The definitive WordPress Plugin list.

The plan here is to keep a record – for myself more than anyone else – of all the best plugins to use with WordPress on any future client work.  Over the years I have used hundreds and hundreds of these things, so this will save me a lot of time, instead of having to dig around old sites to find them.

This list is live and will be updated as I find better upgrades to those that existed previously; so if you find the suggestions useful – just bookmark the page and this post will always provide you with a list of the latest and greatest.

Spam

• Akismet

Navigation

• Page Lists Plus – amongst other things, lets you turn off links in the navigation
• Subpages Extended – displays a list of subpages on any blank pages

Content

• WP-Table Reloaded – full control of tables within content
• SRG Clean Archives – optimised archive page with shortcode

Images/Galleries

• NextGEN Gallery + NextGEN Smooth Gallery
  

Contact Form

• Fast Secure Contact Form
• ONW Simple Contact Form

Links

• WP Render Blogroll Links

Mobile

• WPtouch – automatic iPhone theme; Pro version also supports iPad

Admin Customisation

• Fluency Admin – beautiful admin theme with some customisation options for the logo etc
  

YouTube

• TubePress – create video pages from yout YouTube playlists
• Smart YouTube – easily add YouTube videos to your content with shortcodes, viewer customisation and clean XHTML

Twitter

• WP to Twitter – direct API connection for posting to Twitter
  

Facebook

• Facebook Fanbox Cache Widget
• Facebook Comments for WordPress

Search Engine Optimisation

• Google XML Sitemaps
• Google XML Sitemap for Images
• Use Google Libraries – utilise the Google libraries for jQuery etc.  better distribution of resources and uses Google’s fast servers
• Meta Keywords & Description – creates meta data based on your tags and content
• CSS & Script File Aggregation – combines CSS and scripts to reduce HTTP calls
• Platinum SEO Pack
• Atom Default Feed
• W3 Total Cache – caches and compresses almost everything across the site; should be used in conjuction with Amazon S3 and CloudFront to provide optimal delivery to users globally.

Advertising

• Advertising Manager