most common plugins required for wordpress

Hello,

what are the most common plugins required for wordpress blog. I have installed spam karma 2, mathematical calculation for stop spam and bots.

are there any plugins available which help you sort common problems and provide ease of work.

What plugins are commonly used for word press blog?

 

Have a look at these plugins from Greywolf.

 

I use:
Google Sitemaps plugin (my most important one)
Spam Karma 2

 

I wouldn't say the Google Sitemaps plugin is the most important one - I have my doubts that sitemaps helps anyone at all except maybe Google - I never saw any benefits from Google Sitemaps.

I also use the standard Akismet spam blocker. It works very well for me.

Other plug-ins I like:

Category Order
Simple Tags
WordPress Database Backup
Related Posts
AdSense Deluxe

 

Using the sitemaps plugin has drastically increased the frequency with which Google crawls my site and picks up new posts

 

This is off-topic for this thread but I tried Google sitemaps for 3 or 4 months and honestly I never saw anything different in terms of spidering or anything else. Eventually, I just deleted them.

 

Try Peter's Anti Spam Plugin, it is a very simple captcha plugin for wordpress. I blogged about it - http://www.fatinfo.com/blog/2006/blog-comment-spam/ - and so far no spam in the moderation box at all.

And you can download the plugin directly from - http://www.theblog.ca/?p=21

 

I've never seen any need to go beyond Akismet. It has stopped everything so far.

 

Sorry for being offtopic again but i have to agree here, i tried Sitemaps for a month and never saw any change by it

 

i use sitemaps and my posts are indexed within 24hrs.
my PR is 0 now and slated for PR4 at next update.

by the way, i am trying to figure out the email notification when someone posts a follow up to your blog comment.

any idea which one it is?

also i hv a heck of a difficult time getting 'related posts' plugin to work.

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for those doing adsense, i think 'adsense beautifier' helps you get better CTRs for yr adsense ads.

 

Utter crap. You have no way of knowing that.

 

are pagerank predicting sites not reliable?

 

No. Consider them for entertainment purposes only, like horoscopes.

 

darn

well, I guess that's one bookmark I can delete!

 

http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

 

I like Akismet but it doesn't stop everything for me, it seems to be letting an awful lot of porn spam through recently or maybe you don't call that spam

 

I would call that spam if it got through. For me, it doesn't.

 

I use www-redirect, so that all incoming links without the "www" of the URL go to the URL with "www". e.g. mysite.com redirects to www.mysite.com

 

Shortstat is a good plugin. It shows you total page views, uniques, referers etc. My fav plugin is transload.

 

Just installed shortstat myself. Very nice!

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/wp-shortstat