These are the best wordpress plugins for Google Adsense.

Easy Adsense – It  provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. Having lot of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

Adsense Inline – This inserts adsense ads in blog posts.

Adsense Deluxe – It is easy-to-use plugin for WordPress for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. It can switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.

All in One Adsense and YPN – All in One Adsense and YPN is a Free and Open Source WordPress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 post or 100,000 posts, it will insert your ad code into all of them automatically.

Adsense Injection – It inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code.

AdRotator WordPress Plugin – This plugin rotates adsense ads with other affiliate programsas needed.

Adsense Beautifier -  This make your Adsense look beautiful in order to increase you Adsense earnings. Images adjacent to ads can help increase click through rate (CTR).

Advanced AdSense WordPress Plugin – A simple plugin to help make your Google AdSense Ads display better, more relevant ads.

MightyAdsense - It will allow you to host the code in wordpress without having to modify the templates. Google ads is displayed in post item and you can specify how many block its going to show up in a page. Ads preview tool included in control panel.

Google Ad Wrap – Section Targeting – Section Targeting is a way of embedding special tags inside HTML to give Google’s also a better idea of what’s important on your page. This is a really simple plugin that wraps posts and comments inside these tags, in the hope that they’ll lead to better search rankings

Facebook is one of the most successful social networking site after Myspace. The receipe f or it’s success is some nice concepts which sets it apart from other social networking site. But well that is for another post to discuss on.

So if you are a wordpress blogger you can’t igmore the power of Facebook to promote your blog, these are some of the best worpress plugins for to integrate facebook in wordpress blog.

# Facebook Connect : This plug-in makes it easy to bring Facebook to your blog. This plug-in is used in TechCrunch btw.

# Add to FaceBook : This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed. While the plugin is activated a link will appear after the content of the post with the text “Share on Facebook” or the Facebook icon or both.

# Facebook Photos :  Show your Facebook photos right on your blog easily.

# Facebook Dashboard Widget : This plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed, your posted items feeds and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard.

# Facebook Posted Items : Facebook Posted Items plugin allows you to display posted items from Facebook on your blogs. The fetched post items are in unordered list and you can style them easily.

# Wordbook : Wordbook allows wordpress users to publish blog updates to their Facebook’s profile mini-feed. To use this plugin, you need to link your WordPress blog with your Facebook account.

# Gigya Socialize : It allows you to authenticate users through Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and AOL.  Also, you can update your social networking sites within your blog and invite your friends to visit your blog through this plugin.

# QuailPress : QuailPress allow you to add a button so that your readers can easily share your stories on their Facebook account.

# Friend Bookmarklet : Detects hCards, Facebook links, and Wink.com search results and allows the user to add the detected people to their WordPress links system.

# StatusPress : This plugin takes your Facebook status updates and places them in your WordPress blog.

# WassUp : This WordPress plugin for Facebook helps you to track your visitors in real time.

# Socialize Me!: Adds your blog posts to Facebook and other social networking sites.

WordPress is known to be the most popular blogging platforms, but it has moved far beyond to  be JUST a blogging platform to a fully customizable CMS solution. One can tweak wordpress to turn it into a fully functional website, a social networking site & even a shopping cart site.  There are quite a number of eCommerce plug-ins for WordPress, the most popular one is wp e-commerce plugin which you can get for free. Many of the themes use this as the base plugin for the shopping cart  functionality.

These are the best Shopping Cart Templates For WordPress :

Crafty  Cart - It’s a fresh flavoured retro style for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for any online shop. This is one of the best-  looks great, quite stable, & of course free.  It uses WP e-Commerce plugin for WordPress for functions.

Crafty Cart – Download it HERE

Vanilla Cart – This is also a good free clean & elegant theme for shopping cart sites. Similar to Crafty Cart it also uses WP e-Commerce plugin.

Vanilla Cart – Download it HERE

Shopper Press - It’s a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress with it’s own set of templetes. It has free as well as paid templetes.

ShopperPress  – Download it HERE

eGoods – This is also a nice option for setting shopping website, made by designers based in Germany.

eShop – Download it HERE

WordPress has a long list of plugins os displaying Most commented posts in wordpress is very easy to do with a pluin called Most Commented which displays a list of most commented posts in your sidebar.

First You need to download and activate the plugin. Then you need to place the following code in your sidebar.php or any other theme file.

<?php mdv_most_commented(); ?>

To customize the list, you can use parameters like:

<?php mdv_most_commented(10, ”, ‘<br />’, true, 30, true) ?>

Parameters You can use:
$no_posts – sets the number of posts to display
$before – text to be displayed before the link to the post
$after – text to be displayed after the link to the post
$show_pass_post – whether or not to display password protected posts
$duration – displays comments for recent number of days
$echo – whether or not to echo the output or return an array of values

That’s it, now you can use most commented posts in sidebar.

As discussed in the previous post on ” Backing Up WordPress Using phpMyAdmin” in this post I am going to discuss how to import restore the same wordpress database in phpMyAdmin, it’s infact more easy than exporting the database.

# Open phpMyAdmin from your web hosting control panel.
# Select your database using the drop down menu in the top left of the screen.

# Click on the “Import” tab in the top navigation menu.
# Now click on the “Browse” button to search for your database backup file on your computer.
# Ensure that the “SQL” option is selected then click the “GO” button.

That’s it & it’s done!

WordPress backup can be easily taken by using Import/Export feature in wordpress admin panel easily. But it does not save your blogroll. It also does not save your settings or data some of your wordpress plugins might have stored(such as certain spam plugins). In this case we can use backup database using PhpMyAdmin.

# Click on the database which you want to backup.

I have recently changed my blog theme to The Seven Five is a semi-automatic “Lifestream” WordPress theme, the theme is great & I am luving  it. I added some pages like archives page, 404 error page. I could have added a plugin for a 404 page but I like to make a own custom 404 error page, you can check my 404 page.  It is very simple & you can do to just by doing the following steps

# Create a 404.php page in your themes folder if you do not have one. It’s best to use the same styles your blog so that it looks a part of the blog.

# Add the basic Add these basic code lines in your 404 file. The beast way is to put the same Header, footer lines & and insert content as u wish.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

These are some of the tags that you can use:

Display Archive by Months:

<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>

This code will display archive by months, but it will list all months.

Display list of Categories

<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

This code will list all categories on your blog.  you can style them however using list tags or others.

Display Recent Posts

<?php get_archives(’postbypost’, ‘17?, ‘custom’, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’); ?>

This shows the most recent Posts written on your Blog.

There are other tags too which can be used but these are the most basic ones to use.

Upcoming 2.9 version of WordPress will have minor changes,addons,improvements in security, administration as most wordpress updates happen. This time  WordPress 2.9 will have the possibility to update all your Plugins, which have an update available, in one step. That makes maintenance work for the blog more simple and faster as you do not need to each plugin seperately.

I am quite a die hard fan of WordPress/Automattic & maybe a little bias over it, but well that’s what makes the WordPress community one of the most widely popular community over the web. This time they have come up with spell-checking plugin called “After the Deadline”. After The Deadline is a service that uses artificial intelligence to find writing errors and offer smart suggestions. In a nutshell, it takes your usual spell checker to the next level.”.

If you’re a WordPress.com user, well it’s automatically available to you, and if you’re a self-hosted WordPress user you can just add the plugin through your own site or download it from WordPress.org. Self-hosted users will need to pick up an API key over at www.afterthedeadline.com. You can read the full review HERE .