Wordpress Plugins are a great way to increase the functionality of your Wordpress blog. And the good news is that in Wordpress, there is a plugin available for almost everything thus making manual editing of template files minimal.
But using too may plugins also is not advised as it increases the load on the server. Here is a list of the different Wordpress plugins I use on this blog.
This post is continuosly updated.
1. Adsense Deluxe Plugin
AdSense-Deluxe is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.
Download Adsense Deluxe Plugin
2. Akismet
Filters comments made on your blog by comparing them against the Akismet web service to find if they are spam comments. Saves you a lot of time.
3. Extended Live Archives
A highly configurable AJAX based plugin to help make your blog’s archive page more interactive to your readers. You can see the implementation of this plugin on my archives page.
Download Extended Live Archives Plugin
4. FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin
The FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.
Download FeedBurner FeedSmith Plugin
5. Feed Styler
Feed Styler is a WordPress plugin for WordPress users who are comfortable with CSS and would like to be able to style their feeds.
6. Google Sitemaps Plugin
This plugin creates a sitemaps.org compliant sitemap for your blog enabling search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft) to index each and every post you write.
Download Google Sitemaps Plugins
7. Related Posts Plugin
A handy little plugin which enables you to show a list of posts similar to the post your visitor is viewing. It also helps increase pageviews. 
8. Text Link Ads
A plugin to insert Text Link Ads on your blog.
9. Vipers Video Tags Plugin
Allows you to embed various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video as well as videos you host yourself, into WordPress.
Download Vipers Video Tags Plugin
10. Wordpress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Helps you back up your Wordpress blog.
Download Wordpress Database Backup
11. Wordpress Reports
Generates reports from Google Analytics and Feedburner data. No need to login into your Google Analytics and FeedBurner dashboard everyday to see your blog’s stats.
Download Wordpress Reports Plugin
12. Wordpress Cache
Very fast cache module. Helps your blog survive the high traffic times like during a Digg.
13. Wordpress Contact Form III
WP Contact Form III is a simple drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. The contact form also includes a spam challenge question.
Download Wordpress Contact Form
14. WWW Redirect
Redirects variations of identical domain requests to a consistent uri (i.e. http://abc.com to http://www.abc.com )
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I used most of these except for Wordpress Contact Form and WWW Redirect and Feed Styler.
How do these perform for your blog?
You are missing out on these great plugins man…
WP Contact Form III is a modification of Ryan Duff’s project and includes an anti-spam challenge question and also allows the visitor to specify the subject of the message.
You can see WWW Redirect in action on this blog. Go to http://manast.com and it will redirect to http://www.manast.com.
As for Feed Styler, I am using it to style my images in the RSS feeds. It is working great.
Thanks for the list ! I was building a new Wordpress blog and this list came in handy. Saved me a lot of time.
Welcome ! Glad to have helped you …
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