Recommended WordPress Plugins for your Blog or Website

These are standard plugins I recommend for the start of your blog or website. This is a comprehensive list that will be updated regularly as I find new plugins that will be useful tools for your site.

All In One SEO Pack

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Google Analytics

This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic click-out and download tracking to your WordPress blog.

Exclude Pages

Provides a check box on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.

My Page Order

My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface.

Sociable

Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.

Twitter Tools

Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter.

Backup WordPress

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.