15 WordPress Plugin I Recommend
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These are 15 wordpress plugins i recommend to anybody out there who would like to start a selfhosted blog with WordPress.
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”
Control and arrange your Advertising and Referral blocks on your WordPress blog. With Widget and inline post support, integration with all major ad networks.
This is a good one. You can easily put different ads on pages, archives or homepage.
Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
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.
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. Updates your sitemap each time you publish new post and update your old posts.
Hyper Cache is a cache system for WordPress to improve it’s perfomances and save resources.
Displays recommended stories and associated thumbnails from your blog. Looks better than the ordinary text links.
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors.
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.
Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.8 and 2.9 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!
Real time stats for your WordPress blog.
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin.
Vibe SEO Pack is a simple powerful and easy to use SEO tool to optimize your website for search engines without having to edit a single line of code.
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.