I decided to make a list of my favorite WordPress plugins for you (and an online source for me…)

I thought about also making a list of my favorite WordPress themes but most of the time I just browse the free ones include in WordPress until I find one that suits the site or niche that I’m working on. But since I have had a few people ask about this theme, it’s called: Eximius 2.2 by dkszone.net.  (it’s a free theme just do a search for “Eximius” and it should be the only one that shows up)

Here are my Favorite WordPress Plugins

Akismet – Protects your blog from comment and trackback spam

All in One SEO Pack -  Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for the search engines (good for setting up the basics)

BulletProof Security – Website Security Protection (just follow the steps to setup)

Contact Form 7 – A simple and flexible contact form

Easy Privacy Policy – Automatically adds a privacy policy page that includes an Adsense compliancy section

Follow Me – Gives you the ability to add your social media profiles or rss feed so your visitors can follow what your doing

Global Translator – Automatically translates your blog in up to 48 different languages and displays country flags buttons that will translate to the appropriate language

GoCodes – Allows you to create short URLs using your site (great cloaking your affiliate links)

Google XML Sitemaps – Generates a special XML sitemap to help Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines to index your blog better

Quick Adsense – Quick and flexible way to insert Google Adsense code or any other types of ads or code in your pages, posts and on the sidebar. (even your autoresponder code)

SEOPressor Unlimited (Paid) – Automatically optimizes your on-page SEO and get higher search engine rankings with recommended tweaks

Ultimate Google Analytics – Enables Google Analytics on your blog so you can track your blog’s traffic

WordPress Automatic Upgrade – Uses a simple step by step process to automatically update your version of WordPress in just a few minutes (so you don’t screw anything up if you don’t know what your doing.. I did this a few times, so I love this plugin!)

WordPress Importer – Imports posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Returns a list of related posts below each post (great for keeping visitors by showing them more related posts)

Do you have any favorite WordPress plugins that you use all the time and would recommend?

These are the WordPress plugins I use on just about every site I create. However I do have some other WordPress plugins that I use depending on the site that are not listed here.

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