For spam-protection I use three plugins: Akismet, WP-SpamFree and Trackback Validator. Those together give great protection. WP-SpamFree includes a spam-free contact form that I use.

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There are 16 plugins used: 12 active plugins and 4 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

  Akismet
» Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

  Auto Excerpt everywhere
» Serena Villa (url)
The plugin shows excerpts instead of contents in your blog, single posts and pages excluded. It tries to display your custom excerpt text and if it doesn’t find it it will show an automatically generated excerpt. You can also define an excerpt length (default is 500) and a custom read more link.

  CryptX
» Ralf Weber (url)
No more SPAM by spiders scanning you site for email adresses. With CryptX you can hide all your email adresses, with and without a mailto-link, by converting them using javascript or UNICODE. Although you can choose to add a mailto-link to all unlinked email adresses with only one klick at the settings. That’s great, isn’t it?

  Digg Digg
» Buffer (url)
Add a floating bar with share buttons to your blog. Just like Mashable!

  Jetpack by WordPress.com
» Automattic (url)
Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.

  Redirection
» John Godley (url)
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors

  Subpages Extended
» Matt Say (url)
A widget to list subpages of a page with an option to show subpages list on empty pages. It also comes with a [subpages] shortcode. You can read how to use subpages . You can find more widgets, plugins and themes at shailan.com.

  Trackback Validator
» Dan Sandler and Andres Thomas-Stivalet (url)
Eliminates spam trackbacks with surprising accuracy (see website for details).

  WordPress SEO
» Joost de Valk (url)
The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.

  WP-PageNavi
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan & scribu (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog

  WP-PluginsUsed
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-SpamFree
» Scott Allen (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

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