One of the best things with the Wordpress blogging platform is the great number of plugins available. They allow you to customize and fine-tune your site to the extremes. Personally I use a wide range of plugins, some of which helps the outward appearance of the site, others improve the admin interface. As a thumbs up to the plugin developers, and to give you a chance to see what I use, here’s the plugins I got right now.

Active Plugins

  Admin Management Xtended 2.1.1
» Oliver Schlöbe (url)
WordPress 2.7+ only. Extends admin functionalities by introducing: toggling post/page visibility inline, changing page order with drag’n'drop, inline category management, inline tag management, changing publication date inline, changing post slug inline, toggling comment status open/closed, hide draft posts, change media order, change media description inline, toggling link visibility, changing link categories

  All in One SEO Pack 1.6.10.2
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Upgrade to Pro Version | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist

  Audit Trail 1.1.5
» John Godley (url)
Keep a log of exactly what is happening behind the scenes of your WordPress blog

  Category Posts Widget 3.1
» James Lao (url)
Adds a widget that can display posts from a single category.

  Counterize II 2.14.1
» Steffen Forkmann (url)
Simple counter-plugin with no external libs – saves timestamp, visited URl, referring URl and browserinformation in database, and can display total hits, unique hits and other statistics in WordPress webpages. Admin-interface available with detailed information…

  Enhanced WP-ContactForm 2.2.3
» Joost de Valk (url)
WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. In the message it sends to you it gives the page the user visited before the contact page, as well as the original outside referer. It can be implemented on a page or a post.

  Executable PHP widget 2.1
» Otto (url)
Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Heavily derived from the Text widget code in WordPress.

  FD Word Statistics 1.2
» John Watson (url)
Computes Gunning-Fog, Flesch, and Flesch-Kincaid readability indexes about posts as they are edited for the purpose of improving their readability.

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.2
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  Maintenance Mode 4.4
» Michael Wöhrer (url)
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Settings → Maintenance Mode to get started.

  Manageable 1.1.1
» Aaron Harp (url)
Inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Requires WordPress 2.5 or above. This plugin doesn’t work in 2.7 since it’s been integrated into the core.

  MaxBlogPress Favicon 2.0.9
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Easily add favicon to your blog without editing any wordpress files. Adjust your settings here.

  NextGEN Gallery 1.4.3
» Alex Rabe (url)
A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.

  Optimize DB 1.3
» Joost de Valk (url)
Let’s you optimize your WordPress database tables with one click. Click optimize on the right to start optimizing!

  Plugin Central 2.2.1
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Automatically installs WordPress plugins by name and URL. Provides automatic update of multiple plugins.

  Post Tabs 2.9.1
» Leo Germani (url)
postTabs allows you to easily split your post/page content into Tabs that will be shown to your visitors

  Quotes Collection 1.3.7
» Srini G (url)
Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect and display your favourite quotes on your WordPress blog.

  Revision Control 1.9.7
» Dion Hulse (url)
Allows finer control over the number of Revisions stored on a global & per-post/page basis.

  Shutter Reloaded 2.4.1
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Darkens the current page and displays an image on top like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. However this script is a lot smaller and faster.

  Sociable 3.5.2
» Blogplay (url)
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.

  Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

  TinyMCE Advanced 3.2.7
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.

  Viper's Video Quicktags 6.2.14
» Viper007Bond (url)
Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts.

  WP-DBManager 2.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

  WP-Optimize 0.8.0
» Ruhani Rabin (url)
This plugin helps you to keep your database clean by removing post revisions and spams in a blaze. allows you to rename your admin name also. Additionally it allows you to run optimize command on your wordpress core tables (use with caution).

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-Print 2.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

  WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.2
» WP-SpamFree (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

  WP-Sticky 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog. Modified from Adhesive by Owen Winkler.

  WP-UserOnline 2.62
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots).

  WP Page Numbers 0.5
» Jens Törnell (url)
Show pages numbers instead of “Next page” and “Previous Page”.

  WP Super Cache 0.9.9
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

Inactive Plugins

  Akismet 2.2.7
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  Hello Dolly 1.5.1
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.