The Wordpress Plugins You Can't Do Without Thread

Let's face it, WordPress is just cool! I want to share my list of favorite WordPress plugins.


PhotoDropper: Search free and premium images to add to your posts within WordPress. Thousands of images will pop up. Just type your keyword and hit search. Plugin will automatically add photo attribution to your posts. No need to worry about finding the perfect image for your posts.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/photo-dropper/

Zemanta: Used to find content and images related to your post. Helps increase SSO and authority.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zemanta/

Video Thumbnails: Creates thumbnail images based on embedded YouTube videos. This plugin uses video thumbnail as featured image.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-thumbnails/

Woocommerce: The best ecommerce plugin for WordPress in my opinion. Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred online eCommerce store.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/

WP Slideup: This plugin slips ad content from the bottom of your page within a time interval preset by you. Useful for building email lists and notifying visitors of special offers and highlighting pages.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-slideup/

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: This is a simple and reliable plugin that will allow visitors to see related posts. This plugin will display itself at the bottom of posts by simply stating: “Related Posts” and then supplying them with a link list of related posts within the site.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/

SEO Smart Links: This plugin will provide further interlinking of site’s pages and posts by automatically creating contextual links within content to other pages using keywords.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/

All in One SEO Pack: Can be used to add keyword specific meta-descriptions, titles, and keywords to individual pages and posts. Without this plugin only the home page could be altered for SEO. This will allow deeper optimization.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Contact Form 7: The absolute simplest contact form with the most features. It can create multiple forms with a variety of different fields. To be used specifically for a contact form—but could also be used to gather information or surveys. All user input is emailed to you when the form is submitted.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

Display Widgets: This is a very simple plugin in whose sole purpose is to decide which widgets display on which pages. This is useful for showing content in the sidebar on the front page and not on other pages and similar possibilities.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/

If I have left out amazing WordPress plugins (I'm sure I have). I hope you add your favorite plugins to this thread. What did I forget?

 

All of mine use:

AIO SEO pack (of course)
Editorial Calendar - wonderful for scheduling posts and organising things
Google Analyticator - for stats

I sometimes add a cache (W3) and a Captcha plugin, but that's about it. I don't like having tons of extras that chew up bandwidth and cause extra server load.

 

I personally prefer the SEO plugin from Yoast instead of the All in One plugin - I just like that it tells me how my SEO is for each article

 

All In One SEO - hard to imagine having a site without this plugin!
Page Link Manager - this plugin lets you remove Pages you make from the default menu. Great for organizing as I often do in a Tree sort of fashion (Concerts -> 2013 Concerts for example) without cramming all those pages into the Menu and causing spill over or overcrowding.
Smart Update Pinger - Lets you ping a huge list of sites automatically with every post. There's bound to be a n improvement to this plugin by now, but I haven't found one.
Sticky Posts - You can pin specific posts(by ID number) or create your own text that will always be at the top of the page or do both at the same time.