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Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. WordPress.org Plugins Directory has some 8,830 plugins and 81,433,552 downloads, and counting. That’s really great.
I have some WordPress plugins that I use on this blog to make it user friendly, SEO friendly, and much more. I am going to share with you my 18 favorite WordPress Plugins. This may seem like a large list but all I have to say is, the more the merrier. 
- All In One SEO – This SEO plugin will help your blog to rank better in search engines. (Downloads: Over 4,716,659)
- CommentLuv – Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments. CommentLuv Website(Downloads: Over 155,373)
- Feed2tweet – Automatically tweet post as they are published to my twitter account (Downloads: Over 3,305)
- Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog. (Downloads: Over 848,135)
- Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. (Downloads: Over 3,290,571)
- LinkWithin – Displays recommended stories and associated thumbnails from your blog. (Downloads: Over 5,542)
- Popular Posts – Displays a highly configurable list of the most popular posts. (Downloads: Over 48,352)
- SexyBookmarks – SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. (Downloads: Over 208,530)
- Top Commentators Widget – Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin. (Downloads: 42,998)
- TweetMeme Retweet Button – Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts. (Downloads: Over 224,221)
- Twitterlink Comments – Plugin to show a link to follow the comment author on twitter if they have entered in their username at least once in the comment form. (Downloads: 3,733)
- WordPress.com Stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. (Downloads: 1,440,151)
- WordPress Automatic Upgrade – WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps. (Downloads: Over 370,743)
- WP-PageNavi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. (Downloads: Over 627,792)
- WP Greet Box – Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins. (Downloads: Over 129,620)
- WP Super Cache – Very fast caching plugin for WordPress. (Downloads: Over 1,117,307)
- WPtouch iPhone Theme – A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones. (Downloads: Over 631,981)
- Xhanch – My Twitter – Twitter plugin for wordpress that displays your latest tweets. (Downloads 3,334)
Well if you liked my list of plugins, I have made it even easier for you. I have zipped all of these plugins mentioned above so you can download them.
Click HERE to download the plugins package (Size: 4.8 MB)
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March 23, 2010 at 11:55 pm
hey
i must say your favorite wordpress plugins are too good and many of them are also my favorite like LinkWithin and All In One SEO.
thanks for sharing:)
March 24, 2010 at 9:12 am
Thanks very much @MikeMiller
Those are my favourite plugins. Without them my blog skeleton wouldn’t be able to stand up
March 25, 2010 at 4:47 am
Cool plugins, i have some, others i don’t. But fixed social button is my newest plug in now, it’s pretty cool
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March 25, 2010 at 7:40 am
Thanks for your reply @MrsMoody. What are the plugins that you use?
March 25, 2010 at 3:44 pm
All in one SEO, CommentLuv Google analytics, Google XML sitemaps, Wp-supercache, and many more
Good night lovely people, going to zzzzz its 21.44 in Germany
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March 25, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Ok MrsMoody. Thanks and good night
Hey, I found your blog in a new directory of blogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, anyway cool blog, I bookmarked you.
April 5, 2010 at 4:56 am
Thanks Jose Baters
April 6, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Hi Shane,
I appreciate that you posted this. I was inspired by today’s post at sketchsite101.com and have been looking for other people’s opinions on the best plugins.
Have a good day!
April 6, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Thanks very much Andy for your comment, I really appreciate it.
I use some of your most popular plugins for myself and clients. I do have a food blog but also build WP sites for other bloggers and the first one I include is the Ozh Drop Down Menu. It revises your menu to a horizontal menu with drop down sub menu items; so much easier to navigate. I also use Ozh Better Feed; allows me to determine where to truncate my posts for a partial feed.
Last, but not least, I use List Category Post for all my food blogging sites. Allows a short code to be inserted on a page that will then list posts from that category; perfect to list recipes from a variety of categories on food blogging sites but certainly useful for similar needs for other purposes too.
April 15, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Thanks for reading Barbara and thanks for the kind comment.
April 19, 2010 at 5:50 pm
HI,
Thank you for this blog post, great info. But I’ve a question for you, I have a blog that is hosted on Wordpress, can I put any of these widgets on there?
Please email me with an answer, earonsky@gmail.com
thanks
Eugene
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April 19, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Hey Eugene. I am not sure but I think you can use them. To be sure check the dos and don’t of the wordpress.com Why not go to self hosted?
April 23, 2010 at 6:42 pm
HI,
Thank you for your response. I checked and it does appear that in order to use any Wordpress plugin, the blog has to be hosted on your server…
As far as the reason that I want my blog to remain hosted on Wordpress, wordpress hosted blogs are easier to market as far as SEO and get more juice from Google. WP blogs get crawled faster and rank higher in Google results from my experience.
If you have any research on this I’d love to read it!
Eugene
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April 24, 2010 at 10:56 am
Eugene,
You’re correct; the free blogs available at wordpress.com do not allow plugins as multiple users could possibly be affected by a conflict if someone installed a bad plugin.
The suggestion was to go to a ‘self-hosted’ version of WordPress. This is sort of confusing terminology but means you would find a hosting provider, preferably one who offers an easy setup for wordpress, and pay a monthly hosting fee for your site.
If you think the benefits of WP on the free version are good for Google, the self hosted variety is head and shoulders above it. You can import your current WP site into the hosted version using an import tool in admin…and then start installed plugins of your choosing.
I do resell for a hosting provider, but primarily to get clients onboard with a company that has a quick and easy setup. Check out http://www.bluehost.com/track/kineticwebs – inexpensive, great Customer Service and very simple setup; login to the Control Panel, click the WP icon and in minutes your site is setup.
I advise either setting up with a different domain name or have their CS help you revise it to an IP address; then you can have it running while setting up and not have it be your live site until you transfer your posts from the free version.
I’m doing this for clients and the increase in their traffic shows that there is almost as big a difference in moving from free to hosted WP as there is in moving from Blogger to WP.
Hope that helps!
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April 24, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Ok So I guess it would be best if you host it yourself
June 13, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Great list Kharim.
One question though… What plugin are you using to do the author bio box at the end of your post (where it says your name and description along with “Kharim has written 51 awesome articles”)? I’ve searched on the WP site but can’t seem to find that plugin.
Cheers,
Bruce
June 13, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Thanks for the comment Bruce… The author box is not a plugin. Check the 2 links below on how to add it to your blog
How to Add an About Author Box in the Post Footer in Wordpress
How to Add an About Author Box in Thesis 1.6
I love all these WP-plugins as well. A few of them I hadn’t heard of, so thanks very much. I would like to add broken link checker. It is a free plug in that will e-mail you every day (or you can use it after each post as a tool) to fix all your broken links. What I love about it, is that you can fix them right from the plug in dashboard and not have to visit the individual posts/pages for fixing.
Thanks again,
Nanci
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September 1, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Thanks for the comment. I will install that plugin right away
Great list for those who wonder what pugins can add and help build up their blogs. I use these also and they are almost must haves now. Great job of puttin them together in a a zip file for that one time upload.
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September 1, 2010 at 4:03 pm
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for the comment
September 4, 2010 at 8:31 am
some of are my favorite too, great list. Good share.
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November 9, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Hi, Kharim. This was a very informative post. I just migrated to self hosted WP a few weeks ago and I am currently using a lot of the plug ins that you described. I’m learning as I go along. I found your blog through the #blogchat thread on Twitter and I will continue to pass by and check out your posts. The question is, why aren’t you following me back on Twitter yet? Wink, wink. Looking forward to your tweets and to learning more from your posts.
Maria
November 10, 2010 at 1:09 am
Thanks for the comment Maria
Glad to see that you have started your blog and it seems that you are enjoying it already. Nice that you are using most of the plugins mentioned here
Now following you on Twitter 
Nice article Kharim.
Most people these days seem to use other systems like WordPress.
WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platform available on the internet today.
Many smart marketers have used WordPress to promote their business and products online.
It’s extremely flexible and powerful.
Other benefits of using WordPress to create your business website is that you don’t need to know a single html code.
In fact, as long as you know how to use Microsoft Word processor such as MS Word, you would be able to use WordPress.
January 8, 2011 at 10:24 am
Thanks for the comment Carla. I love Wordpress because its its the best and very easy to use.
March 2, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Great collection of plugins!
The only thing that made me wonder a little bit was not finding a DB/WP backing up plugin.
Maybe there are several for the job that work well?
Thanks for the article and the file though, it will sure come in handy!
~Sergio
March 7, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I used some of them for my blog
thanks man
March 26, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Great post Kharim, its good to know all this before starting out.
May 28, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Thanks for sharing – I love to see what others are using to spiff up their blogs and make them more powerful. It’s a learning experience!
June 10, 2011 at 12:48 am
Hello Kharim,
I have most of those plugins but not the wp super cache. I am going to have to check that out because my site is very slow and I know google looks at load speed. Can you tell me what plugin you use for a back up solution? I used to use WP backup and it would email me weekly backups. Ever since I upgraded to WP 3.0 the email function no longer works and the backup seems to time out now before it finishes.
It used to work smoothly in the background and now I think I just need to find a better solution. Any suggestions? Thanks
Also I see you just got the new version of commentluv, I am going to head over to register on your site. I am about to download the new version myself. How are you liking it?
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SEO By Yoast is Better Then – All in One seo
It gives you more options , Suggestions etc
October 17, 2011 at 6:21 pm
yeah that is true. I didn’t know about it then but i am using it now.
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July 13, 2011 at 8:58 am
it is ver nice list .. i used 10 plugin in this list ..
i will give try rest of plugin
thanx for this post
October 17, 2011 at 6:27 pm
alright cool
Thanks for the comment and sorry for late reply
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July 30, 2011 at 11:04 am
Very usefull list of wordpress plugins thanks for sharing!
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October 17, 2011 at 6:26 pm
you’re welcome
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Many wordpress plug-ins are existing right now and these are commonly use by famous bloggers who experience traffic to their sites. This plug-ins are all so good and it helps more.
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October 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Yep, plugins help to make blogging easier and improve your blog as well. Thanks for the comment
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You are right. The more the merrier, there are so many plug-ins ever exists. I love all the wordpress plug-ins, all are very worthy. Thanks for providing this information, this is truly helps.
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October 17, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Don’t use too much. They can slow down your blog and then you will lose your traffic.
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October 12, 2011 at 6:56 pm
LOL. Kharim, I spent an hour last night searching for a plugin I wanted for my blog. I’m searching “popular posters,” and variations of that. “Top posters.”
Top CommenTATOR. Got it. So thankful. Great list.
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October 17, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Your’e welcome
Useful plugins, thanks for sharing, Kharim!
February 17, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Your’e welcome Max.
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Nothing beats the WordPress plugins all are truly useful and effcetive. Commentluv is the best because it allows you to view tour recent visited post. This is great thanks for the post.
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December 12, 2011 at 8:44 am
Yep. Especially the premium version of commentluv. Its totally awesome
You hit a home run with this list Kharim. I use most of the plugins you mentioned, and people new to WordPress could use this recommendation as a startup guide.
I have found that Headspace2 incorporates a few of these, and is billed as the successor to “all in one seo pack”.
Do you guys use this as well?
-Joe
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February 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Thanks for the comment Joe. I use the SEO by YOAST.
I forgot to mention, I have one plugin that I use absolutely everywhere to help manage my linkjuice, and I thought I would share it.
It is called “meta robots”, and it allows you to turn assign the tags and/or categories “noindex” value so that you can control the landing page from the search engines.
-Joe
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February 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm
I use the Thesis theme and SEO plugin by YOAST which allows me to do so
April 30, 2012 at 2:32 am
I prefer nrelates plugin over Linkwithin as it will give lots of option to customize.
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May 16, 2012 at 10:32 am
I don’t know why people still use All In One SEO when they have this amazing plugin known as Yoast.
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