2. Cforms – what ever form you need you can make with Cforms. Create the form and get simple code that you can put on any template, page or post.
3. WP-commerce – e-commerce plug-in for you site.  Sell your NGO – Non-profit merchandise via your website.  Easy way to manage the store front, sell digital downloads. Get paid by PayPal.
4. Search-Everything – Offers to use the search tool, not only to search posts but also pages, tags, categories etz.  Very useful for sites that use WordPress as CMS.
5. Google sitemap xml – this plug-in helps Google to find your site, it pings also Bing and yahoo (if you have account).
6. Event Calendar – Event Calendar plugin for WordPress.Use WordPress to manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar. You can subscribe to the calendar from iCal or Sunbird.
7. pageMash – Manage your multitude of pages with pageMash’s slick drag-and-drop style, ajax interface. Allows quick sorting, hiding and organising of parenting.  Very good plugin to manage your pages and reconstruct with a very easy drag and drop.
8. List Subpages – Very simple plug-in, that can easily show subpages anywhere on a page.  Shows only pages that are under (children) of that page.
9. Page Links To – Page Links To is a plugin that allows you to make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of its WordPress page or post URL. It also will redirect people who go to the old (or “normal”) URL to the new one.
10. PageNavi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.  In stead of next one it puts list of number of pages below and makes browsing much easier.

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