It's always interesting to see what plugins other WordPress bloggers use. Today Darren Rowse shared a few of his favourites. As it's the weekend I thought I'd show you my top plugins too.

Spam Control

• Akismet. Of course.
• Bad Behaviour. For killing bots at source.

Feed Control

• Full Text Feed. No-one likes partial feeds, just cause I use the more tag every now and again doesn't mean my subscribers have to suffer.
• Better Feed. To add stuff to my feed, probably needs clearing up though.

For The Comments

• DoFollow. Feel the link love.
• Live Comment Preview. See what your comment will look like, before you've even written it.
• Subscribe to comments. So you can keep in touch with your comments.

Post Level Plugins

• Related Posts. In case you want to read more.
• Share This. In case you want to Digg, or del.icio.us or Stumble or several other options.
• More Tag Modifier. For slipping ads into the middle of posts.

Miscellaneous

• Brian's Latest Comments. To see where the action is.
• Dagon Design Form Mailer. Safe and secure contact form.
• Sitemap generator. Give Google your sitemap and get crawled.

There are a couple of others, but I hardly use them. I'd have to say the above are my favourites. Maybe I use too many, maybe not enough. I would like to extend a huge thank you to all those who write and update theses plugins for nothing, without them our blogs would be a much more boring place (full of comment spam for one thing!).

You've Seen Mine, Let's See Yours

Why don't you share your favourite plugins too? I am always interested in seeing how other people run their blogs and whether I'm missing out on a vital plugin. Let me know if you see any here that catch your eye too.