Wordpress Plugins

I'm new to Wordpress and I am looking to what plugins are the most interesting/useful.

These are the ones I know of or I'm using:

Akismet (included)
All in One SEO Pack
Broken Link Checker
commentluv
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google XML Sitemaps
Maintenance Mode
Sociable
Subscribe to Comments
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
Wordpress Database Backup

What else do you guys use or recommend? Which ones do you think people should stay away from?

P.S. Most of them were recommended to me by my friend Alec Satin who's got a blog about Project Management. I recommend his blog for those that have to deal with IT Projects.

Great topic Andres, I'm moving from Drupal to Wordpress so I'm interested as well.

Hey - I use wordpress so I thought I'd give my 2 cents.

Firstly, I would recommend keeping your amount of plugins to a minimum, five should be your max. This is so you can keep your site more secure. Many times plugins have security flaws that aren't addressed.

Akismet (included) - Definitely use this. Spam comments get ridiculous after awhile.
All in One SEO Pack - Good for google, use it myself.
Broken Link Checker - Haven't used it, but it doesn't seem really necessary.
commentluv - Never used it. Sounds okay, but it could just complicate the comment section.
FeedBurner FeedSmith - Use it and recommend it.
Google Analytics for WordPress - You can just paste google analytics code in the footer or header template instead of this.

I also haven't used all the others but I just wanted to give you some feedback on a few of the plugins.

Good luck!

Any particular reason for getting of Drupal? Someone was recommending Drupal to me the other day.

Drupal is an awesome CMS. For what I need, it was somewhat overkill ... Like renting a 18 foot semi truck to move a couch across town. The learning curve is little steep as well and I feared I'd be spending too much time learning/dissecting all the functionality instead of writing.

The things you can build with Drupal are amazing.

If I was going to build another lead-gen company, I'd consider Drupal or ROR vs 100% custom.

GWA Autoresponder seems like it would be an awesome tool for marketers ... assuming the product bugs were fixed. I installed it 6 months ago and wasn't able to get it to work, but since then, it has some revisions.

Executable PHP Widgets
Google XML Sitemaps
WP Tags to Technorati

Here are my 2 cents

1. Add Meta Tags or All in One SEO Pack.
2. Angusuman's Feed Copyrighter - To add copyright note into your blog feed.
3. Better Comment Manager - Easier your day to day comment moderation.
4. Comment Relish - Automatically send email to the new commentators.
5. Live comment Preview
6. Math Comment Spam Protection
7. Popularity Contest
8. Related Posts
9. Smart Archieves
10. Subscribe to comments
11. The_excerpt Reloaded
12. WordPress Database Backup
13. WP-contact form.

There are many more wordpress plugina and widget that you can enhance your blog traffic and readership.

On Problogger.net today there is a post where he outlines the first 10 plugins he installed on his new blog:

10 WordPress Plugins for New Blogs

Also, read the comments as readers have left quite a few good suggestions for other plugins.

Nice info there ... speed+

UAW- contact

Post Ratings

Sticky

Headspace or SEO are pretty much standard.

Here's a nice link for plugins directly related to COMMENTS.

30+ Plugins for Wordpress Comments