Useful and popular WordPress plugins:

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