WP Plugins - your top picks?

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Hi there.

As I mentioned in another thread, I am new to WordPress, but quite impressed with it.

Now comes your part:

What WordPress-plugins are the best? Which are useful? Which ones are an absolute 'must have'?

Looking forward to your picks.

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[MisterX]

I'm new to Wordpress too, but here are my top 3 so far:

1. Adhesive - lets you make sticky posts
http://www.redalt.com/downloads/
2. Bunny Tags - ad tags to posts (some prefer Ultimate Tag Warrior, I couldn't get it to work)
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/BunnysTechnoratiTags
3. PostViews & PostRatings - let visitors rate entries & see most viewed
http://www.lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php

 

[Fraser]

Here are a few that I use ( I seem to be using too many to add them all!)

Generate a google sitemap
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

Let users subscribe to email updates
http://www.semiologic.com/software/subscribe-me/

Audio Player for podcasts
http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/

 

[joe]

Ultimate Tag Warrior kicks ass.
http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/

Other good ones are the SEO plugin, Related Posts, AdSenseDeluxe, Popular Posts, and Akismet

 

[Xynix]

Sociable - automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
http://push.cx/

Semiologic CMS - [SIZE=-1]a set of plugins and themes for WordPress that work together to turn a WordPress blog into more of a content management system.
http://www.semiologic.com/software/sem-theme/
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