Headspace 2
phpbay
wp polls
next gen gallery
google site map generator
Cforms
Caffeinated content

There are others but those are the ones I usually end up installing first because I use them constantly.

1. Generator for a sitemap that gets displayed on a page.
2. Generator for a sitemap file that gets fed to search engines, so it's not intended for human viewing (it generates an XML file in a format that was originally defined by Google, I think). This helps pagess get indexed a bunch faster than they otherwise might be (though other things that happen in Wordpress might achieve the same thing, but I like to know that I can feed Google with a list of my pages in a way that Google likes to see them).
3. A page caching plugin (I haven't actually used one yet, but as soon as my traffic numbers start getting high, I'll put one in place immediately).
4. All-in-One-SEO - allows me to do some nice SEO things, like explicitly providing a Meta description and Meta keywords for each page or post.
5. A plugin that makes it easy to build a contact page that also provides security against spamming.
6. So far I've only built used WP for sites where I don't accept comments, but when I eventually build ones that do, I'll want a plugin that can automate approval of comments as much as possible while still doing a good job of preventing SPAM comments.
7. A PHP plugin (if you don't know what PHP is, it's the programming language that WP is written in). If you can program, the plugin allows you to use PHP code inside a page or post. Of course, if you can't program in PHP, there's no point in having this one.

all in one SEO
wp opt-in
related posts
wp-tweaks
wp-sticky
exec php

Auto Social Poster
Ping Crawl
alinks
All In One SEO
Google Sitemap
Maxpress Ping Optimizer
Related posts
Socialble
Twitter Tools

Hope this helps.

Michael

I just found this today and I am blown away with it... It's going to be a must have for all my blogs for me...

Zemanta - instant smart links, pictures, tags and more!

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- Jared

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I hate zemanta, just had to throw that out there.


1. All in one seo
2. related posts
3. Contact form by Dagon Design (love this guys plugins)
4. Exec. PHP widget
5. UBD block ad plugin
6. Popular Post plugin
7. Brians threaded comments


Maxblogpress has some great stuff too.

DeansFCKEditor

Here is a video on just why it is so good.

YouTube - a must have Wp-Plugin
It saves me having lots of different plug ins plus that action will only happen on that posting and no others will be effected.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator and DoFollow- I think these are pretty useful.

Hiya

My favourite Wordpress plugins are:

Al in one SEO
xml Sitemap
Automatic upgrade
Add to any
wp-statpress
All in one Adsense and ypn

These are the plugins I automaticaly install each time I use Wordpress.

Thanks
Clare

I tried to download Deans FCKEditor, but it is not showing in my plugins.