What's Your WP Setup?

[MJ]

I'm needing to refresh myself on WP a little bit, as I'm using it more and I haven't been for the last year or so.

What are your "must have" plugins when first setting up a new site/fresh install?

[GFPC]

Good question MJ! Thanks for asking that!

I have read something in another thread a couple of days ago.. maybe this will help

Must have WP Plugins

[leporello]

SEO Scribe (or Yoast SEO for a free plugin)
Google XML Sitemaps
Smush.it Image Compression
My own custom built geotargeting plugin
Custom Field Template
WP-Page Navi
Breadcrumbs
Broken Link Checker

They're the main ones I use.

[Sebastian]

Thanks for Sharing Lep - use a bunch of the same, except I don't have a custom geo-targeting plugin, currently using Franks'

[jdwanchalk]

XML Sitemaps
All In One SEO
Page Exclude

...think most else is more specific to an individual site.

[Peter Willis]

No Category Parents (strips out /category/ from the URL's)
WP-Page-Navi (neater navigation)
SEO Smart Links (awesome auto-linker, lots of options)
Custom Field Template
Simply Exclude (don't always need this, but very useful)
WP Touch (mobile/iPhone theme)
Term Management Tools (merge tags/categories - useful down the line)
Some kind of Breadcrumb plugin
Some kind of XML sitemap plugin
Some kind of Cache plugin
Some kind of SEO plugin

The other thing I always do is move jquery to be hosted by Google. And I like to rename "tag" to be something else. I've used things like "topic".

[pokerworx]

HeadspaceSEO (just recently learned go to options, page modules, force title rewrite you then have full control over page titles)
Google XML Sitemaps
Contact Form 7
Smush.it (cheers Leb)
Wordpress.com Stats (this you will need the Jetpack thing in the next update so will be looking for something else.)
Wordpress.com Stats Smiley Remover
Akismet
Frank's GEO Plugin (this thing is cool, I can see it being a such a powerful tool, I haven't even started using it properly, but basically you can make your site seem like its made for a visitor from x country.)

[Matt Geer]

I use All in One and Popup Domination. I've also been reading on Wordpress security and will be adding the Limit Login plugin to my sites as well. I tried XML Sitemaps the other day and ran into issues with it - said f**k it and just uploaded one manually.

Everything else is touch and go (depends on what I'm working on). Most of the themes I use (thesis, genesis/studiopress) have built in breadcrumbs and I think the newest version of WP has custom menus, so no need for plugins for those things. Everything else (pages, posts and categories (include/exclude) I do manually).

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Are you using the page exclude to remove pages from your navigation bar? I think that's what I used it for.

If you want to know how to setup your site without having to use that plugin, hit me up on Skype. (I only suggest it because I try to use as few plugins as possible).

XML Sitemaps
All In One SEO
Page Exclude

...think most else is more specific to an individual site.

[parttimepoker]

-XML sitemaps
-all in one seo
-custom plugin for managing affiliate links / bonus amounts / room info / redirects
-contact form 7 (if necessary)

i really try to keep the plugins very minimal to limit overhead / exposure. so many plugins do what you could do yourself with just a line or two of code.

[Tom]

I try to avoid any plugins and most good themes have built-in SEO options.

I really only use a contact form plugin and the xml sitemaps plugin.