Hello,

I'm going to spend some time on my Wordpress site and was wondering what sort of plugins people are using? There seem to be so many plugin opitions that I got lost and have not used any yet but I'm planning on changing that.

If anybody could share what plugins they use and provide me with some help it would be great!

A few of my favorite ones:

- All in one SEO pack
- Contact Form 7
- Really Simple Captcha (if you don't like it, Askimet works and can replace it)
- WP no category base
- Google analytics for wordpress

I like Commentluv and Googlexml for doing a site map.

Jyang mentioned two of my favorites:

* All-in-One SEO Pack - it is an effective way to get the most out of each and every post.
* Simple Captcha - the amount of spam comments can be overwhelming but this simple (no pun intended) plug in can reduce the spammers significantly.

Kj, perhaps you can tell us a bit more about what your goal is with your blog, so that way we can give you more specific recommendations rather than generic (or irrelevant) plug ins.

Hey,

Thanks for your response. I've got askimet installed since it was a built in plugin and it has help with the spam.

And I have been looking at the other plugins mentioned. I was going to use: the "WordPress SEO by Yoast" plugin as it did seem to be the best, but your recommending All-in-One SEO pack. Have you heard of the Yoast plugin? Why one over the other?

As to my blog you can find it here London Ontario Real Estate Blogs. As you can see it profiles homes and condos for sale as well as providing local real estate market information and I do have a few articles included as well.

My goal of the blog is the same as all real estate blog find clients and give my listings some extra exposure. I guess the additonal functions that I would like it to do would be able to push out notices of my blog posts to my facebook, twitter and other accounts. As well the ability to have a button to allow people to facebook "like" my content would be great as well.