20+ Must Have WordPress Plugins

Everyone knows that plugin are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. There are so many WordPress plugins out there that is free and ready to use, but choosing the right WordPress plugin can be difficult. It all depends on your needs and what functionality you are looking for.

Today, I will show you 22 WordPress plugins that worth adding to your blog. Actually, the list of WordPress plugins below is my favorite plugins that i use everyday on my blog. :). And I hope this list will helps you in choosing a right plugins for your WordPress Blog.

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1. AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget

Must have social bookmarking widget to help your visitor promote your site, the button is simple and light weight. You need to register before you can use this plugin.

2. Akismet

3. Auto Post Thumbnail

This plugin will help you to generate the image thumbnail or featured Thumbnail from the first image in post.

4. Cache Images

Cache all external image from your post.

5. External Links

The external links plugin for WordPress lets you process outgoing links differently from internal links.

6. Fast Secure Contact Form

The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message.

7. FD Feedburner Plugin

This plugin will help you to redirect your main feed to feedburner (Google Feed)

8. Fluency Admin

Customize your wordpress admin theme and add drop down menu function with Fluency Admin.

9. Google XML Sitemaps

One of most downloaded wordpress plugins byArne Brachhold.

10. Insights

Insights brings a powerful new way to write your blog posts. It increases productivity and at the same time the appeal of your posts.

Search your blog for posts
Insert Flickr Images
Insert Youtube videos
Search and link to Wikipedia
Search Google
Search News
Google Blog Search
Insert a Google Map

11. Platinum SEO Pack

SEO WordPress plugins alternative for AIOSP (All in One SEO Pack).

12. PS Disable Auto Formatting

STOP removing my <p> and <br /> !!

13. Related Posts Thumbnails

Related posts thumbnails wordpress plugins by Maria Shaldybina. Easy to customize and without JavaScript.

14. SEO Friendly Images

SEO wordpress plugin for your image which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes.

15. Simple Tags

Tags and categories wordpress plugins.

16. TDO Mini Forms

Build your own community where user can submit a link and article to your site.

17. TinyMCE Advanced

This plugin will adds 16 plugins to your WordPress WYSIWYG editor.

18. W3 Total Cache

The most popular cache wordpress plugin that will increase your site up to 10x faster!!

19. Web Ninja Google Analytics

Show Google Analytics Stats to your Admin Dashboard and Posts.

20. WordPress Popular Posts

Displays the most popular posts by on your blog.

21. WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

22. YD Recent Posts with thumbnails

Display the recent posts with automatic thumbnail images.

7 comments

Great collection, expecially for SEO and SEO related plugins. There are some really interesting ones. Thanks you guy

Wow, here’s a great collection of must have wordpress plugins… 22 great plugins, liked it, just installed all these plugins to my blog…

nice collection most of these plugins change the life smooth while working with wordpress. Almost all of these plugins are used by most of the bloggers. Nice one keep up

Really nice posting!! Found some here that I think might be really useful for me that i didn’t know about like SEO friendly images and related posts thumbnails

Thanks so much for sharing – it’s greatly appreciated. With all of the plugins out there I’m always on the lookout for good ones that function well. I didn’t hop on the new CommentLuv paid version – maybe I will when I start getting some comments!