Our Favorite WordPress Plugins

With all of the WordPress deployments we have developed for our various clients, we’ve seen a recurring trend with the plug-ins we tend to use. While we do develop our own custom plug-ins at times, we also rely heavily on the global WordPress community and the free offerings from several talented developers. Below are some of the WP plug-ins we’ve not been able to live without.

• WP Super Cache
  Written by Donncha (the creative force behind WordPress Multi-User (WPMU), this plug-in generates static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After an HTML file is generated, your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
• Batcache
  Written by Andy Skelton, Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages. It’s not as fast as Donncha’s WP-Super-Cache but it can be used where file-based caching is not practical or not desired.
• Google Analytics for Wordpress
  Written by Joost de Valk, the Google Analytics for WordPress plug-in automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads.
• All in One SEO Pack
  Written by hallsofmontezuma, this plug-in optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines
• WPDB Profiling
  Yes, while it is true we wrote this plug-in, we use it heavily in larger deployment environments where the blog(s) will see heavy traffic. It ensures that caching is indeed taking place and allows us to debug any non-cached plug-ins.
• Wordtube
  Written by Alex Rabe, this plug-in is great for posting video to a blog in a matter of minutes.

So those are our favorites. What are some of yours?

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