Our Favorite WordPress Plugins

Many of our readers are well aware that we use WordPress as the CMS platform for a number of our clientele. We thus thought it would be fun to compile a list of our favorite WordPress plugins. The list is also available here. Feel free to sign-up and contribute to the rest of the wiki while you're at it.

• A Different Monthly Archive Script – Manages date-based archives.

• Akismet – Filters possible spam comments.

• Captcha From ProtectWebForm – Helps protect against computer-generated comments.

• Category Cloud – Displays a category cloud, using bigger font and different colors for important categories. Based on Weighted Categories.

• cforms – Allows you to create custom forms on your WordPress blog.

• Chunk Urls – Shortens URLs in comments so that they won't break the site.

• Comment Timeout – Automatically closes comments on blog entries after a user-configurable period of time. It has options which allow you to keep the discussion open for longer on older posts which have had recent comments accepted, or to place a fixed limit on the total number of comments in the discussion.

• EditorMonkey – Turns the normal WordPress textarea into a WYSIWYG editor using TinyMCE or FCKeditor. Also integrates spell checking into the editor interface using the FCK Speller Pages plugin and ieSpell.

• Google XML Sitemap – Automatically creates a search engine friendly sitemap for your blog.

• podPress – Allows integration of Podcasts.

• Popularity Contest – Enables ranking of posts by popularity; using the behavior of visitors to determine each post's popularity.

• Redirect Old Slugs – Permits changing of posts slugs without breaking the old ones.

• SEO Title Tag – Search engine optimizes blog posts by allowing the creation of a customized title tag for any post or page.

• ShareThis – Lets visitors share a post or page with others.

• Simple Trackback Validation – Eliminates spam trackbacks by checking the IP address of the sender and by checking the linked webpage for a link back to the blog.

• TypePad AntiSpam – Checks comments against the TypePad AntiSpam web service to see if they look like spam or not.

• WordPress Mobile Edition – Shows a mobile view of the post or page if the visitor is on a known mobile device.

• wp-cache – Cache module that configures and manages the system.

• wp-notable – Adds social bookmark links to each blog entry.

• WP-Polls – Adds customizable polls to posts and pages.

• WP-Polls Widget – Displays single or multiple polls from the WP-Polls plugin.