WordPress Plugins That WE Can’t Live Without

Many of our readers have been asking us about what plugins we use and why. So, here are 15 WordPress plugins that WE cannot live without.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a plugin that checks your comments to see if they look like spam or not. So any comment that looks like spam can be found in the “spam” section in case you want to view them later.

2. Align RSS Images

This plugin basically helps you align your post images in your RSS feed. Although it looks pretty OK in your posts, it might be all messed up in your feed.

3. All In One SEO Pack

A must-have plugin that helps you optimize your blog or website for search engines. It’s also very user-friendly and has many options for you to choose from.

4. Brokenn Link Checker

An extremely helpful plugin that helps you find any broken links in your website and lets you edit them with ease.

5. Co-Authors

A plugin that allows multiple authors to be associated with a post. Also,co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors. It’s very useful if you have more than one author working on a single post.

6. Facebook Dashboard Widget

If you’re a Facebook addict, then this is the plugin for you. This plugin is a simple solution to bring Facebook to you. Using the dashboard widgets available in WordPress 2.5 and later.

7. Google XML Sitemaps Generator

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

8. Post Ideas+

Another must-have plugin that I strongly recommend for all bloggers. It basically helps you post ideas on your WordPress admin area. So whenever you get an idea for a post, you can easily just add it as an idea so that you can post it later on.

9. Register Plus

A wonderful plugin that helps you customize your registration form, using a custom logo, CAPTCHA and email validations, and much much more.

10. SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

11. SEO Super Comments

This plugin basically creates a dynamic page for each user comment on your blog. This page will not actually exist in your WordPress database, but will be created dynamically using this plugin.

12. SexyBookmarks

Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites with ease.

13. Sidebar Login

Yet another wonderful plugin that lets you add a sidebar widget so users can easily login, and once logged in, the widget will give a welcome message which you can completely customize to suit your needs.

14. Subscribe To Comments

Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!

15. TweetMeme Retweet Button

This is probably the best WordPress plugin for retweeting a post. You can easily add your Twitter ID in the settings so that when your readers retweet the post, they will retweet it according to your Twitter ID.

What Are Your Favorite Plugins?

Let us know what your favorite WordPress plugins are, so that we can feature them in a “WP Plugins YOU Can’t Live Without” :)