Top 5 Must Have Plug Ins for WordPress

[UniqueSEOcontent]

Well there is a new plugin out for Wordpress which does a good job of encouraging 'Call for action' clicks - Site is addpopr

[ChiefLee]

I use:

AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
commentluv
Google XML Sitemaps

But now I'm excited to try some of these others!

[Graf1771]

Interesting to see the lack of social networking tools on here and how many people need to use a plugin to add Google Analytics - unless there's something I'm missing?

My five:

Akismet
Google XML sitemaps
All in one SEO
Sociable
Twitter Tools (almost all my clients have Twitter accounts now)

But I also tend to add a Digg button, Facebook share button and TweetMeme button within the code for every Post as well - maybe I should write a plugin to do that automatically?!

[inertia]

I use addthis for my social buttons. I figure the smaller code and javascript links are better from an SEO pov.

[digger]

Here's one I recently found.

SEO Slugs

It removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in' from post slugs to improve search engine optimization. So if you load several posts with a future publishing date, your title can appeal to the readers and the plugin will automatically remove the common words for better SEO.

[Szise]

Few of the Wordpress plugins I'm using:

Google XML Sitemaps
WP-DBManager
WP-PostRatings
WP-PostViews

[securedcc]

My TOP are:

All in One SEO Pack
CAPTCHA
Akismet
Google XML Sitemaps
WP Database Back-up

[mark3738]

Like most people in this thread, the first three plugins I install on all blogs are;

All in One SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemaps
WP DB-Manager (or wordpress Database Backup) depending on specific requirements

After these 3 are added, plugins tend to vary according to needs but popular ones also added can be
NextGen Gallery
Cryptx
Revision Control
My Category Order (and it's mates My Page Order)
PixoPoint Multi Level Menu

Of course there are numerous others, some good and some no longer supported that have been added, but again I find it depends on a client's requirements, but having lists here certainly helps people become comfortable with plugins that are known to work.

[warts on hands]

Wow there are so many different wordpress plugins it is amazing; I hardly knew about half of them. Thanks for the tips and I will definitely be checking out several of them.

[Michandy]

My personal favourites are WP contact form, platinum seo, google analytics, myseostatus and wp cache