I always would love WordPress blogs because of the variety of plugins that are made available by developers.

I recently made a post on the 5 wordpress plugins for developers, this post is a kind of continuation to that post because it would touch areas about wordpress plugins you need to perform and handle different aspects of your blogging career. Here is a comprehensive list.

30 WordPress Plugins you must have to run a Blog

Better Content Production

• Editorial Tools: Edit Flow
• Advanced Text Editor: TinyMCE Advanced
• Content Slider: SlideDeck 2 Lite
• Image Sourcing: PhotoDropper
• Rich Text Widgets: WYSIWYG Widgets
• List Pages: Page-List
• List Posts: List Category Posts
• Reusable HTML and Code: Global Content Blocks

Security Plugins, Backup and Anti Spam

• Security Utility: Better WP Security
• Security Scanner: WP Security Scan
• User Activity Logging: WP-Activity
• Force Strong User Passwords: Force Strong Passwords
• Limit Login Attempts: Limit Login Attempts
• Backups: BackWPup
• Anti-Spam: Akismet

Plugins for Optimization and Load Speed

• Caching: W3 Total Cache
• Image Optimization: WP Smush.it
• Database Management: WP-DBManager

SEO and Analytics

• SEO: All in One SEO Pack
• Sitemaps: Google XML Sitemaps
• Google Analytics Integration: Google Analytics for WordPress
• Social Analytics: Shareaholic

Admin Improvements

• Internal Link Search: Better Internal Link Search
• Better Admin Search: Relevanssi
• Widget Filtering: Widget Logic Visual
• URL Redirects: Redirection
• Broken Link Checker: Broken Link Checker

Social Media and Content Promotion

• Social Sharing: Digg Digg
• Social Media Profile Promotion: Social Media Widget
• Publish Posts to Twitter: WP to Twitter
• Publish Posts to Facebook: Facebook for WordPress
• Related Posts: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
• Popular Posts: WordPress.com Popular Posts

Improved Enduser Usability

• Better Search: Relevanssi
• Image Galleries: NextGEN Gallery
• Contact Forms: Contact Form 7
• Mobile Theme: WPtouch

This list is really comprehensive. Do well to let us know about more or any useful Plugin you know that isn’t on our list.