Favorite WordPress Plugins

[bhupendra2895]

I am new to WordPress currently using
WordPress Importer
WordPress Mobile Edition

And it is notifying me about new version WordPress 3.0.1

[bhupendra2895]

What's Importer do?

If you have any other WordPress site, from which you want to import your blogs.You can use this.
I am looking for a backup and restore plugin?
Because in free hosting services disaster can happen any time.I am creating blogs on my local host and don't know how to upload them properly.I can do restore local database and files on remote server to do that, but this is not a logical way I think for just to import blogs on remote server.

[cheezo]

the latest plugin i've installed was the Simple:Press forum. it was awesome!

[techairlines]

For me, Akismet is a must have... recently, I'm been getting bombarded with spam comments (~300-400 a day), though unfortunately, I've just got 130 in 12 hours (and counting) spam pingbacks from autoblogs on one post and they weren't caught by Akismet...

Other than Akismet, I find CommentLuv, NoFollow Free, All in One SEO, and Twitter Friendly Links extremely useful.

If you have any other WordPress site, from which you want to import your blogs.You can use this.
I am looking for a backup and restore plugin?
Because in free hosting services disaster can happen any time.I am creating blogs on my local host and don't know how to upload them properly.I can do restore local database and files on remote server to do that, but this is not a logical way I think for just to import blogs on remote server.

For backing up your database, try this: http://x10hosting.com/wiki/How_to_Au..._your_Database

If you want a plugin, you can try: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ but I've noticed this sometimes triggers a high resource suspension depending on your database size.

[bhupendra2895]

Backing up and restoring database will allow me to restore my blogs from localhost to remote host?And what about images embedded on blog locally.I think for that I need to upload wp-content directory?

@Techairlines Thanks, as you suggested I will try these plugins and if anybody knows any suitable plugin for this purpose please post it here.

[Smith6612]

Akismet. Stops a lot of the spam so I don't have to search comments all the time!

[techairlines]

Backing up and restoring database will allow me to restore my blogs from localhost to remote host?And what about images embedded on blog locally.I think for that I need to upload wp-content directory?

Yes, the sql backup can be used anywhere that supports MySQL.

For images embedded, use Tools --> Export (in WordPress Dashboard). When you restore this XML backup, there's an option to download the attachments (including images). WP also automatically places them in the proper location and updates all URLs in the post that the media is attached to to point to the newly downloaded media.