To start things off on the right foot, below you will find eleven WordPress plugins that I have used/or currently use, plugins that you will find very useless if you are using a WordPress-based movie website.
11 WordPress Plugins You Must Have
Official Shpiel: The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
My Take: I was using the WP Super Cache plugin but when I started using this plugin, my sites noticeably sped up and loaded faster. Be sure to use Google's Page Speed add-on for Mozilla Firefox to find out what CSS and JavaScripts to add into the plugin to condense them into one file so that your site loading is even faster.
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All in one SEO
Official Shpiel: Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines.
My Take: You see at the top of the home page of ProMovieBlogger where it says "How to Create and Start a Movie Website, How to Write a Movie Review - ProMovieBlogger". This plugin allows you to create and manipulate that message with ease. That message is important because you can load it with keywords. Search for ProMovieBlogger on Google. What tagline do you see for it in the results?
Final words on both: All in One SEO is plugin and play, W3 Total Cache Plugin is better (in my experience with it. I have used both) and basically plug and play, but it comes with many more options and if you configure it, tweak it, it will work that much better. It also comes with many more headaches.
Robot Meta
Official Shpiel: Add meta robots tags to WordPress pages.
My Take: By using this plugin, you can tell search engines what to spider on your website and what not to. The best part is that it allows you to setup your own Robot.txt file with whatever Allows and Disallows you want. A good tutorial on the program can be found here.
Akismet
Official Shpiel: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
My Take: Less spam on your website. Nuff said.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Official Shpiel: Automatically redirect your feed into FeedBurner. The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
My Take: It collects all your feeds and automatically redirects so that you do not even have to think about it afterword. Every RSS access point you have is redirected to the same place.
Google XML Sitemaps
Official Shpiel: This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.
My Take: This plugin helps your movie website get indexed by search engines.
No Self Pings
Official Shpiel: This plugin disables intra-blog pinging.
My Take: When you are linking in your posts to another post on your site, this plugin stops WordPress from pinging and displaying the linking post in your comments.
Optimal Title
Official Shpiel: Optimal Title mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the 'separator' to after the title rather than before. This allows you to have your blog name tacked on to the end of the page title instead of having it appear first.
My Take: It makes your post titles look more professional, e.g. How to Start a Movie Website | ProMovieBlogger.
WordPress.com Stats
Official Shpiel: Once it's running it'll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It'll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page.
My Take: I use this more than Google Analytics to track website traffic and what search engine terms are bringing people to my websites. Actionable info on one page.
WordPress Related Posts
Official Shpiel: The WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate related posts via your WordPress tags and add the related posts to the bottom of your posts.
My Take: A must for showing other posts at the bottom of an article you have written. Another option is the LinkWithin script for your single post php file.
Digg Digg
Official Shpiel: All-in-One social vote buttons - Digg, Reddit, dDone, Yahoo Buzz, TweetMeme(twitter), facebook share, facebook like, Polladium, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Sphinn, Post comments, Google Buzz, Designbump, Designfloat, WebBlend and BlogEngage.
My Take: A very good plugin for adding social buttons anywhere in your post or having them float along side it as you scroll down. Adjustable button sizes as well. It is not compatible with the mobile version of your website though.
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