We all have our go-to plugins when launching WordPress … you know, the ones that make your life immensely easier – and your blog easier to use.
For me (in random order) they are:
- Akismet
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Genesis Simple Edits & Hooks
- All in One SEO Pack
- Contact Form 7
- Digg Digg
- Easy Twitter Button
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
And then, of course, it depends on the blog as to what other plugins I install. Maybe Lightbox Gallery, or eShop, or Collapsible Archive.
There are other obscure plugins that I have yet to use but look interesting. Ones like WP-Invoice or the Ebay Sale Lister.
It seems lately, if I need something for my website, it’s only a plugin away! We have the top 10 downloaded plugins, but we want to hear from you. What are your favorite WordPress plugins? What should we be installing today?
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Some of the basics that I love that go in almost every client install for us are:
- All In One SEO Pack
- Scribe SEO
- WordPress Editorial Calendar
- TweetMeme Retweet Button
- Sexy Bookmarks
- Like
- WP Greet Box
Wordbooker – awesome tool for syncing posts to FB profiles and pages, as well as syncing comments.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Tweet Old Post – automatically Tweets old posts, definitely see traffic bumps on old posts when this happens
Keyword Density Checker
Twitter Tools
The big two that have impressed me lately are:
WP Customer Reviews (a microformats plugin for user-submtited Business and Product reviews)
W3 Total Cache (by far the best caching plugin ever)
Wordbooker – awesome tool for syncing posts to FB profiles and pages, as well as syncing comments.