Thanks to WordPress it is now child’s play to set up a website and install wordpress and get going. Amidst the content and seo and link building by installing the essential wordpress plugins you can be sure to make life more easier for you.

Here are some of the must have wordpress plugins.

Site Analytics

StatPress: A very easy to use plugin that integrates seamlessly providing you with up to date stats, keywords that your site visitors searched in order to end up on your site. You also get detailed reports on the spiders, recent crawls and rss fee subscribers. Read more about this WP Plugin

Ultimate Google Analytics: Apart from Statpress, it always helps to haev google analytics embeded in your wordpress as well so as to get a more accurate stat results from Google directly. All you need to do is install this plugin and enter your Google Analytics UA id. Read more about this WP Plugin

Microblogging

Twitter Connector: This plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress. Read more about this WP Plugin

Tweet This: This is a neat little plugin that gives your site visitors to tweet your posts to their twitter. Read more about this WP Plugin

Social Networking

Sociable: Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Read more about this WP Plugin

Google Friend Connector: Use this plugin to easily integrate Google Friend Connect with WordPress. You can add Google Friend Connect gadgets to your sidebar/across the site. Read more about this WP Plugin. Read more about GFC.

Facebook Connect: WordPress plugin that allows direct integration of WordPress blogs with Facebook. You can build a community, login using your Facebook account, Send comments to Facebook profile feed, invite your friends to the blog community, See last visitors. Read more about this WP Plugin. Read more about Facebook Connect.

Sitemaps

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. Read more about this WP Plugin

SEO

All in One SEO Pack: A comprehensive plugin that gives you a one page interface to tweak your wordpress hosted sites for better SEO. Read more about this WP Plugin

Head META Description: Some search engines display the Description meta data for a page in search results. Since WordPress normally uses the same meta data for all the pages on your site, this is a problem. This plugin builds a dynamic description meta tag for each entriy based on the page content itself. Read more about this WP Plugin

RSS

WP-O-Matic: WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns. Read more about this WP Plugin

RSSDoodle: This plugin allows a user to create posts and categories based on RSS keyword searches via Technorati. Each post is a mashup of search results. Read more about this WP Plugin

Adsense

Adsense Deluxe: Place Google AdSense ads in your posts, or as part of your template. This plugin ensures you do not have more than 3 ads displayed at once — part of Google’s terms of use. Read more about this WP Plugin.