Quickly being adopted for many websites, WordPress is a flexible system of near infinite possibilities. Using plugins, you can do use WordPress for a magazine, storefront, personal site, or even a content management system. I’ve made a list of the plugins I’m using on this site and explain some of their benefits.

Formatting

• Nextgen Gallery (download)
  Put together slideshows using this gallery plug-in. Includes options for text overlays with HTML.
• WP e-Commerce (download)
  Not on everyone’s CMS, but some. Turn your WordPress into an online store.
• WP Polls (download)
  Interact with traffic on changes, general questions or other polls. Easily edit questions and use anywhere on-site.

SEO
Optimize for Search Engines

• All in One SEO (download)
  Automatically optimize for search engines like Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo. Fine tune titles, keywords and tags.
• Google Sitemap Generator (download)
  Generate XML-based sitemaps for search engines to detect your sites pages and posts. Includes robots.txt generator.
• SEO Friendly Images (download)
  Automatically generate search engine friendly alt and title tags for your images. Not necessary if All in One SEO is configured properly.