Top 10 Must Have Plugins for a WordPress Blog (V2)

With all of the experience I have using WordPress these are the top 10 plugins I would recommend.  Sociable, Contact Form 7, Pageear, All in One SEO Pack, TweetMeme Button, Popularity Contest, WP Cumulus, Intense Debate, What Would Seth Godin Do and Similar Posts. Feel free to download them using the links provided and let me know what you think.

1. Sociable

Description: Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites! WordPress 2.6 or above is required.

Why top 10?

• Social media sharing plugin.
• Encourages readers to share your posts.
• Easy to customize.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/

2. Contact Form 7

Description: Contact Form 7 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.

Why top 10?

• Contact forms.
• Includes many features.
• Easy to customize.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

3. Pageear

Description: Pageearis a free flash pagepeel plugin. It allows you to customize an ad in the corner of your site that peels down. It’s a very catchy script and will be sure to improve you advertising revenues.

Why top 10?

• Peel down ad in corner of your page.
• Visually captivating.
• Encourages more ad clicks.

Download Here:

http://www.webpicasso.de/blog/pageear-free-peel-away-ad/

4. All in One SEO Pack

Description: Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. This allows you to easily edit your SEO options rather than edit everything within the code. It will improve your SEO tags automatically. It’s the best SEO plugin out there.

Why top 10?

• Easily edit SEO for your blog.
• Improves your SEO.
• Easy to customize.
• Generate SEO report

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

5. TweetMeme Button

Description: The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.

Why top 10?

• Adds TweetMeme Button to your posts, pages and archives.
• Encourages retweets of your posts.
• Easy to customize.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/

6. Popularity Contest

Description: This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports

Why top 10?

• Calculates how popular your posts are.
• Includes popularity reports.
• Easy to customize.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popularity-contest/

7. WP-Cumulus

Description: WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard but it does take you to the appropriate page.
Why top 10?

• Shows 3-D rotating tag cloud.
• Visually captivating for visitors.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/

8. Intense debate

Description: Intense debate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Full comment and account data sync between Intense Debate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!

Why top 10?

• Beautiful design for comments system.
• Includes many features and built in plugins.
• Easy to customize on http://www.intensedebate.com.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/intensedebate/

9. What Would Seth Godin Do

Description: Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors. By default, new visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post containing the words “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!” After 5 visits the message disappears. You can customize this message, its lifespan, and its location. The message can be excluded from Pages if desired.

Why top 10?

• Raise your number of RSS subscribers
• Cool customizable text, asking to subscribe to your blog.
• Easy to customize.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/what-would-seth-godin-do/

10. Similar Posts

Description: Similar Posts displays a list of posts that are similar or related to the current posts. The list can be customized in manyways. Similarity is judged according to a post’s title, content, and tags and you can adjust the balance of factors to fit your own blog.

Why top 10?

• Great for readers to find other similar posts.
• Easy to customize.

Download Here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/similar-posts/
So what do you think? Any recommendations or comments?