WordPress Plugins I Use

  Akismet
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  Antispam Bee
» Sergej Müller (url)
Antispam Bee – The easy and effective Antispam Plugin for WordPress. With Trackback and Pingback spam protection.

  Comment Redirect
» Joost de Valk (url)
Redirect commenters who just made their first comment to a page of your choice.

  Fancy Excerpt
» Denis de Bernardy (url)
Enhances WordPress’ default excerpt generator by generating sentence aware excerpts.

  FeedBurner FeedSmith
» FeedBurner (url)
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

  Feed Styler
» Ronalfy (a.k.a. Ronald Huereca) (url)
Creates inline styles for feeds.

  Get Recent Comments
» Krischan Jodies (url)
Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.

  Google XML Sitemaps
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page

  HTML in Category Descriptions
» Arno Esterhuizen (url)
Allows you to add HTML code in category descriptions

  Insights
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Insights allows you to quickly search and insert information (links, images, videos, maps, news..) into your blog posts.

  NextGEN Gallery
» Alex Rabe (url)
A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.

  Plugin Central
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Automatically installs WordPress plugins by name and URL. Provides automatic update of multiple plugins.

  Post-Plugin Library
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.

  Post to Twitter
» Nauro Rezende Jr (url)
A very simple integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Send your blog posts to Twitter in a simple way. Configure your settings here.

  SEO Booster Lite
» myWordPress.com (url)
Dynamic SEO. Use Search Engine traffic to dynamically optimize your blog!

  SEO Friendly Images
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

  SEO Smart Links
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

  SEO Super Comments
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Use your blog comments to get more traffic.

  Short Comment Filter
» Will Anderson (url)
Automatically Spams or Deletes comments that don’t meet a specified length requirement.

  Similar Posts
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of related posts. Similarity can be based on any combination of word usage in the content, title, or tags. Don’t be disturbed if it takes a few moments to complete the installation — the plugin is indexing your posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

  Simple:Press Forum
» Andy Staines & Steve Klasen (url)
Fully featured but simple page-based forum

  Smart Youtube
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Insert YouTube videos in posts, comments and RSS feeds with ease and full customization.

  Snazzy Archives
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates completely unique archive pages.

  Subscribe To Comments
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

  Theme Test Drive
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.

  TweetMeme Retweet Button
» TweetMeme (url)
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

  W3 Total Cache
» Frederick Townes (url)
Dramatically improve the user experience of your blog. Add transparent page caching, database caching, minify and content delivery network (CDN) functionality and more to WordPress.

  WP-DBManager
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

  WP-PluginsUsed
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-PostViews
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts.

  WP-RelativeDate
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’.

  WP-Syntax
» Ryan McGeary (url)
Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. Wrap code blocks with <pre lang="LANGUAGE" line="1"> and </pre> where LANGUAGE is a geshi supported language syntax. The line attribute is optional.