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Favorite Plugins–Yours, Mine, and Everyone’s

Mitch Canter

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OK – so I’ve tallied up the results from Tuesday and came up with some really interesting results.  So, I’m going to do something a little fun.  Here are your favorite plugins as determined by the comments, my favorite plugins, and the top 5 plugins from the WordPress repository; let’s see how they match up (plugins aren’t in any order – just the top 5).

Voter’s Choice

  1. NextGEN Gallery
  2. Akismet
  3. WordPress DB Backup
  4. All In One SEO Pack
  5. Google XML Sitemaps

Mitch’s Favorites

  1. All In One SEO Pack
  2. Kieran O’Shea’s Calendar
  3. W3 Total Cache
  4. Widget Logic
  5. WP-Cufón

Top 5 WordPress Plugins from the Repository

FYI, these are the top 5 listed plugins from the “popular” tab under the installer.

  1. Akismet
  2. All In One SEO Pack
  3. NextGEN Gallery
  4. Contact Form 7
  5. Fast Secure Contact Form
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