What plugins do you commonly install on a fresh WordPress install?

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I’m looking at finding out what plugins others install most of the time on a fresh WordPress install; the plugins that add value to pretty much any website that is running WordPress.

My list of commonly installed plugins on a fresh WP install, in no particular order:

  • Contact Form 7 – Use whenever I need a contact form on the site
  • Page.ly MultiEdit – Use whenever I need multiple editable regions
  • Login LockDown – Always use on public facing website. Helps prevent account brute forcing.
  • Register Plus Redux Use whenever the site allows member signup.
  • WP-PageNavi Use whenever the site will be displaying pages upon pages of posts.

Please answer with your commonly used installed plugins on a fresh WP install.

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These are my common plugins that I always install on all my blogs:

  • Akismet – Fighting with spam. I use only this plugin and it does the job very well
  • Auto Post Thumbnail – I’m lazy with setting the featured image. This plugin will auto take the 1st image in post content and set it as the featured image.
  • Contact Form 7 – Very powerful and easy to customize contact plugin.
  • SEO Smart Links – Do some cool SEO things for links and images
  • Smart Archives Reloaded – It’s designed for archive page, but we can also use it for sitemap page
  • Yoast SEO Plugin – I used AIO SEO Plugin before, but I decided to switch to Yoast’s plugin as it has good feature of recommendation while editing posts.
  • W3 Total Cache – it’s the best cache plugin for me, it does some jobs in optimization, also
  • Widget Logic – Instead of hard code into theme files, I use this for controlling my widgets
  • WP-Optimize – Do some optimizations such as: delete spams, post revisions, optimize tables
  • WP-PostViews – For simple stats like popular posts. It’s lightweight, works with cache, and has nice widget
  • WPtouch – I found this’s the best plugin for mobile

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