The basics

We strongly suggest you to install the plugins listed below :

- Instant Upgrade : allows you to upgrade your WordPress with one simple click

- Plugin Manager : allows you to install plugins in a few simple clics (instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin).

For your SEO efforts

- HeadSpace :
By default, the meta description tag isn’t displayed by your WordPress site / blog. The lack of opportunity to use the meta description tag is embarrassing. But you can select and install a plugin to fix that.
We suggest the plugin called HeadSpace. HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

- A sitemap for your site :
You may know that you can declare a site map of your site in the google webmaster manager. You can use Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. This plugin automatically creates a sitemap for your WordPress site.

- Broken Link Checker for WordPress :
Be sure that your site is clean and has no broken links. This plugin is particularly useful if you want to check your links on a site with great content.

- FireStats :
The only stats plugin which exploded your database in 6 months. Useful to check your referers and keywords rankings quickly.

Other plugins we enjoyed

- Zdmultilang :
ZdMultilang is a Multilingual plugin for WordPress allowing you to blog in more than one language. You can define multiple languages and translate posts/tags/categories using a special and simple interface accessible from your administration panel.

- Subscribe to my RSS feed
One opportunity that is underused is the idea of using cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbies. Subscribe to my RSS feed offers the opportunity invite your visitors to become permanent subscribers.

Black Hat side

- kansieo ($ 40) :
A wordpress plugin that generates posts in the form of questions and answers, with so self generation profiles / comments and a lot of options in backend (models for formatting generated content … etc).

- WP-o-Matic :
Automatically creats posts from RSS/Atom feeds you choose. You may, for instance, use the feeds of your dating affiliation service.