Here’s a list of recommended plugins for WordPress.
These plugins can help with everything from search engine optimizing your WordPress blog to improving the load time of your websites pages. If you’re starting a blog, I highly recommend adding these tools right away.
Askimet- This nifty plugin helps eliminate comment spam on your blog. If you’re tired of sifting through spammed comments on the latest miracle pill or porno site, this is a must use tool - Visit plugin site
All in one SEO pack – A plugin to help optimize your blog for search engines. With it, you can modify your page titles, meta description and add meta keywords – Visit plugin site
Google XML sitemaps – Generate an xml sitemap that is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO – Visit plugin site
WP Super Cache – This tool caches pages to greatly increase the speed of your pages load time – Visit plugin site
Contact form 7 - A simple yet effective contact form that you can add to a contact us page on your blog – Visit plugin site
DISQUS Comment System – The DISQUS comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by DISQUS – Visit plugin site
Yet another related posts plugin – this tool automatically adds related posts to your blog based on your categories, tags and content keywords. It’s great for increasing the number of pages viewed by each visitor and it also helps increase the amount of internal links on your blog - Visit plugin site