Here’s a list of five extremely useful Wordpress plugins that I use or have used.

  1. WP-Polls:
    WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.
  2. Google Sitemap Generator:
    This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
  3. Ultimate Tag Warrior:
    This plugin allows you to add tags to each post and page. These tags can be used for meta keyword tags, tag clouds and tonnes of other things. I’ve been using this plugin since the start of this blog and love it.
  4. TD Word Count:
    This plugin provides detailed published and unpublished word count stats for Wordpress authors. The output is on a single page which allows searching using the browser’s built in commands and can be sorted by date, post title, number of most and least words.
  5. Related Posts:
    This great plugin allows you to add a “Related Posts” section to each of your posts. It’s great because it uses your existing tags to match related content. This is a great plugin because it gives your readers more options and keeps them on the page longeer (hopefully)

I use most of these plugins and I love them. They’re a great way to keep your visitors on your site and hopefully convert them to lifetime readers.