WordPress plugins are the most important part of any WordPress blog. There are tons of plugin available today and developers are still working on new ones everyday. Now you must be thinking, Since there are thosands of plugins available, which ones should you choose?” I have done a research on these plugins and during the past several weeks, i have had tried tons of them in my blogs. I finally came up with a sweet list; i am posting it here so you can take advantage of it too . Choosing the right WordPress plugins out of millions is a tough thing and i am trying to make it easier for you. So here it is: My top 29 Favorite WordPress Plugins; a must have for every blog. I believe that your blog is totally incomplete without them:

 

1. All-in-One SEO Pack

The All-in-One SEO Pack is the ultimate SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plugin out there. It automatically optimizes your blog for search engines, and has several options for the more advanced users.

2. Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not, and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s Comments admin screen. With the ever increasing amount of spam on the web, you’d be dumb not to get this plugin.

3. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. When you edit your page or posts, the sitemaps is automatically updated! It makes your work a lot easier

4. Sociable

Social is great; its one of the most popular bookmarking plugin. It automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. There are around 99 various bookmarking sites and you can choose any of them!

5. WordPress.com Stats

WordPress.com Stats is a traffic statistics plugin that shows only the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track – such as page views, referrers, top posts & pages, search engine terms, and clicks. It is an essential plugin and a must have.

6. Add to Any: Subscribe Button

Helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Netvibes, Windows Live, and all other RSS readers.

7. LJ Custom Menu Links

LJ Custom Menu Links is a plugin that allows you to put extra links in the menus of most WordPress Themes. It is unique in the way that it doesn’t require any code changes to your theme as the extra links are added within WordPress core functionality. I simply love it

8. WordPress Automatic Online Backup

You can prevent loss of data using a automated backup of your blog database. You create a free account on wpb, connect your blog with the wbp via a key. Your data will be backed up every few hours in a sql-export format, compatible with phpMyAdmin or any other software that lets you run sql queries on MySQL servers. I love this plugin.

 9. Digg Digg

Integrate “Digg”,”Reddit”,”dZone”,”Yahoo Buzz”,”TweetMeme(twitter)”, “fbshare(facebook)” and “Polladium” Into WordPress Content

 10. Executable PHP widget

The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets. Really good and makes php much easier!

11. Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin lets you insert the Google Analytics code automatically throughout your blog. It automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads.

12. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) inserts a list of related posts below each post on your blog, and in your blog’s RSS feed. It’s extremely configurable, and a must-have.

13. WP-FacebookConnect

WP-FacebookConnect adds Facebook functionality to WordPress using the Facebook Connect APIs.

14. Subscribe To Comments

Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!

15. Top Commentators Widget

The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site

16. Video Widget

Add more than 25 types of video in your sidebar. Only video Id is required (no HTML code to paste).

17. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

18. Awsom News Announcement

This plugin allows you to post news announcements in the area above your posts (or anywhere else you want) and edit it using the Visual Editor or code editor, all from the WordPress admin area.

19. Comment Relish

Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘Thank You’ message to users when they first comment on your site

20. DISQUS Comment System

Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

21. WP Super Cache

WordPress has a tendency of becoming slower when you make your themes more complex, and when you add a lot of plugins. This plugin allows me to still have both and keep my readers happy. A Must have

22. MobilePress

MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes.

23. WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam

An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam.

24. Subscribe-Remind

With the Subscribe-Remind plugin, some text will automatically be placed at the end of each of your posts inviting your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

25. Popularity Contest

Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.

26. Get Recent Comments

This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar. You have comprehensive control about their appearance.

27. ShareThis

The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.

28. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

WordPress blog pings unnecessarily every time you edit a post which is a great hassle. Think how many times you click on “Save and Continue Editing” or “Save” button. Your blog will ping unnecessarily that many times you click on those buttons. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer makes the work easier.

29. FlickRss

Widget that display your latest Flickr photos in your sidebar.