WordPress is one of the best blogging platform available for free . Almost all blogging sites are based on wordpress . One of the main reasons why wordpress is the most popular is that it offers tonnes of plugins wordpress offers . But how to know which are the best plugins suited for you ? . Usually beginners seem to play a lot with plugins , without exactly knowing which to choose . So I decided to put this post . Here is a list of best of wordpress plugins , a lot others too exist , but I prefer to use these plugins . All of these plugins are available for free from wordpress .

1. All in one seo pack : A really nice plugin which keeps your blog search engine friendly . It lets you add keywords and a lot more . All in one seo pack is a must for every blogger who needs traffic from search engines .

2.Akismet : Anti-spam plugin which is highly efficient in detecting spams . Akismet requires an api key to work which you get from wordpress.com while registering with wordpress .

3.Google xml sitemaps :  An excellent sitemap generator plugin. It even offers to ping the spiders whenever your blog is updated .

4.Seo friendly images : An image plugin which adds alt-text to your images , making it more optimized for search engines .

5.Simple tags : A nice plugin which offers nice and clean tags ,from different networks like yahoo, etc .It is a nice tool which even displays related posts

6.WordPress database backup : It is very important to have backup of your website sql databases . This plugin takes care of all those hardlifting and even offers to send backups as mails .

7.WordPress.com status : A really nice plugin which tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. This plugin requires a WordPress.com API key to work .

8.Sexybookmarks : Sexybookmarks allow your visitors to submit your content to various social-networking sites like digg , stumble etc .

9.WordPress related posts : Plugin which displays posts related to the current post .

10.Viper’s Video Quicktags : Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin allows you to embed videos from various websites like youtube, vimeo etc .

11.Global translator : Get this plugin if you want your blog to be translated in to various languages .

12.Nexgen gallery : Advanced gallery plugin , which enables you to organize your images and display slideshows and much more .

Please feel free to post your comments and your favourite plugins .