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. After installing the Akismet plug-in for WordPress you will need an API key to activate. The API Key is available free for personal blogs.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and more.

All in One SEO Pack

All in one SEO pack plugin helps you to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). In order to rank higher amongst the search engines like Google, you must optimize your blog to a point to where you show up they think your site is better than the rest. All in One SEO Pack helps you get there.

WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup is a very handy plugin that performs an On-demand backup of your WordPress database. It allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables as well as other non WordPress tables within your database.

WP-Polls

WP-Polls  Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. For WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress.

Smart YouTube

Smart YouTube Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed. The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post.

Maintenance Mode

Maintenance Mode Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.

Google Analytics for WordPress

Google Analytics for WordPress Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and pageviews.

eBay Affiliate WordPress Plugin

WPMeS – eBay Affiliate WordPress Plugin is a simple plugin that allows you to monetize your wordpress blog by promoting eBay products. This plugin will quickly build an eBay storefront within your WordPress blog.

Clickbank Marketplace Plugin for WordPress

CBPress – Clickbank Marketplace Plugin for WordPress allows you to import the ENTIRE ClickBank Marketplace into your WordPress blog in seconds and then manage which ClickBank categories and products YOU WANT displayed. This plugin gives you the ability to monetize your WordPress blog by promoting products being offered on the Clickbank Marketplace network.

Go to ‘Pages‘ in WordPress and create a page to use for wpMeS. This will be the base URL for your wpMeS menu links.

Go to the wpMeS Site Configuration menu

• Click the Store Site Settings menu
• Put in your WP MeS Key from when you purchased the program.
• Select the WordPress page you created for wpMeS from the Store Display Page dropdown box.
• Click the eBay Partner Network Settings menu
• Enter your EPN Campaign ID
• Enter a Custom ID ie yourdomain.com
• Select the country your eBay results are to come from
• Check the Use CacheBuster Image box.
• Click the Update Changes button

Now go to eBay and do a search for the products you would like to have on your site. For example if your blog is based on collectible dolls, type in dolls on the eBay search box. Copy the contents from your browsers address bar.

Go to the wpMeS Menu Configuration menu then click on the Feed Import Wizard.

• Paste in the contents you copied from eBay by doing a right click copy in the input box.
• Click the Submit button
• Now select which menus you want. I normally do not select Condition, Seller, Buying formats, Location or any other non specific item menu. You can deselect a group by clicking the check box with the colored background.
• Now click the Import button
• Review the screen to see if your import was successful.

Go to the wpMeS Menu Box Settings menu.

• Enable the imported menus or disable as you please.

Go to ‘Widgets‘ then add the “WPMeS Sidebar Menu” to your themes sidebar area.

WPMeS Quick Setup
eBay WordPress Plugin Video