As we mentioned in a previous post about our essential online tools, WordPress powers our blog.

The main reason for us choosing WordPress is its easy, user-friendly interface. It’s also great for the huge number of plugins that can be installed to tweak, personalise and improve your site. Here’s a list of our top, can’t-live-without WordPress plugins:

• CommentLuv – Rewards readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. It encourages a community and helps you discover new posts & blogs
• Cookie Confirm – allows you to easily insert a customisable notification for readers to choose and save their cookie preferences (**now deprecated**)
• FeedBurner FeedSmith – detects all the ways of accessing your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every single subscriber (**now deprecated**)
• Google XML Sitemaps – generates a special XML sitemap which helps search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. to better index your website
• GTranslate – gets translations with a single click between 58 languages (more than 98% of internet users) on your website
• Hyper Cache – improves your website’s perfomance and save resources
• Jetpack by WordPress.com – enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users. Tools such as site stats, spelling & grammar check, social sharing and lots, lots more!
• nrelate Related Content – allows you to easily display related posts on your website (**now deprecated**)
• P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) – tells you which plugins are slowing down your website (and when you use as many as we do, that’s really useful!) (**now deprecated**)
• Shareaholic – adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your pages and/or posts
• Skimlinks – helps you to easily monetise content by converting product links in your posts into their equivalent affiliate links on-the-fly. Adds a new revenue stream to your blog, including monetising the links in your RSS feed, without affecting your readers’ experience
• Tumblrize – automatically cross-posts to your Tumblr blog when you publish a post on your WordPress website (**now deprecated**)
• Revive Old Post – helps you to keep your old posts alive by tweeting about them and driving more traffic to them via Twitter. You can set the time, frequency and number of tweets to post
• WordPress Backup to Dropbox – we’ve previously mentioned about what a great invention Dropbox is – and this is one of the things we use it for! It keeps your valuable WordPress website, its media and database backed up to Dropbox in minutes (**now deprecated**)
• WordPress SEO – the most recommended WordPress SEO tool! Very easy to understand & use
• WP CleanFix – an all in one tool that checks, repairs, fixes & optimises your WordPress website
• WP Greet Box – shows a different message to your visitors depending on which site they arrive from – e.g. you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed and more!
• WP Missed Schedule – every so often in the past, we’ve scheduled posts that for some reason or other just didn’t “send”. This little plugin sets our minds at ease!
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – although we use nrelate Related Content on the actual website, this one is seen by our RSS feed readers

What do you think of our list? Do you have any indispensable, top WordPress plugins not on here?