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Another month, another line-up of  fantastic plugins all tested by cosmos blog so you don’t have to! Some plugins are the same as previous months, and this is because they can’t be bettered and so must remain. I would recommend that you try these plugins for yourselves but do emphasise that you read all documentation and that I take no responsibility for any problems caused by the installation or use of these plugins.

1. Dynamic Content Gallery

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This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for your latest and featured posts. By linking your gallery images with individual posts, using custom fields, the plugin dynamically creates the gallery from your latest and featured posts. If there are none assigned then you can set default links. An Admin Settings page enables you to select which categories and posts are linked to the gallery images.

2. The Excerpt Reloaded

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A great little plugin that displays an excerpt of a post on your home page which can be customised to vary the length and content to suit.

3. WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam

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I have always been a fan of Akismet and in the past it has graced my Top 10 for quite a few months. I have noticed of late that just too much spam is getting through Akismet, no matter how much I tell Akismet it’s spam, it doesnt seem to learn like it should. So I decided to try out another plugin and I am glad I did. This fully featured anti-spam plugin not only stops comment spam, trackback spam and pingback spam but it also includes its own spam-free contact form. Update: 3 months of use and this plugin is working perfectly. A must-have plugin.

4. Ad-Minister

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Ad-minister is a plugin that adds a easy to use WordPress management system for adverts and other static content. It supports ad-rotation (with content having different page-view percentages), schedueling (including multiple time periods) and is fully widget compatible.

5. Plugin Manager

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Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin. Doesn’t do anything you couldnt’ do yourself manually but it is a great timesaver.

6. LJ Custom Menu Links

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LJ Custom Menu Links is a plugin that allows you to put extra links in the menus of most Wordpress Themes. The really great thing about this is that it doesn’t require any code changes to your theme because the extra links are added within Wordpress core functionality. Ideal if you were going to hack your Wordpress theme to add custom links or if you just want certain navigation items or links to appear when a user is logged in. This plugin does all this and more.

7. Easy Adsenser

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Easy AdSenser manages all aspects of Google AdSense for a blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box.

8、 Post Google Map

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Fantastic plugin (although I haven’t personally found a use for it yet!) that allows you to enter addresses into a custom field on a blog post and have it display in a Google map in your sidebar. In addition to this, the addresses are listed below the map with a description/or exerpt from the post it is from.

9. Random Pages Widget

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Allows you to place a useful widget in your sidebar that shows random posts from your blog. Useful if you have a lot of old content that is still relevant but won’t now show on your homepage.

10. Vipers Video Quicktags

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Use lots of embedded video on your blog from the likes of Vimeo or Youtube? Well, this useful plugin makes your life easier by simplifying the process adding buttons to the write page which when clicked allow you to enter the URL of the video you want added. You can also specify size and colours etc. An added bonus to this plugin is that it allows your site posts to remain XHTML valid, which they certainly wouldn’t be if you used the supplied embed code.