WordPress would never have become the success it has without its great plugins. Every decent wordpress blog should add this list of plugins. and most of the plugins listed are used on this blog. All of the plugins listed below contain over 200,000 downloads.
At the top of the list with over 1.6 million downloads is the ultiamte SEO WordPress plugin. This plugin has been tried and test over the years and is certainly worth downloading.
- All in One SEO Pack – Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization) – Downloads 1,603,368
- Google XML Sitemaps – Create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog – Downloads 954,459
- NextGEN Gallery – A full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option – Downloads 715,819
- WordPress.com Stats – You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system – Downloads 712,71
- WP Super Cache – A very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files – Downloads 492,637
- Contact Form 7 – Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible – Downloads 393,916
- WordPress Automatic upgrade – Allows a user to automatically upgrade the WordPress installation to the latest one – Downloads 288,600
- Sociable – Automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites to your posts, pages and RSS feed - Downloads 284,117
- Viper’s Video Quicktags – Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more – Downloads 254,807
- Simple Tags – The successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is THE perfect tool to perfectly manage your WP tags – Downloads 254,353
- WP-DB-Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database – Downloads 250,795
- Google Analytics for WordPress – Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics – Downloads 239,837
- Google Analyticator – Same as the one above, enables Google Analytics tracking - Downloads 229,970
- Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button – Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious and over 100 more – Downloads 226,056
- WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post / page – Downloads 222,196
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