Actually (and respectfully) that's a pretty bad list of Wordpress plugins. Some of those are horrible plugins, like No Ping Wait, and Ultimate Tag Warrior - neither of which are needed anymore. Many of
the rest while 'helpful' are far from essential. The screenshot appears to be of WP 2.5 or 2.6 even though the blog post is Jan 2009 which would have been 2.7+.

I've been using (and blogging) Wordpress for many years, this is my list of Essential plugins is as follows:

cForms II
All in One SEO Pack
Wordpress.com Stats
WP-Postviews
Aizatto's Related Posts
Angsuman's Translator
Breadcrumb
Google XML Sitemaps
Feedburner Feedsmith
WP Page Numbers
Subscribe to Comments
Drainhole
Multi-Page Toolkit
AskApache Google 404
Comment Luv

Every one of those plugins are very essential and have a specific purpose. Please don't see it as spam, but I always make my used plugin list available on my blog and list it in my sidebar so other's can see what I use on a regular basis: http://www.jtpratt.com/wordpress-plugins-used/


jdr santos wrote:
> kumar app wrote:
> > This is a great list of 15 essential wordpress plugins, includes many other popular and useful plug-ins for Wordpress blogging software.(Read more...)
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> very good list, kumar.
> Thank you.