Have you ever had to do a fresh Wordpress install and then realized how much work can be involved in getting all the right plugins again? You have to find them, download then, extract them and then upload them again, and that’s before you even configure them. So to help in this process I have put together a Wordpress Plugin Starter Pack. It contains 16 plugins which I would deem essential to most Wordpress users. The starter pack includes:

• All in One SEO Pack - Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. (v1.4.6.13)
• cforms - cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. (v8.6)
• Clean Notifications - Make e-mail notifications for new comments/pings cleaner and more readable. (v1.1)
• FeedBurner FeedSmith - Detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. (v2.2)
• flickrRSS - Allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. (v4.0)
• Google XML Sitemaps - Generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. (v3.1.0.1)
• Gravatars2 - Implements Gravatars (global avatars: gravatar.com) with enhanced caching support, cron support, & administrative interface to control default options. (v2.7.0)
• Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu - Replaces admin menus with a CSS dropdown menu bar. Saves lots of clicks and page loads! (v2.2)
• Sociable - Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. (v2.9.1)
• Twitter Tools - A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. (v1.1b1)
• Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - Allows a user to automatically upgrade the Wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the Wordpress upgrade instructions. (v1.2.1)
• Wordpress Download Monitor - Manage downloads on your site, view and show hits, and output in posts. (v2.1.4)
• WP-SpamFree - An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. (v1.9.6.3)
• WP-Syntax - Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. (v0.9)
• WP Developer Assistant - A plugin by a WordPress developer for WordPress developers. (v1.0.3)
• WP Super Cache - Very fast caching module for WordPress. (v0.6.6)

If you only want to use some and not all of these plugins you can still download the pack and delete the ones you won’t use. Then just upload, update, activate and away you go.

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