20 Most Useful WordPress Plugins

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How to choose the right plugin from so many WordPress plugins? Here I listed 20 Most Useful ones. They all have highest rating among similar plugins and I am currently using some of them. Of course don’t get too excited and use them all. Too many plugins will slow your site down. Choose wisely. Also, add a little tip here: put a index.html in your wordpress plugin folder, because anyone can access your plugin folder with http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/plugins

SEO

All in One SEO Pack

Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
Pretty Link

Create clean, simple, trackable links on your website that forward to
other URLs and then analyze the number of clicks and unique clicks they
get per day using Pretty Link
SEO Friendly Images

automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes.
If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly
Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this
makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
Robots MetaCustomize index and follow

Speed up
WP Super CacheThis plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress
blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that
file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive
WordPress PHP scripts.

Social Network
Digg Digg Wordpress Plugin
Add Digg Reddit Dzone Yahoo Button Into Wordpress Content
Sociable

Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on
your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99
different social bookmarking sites!
Addmarx – Bookmark/Share/Email Dropdown

The Addmarx Bookmark, Share, Email, Link Dropdown
was developed as a customizable, integrated method of distributing your
content to various social bookmarking platforms.

Utility

Theme Tweaker

Theme Tweaker displays the existing colors from your current
theme, and gives you a color picker to replace them. It also lets you
change them in bulk, like invert all colors, use grey scale etc.
No selfpingKeeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
Get Recent CommentsThis plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your
WordPress Related Posts

generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed sidebar..
Breadcrumb NavXT

This plugin generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress
blog. These represent the hierarchy leading up to the current page
rather than the actual path taken to arrive at the current page.
Query Posts

The Query Posts widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show posts in any way they’d like.
Faster Image Insert

Moves built-in Media Manager down in a meta-box, right next to main editing panel, so you have full control of the manager: opens it, makes it collapse or hidden from the interface completely.
Contact Form 7

* Supports multiple contact forms.
* You can customize form and mail contents with simple markup.
* AJAX submitting with jQuery Form Plugin.
* Spam filtering with Akismet.
* Bot prevention with CAPTCHA.
Maintenance Mode

Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.
Flare Smith FeedBurner
Paginator
It Makes page navigation easier.
Thread Comments

Features
* One can reply on any exist comments.
* The discussion will be displayed nested or threaded.
* Easy to install. No hacking on Wordpress or your theme is needed.
* W3C compatible.
* Customizable HTML / PHP / CSS on admin section.
* AJAX support, enables to comment without reloading the whole page.
* Choose AJAX or not freely
* Get notification by email when reply is available.
* Can manage comment in front-end(move comment, delete comment)