Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.
Essential for nearly every Site:
| 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. |
| WP-DBManager | Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database. |
| Quick Cache | Dramatically improves the performance & speed of your site! Also compatible with WordPress® Multisite/Networking. |
| AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Buttons | Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more. |
| Facebook Members | Facebook Members is a WordPres Social Plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. It uses Like Box. |
| Twitter Widget Pro | A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It can even display profile images for the users. Requires PHP5. |
Unique Plugins for specific Task:
| CKEditor for WordPress | Replaces the default WordPress editor with CKEditor |
| Contact Form 7 | Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. |
| Quick Cache | Dramatically improves the performance & speed of your site! |
| Theme Test Drive | Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail. |
| WordPress Theme Demo Bar | Allows any wordpress theme to be previewed without activating it. A demo bar would be shown on top of page, allow users to preview another theme. The demo bar is customisable at admin panel. More than 1 extra CSS files can be loaded too. |
| WP-Optimize | This plugin helps you to keep your database clean by removing post revisions and spams in a blaze. allows you to rename your admin name also. Additionally it allows you to run optimize command on your wordpress core tables (use with caution). |
| WP Super Settings | WP Super Settings allows you to do various generally required settings in WordPress which are otherwise not available directly. |
| WPtouch | A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for visitors on Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones. |
| NextGEN Gallery | A NextGENeration Photo Gallery for WordPress |
| JJ NextGen JQuery Slider | Allows you to pick a gallery from the 'NextGen Gallery' plugin to use as a 'JQuery Nivo Slider'. |
| iframe | Plugin shows iframe with [iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/3261363" width="100%" height="480"] shortcode. |
| Vice Versa | Convert Pages to Posts and Vice Versa |
| WP Simple Paypal Shopping cart | Simple WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin, very easy to use and great for selling products and services from your blog! |
| List category posts | List Category Posts allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using the [catlist] shortcode. This shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can use [catlist] as many times as needed with different arguments. Usage: [catlist argument1=value1 argument2=value2]. |
| WP No Category Base | Removes '/category' from your category permalinks. |
| Customizable Post Listings | Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post, page, or draft listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner. You can narrow post searches by specifying categories and/or authors, among other things. |
