We use a lot of wordpress here at Run Level Media so I thought I’d compile a list of the basic wordpress plugins we often use out of the box. Please feel free to share your favorite set of plugins as well.
- All in One SEO Pack: Optimizes your WordPress blog for search engines.
- Google XML Sitemaps: Notifies search engines of updates to your site.
- NextGEN Gallery: Easy to use image gallery with a Flash slideshow option.
- WordPress.com Stats: Provides detailed visitor statistics, optimized for blogging.
- WP Super Cache: Accelerates your blog by serving 99% of your visitors via static HTML files.
- Contact Form 7: Provide contact forms with spam filtering, CAPTCHA, and Ajax submit.
- Sociable: Promote your content by adding links to social sharing and bookmarking sites.
- Viper’s Video Quicktags: easily embed videos from all the major web video sites.
- Simple Tags: automatically adds tags and related posts to your content.
- WP-DB-Backup: easily backup your core WordPress tables.
- Google Analytics for WordPress: track visitors, AdSense clicks, outgoing links, and search queries.
- WP-Polls: Adds an easily customizable AJAX poll system to your blog.
- podPress: Adds features to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.
- WP-PageNavi: Adds more advanced paging navigation.
- Ozh admin dropdown menu: Creates a drop down menu with all admin links.
- MaxBlogPress ping optimizer: Prevents blog from being tagged as a ping spammer.
Cheers,
Josh
