Having been working on more and more Wordpress sites I realised there are a few plug-ins that I use on almost every site. So, with no more todo here are my essential top five Wordpress plug-ins.

• Askimet What with 83% of all comments being spam, Askimet is the first line of defense.
• Contact Form 7 A superb AJAX contact form from Takayuki Miyoshi which supports multiple forms, Askimet spam filtering and CAPTCHA
• Google Analyticator The must have plug-in if you use Google Analytics.
• Google XML Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold A fantastic sitemap generator that also pings the top search engines. An essential SEO tool.
• Sociable Useful for adding social bookmark tags to your every post. Joost de Valkhas managed to include the all the major players, and more that you've never heard of.