The Top 20 Wordpress Plugins
It’s the start of the new year, I thought I would compile a list of the top 20 recommended Wordpress Plugins that you should have on your Wordpress blog that I personally use them on this blog.
1. Atomic Blogging 3.0 Social Submitter
I love to submit bookmarks to Social sites, so I created this plugin called Atomic Blogging 3.0 plugin that will help you to submit your blog post to many social bookmarking sites when ever you post your content on your blog. Helps a lot in bringing traffic to your blog 
2. Akismet
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. This plugins helps to get rid of all the spam comments on your Wordpress blog.
This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
Automatically translates a blog in 34 different languages (English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian,…) by wrapping four different online translation engines (Google Translation Engine, Babelfish Translation Engine, FreeTranslations.com, Promt). Give it a shot by clicking on the flags below:
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AMP plays mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, avi, asf and wmv hypertext links directly on your webpage. Adds buttons to the post editor for embedding swf movies including Google Video etc.
This gives you threaded comments and a “wandering” comment form
7. cforms
cforms offers convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. The form submission utilizes AJAX, however, falls back to a standard method in case AJAX/Javascript is not supported. Click here to check out how the forms looks like on my blog
Tracks the number of pageviews per blog post for the current day and cumulatively with options to display sidebar widgets for both. Features dashboard widgets too
This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts.
10. HeadSpace2
Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many other goodies
11. MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate
Automatically convert keywords on your blog into money making affiliate links. Also manage, track, cloak and shorten unlimited number of affiliate links from one central location of Maxblogpress Ninja Affiliate.
12. MyAvatars
This plugin allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to Wordpress comments.
Give your blog a voice! Add a “Listen Now” button to your blog so your readers can listen to your posts and download podcasts.
Displays featured posts by randomly selecting a post from a designated category.
15. Recent Posts
Displays a list of the most recent posts.
16. Related Posts
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches
Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
18. Tell-a-friend Widget Plugin
Tell-a-friend Widget Plugin for Wordpress By socialtwist.
19. WassUp
Wordpress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics.
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors
Got A Plugin That I Missed Out?
Got a great plugin that you use on your blog but it’s not found in this list? Please post your comments below with the plugin name and url to get the plugin and give a brief explaination of what the plugin does.
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Yes i need these plugin to power up my wordpress, thanks for reference.
Thanks for the helpful Wordpress plugins list Alvin. I also like to use All in One SEO Pack Wordpress plugin. Cheers…
I should email my girlfriend about this.
i’m enjoy this post!
anyway…can you use paypall for affiliate payment please?
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One of my favorite plugins is RSS Power Plus Pro because it automatically submits RSS Feeds to up to 20 RSS Aggregators with every post. I’m seeing an average of 15 of 20 being successful each time. Since this plugin allows multiple profiles for aggregator accounts where registration is required, my visible footprint is reduced.
http://www.rss-power-plus.com/
Jerry
A free version is available but it only submits to 5 aggregators and only 1 profile is allowed so I went the paid route.
Yep, great list, use most of these in my autoblogs, you could also add caffeinated content or wp-youtube if you are lazy like me
Nice list… Some plugins already used by me but some is not yet. So, maybe I’ll use it after reading this post. Thanks for reviewing such plugins
I like this Max Banner plugin from maxblogpress, so i can manage and rotate banner in posting area.
The plugin link here:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mba/
Hi Alvin,
thanks for all listed plugin, some are a great use for my blog !
Good list! I use CommentLuv that shows the commenter’s last blog entry in his/her blog.
Hi alvin,
I have a plugin that kinda useful. It is call sociable. It has 9o plus web 2.0 social site that you can choose from. It can be include in each every post. It got sites like digg, technorati, facebook, etc.
i think you should add on this plugin which I think it is very useful to me.
Here’s the url:
http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable/
Can be downloaded at wordpress plugin website too.
Hope you like it.
Twitter is becoming more and more popular. I’m find that people are doing searches for Twitter plugins on my blog quite often.
http://twitthis.com/
http://www.tweetmyblog.com/?rid=5625
are hot Twitter plugins
Alvin Phang i know this is out of your related article. Past few days, i was trying to setup wordpress 2.7. But i do not know how could you make me an article about my topic plz. I search all over google search engine and doesn’t get anything but useless junk of articles i really look forward if you can manage your time to update for me the Articles about setting up wordpress 2.7. My blog is at your top commentator muhd faiz plz help me
Hi Alvin,
I use a couple other plugins that I think are badd *ss…
Intense Debate (which is like Brian’s threaded comments I believe…but on steroids- Check out my blog comments and hover on my avatar to see)
Comment Luv -this gives the page more avenues of “escape” but I think helps the blog community be more social.
Hi Alvin,
I actually use several not listed. But of the couple that I am thinking do alot is comment luv (although it gives more avenues of “escape” on your blog, it does make for a more social blog) and intensedebate (which looks to be like Brian’s threaded comments…but on steroids..just check it out in action over at my blog).
Well, can I tell you about the plugin I created?
It’s called Blog Stats, and is excellent for an advertising page on your site. The plugin makes available a number of statistics about your blog, including pagerank, alexa rank, technorati rank and feedburner RSS count. You can then use those numbers on your posts and pages via shortcodes, for example: [pagerank] would display your current pagerank.
Each day, those stats are updated so you never have outdated information.
I’m now working on version 2 (doing some bug fixes) and adding new metrics (compete, quantcast, twitter follower count, etc)
URL: http://www.improvingtheweb.com/wordpress-plugins/blog-stats/
Nice simple and cool plugin
Got a plugin you use on your blog not listed here? post the name, description & url of where the plugin can be found below