Are you a wordpress plugin whore? I know I am. My motto is get all the useful wordpress plugins you can find that make your job a lot easier. Why work so hard to do somethings that can be done for you?

I’ve given you the money making affiliates I use on my make money page, and I thought it was high time I give you the wordpress plugins I use as well. I know it can be very frustrating to visit someone’s blog, see something you like and want to try, only to not be able to find exactly what plugin they use. Is it some kind of mystery that many bloggers don’t want others knowing about? A trade secret of some sorts perhaps? I don’t know, because I’m not that way. I’ll tell you everything I do and use.

Here is my list of 26 plugins that I currently use:

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. It comes already preloaded into wordpress.

 Broken Link Checker

Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

 Commentluv

Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment.

 Exclude Pages from Navigation

Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.

 Exec-PHP

Executes code in your posts, pages and text widgets.

 Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo.

 Lighter Menus

Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the Wordpress 2.6 interface taking the least room possible.

 MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad

A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog.

 Peel Away Ads

Displays the page peel in the upper right corner of my blog, can also be put on all the other corners, or any one single corner you choose.

 Performancing Ads

The plugin that is used to display the performancing ads affiliate buttons and banners.

 Recent Posts

Returns a list of the most recent posts.

 Related Posts

Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.

 Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form

This powerful yet easy-to-install contact form features exceptional accessibility and usability while still providing extensive anti-spam and anti-exploit security features. A marriage of communication and peace-of-mind.

 ShiftThis Newsletter

Customized Newsletter Creation & Mailing List Management.

 Simple Recent Comments

Shows a list of recent comments.

 Subscribe to Comments

Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.

 Text Link Ads

The plugin I use to display the text link ads affiliate network’s text ads.

 Ultimate Google Analytics

Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.

 WassUp

Wordpress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics.

 WordPress Mobile Edition

Show a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device.

 WP-DBManager

Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

 WP-PostRatings

Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

 WP-PostRatings Widget

Adds a PostRatings Widget to display most rated and/or highest rated posts and/or pages on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-PostRatings first.

 WP-Sticky

Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog.

 FeedSmith

This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

 Hidden Affiliate Links

Hides affiliate links by wrapping them into a page that will redirect to the actual link.

 

Those are the only plugins I currently use, but you can be sure, as I find even more great plugins, I will let you know.

Does anyone else know of any great plugins that would help to improve a money making blog?