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Flutter

Fantastic plugin to transform wordpress in a real CMS.
Some cool features are the “edit in place” , the possibility to hide obtrusive options or to widgetize your entire theme and the perfect integration whit the Role Manager plugin (see below).

Role Manager

If you’re the only author of your blog you don’t need this plugin but if have some editors you can use this plugin to create new roles with different privileges.

WP-CMS Post Control plugin

It allows you to hide unwanted items like custom fields or trackbacks.

Pagemash

Here you have an ajax interface to drag-and-drop the pages into the order you like.

Cforms II

Just the best plugin to create custom forms.

Subscribe2

A subscription management system (general public and registered users) for your blogs.

WP e-Commerce

If you want to sell products this is the best e-commerce shopping cart plugin

Members Only

It allows you to make your site only viewable to visitors that are logged in.

Redirection

A nice plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors.

All in One SEO Pack

Useful to optimize your blog for search engines.

Search Everything

With this plugin you can increase the ability of the default wordpress search.
For example you can search every page, tag, comment or draft.

CMS-Like Admin Menu

If you don’t want the post functionality you can use “CMS-Like Admin Menu” to manage to default to using pages instead of posts.

Simple CMS

Simple CMS removes all of the functionalities which are not needed for a basic website.

Google XML Sitemaps

Create a Google sitemaps white a click.

Exec-PHP

To execute custom PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.

Breadcrumb NavXT

This plugin generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress blog.

BM Custom Login Plugin

Use this plugin to create a custom wordpress login screen.

Secure Files

This plugin allows you to upload\download files that are stored outside of you root for security purposes.

Maintenance Mode

You can add a splash page to your blog when the website is down for maintenance.

Create a static home page

Ok, this is not a plugin but a powerful option of the newer versions of wordpress.
It give you the ability to create a static homepage whit a normal page (instead of a post).
It is under “Settings -> Reading”.