The best & most reliable WordPress plugins
Improves search automatically by building a more comprehensive index then WordPress out of the box. Options to customize what gets included in the index, caching options, and fine-tuned control, and works with existing search forms.
Manage your posts using a calendar interface. Easily drag posts from one day to another, schedule your drafts and view all of your upcoming and past posts in a full page calendar layout.
Hide your entire WordPress site behind password protection. Any users visiting your site will be greeted by a login page which prompts them for a password that you specify.
Add a simple "Scroll to Top" button to the bottom right of every one of your posts. There are three styles to chose from, and everything is kept very lightweight. Typography and colors are inherited from your theme styles.
Edit your post without every having to go to the back-end. While browsing your site, this plugin will enable a small "Edit" button next to your post that will open a WYSIWYG editor inline, in the front-end of your post.
Sell Digital goods on your WordPress site with the ability to set up multiple payment gateways, bundle together multiple files, and track order and download history.
Sync your WordPress site with the Twitter API and customize which posts should be automatically tweeted to your account. Control the content of your tweets, and change settings on a post to post basis with a built-in meta box in your post editor.
Gives you a list of security tweaks that you can make for your website in a variety of different categories. Also performs regular database backups in case the worst happens and you need to restore everything.
Add related posts to the bottom of your pages, which are based on post title and post content rather then just categories and tags. You can chose which post types to add to, customize the output, or implement the plugin manually.
Generate new thumbnails when new image sizes are added to your WordPress theme. You can regenerate all of your thumbnails at once, or chose just a few, or even just one image using the Media Library.
Clone your WordPress posts from a few different locations in your admin panel, and customize the outputted title of the post. Options to edit a post right away, or save it as a draft and come back to it later.
Add command line tools to WordPress. Update your WP site, install one from scratch and manage databases without leaving the terminal. If you find yourself completing dev. tasks over and over, this is probably the right plugin for you.