Top 30 Must See Wordpress Plugins For Your Blog

1. AdSense Manager

Control and arrange your AdSense & Referral blocks on your Wordpress blog. With Widget and inline post support, configurable colors. By Martin Fitzpatrick.

2. Akismet

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.” To show off your Akismet stats just put in your template.

3. All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel.

4. Audio player

Audio Player is a highly configurable but simple mp3 player for all your audio needs. You can customize the player’s color scheme to match your blog theme, have it automatically show track information from the encoded ID3 tags and more. Go to your Settings page to start configuring it. By Martin Laine.

5. AZIndex

A highly customizable and user friendly plugin to create one or more alphabetical indexes of selected posts in your Wordpress blog. By English Mike.

6. Embedded Video

Easy embedding of videos from various portals or local video files with corresponding link. Configure… By Stefan Heß.

7. Google Analyticator

Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the options page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging. By Ronald Heft, Jr..

8. HeadSpace2

Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many many other goodies. By John Godley.

9. NextGEN Gallery

A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0. By Alex Rabe.

10. One Click Plugin Updater

Upgrade plugins with a single click, install new plugins or themes from an URL or by uploading a file, see which plugins have update notifications enabled, control how often WordPress checks for updates, and more. By Janis Elsts.

11. Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu

Replaces admin menus with a CSS dropdown menu bar. Saves lots of clicks and page loads! For WordPress 2.7+ By Ozh.

12. Post Tabs

PostTabs allows you to easily split your post/page content into Tabs that will be shown to your visitors By Leo Germani.

13. Secure WordPress

Little basics for secure your WordPress-installation. By Frank Bültge.

14. SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. By Vladimir Prelovac.

15. Sociable

Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Go to Settings -> Sociable for setup. By Joost de Valk.

16. TagALLY-for-WP

Want to show more in your tag cloud? Want more people to know your blog? The plugin can help you to realize these ideas. If you are the first time to activate the plugin, please be sure to read the tagally-for-wp-help.html file , especially “Export posts and related tags” section in the file.

17. TubePress

Displays gorgeous YouTube galleries in your posts, pages, and/or sidebar. Please visit http://tubepress.org for more info! By Eric D. Hough.

18. Viper’s Video Quicktags

Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts. By Viper007Bond.

19. WordPress Database Backup

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started. By Austin Matzko.

20. WordPress Link Directory

A Links Directory for WordPress By Sean Bluestone.

21. Wordpress Video Plugin

A filter for WordPress that displays videos from myvideo.de, youtube, google video, Brightcove, Aniboom, 123video.nl, MyspaceTV, Yahoo! Video, Veoh, Wandeo, Glumbert, Gametrailers, Gamevideos, LiveLeak, sevenload.de, clipfish.de, break.com, Metacafe, dailymotion.com, Vimeo, videotube, blip.tv, revver, IFILM, Tu.tv, grouper, Cellfish.com, Sumo.tv, Last.fm, Vsocial, teachertube, SlideShare, Jumpcut, MSN, GoalVideoz, Guba, wat.tv, Smotri.Com..and many more. By Oliver Wunder.

22. WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

23. WP-PostViews

Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

24. WP-SpamFree

An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well. By Scott Allen, aka WebGeek.

25. wp-Table

This plugin is a simple table manager. I didn’t find anything in the web which creates the same result, for my purpose. By Alex Rabe.

26. WPtouch iPhone Theme

A plugin which reformats your site with a mobile theme when viewing with an Apple iPhone, Apple iPod touch, Google Android or Blackberry Storm touch mobile device. Set options for the theme by visiting the WPtouch Options admin panel. By Dale Mugford & Duane Storey.

27. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Returns a list of the related entries based on a unique algorithm using titles, post bodies, tags, and categories. Now with RSS feed support! By mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine).

28. flickrRSS

Allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. By Dave Kellam and Stefano Verna.

29. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold.

30. WP Security Scan

Perform security scan of WordPress installation. By Michael Torbert.