Best WordPress Plugins

Best wordpress plugins for 2009 to make your blog and your life better and if you are into video give you a unique presentation not seen very often.

These are the 25 plug-ins I couldn’t live without, that boost my subscription rate, give me a unique look for showing video and just make my life a little bit easier.

I should mention that I run on the thesis theme therefore I won’t have the all in one SEO plug-in because thesis incorporates all of that functionality right in the theme. Which also means that I run the open hooks plug in so if you’re not using thesis those are 2 changes that you will need to make to my list.

So here’s the list in no order of importance:

1. Akismet

2. Blog Copyright (by BTE)

3. CommentLuv

4. Do Follow

5. Google XML Sitemaps

6. Internal Link Building

7. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

8. pb-embedFlash

9. Post-Plugin Library

10. Redirection

11. Related Websites

12. Robots Meta

13. Simple Tags

14. Subscribe To Comments

15. Subscription Options

16. Thesis OpenHook

18. TweetMeme Button

19. What Would Seth Godin Do

20. WordPress.com Popular Posts

21. WordPress.com Stats

22. 0WP-ContactForm

23. 0WP Super Cache

24. WP Twitip ID

And last but not least number 25, this one costs a few bucks but sure makes monetizing your site a breeze.

25. Maxblogpress Ninja Aff link

There you have it… I’m sure there’s some out there that say I use too many and others who wonder how I live without some others. These seem to work well together and take care of the things I need, but I’m always open for suggestions.

I don’t run auto taggers because I do my own keyword research for every post that I put up and typically only use 3 tags / keywords per post and so far it has served me well.

If you are doing a fresh install you can just use my download link to get all of the plug-ins in fell swoop I have unzipped them all and put them all into one zip folder so that you can just use your FTP to install them in one swift shot.

If you have questions about installation you will want to refer to the video that I made that walks you through installing these as well as configuring Akismet and WP Stats.

Look for future posts that will cover specific configurations for each or at least the way I configure them.

Feel free to leave your comments below and feel free to add your favorite list too.