If you own a WordPress blog, the power of plugins on your website is something you must be well aware of. With a plugin for almost every purpose, they can be your savior! If you are designing a new blog or redesigning an old one, using a copy of the old database or an amended database, with a new theme you may face complications like much slower speed. Don’t worry. WordPress has just the plugin to ensure your blog runs smoothly.

WORDPRESS THROTTLE helps recover the poor performance a migrated blog shows on going live, by deactivating non-essential plugins when server load is high, ensuring that your site and the server stay online. You can enable your throttle option by going to the Throttle admin page under Settings, while leaving the plugin activated. It even works out default values for you to apply to your blog.

Popular blogs that get more visitors might present speed issues when pages are opened. W3 TOTAL CACHE helps manages the caching of regularly used information on your website such as banner images, backgrounds, etc. With this plugin, your posts and pages can run up to five times faster. Either you have an old blog or you are up for making a new one, W3 total cache is something you must have installed.

But remember you ought to test any plugin first before installing it. It’s essential that you first check it out properly. Check the WordPress plugin compatibility with your version of WordPress here wordpress.org/extend/plugins. Always take a backup of your database before installing any new plugin as well. Or you can also run the new plugin on a test copy of your blog first to make sure it is compatible and non-problematic. You can download both of these plugins from wordpress.org or search from them in Plugins section of your blog.

You can make possible additional protection to your blog through an SMS-enabled two-step login process, obtain new notifications and respond through text message, get new post notifications, and put out a post of 160 characters or fewer. you can upgrade this service for merely $20 per annum.

Only users in USA can benefit from this feature for the time being though the WordPress.com group are working to develop the service to make it accessible to other countries. Standart text meaasaging and data charges are applicable.

The new WordPress 3 is incorporated with the new and sexy free WordPress theme known as “TwentyTen”. The new free WordPress theme comes with more user friendly environment and TwentyTen wordpress theme allows the users to easily select and change custom backgrounds, headers, menus, link, post types and taxonomies.  Through latest wordpress release, it allows the users with single installation to easily host multiple wordpress blogs and websites.  WP 3 makes the wordpress blog interface much lighter even it is embedded with number of wordpress plugins.  WordPress also comes with integrated WordPress plugins, WordPress themes, and WordPress templates and lots other WordPress feature. With these all things, it makes the WordPress to be like Movable blogging platform. WP3 supports shortlinks for microblogging, custom administrator and usernames and lots of other more.

The latest WordPress 3.0 already been deployed to the hosted wordpress.com blogs.  Reason behind for updating the wordpress to the self hosting wordpress to check and see the reaction of updating the wordpress release. It is recommended to make database and other files backup and also see the wordpress plugins compatibility before updating the version. Apparently, majority of WordPress users haven’t faced any issue expect users that are using custom code will be more careful at the time of upgrade wordpress.

When you install wordpress photo gallery plug-in for your WordPress blog then you can get the benefits from the various options at hand in it. Like you can easily and create manage tremendous and attractive Photo galleries Flash.  If you want to customize your photographs according to your choice then it becomes possible through WordPress image gallery flash. The customization of images and photographs is achievable by providing the specification of titles, size, width, colors and many more things. With the help of built-in- media uploader of wordpress in the Photo gallery you may upload and add the numerous photos in your gallery.

User is better able not only to customize the photographs but also gallery swf’s width and height by usage of shortcode. Moreover, addition of multiple photo galleries in the WordPress blog page is made by the user through the Photo gallery flash. Once, you post the photos and images into your Photo gallery of WordPress then it will make the blog very attractive for the visitors, they will visit frequently in your WordPress blog thereby improve and increase your financial position.

WordPress E-commerce Plug-in is effective online shopping cart plug-in that is helpful in the trading and promotion of different products and services of your company. Now you can add the photograph, images and helpful video guide which are giving the online presentation of your digital and tangible products and service facilities and are also disseminating the complete information about the Potential value of your offering for the customers. The exclusive WP e-commerce plug –in is released under GPL for the development and growth of e-commerce activities.

WP e-commerce is an outstanding interface of online shopping cart the effective use of which will generate optimum profit for your company. The shopping cart interface attracts potential customers and consumers towards your online shop; the tremendous promotion and advertising of company’ products and services are only viable through it. Company is capable to get the online payments of its products and services without any difficulty since there is feasible integration of WordPress shopping cart with the PayPal , DPS / Paystation and 2Checkouts, Manual/custom payments ,Credit card (POS),Moneybookers and bank wire.

However, WordPress does not give a free hand to its users in placing Ads or to integrating the WordPress blog directly with Google Adsense. Many people are not comfortable with it and seek to find out a way for placing ads and earning something out of money. It is certain that most of the people wish to earn from their blogs, which is not a bad idea since every second blogger is doing the same and earning dollars. But why WordPress has deprived its blogger from this facility and why the blogger of this platform cannot directly integrate blogs with Adsense code; the matter of Adsense on WordPress is always a question.

For those who really want to earn money online from Adsense there are few short-cuts of placing the adsense code on the WordPress and these short-cuts are known as Adsense Plug-ins. Everyone can get an easy access to these WordPress plug-ins being their massive availability both on the market and internet.

Adsense Delux is the most popular plug in these days, which may fulfill your needs of integrating your WordPress with the codes of Google Adsense.

Here are some simple and step by step instructions for inserting the Adsense code by mean of Adsense Delux. It works wonderfully when you wish to see a blended effect of Google ads with your lengthy blog posts.

To start-off you need to copy the original file of adsense deluxe into wp-content/plugins. After this step you must open up wp-contents out of file manager (check your hosting account to look our for file manager, you will find it there) and go straight to the plugin folder of your account and place the /wp-content/plugins/ (yes in the same directory where you have copied the file of Adsense Delux). The next step is to activate the plugin, for this go to your wp-admin (WordPress admin), log in it and get on to admin panel> click plugin folder> you will be able to see your Adsense Delux there, just click it and activate it from the folder.

The next step is creating Adsense block, just go to the options and click setting tab of Adsense Delux. Now create your Adsense block by pasting your Adsense code into it and add this Adsense Block.

Lastly, you need to place this block in the post by pressing code button from the options, it is must to switch off the visual mode before to place the Adsense block. Try to place the block at an appropriate place of the post. As a result, ads will start appearing on the post, when you click the publish tab after having done with writing post and placing Adsense block.

There are also plug-ins of the technical sort which will allow you to develop your blog or help make it more popular.

When I first started using computers, the first time I encountered plug-ins was in Windows Media Player. Regardless of what program or application they are for, the purpose of plug-ins is the same: to extend the capabilities of that software, this might be done by providing additional options, assimilating more data, etc.

WordPress plug-ins have the same function too and can be used to say block spam comments or perhaps show your latest tweet. There are over six thousand plug-ins for WordPress on the WordPress site at the moment and they have a variety of uses.

Amongst the most popular WordPress plug-ins are plug-ins that allow you to create blogs, to manage comments made on your blog, display statistics of your blog on the front page, etc.

Other popular plug-ins are also available which help to improve your site’s popularity. This can be done with WordPress plug-ins that help you simplify the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) process or plug-ins that allow you to share your blog posts on social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, etc or on bookmarking sites such as Delicious or social news websites such as Digg or Reddit or even plug-ins that make sitemaps for your blog automatically.

You can find the latest and most popular WordPress plug-ins here.