WordPress is one of the most used scripts on the net. A great thing about WordPress is there are thousands of plugins and themes. I wanted to share my top 15 favorite plugins I use on my WordPress sites.

WordPress Popular Posts | Plugin Site | Download
Showcases your most popular posts to your visitors on your blog’s sidebar. Use WordPress Popular Posts as a widget or place it anywhere on your theme using

Akismet | Plugin Site | Download
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Contact Form 7 | Plugin Site | DownloadA great plugin that can make it simple and easy to create a secure contact form for your WordPress site.

FD Feedburner Plugin | Plugin Site | Download
Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed

Datafeedr Random Ads V2 | Plugin Site | Download
The Datafeedr Random Ads plugin is a free plugin which allows you to simply and easily show random ads anywhere in your template files or using widgets. Go to Tools > Datafeedr Random Ads to begin using this plugin.

MobilePress | Plugin Site | Download
Turn your WordPress blog into a mobile website/blog.

Really Simple CAPTCHA | Plugin Site | Download
Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

Smart Archives Reloaded | Plugin Site | Download
An elegant and easy way to present your posts, grouped by year and month.

Subscribe To Comments | Plugin Site | Download
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

Tabbed Widgets | Plugin Site | Download
Place widgets into tabbed and accordion type interface.

Thumbnail For Excerpts | Plugin Site | Download
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…).

Top Commentators Widget | Plugin Site | Download
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin.

AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget | Plugin Site | Download
Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark your site easily with many popular services. Sign up for an AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content–which services they’re using for sharing, which content is shared the most, and more. It’s all free–even the pretty charts and graphs.

Lightbox 2 | Plugin Site | Download
Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Now with better regular expressions, courtesy of Michael Tyson!

Add Lightbox | Plugin Site | Download
This plugin automatically add the rel=”lightbox[ID_OF_THE_POST]” to images linked in a post. ID_OF_THE_POST is unique per post so all images per post are grouped in one lightbox set. Doesn’t add the the files required for lightbox!

Feel free to suggest more I can add to my list of great WordPress Plugins!