I have been using Wordpress for about 3 months and I am grateful to Matt Mullenweg for making blogging a pain-free experience. FYI, Matt is the founding developer of this popular open-source blogging software.

While Matt deserves all the credits, let’s not forget those who spend countless hours working on Wordpress plugins. Thanks guys!

Among the 1270 plugins out there, here are my top 10 must-haves Wordpress Plugins:

1. Akismet
Let’s face it… no one likes SPAM and Akismet did what everyone is hoping for - get rid of it. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. So far, Akismet caught 30 spam comments on my blog.

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Popularity: 36% [?]

The popular blog platform, Wordpress has scheduled to release version 2.4 on January 24th, 2008. One of the new features I am looking forward to is Widget-based dashboard. I am not sure what it will do but it sounds interesting. Probably running some widgets from your admin panel that will enhance your blogging experience?

Other New User Features mentioned in Wordpress.org are :-

• Admin panel redesign
• You should be able to have any number of any widget
• Undo for comment editing
• Search for both posts and pages

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Popularity: 19% [?]