A nice list of the 100 Best WordPress Plugins of all time. WordPress is the best CMS for blogs and plugins make it powerful. There are thousand plugins out there and the WordPress plugin repository is a huge place to grab good ones.

Of course you can’t install and try all plugins, it would take ages to complete and probably your website will get messed up fast.

To make your life smarter i have compiled a huge list of the best wordpress plugins and must have of all time. They include all categories like: Ecommerce, Security, SEO, Social Networking, Membership and so on.

These plugins are the best you can find in the market. Almost all pugins are free and you can find a few paid ones or with Pro versions.

Currently there are 20,916 plugins, 337,844,999 downloads in accordance to the WordPress Plugin Directory, the good thing is they are rated by users so you can have a clear idea about what are the best ones.

You can sort plugins in many ways: newest, recently updated, most popular and highest rated:

1. Eshop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It is packed with various features, including basic statistics, sales data, various payment options, various methods to list products, basic stock control and various discount options.

2. Shopp

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog.

3. PayPal Payment Terminal WordPress

With its super easy installation, PayPal Payment Terminal WordPress allows you to start accepting paypal payments on your wordpresssite.

4. uPricing – Pricing Table for WordPress

uPricing is a pricing table for WordPress. It is a standalone plugin that allows you to create a pricing table to list your products in.

5. GetShopped

The WP e-Commerce Plugin is offered under GetShopped and is a shop owner’s dream. It offers a fully integrated shopping cart application suitable for selling your digital and tangible products, services, and or fees online.

6. PHPurchase

PHPurchase allows you to sell digital and physical products, collect recurring payments for subscriptions, memberships, and payment plans.

7. WordPressDealpon

WP Dealpon is a completely automated, turn-key wordpress plugin that will let you run automatically controlled special offers right from your wordpress blog.

8. Funnel Press

Funnel Press makes it easy to track all visitors in your sales funnel process on any wordpress installation.

9. Quick Shop

Quick Shop supports any WordPress that has the sidebar widgets installed. It adds a SideBar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items.

10. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple mark up.

11. Fast Secure Contact Form

This plugin allows you to easily create and add contact forms on yourWordPress site.

12. Scaleable Contact Form

This is a contact form plugin which creates a very customizable contact form on your WordPress blog.

13. Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms lets you build and publish your WordPress forms in just minutes.

14. WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts.

15. Google Web Fonts for WordPress

Google Fonts Pro is a premium WordPress plugin that allows you to instantly access over 200 of Google’s Web Fonts with power and ease.

16. Exclude Pages

This plugin comes in handy when you want to create pages that you don’t want the general visitors on your site to view.

17. Email Users

A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other.

18. Subscribe 2

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers.

19. WP Simplicity

WP Simplicity is an amazing blogging tool, which allows you to leverage your time and your income. It is developed with the most advanced features to offer time-saving solutions and transform blogging experience.

20. WordPress Auto-Translator Plugin

This is a WordPress auto translation plugin that uses IP address technology. Once installed, the plugin can translate all WordPress pages including widgets.

21. WP-Polls

WP-Polls is a Poll plugin that is extremely customizable using its in-built templates and css styles.

22. Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commentators to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent comments left for the post.

23. Get Recent Comments

This plugin displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog, in your sidebar.

24. GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog.

25. CommentLuv

For WordPress plugin fetches the feed found at commentators’ site URL while they type their comment and extracts their last blog post title with link and displays it below the comment form.

26. LinkWithin

Learn LinkWithin is a blog widget that shows related stories from your blog archive under each post and links to them.

27. Popularity Contest

Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments,trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.

28. WP Flip Page

WP Flip Page provides a simple and effortless way to take any PDF document, ebook, or set of image files and turn them into stunning, interactive 3D flipping books.

29. WP-Email

This WordPress plugin allows people to recommend or send your blog posts pages to friends via Email.

30. Comment Redirect

Redirect commenters who just made their first comment to a page of your choice.

31. Thank Me Later

Thank Me Later plugin will automatically send an e-mail to your those who leave a comment at your blog.

32. Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service and filters out your comment and track-back spam for you.

33. Secure WordPress

Secure WordPress beefs up the security of your WordPress installation by removing error information on login pages, adds index.html to plugin directories, hides the WordPress version and much more.

34. WP-SpamFreeAnti Spam

This is a powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam.

35. WP Security Scan

WP Security Scan checks your WordPress website/blog for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions to ensure your passwords, file permissions and database are secure.

36. BulletProof Security

The plugin is designed to be a fast, simple and one click security plugin that creates, copies, renames, moves or writes to the provided BulletProof Security .htaccess master files.

37. Limit Login Attempts

The plugin limits the number of login attempts possible both through normal login as well as using auth cookies. It blocks an Internet address from making further attempts after a specified limit on retries is reached, making a brute-force attack difficult or impossible.

38. WP Slide In

The WP Slide InWordpress plugin allows you to create eye-catching opt in banners that stick to the base of your blog and virtually attract your blog visitors to subscribe to your mailing list!

39. WP Opt-in

WP OptIn is a WordPress plugin that allows your commenters to subscribe to your email newsletter or autoresponder simply by checking a box automatically placed in your comment forms.

40. WP Squeeze Page Plugin

The WordPress Squeeze Page Plugin allows you to grow your subscriber opt-in/mailing list

42. PopUp Domination

PopUp Domination is an easy-to-use list building WordPress plugin that helps you create a popup window on your website to help you capture email leads.

43. List Eruption

List Eruption is a WordPress plugin which you can install in your website and it will then help to grow your subscriber’s list. It basically helps you build an incentive-based referral system so that your subscribers are rewarded for referring friends.

44. WPSubscribers Plugin

WPSubscribers Plugin allows you to create and customize unlimited number of web forms which include popup forms, footer bar forms, custom forms, exit popups.

45. Subscribers Magnet

This plugin lets you easily add the opt-in form anywhere in your WordPress blog, including the sidebar, footer, within the post itself and even in the comments.

46. All In One SEO Pack

The plugin is a powerful plugin that automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for search engines. It supports custom post types, fine tunes page navigational links, generates meta tags automatically and is the only plugin to provide SEO integration for wp e-commerce sites.

47. SEOPressor

This WordPress SEO is an SEO plugin and tool that will take care of optimizing on-page factors and give your websites the advantage to rank high in the search engines.

48. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.

49. Platinum SEO Pack

Platinum SEO Plugin is the ultimate wordpress SEO solution. You can add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydirmeta tags to any post or page.

50. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin corrects WordPress’s pinging system and after you install it, your blog will ping and notify all the ping services when it has been updated.