Top 10 List of Most Used Wordpress Plugins

I thought it might be interesting to discuss the Top Ten types of Plugins used with wordpress and perhaps even cover some of the best of those types of plugins.

S0, what are the Most essential Types of plugins that most wordpress users should be using when developing a wordpress based website.

Before you answer, lets say that we want a type of plugin first then suggestions of the best plugins that do the best job, Free is best, but we can also discuss premium as long as there is a lite or free version too.

I am interested in types of wordpress plugins that exist that save the "average" user time and effort without sacrificing page load times or interfering with other plugins, I think that is important, when your looking at different plugins.

Since we are talking about plugins that we consider essential, the first type of plugin that comes to mind is one that you need to have if you want to get in the good graces of Google and that is to have a site-map that automatically updates itself daily, there are a lot of sitemap plugins and for the most part it is really more about how often you update your website then using Google tools,)

So over the next few days lets have a discussion about which plugins (free plugins) are the best plugins for most wordpress users.

So lets add to this list and see if we can come up with a TOP Ten list of types of plugins.

1. Sitemap
Google Sitemap
DagonDesign Sitemap (looks cool)

2. SEO
WordPress SEO Plugin - Yoast
All in one SEO pack,
(currently reported as broken with version 3.1 but listed in the case of the brave warrior)

SEO Friendly Images (bc we're all guilty of not filling out the alt tags)

SEO Slugs (bc we forget that some words don't help your SEO)


3. Social networking

SocioFluid


Twitter:
Twitter Blackbird Pie | Themergency

4. Utility
W3 Total Cache WordPress › W3 Total Cache « WordPress Plugins

WP Security Scan

Permalink Redirection
redirect

Urban Giraffe

Related posts utilities, (very useful for SEO)
YARPP

5. Backend:
Lester Chan's WP-DBManager PHP « Programming « Portfolio | lesterchan.net

Delete Post Revisions, This is huge, you might really be surprised at how much is being stored in your database.

6. Editors
WP Super edit, This is an editor upgrade, it is a little complex to install but once you get it up and running you will appreciate the power if can deliver to your editing needs.

7. Ping Agent
CBNet Ping Optimizer

8. W3total cache.


9. Back up solutions
S3 Backups using Amazon S3 to back up your wordpress blog


10. MyPage Order (this is a really interesting plugin drag and drop your pages into order)

WP-Navi


List is subject to change without notice,