Best WP plugins you use & like

[fish]

It'd be great to hear from you wp lovers what your favourite plugins are.
I've only just started using Wp so can't really comment myself except that;

Google XML Sitemaps with qTranslate Support is a must
Contact Form 7 does what it says on the tin
Easy AdSense is a breeze to use with nice options
StatPress Reloaded is an alternative to goog analytics ( and can be used on front end to show visits etc)

Cheers

Fish

 

[davedevelopment]

All in One SEO Pack - Absolute must for me
WP Super Cache - Makes things a little quicker and more scalable

 

[golddiggerguy]

Add Sig - Great for adding code in big batches but only a few characters long.
Limit Login Attempts - Just a nice safe guard for persistant attackers
WordPress Database Backup - Just in case, can be set twice daily.
Search Unleashed - Got mine set to Indexed Wordpress and searches everywhere. Good for in site search boxes.
MapPress Easy Google Maps - Easy to add in Google maps with tons of features.
Adminimize and Flutter - For client admin areas, you control and rename what your client can see and use from WP admin - Customise the menu to look as user freindly as possible.

Can't think why I have never used StatPress Reloaded mentioned above. nice quick stats.

 

[Vialli]

Meta Robots & Redirection for SEO based on the following Article which I go through everytime I do a new WP Install.

WordPress SEO - Search Engine Optimization for your Blog

 

[fresh79]

All in one SEO +
CSV importer, for affiliate data feeds! = 1000's of products in 2 mins! with my special affiliate theme!
PHP exec, for <php?> in widgets and posts

 

[dashu1]

csv importer definitely a good idea, smart links, plus many of the others above.

I've now started playing around with the code so that you can have a different sidebar on every page - that's really handy - and different category pages for each category.

 

[fresh79]

and different category pages for each category.

There is a plugin for this, I thinks its called ACE, advanced category excluder, as well as excluding, include as per specifications

 

[dashu1]

You can do the category thing by just creating a file for each category & calling it category-1, category-2, etc to match the categories actual number.

Wordpress searches for that first before moving on to the archive etc files.

 

[DarrenTSO]

Sociable and WP Super Cache are both very good. WP Super Cache cuts down considerably on any server load generated, especially if you have a busy blog with lots of other plug-ins. Instead of generating PHP for every single visitor on your site perhaps many times a second, WP Super Cache will serve static content generated from the PHP based upon a certain time interval or based upon certain cache invalidation conditions.

So for example, you can ask it to only regenerate the cache every 5 minutes, which means that your web server is doing a fraction of the PHP processes and MySQL database queries that it otherwise would be doing. This is very good if you have limited resources (e.g. a small VPS with limited RAM).

 

[digitalquill]

Second the All in one SEO plugin but something a little different I like Search Meter

Search Meter: a WordPress plugin Semicolon

it records what users are searching for on your blog

 

[flamingphoenix]

SEO friendly images is one that I use alongside most of the mentioned above.

 

[fish]

Thanks all for taking the time to share your favourites, keep 'em coming.
There's some cool one's I'll be using in the future
Fish

 

[peacock]

Here's my most used plugins ...

Wordpress plugins for affiliate websites : Travel Affiliate

Context - mostly travel sites, where SEO is my priority.

 

[mally]

Anyone use any that creates a twitter post from your blog post (automatically)

 

[Skinner]

I use a few twitter ones, alot of them don't work with your cron tho, so if you create posts in advance it dumps them directly into twitter, so you end up with 10 posts into twitter in one go.

Rather than being dumped at their scheduled time.

I tried one that created blog posts from twitter posts but such short posts just made my blog look messy.

 

[fish]

Search Meter

Recently found this one that is really useful:

Search Meter

It shows the how many & the most popular searches on your blog , the text that was searched for and, shows the results of a search & if it found it or not.

 

[mally]

Has any used or know of a wordpress plugin for links, so basically a person can submit their site for inclusion for your site (reciprocal)?

 

[fresh79]

Has any used or know of a wordpress plugin for links, so basically a person can submit their site for inclusion for your site (reciprocal)?

I vaguely remember something like this, is google not turning anything up?

 

[steww]

Has any used or know of a wordpress plugin for links, so basically a person can submit their site for inclusion for your site (reciprocal)?

WP-Backlinks is seems a good one, easy to set up.