My top 10 WordPress Plugins
This is my list of pugins I consider necessary!
Akismet - Hands down total anti-spam control. Easy to configure just get a WordPress API key by setting up a WordPress.com account.
All in One Adsense and YPN - Simply amazing. Super easy to integrate and the best part is that it lets you alternate between Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network for ad sources. You can select where to have the ads display with great detail.
All in One SEO Pack - You want to be found on search engines right ? Google.com, Yahoo.com to name a few. This plugin will do wonders for you. It allows you to exponentially expand your SEO meta data.
Digg Digg - Great plugin automatically inserts Digg me icons only where you want it to. If you haven't yet you need to sigh up for a digg.com account today and help make the web a better place by digging great websites/articles such as this one 
Dynamic Headers by Nicasio Design - See the logo at the top of this page ? It's actually a .jpg image that I've implemented into my WordPress header with this nifty plugin. What's the big deal you say. I could have just written some html to insert the image directly in there however this is "Dynamic" meaning it allows me to upload a new image on the fly without further altering the header coding. Anything that makes my live easier in the future is better
Flickr Widget - I like this one because it centers my images correctly. I use it mainly to liven up my page. i like to Give you something pretty to look at.
Google Analyticator - Google Analytics !!!ROCK!!! Are you using crappy statistical software such as Webalizer or AwStats ? Please stop! Aren't you sick of inconsistent data reports ? I was so I started using Google Analytics.
Twitter Widget - Tweet tweet ! If you have the tweeting obsession why not further expand it with a simple slick WordPress Plugin ?
WordPress PayPal Donation - Super easy to set up. Simply provide it with your paypal account email and you can be on your way to begging people for money. I mean asking people for support. Speaking of which have you visited my donations page yet ?
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August 14th, 2009 - 15:13
I perfectly understand most of the plugins you’ve selected, but one that’s gone past me, is why you’re using Akismet. I’ve had good experiences with the filter, but also kind of bad ones, where people are blocked out of the system quite randomly. I swapped to SpamTask instead, simply because it’s easier to install, and it does just as good a job as Akismet. That and I adore the statistics that it generates
August 14th, 2009 - 16:01
@Viktoria I’m using Akismet because it was there to begin with all I had to do was enter in my API key. I haven’t had problems with it blacklisting anything but spam. I’ll take a look at SpamTask though sounds like you like it a lot.