This post is a tribute to the top 12 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever (Akismet is not included as it comes with the default installation). Each of these 12 has been downloaded a minimum of 200,000 times.
- All in One SEO Pack – Automatically optimizes your blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization) – Downloads 1,603,368
- Google XML Sitemaps – Create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your blog – Downloads 954,459
- WP Super Cache – A very fast caching engine that produces static html files – Downloads 492,637
- Contact Form 7 – Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible – Downloads 393,916
- Sociable – Automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites to your posts, pages and RSS feed - Downloads 284,117
- WP-DB-Backup – On-demand backup of your database – Downloads 250,795
- Google Analytics Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics – Downloads 239,837
- Google Analyticator – Same as the one above, enables Google Analytics tracking - Downloads 229,970
- Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button – Helps readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg button, Delicious and over 100 more – Downloads 226,056
- WP-Polls – Adds an AJAX poll system to your blog. You can also easily add a poll into your blog post / page – Downloads 222,196
- Sidebar Widgets – Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu – Downloads 221,024
- WP-PageNavi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation your blog – Downloads 204,005
I currently only use Google XML Sitemaps, WP Super Cache and Contact Form 7 on my blog.
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I totally agree that most of the above mentioned plugins are best in the class. But I think Platinum SEO pack is way more important than All in One SEO pack.
I’d say the google xml sitemap is the most important to me- having a new xml sitemap submitted to webmaster tools every week is essential for a big site moving lots of content.