I know there are some old threads that exist that have people asking "What Plugins should I use?" but I want this thread to be more like "I cannot live without this plugin!" I would say that one of the most important is Akismet for spam.
The only one I always have installed is the google sitemap one that makes the sitemap and pings google each time to spider the site. Not sure if it really helps that much, but I figure its worth the 10 seconds it takes to install.
My fav. and one of the best is "Akismet" which is almost found default in all wordpress installtion, only thing you will need is a api from wordpress.com Link: http://photomatt.net/ Next time you people post your all time fav. plugin, kindly link so we can check it out ourself and add to our blogs Cheers, Dreamchaser
http://blog.psychlinks.ca I have several but these are the ones I most appreciate: Akismet http://akismet.com/ Category Order http://www.coppit.org/code/ Simple Tags http://www.broobles.com/scripts/simpletags/ Subscribe Me (modified) http://www.semiologic.com/software/subscribe-me/ WordPress Database Backup http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/
The only plugins I absolutely couldn't live without on my blogare Post Teaser and Simple Tags. They rule
For webmaster or publisher of Adsense, i would recommend Adsense-Deluxe, by Acmetech. Adsense-Deluxe : http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/ Easy to use and configure.
Well i always use the crawlpage maker plugin and useronline plugin for my blogs. Crawlpage is benefcial for better crawling by spiders. User online is for fun. I love to watch those stats.
Akismet (already heavily endorsed in this thread) IG Syntax Highlighter (if you're posting programming snippets) Universal Tag Warrier - I don't utilise it for the technorati bits, but it creates a great tags cloud (all that extra internal navigation ) And my own amazon plugin sorry, but it's not robust enough for release.
Allow's you to easily tag your posts by putting them, seperated by comments, in [tag ] and [/ tag] brackets, like BB code. Then you combine that with Wordpress's auto-ping feature and BOOM! Er, rather, instant Tag & Ping.
Related entries is one of my favourites - http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2006/02/02/wordpress-related-entries-20/
Essential plugins: Akismet, Related Posts, SEO Title Tag (custom), Ajax Comment Preview (custom) and 301 Redirect (custom).
Get Random Page - very flexible and scalable plugin http:// www. aviransplace.com/files/get-random-page.zip
seems like its very good link for me or newbies.... everyone keep it up and thanks for sharing these plugins.