Here are the WordPress plugins and tools used on asmithblog.com in alphabetical order:
404 to Start – Send 404 page not found error directly to start page (or any other page/site) to overcome problems with search engines. With optional email alert.
Add Meta Tags – Add basic meta tags and also Opengraph, Schema.org Microdata, Twitter Cards and Dublin Core metadata to optimize your web site for better SEO.
Akismet – Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not.
Annual Archive – Display daily, weekly, monthly or annual archives with a sidebar widget or shortcode.
Antispam Bee – Easy and extremely productive spam-fighting plugin with many sophisticated solutions. Includes protection again trackback spam.
Blubrry Powerpress – Blubrry PowerPress brings the essential features for podcasting to WordPress including full iTunes support, Web audio/video media players and more.
CloudFlare – The CloudFlare WordPress Plugin ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform.
Contextual Related Posts – Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed. Supports thumbnails, shortcodes, widgets and custom post types!
Genesis Theme Generate Pro, SEO, and eNews Extended – The theme that I use, one of two SEO plugins I use, and the signup widget I use to collect email addresses.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
iThemes Security – The easiest, most effective way to secure WordPress in seconds.
KingSumo Giveaways – Grow your email list through viral giveaways.
Mashshare Share Buttons, Social Networks Add-On, Shorturls, and Open Graph – The ultimate social media ecosystem.
Open external links in a new window – Opens all (or specific) external links in a new window. XHTML Strict compliant and search engine optimized (SEO).
Oqobo – Website Host.
pTypeConverter – Converts post types from one to another.
Public Post Preview – Enables you to give a link to anonymous users for public preview of a post before it is published.
Redirection – Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.
RSS Featured Images – Inserts featured images from your posts into your site’s RSS feed. Allows for featured image size, positioning and, custom format options.
SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images improving traffic from search engines.
Simple Social Icons – This plugin allows you to insert social icons in any widget area.
Standout Color Boxes and Buttons – This plugin implements colored content boxes and buttons as described in a Studiopress blog post.
SumoMe – Free and easy way to double your email subscribers. And Sharing tools to double your traffic from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & more.
Twitter Cards Meta – The Only Complete Twitter Card Plugin in WordPress. Supports Product, Gallery & Summary Card with Large Image. Advance Automated Settings.
Smart Slug – Smartify your post and page slugs by removing too short or insignificant stopwords automatically.
WordPress Click & Go SEO – The essential SEO functionality you need. Nothing more, nothing less.
Love these. I recently added SumoMe to my personal site. It’s a great addition. I’m looking forward to checking out these other ones too. What do you think of KingSumo Giveaways? If I’m remembering right, it’s pricey, but looks like a very cool feature.
It’s worth it to me, because it is already set up to give incentive for spreading the word.