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Wordpress is the most common blogging and CMS platform used throughout the internet.

This a comprehensive list of plugins which I generally use while setting up my clients websites.

1. Akismet
It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep.
Signup for API Key - Click here​

2. Jetpack
Supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users.
Plugin Page​

3. Google XML Sitemaps
The only good plugin which is light and efficient for generating sitemaps.
Plugin Page​

4. Google Analyticator
If you track your site stats using Google Analytics then this plugin is a must. The good trait about this plugin is that it provides you a quick stats update on your dashboard so you don't have to login in Google Analytics to check your daily visitor count and page views.
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Plugin Page​

5. SEO Friendly Images
It doesn't harm in getting users from Google Image Search, so have your images be SEO'd
Plugin Page​

6. Disqus Comment System
If you are having trouble with a lot of spam comments being passed through Akismet then let this plugin take care of your discussion system.
Plugin Page​

7. Lazy Load
This plugin is God-like for saving up bandwidth for self-hosted images. It will restrict the loading of all the post images on a page unless the user scrolls to that viewport area.
Plugin Page​

8. Platinum SEO
I personally feel that all other SEO plugins are useless or too much complex. This plugin I've been using from past 3 years and its perfect. You just need to configure it once and done.
Plugin Page​

9. Wordpress Related Posts
It is a very powerful plugin which will help your visitors stay longer on your website. The most fascinating feature about this plugin is that it provides you a detailed statistics about the efficiency of the related posts and how much clicks you get through them. And all this you can get on your admin dashboard.
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Plugin Page​

10. WP-CMS Post Control
Wordpress has got inbuilt auto-save and revision features which fills your database with unnecessary post revisions. So install this plugin and save up your database space.
Plugin Page​

11. WP-PostViews
This plugin goes by its name. It tracks down the visits of every particular page and post. It has also got a widget which will display the most visited posts in sidebar.
Plugin Page​

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Automating Wordpress Backups
12. Online Backup for WordPress
I use this plugin for backing up my database. I wouldn't recommend it for backing up files since free users have only 100MB of space. Just configure it you will never have loss of your database.
Register a free account | Plugin Page​

13. Wordpress Backup to Dropbox
This plugin can be used for backing up the files. Since you get around 2-5GB free space on Dropbox so use it for storing the wordpress files. It copies the files in a separate folder in your dropbox account. Configure the settings and automate the process. I set it to weekly backups.
Plugin Page​
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14. BBCode
As the name goes, it just lets you use BBCodes in Wordpress Posts.
Plugin Page​

These are the must have wordpress plugins.
 
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@SLiMRiDER,
I know that Platinum SEO plugin is not being updated from the past 2 years but it works. Infact Yoast's SEO Plugin is too much. I switched back from Yoast SEO Plugin to Platinum SEO Plugin on all my sites and regained the search engine traffic in few months.
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I'll be updating the thread with Wordpress Security Plugins soon.
 
BlaZe said:
@SLiMRiDER,
I know that Platinum SEO plugin is not being updated from the past 2 years but it works. Infact Yoast's SEO Plugin is too much. I switched back from Yoast SEO Plugin to Platinum SEO Plugin on all my sites and regained the search engine traffic in few months.
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I'll be updating the thread with Wordpress Security Plugins soon.
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yoast plugin takes time,but its good
 
No not that. I don't know why but here are the results.

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I had Yoast SEO Plugin for the month of December to January 23 or 24. After that I disabled it and installed Platinum SEO and see the traffic boost.
 
I think it's worth taking a look at why your traffic dropped. That way you might be able to find out why Yoast SEO deceased your traffic. Did traffic for certain keywords drop?
 
What about a WordPress eCommerce plugin that allows members to create accounts and store their billing & shipping information for future use?
 
I'm using SEO Ultimate and its pretty good. What I liked about is the 404 Monitor :D I fix the 404 errors (on autoblogs). Thanks SLiM !

@To0,
I'm not into ecommerce so I haven't used any of the ecommerce plugins. If you have used them personally then tell me your experience and I'll add them up on the main thread.
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14. BBCode
As the name goes, it just lets you use BBCodes in Wordpress Posts.
 
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