There are many plugins available for wordpress, availability of a plugin for every need makes wordpress the best content management system. Appropriate usage of these plugins makes our blog stand out from others, there are some plugins which every blog must have. Here is the list these must have plugins without any particular order. Each one is as important as the other. I hope you find the list helpful.

WordPress.com Stats

This plugin shows the stats that you would be interested as a blogger. If you want to find direct advertisers, its good to collect stats from google analytics right from the start of your blog.

Caution: WordPress.Com stats is very addictive

Download wordpress stats plugin

Akismet

There are lot of spammer out there trying to spam your blog. As your blog grows, so does the number of spam comments you get.Fight spam comments with Akisment.
Download Akismet plugin for wordpress

CommentLuv

Give some comment luv to your readers, This plugin will keep your blog active and lively.
Download commentLuv plugin for wordpress

Better Comments Manager

This plugin reduces the time you spen in comment moderation by 50 percent. This lets you see your comments post wise and you can also reply to the comments directly from the admin panel with out having to visit the post. Isn’t that great..??
Download Better Comments Manager plugin

Subscribe to Comments

This plugin allows your readers to subscribe to comments on your posts. This plugin gives the subscriber an option to unsubscribe or even change the email address. So you wont be annoying your readers.
Download Subscribe to Comments plugin for wordpress

Note: Do not check the subscribe box by default, It will be annoying to readers who don’t want to subscribe to your comments.

All in One SEO Pack

One of the best thing about wordpress is its optimized for Search engines, this plugin makes it even better. Dont miss it.
Download All in One SEO Pack plugin for wordpress

MyFTP WordPress Plugin

Manage files on your server from within WordPress. You no longer need to rely on using a stand alone FTP client to edit, delete, upload and create files and folders.
Download MyFTP WordPress Plugin

WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
Download WP-DB-Backup plugin for wordpress

FeedBurner Plugin

RSS reader count is a kind of status symbol for your blog, more the number more the value for your blog. This plugin makes sure that no rss reader is missed from the count.
Download FeedBurner Plugin for wordpress

ShareThis

The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple to use, and unobtrusive way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send your post link via email, AIM, Facebook, MySpace and more.
Download Share this plugin for wordpress

Note: If you are concerned SEO, the you may install Anti Social plugin, AntiSocial adds ‘nofollows’ to each of the link buttons.

Global Translator Plugin

By using a translator plugin you can increase your reader base, this also increases the number of pages you have on your blog. This will add value to the person buying link on your blog.
Download Global translator plugin for wordpress

Contact Form

It can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Download Contact form Plugin for wordpress

WP-Chunk

This plugin lets you post long url’s on your blog, without using services like tiny url. No more long urls floating out of your layout.
Download wp-chunk plugin for wordpress

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.
Download Google XML Sitemaps plugin for wordpress

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