As a plugin author, I think it’s appropriate that I give credit to those plugins that power this very site. I’ll admit, I use a lot – 40! More than I really should, but each has been reviewed and I really appreciate the functionality that they provide 🙂

This list has been produced by my plugin Plugins List.

• Akismet Anti-Spam (Automattic)
  Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from spam. It keeps your site protected even while you sleep. To get started: activate the Akismet plugin and then go to your Akismet Settings page to set up your API key.
• AMP (Automattic)
  Add AMP support to your WordPress site.
• Artiss.blog Configuration (David Artiss)
  Configuration Settings for Artiss.blog
• Bootstrap Shortcodes (Kevin Attfield)
  A simple shortcode generator. Add buttons, columns, toggles and alerts to your theme.
• Broken Link Checker (Janis Elsts, Vladimir Prelovac)
  Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
• Code Embed (David Artiss)
  Code Embed provides a very easy and efficient way to embed code (JavaScript and HTML) in your posts and pages.
• Crayon Syntax Highlighter (Aram Kocharyan)
  Supports multiple languages, themes, highlighting from a URL, local file or post text.
• Draft List (David Artiss)
  Manage and promote your drafts and schedules posts and pages.
• Featured Image Admin Thumb (Sean Hayes)
  Adds inline thumbnail image to admin columns for All Post/post types view (where supported). Click to easily set/change the featured image for that content.
• Footnotes Made Easy (David Artiss)
  Easily add footnotes to a post
• GiphyPress (Team GIPHY)
  The official GIPHY plugin allows you to embed awesome GIFs into your Wordpress posts with ease.
• Gutenberg (Gutenberg Team)
  Printing since 1440. This is the development plugin for the new block editor in core.
• Instant Images (Darren Cooney)
  One click photo uploads directly to your media library.
• Jetpack by WordPress.com (Automattic)
  Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.
• Limit Login Attempts (Johan Eenfeldt)
  Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP.
• Meks Smart Social Widget (Meks)
  Easily display more than 100 social icons inside WordPress widget. Choose from different icon shapes and sizes and quickly connect your website with your social profiles. Aim, Apple, Behance, Blogger, Cargo,
• Menu Icons (ThemeIsle)
  Spice up your navigation menus with pretty icons, easily.
• Nomad World Map (Nomad World Map)
  Create your own custom travel map. Link locations on the map to blog posts and share your travel plans.
• No Self Pings (Michael D. Adams)
  Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
• No Skim (David Artiss)
  Suppress Skimlinks on post or pages, whether the whole content or just a portion.
• Plugins List (David Artiss)
  Allows you to insert a list of the Wordpress plugins you are using into any post/page.
• Public Post Preview (Dominik Schilling)
  Enables you to give a link to anonymous users for public preview of any post type before it is published.
• Quotes Collection (Srini G)
  Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect and display your favourite quotes in your WordPress blog/website.
• Responsive Lightbox (dFactory)
  Responsive Lightbox allows users to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox (overlay) effect optimized for mobile devices.
• Safe Redirect Manager (10up)
  Easily and safely manage HTTP redirects.
• Shortcake (Shortcode UI) (Fusion Engineering and community)
  User Interface for adding shortcodes.
• Shortcodes Ultimate (Vladimir Anokhin)
  A comprehensive collection of visual components for WordPress
• To Top (Catch Themes)
  To Top plugin allows the visitor as well as admin to easily scroll back to the top of the page, with fully customizable options and ability to use image.
• UI Labs (John O'Nolan, Mika A Epstein)
  Experimental WordPress admin UI features, ooo shiny!
• Use Google Libraries (Jason Penney)
  Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google's AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from WordPress's own copies.
• VaultPress (Automattic)
  Protect your content, themes, plugins, and settings with realtime backup and automated security scanning from VaultPress. Activate, enter your registration key, and never worry again. Need some help?
• Wapuuvatar (Lee Willis)
  Use Wapuus for your user avatars.
• Wikilinker (David Artiss)
  Simple shortcode to quickly add links to Wikipedia.
• Wordpress Post Update Links (Christian Jung)
  Inserts Links to Update sections in the Beginning of Posts and Pages
• World Domination (David Artiss)
  Add WordPress market coverage summary to your dashboard.
• WP Dev Dashboard (Mickey Kay Creative)
  Easily see all of your unresolved plugin & theme support requests.
• WP Fingerprint (34SP.com)
  WP Fingerprint adds an additional layer of security to your WordPress website, working to check your plugins for signs of hack or exploit
• WP Product Review Lite (ThemeIsle)
  The highest rated and most complete review plugin, now with rich snippets support. Easily turn your basic posts into in-depth reviews.
• WP Review (MyThemesShop)
  Create reviews! Choose from stars, percentages or points for review scores. Supports Retina Display, WPMU and Unlimited Color Schemes.
• WP Smush (WPMU DEV)
  Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free WPMU DEV WordPress Smush API.