Google XML Sitemap Generator - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ - Builds XML sitemap for your blog and auto submits itself to Google and other engines IndexSpy - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indexspy/ - Uses XML sitemap to discover what items are indexed with Google and what items are not indexed. Smart404 - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-404/ - Redirects calls to non existant pages to a similar page or else the homepage
Tweet Meme - http://wordp ress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/ - Easily allows your blog post or page to be retweeted. It provides a live count of how many times your post/page has been retweeted throughout Twitter. Daily Top 10 Posts - http://wordp ress.org/extend/plugins/daily-top-10-posts/ - Tracks the number of pageviews per blog post for the current day and cumulatively with options to display sidebar widgets for both. Yet Another Related Post Plugin - http://wordp ress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/ - Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. Just remove the blanks, sorry for that, but my user category is not allowed to post live links.
For me, these are 5 must-have plugins: - Akismet: for spam preventing - Yet Another Related Post Plugin: display related posts - AIO SEO Pack: for SEO - W3 Total Cache: for caching - Google XML Sitemap Generator: for creating sitemap
This is My Complete Collection of Wordpress Plug-ins Wordpress Media Flickr hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...-media-flickr/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpmedflick.png You can post with flickr photo, on visual editor toolbar. It's very interactive interface than other plugins. Page Flip Image Gallery hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...image-gallery/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/pflip.jpg FlippingBook Wordpress Gallery plugin - image gallery with page flip effect. IMDb link transformer hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...k-transformer/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/imdb.png IMDb link transformer aims to ease the movies information search process, for both writer and reader. All movies names which are tagged between < !--imdb-->nameMovie< !--/imdb--> are automatically turned into an url. This url can open a new window (a popup) containing many useful data related to the movie itself. IMDb link transformer transforms all the words you tagged into links to an informative windows. It means one can view the filmmaker, the casting or the goofs that IMDb website includes with one click; it can show either the director or the movie related data (biography, filmography, miscellaneous related to the director; casting, goofs, AKA titles, crew and many others related to the movie). nCode Image Resizer hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...image-resizer/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpresizer.jpg This plugin enables you to automatically resize every user-posted image which is larger than given dimensions. Get Recent Comments hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...cent-comments/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpreccom.jpg This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar. You have comprehensive control about their appearance. This ranges from the number of comments, the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. You can let the plugin order the comments by the corresponding post, or simply order them by date. The plugin can (optionally) separate the trackbacks/pingbacks from the comments. It can ignore comments to certain categories, and it offers support for gravatars. It only gives extra work to the database, when actually a new comment arrived. You can filter out unwanted pingbacks, which originate from your own blog. And it is a widget. WP-prettyPhoto hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-prettyphoto/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/prettyphoto.png prettyPhoto is a jQuery based lightbox clone by St?phane Caron. Not only does it support images, it also add support for videos, flash, YouTube, iFrame. It's a full blown media modal box. WP-prettyPhoto embeds these functionalities in WordPress. The Attached Image hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-attached-image/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/attached.jpg The Attached Image is a simple plugin that packs quite a punch. It shows the first image attached to the current post. It was inspired by a plugin wrote by Kaf Oseo pixelstats hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pixelstats/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/pixelstats.png Count every viewer and every article view for each blog entry, no matter how and where it is read: pixelstats tracks views of each blog post or page, not only on a single article page but also on each other page where the complete article is shown, i.e. the blog front page, category pages, search result page, archive pages and even RSS feeds. Platinum SEO Pack hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/platinum-seo-pack/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/platseopack.png Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). OnlyWire for WordPress hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...-share-button/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/onlywire.png OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web's top social networking sites with a single button click. Used by thousands of bloggers and publishers, OnlyWire simplifies the process of submitting your content to over 30 social networking sites at once -- including Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter and many others. Zemanta hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zemanta/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/zemanta.png Zemanta recommends content while you write your post. It helps you enhance it with images, videos, links, and SEO optimized tags. PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...toblog-plugin/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/photoq.png PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. PhotoQ is a plugin for photo enthusiasts: If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality. PhotoQ places uploaded photos in a queue which gives you a convenient way to manage photos to be posted. The plugin then gives you the possibility to have the top of the queue automatically posted at a given interval. PhotoQ was designed to automate and simplify your photo posting process as much as possible. It takes away the hassle of browsing uploaded image files and embedding them into posts: You simply upload your photo to the queue and enter desired information about the photo. PhotoQ then automatically generates the post based on this information. Max Image Size Control hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...-size-control/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpmaxsize.png NextGEN Gallery hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/nextgengall.jpg NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. AskApache Google 404 hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...he-google-404/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/askap.png AskApache Google 404 is a sweet and simple plugin that takes over the handling of any HTTP Errors that your blog has from time to time. The most common type of error is when a page cannot be found, due to a bad link, mistyped URL, etc.. So this plugin uses some AJAX code, Google Search API'S, and a few tricks to display a very helpful and Search-Engine Optimized Error Page. The default displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site. It also searches for part of the requested filename that was not found, but it attaches your domain to the search for SEO and greater results. Give a Beer hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/give-a-beer/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpbeer.jpg Widget that will enable visitors to give you/the site a virtual beer by clicking on the widget. Auto Post Images (API) hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...st-images-api/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/autopostim.png Automatically adds images to posts without having to edit the post. To insert images into posts you no longer have to insert them one by one using the editor. All you have to do is name them appropriately and upload them to a folder & the plugin will automatically insert them into the corresponding post. AnyFont hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/anyfont/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpanyfont.png AnyFont allows you to use any truetype or opentype font for post titles, menu items or anywhere else you want to use a custom font in your theme design. Category and Page Icons hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...ry-page-icons/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/catpagesicons.png Using this plugin, you can add icons (images) to sidebar of your site or blog into section of categories and pages. Twitter Avatar hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-avatar/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/twitava.png Allows a User to enter their Twitter username when posting a comment on your blog and a link to their Twitter page will appear next to their comment. This plugin will also replace the avatar on the comment with their picture on Twitter, both on the front-end and the Admin of the Blog. WP Security Scan hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpsecscan.png Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. EG-Series hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eg-series/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpegser.png The EG-Series plugin gives a set of easy and ergonomic functions to manage series of posts. This plugin allows to include posts into series, to create, delete or rename series. It also includes widgets and shortcodes to display list of series, or the list of posts belonging to the series of the current post. Contact Me Widget hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-me-widget/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wpcontactme.png Add a contact me button to your blog or website. This widget allows your visitors to automatically stay in touch and communicate with you thru email, phone, address, instant message, social networking sites like facebook, linkedin, Myspace, etc. and more. Related Websites hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-websites/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wprelweb.png The Blog Traffic Exchange is a cutting edge cloud based service that is founded on the solid SEO principles that are already behind the architecture of many existing blog related posts plugins. Sidenotes hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidenotes/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/sidenotes.jpg This plugin provides the possibility to simply add short side notes to your Wordpress blog, showing the date of publication, a title and a description. In addition the plugin provides a link to the site the side notes refers to. Simply activate it and add new side notes within the "Tools" admin panel. Quick Adsense hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-adsense/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/qadsense.png Quick Adsense is an Ads management Wordpress plugin. It offers a quicker & flexible way to insert Adsense or any Ads code into a blog post. Besides, it can randomly place the Ads anywhere within a post. It comes with a simple setting page, and it does not overwhelm you with complicated customizable options. LJ Longtail SEO hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lj-longtail-seo/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/wplongtail.png LJ Longtail SEO is a tool that detects search engine visits and uses this information to display a list of links based on second page search results. Post Google Map hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-google-map/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/pgmaps.png This plugin allows you to add multiple addresses to a post/page and have those addresses automatically plotted on a Google Map in a sidebar widget or directly in the post/page. This is a great plugin to help localize your stories, events, news, etc. Hovering over a plot will display the title of the post, address, and also a thumbnail from the post if any images exist. Easily add and delete a single or multiple addresses to each post/page. Viewing a single post/page displays only addresses attached to that post/page, viewing anything else will show the most recent plots across your entire site. You can also set a custom title and description for each address saved. If no title or description is entered the post title and excerpt will be used. GD Simple Widgets hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-simple-widgets/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/gdsimple.png This plugin contains powerful widgets with simple options to set. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions. KNR Author List Widget hxxp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/knr-author-list-widget/ hxxp://www.ajaxline.com/files/knr.gif The KNR Author List Widget plugin, by Nitin Reddy Katkam, displays a list of authors, and editors on the blog as an ordered list, unordered list, or a dropdown list. You can use the ordered list to display a list of 'top authors' on the blog.
I can not live without using these plugins: - all in one seo - google sitemap - wp page number - contact form - wp super cache - related posts - Get related comments - Breadcrumbs - Addthis - Akismet - Google Analytics
Akismet Google Site Map Generator All In One SEO Plugin Google Analytics Tweet MeMe There are many more but the above listed are most important.
Wow a great list of plugins! Thanks guys for sharing! I'm more on the back end plugin. One Click Plugin Updater is great! Installing a plugin is just copying the URL of the plugin/theme zip file and pasting into wordpress and click install. Simple! Google Analytics for Wordpress by Yoast for you to put in your google analytics tracking code. s2Member for membership/subscription implementation into your website. There are 4 levels of membership available and is highly integrated with Paypal. Contact Form 7 for you to create contact form or any type of submission forms Revision Control for you to contain the amount of post/page revisions being saved by Wordpress esp for WP2.9 and later. In this way, you will need not be worried of your database being over-populated with post revisions Myself is trying to find exit pop-up plugins that is free. Hope to find one and add into this list
For my clients, I recommend: Headspace 2 - meta tag control for SEO Blubrry Powerpress - if you're wanting to podcast WP Backup - automate backups of your WP database Contact Form 7 - setup a custom contact form on your site Google Site-Map Generator - creates the sitemap for Google to easily index your site Exclude Pages - keep some pages out of your site navigation WP-SpamFree - alternative to akismet WP Security Scan - protect your WP installation Tweetmeme - allow others to tweet your posts Commentluv - encourages others to comment on your site DAP - WP membership plugin Sexy Bookmarks - makes it easy for others to submit your posts to social networking sites FD Feedburner - allows you to manage and track your RSS feed Go Codes - affiliate URL redirection Maintenance Mode -- love this for when I'm wanting to make some changes to the site, but don't want everyone to see Naturally, this is not a complete list, but these are the basics we recommend.
Hello, Useful plugins in wordpress are: Word press Cache Word press eCommerce Secure and Accessible Contact Form
All the classics and musthaves have already been mentioned, and a few ones I wasn't aware of which checking out now. Just discovered the lovely Sexy Bookmarks and have replaced it on a couple of sites for the sociable plugin.