Thread: Wordpress plugins a website can't go without

What Wordpress plugins do you use in your websites? Are there any that you MUST install and that you can't go without?

That's pretty easy.

1. Make sure that you activate Akismet. This is the best plugin ever developed.
2. All-In-One-SEO pack

Other plugins that I find to be very useful, although I could live without them.

3. Lester Chan's wp-useronline
4. Sociable
5. wp-security-scan - to check install
6. wp-super-cache
7. google-sitemap-generator
8. wp-db-backup

Our standard plugins right now are:

• akismet
• all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn
• all-in-one-seo-pack
• flexi-pages-widget
• karailievs-sitemap
• limit-post.php
• seo-image
• sociable
• wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin
• wp-pagenavi

I really like the "related posts" plugin (there are a few that do it, actually). The ones that show a list of links to your blog posts that are related to that post.

I would also say that adding a plugin that's going to handle the canonical 301 issues (i.e., 301 redirecting domain.com to www.domain.com) is also important.

For me, the core three that I have activated are:

Akismet (duh)
All in One Adsense and YPN
All in One SEO Pack

But I am a bit of a wannabe newbie lamer, so I'll probably add some more as I get old.

My Standard Setup includes:

Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Break Out Frames
Global Translator
Google XML Sitemaps
Related Posts
Sociable

Sometimes I also use:

Simple Tags
Paged Comments
Nextgen Gallery
and a few others I don't recall atm.

Hey, this is interesting: on this blog post (see slide number 13), you can see that Matt Cutts of Google: (1) recommends Wordpress (sweet), and (2) uses these plugins:


Akismet
Cookies for Comments
Enforce www. preference
FeedBurner FeedSmith
WP Super Cache


That's gotta say something, no?

For me

Akismet Plugin
WP DB Backup Plugin
WP Contact Form Plugin
Social Bookmarking Plugin
All In One Seo Plugin

Popularity Post Plugin
Similar Post Plugin

DON.

For me:-

Most Popular Posts
WP DB Backup
Wp super cache
All In One Seo

I have stopped using akismet these days, as i removed Comments to make it look like a proper website.

I'd like to see a lot more responses to this thread, and then a wrap-up where someone counts the "votes" for each plugin.