Here is a selection of 25 useful plugins for your WordPress that covers different areas, from performance of the website to SEO and social media:
Enhancing content

Scribe SEO – instructs web writers how to tweak their content to get more search engine traffic, all while maintaining quality reader-focused copy
iflickr – allows to easily download Flickr photos that are licensed under Creative Commons to the local server for attaching to posts
Photo Dropper – lets you add Creative Commons licensed Photos to Your Posts from Flickr
WordPress Video Plugin – allows easy video embedding …

When you finally find a free WordPress theme for your project, you might discover that it’s got loads of spammy links in the footer, and they seem to be encrypted. If you simply try to edit the footer file and delete them you’ll see that theme it’s not working anymore…
But, thanks to the guys from GetNetted, there is a magic trick to remove that encrypted links. And you don’t have to be a senior programmer in order to complete this task in less than 3 minutes. So, you can find …

Wordpress is becoming more & more flexible every day, no longer is it just a blogging platform. Now, by simply activating a plugin, you can transform your blog into a fully functional eCommerce store, ready to sell your products. Here is the list of best Wordpress eCommerce plugins, both free and paid:
1. WP-eCommerce (free) – the most popular eCommerce plugin, has been downloaded over 300,000 times so far. There’s a free version & a gold version, both also working with WP-MU. Main features:

We are pleased to announce that WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. WordPress has won this Award for the first time in the past four years, earning itself a place in the Hall of Fame category for the Award next year.
Wordpress is finally being recognized for its evolution from a blogging application to a full fledged Web content management system. Packt also declared MODx and SilverStripe tied for the first runner up position in this award.
Also, Wordpress was named …