Having recently changed the site’s layout, I have started to receive many e-mail from readers asking what is the theme used in our blog and what is/that plugin. So, here is the answer for all those e-mails.
In this post, I have listed the plugins that powers Geeks4share.com and the theme used.
1. Ad Injection
This is really the best plugin, when it comes to inserting ad units around your site. This plugins provides you the option to insert the ad units at the top, middle, bottom of the articles and in the footer (with advanced conditions and filters).
The 300x250px ad unit seen within this article is inserted using this plugins.
2. Akismet
Akismet comes along with WordPress. It’s used to move the spam comments to the spam queue which reduces the tiring moderation work in your blog.
3. All In One SEO Pack
Helps you to add Title, Description and Keywords to your posts optimizing it for the search engine. It’s one of the powerful and recommended Search Engine Optimization plugin for WordPress.
4. AntiSpam Bee
It’s like Akismet, but this one doesn’t put the spam comments to the spam queue, but just blocks it making the comment moderation work much more easier.
5. AuthorBox
Authorbox holds the information about the author who wrote a particular post. AuthorBox comes along with certain themes, but my themes doesn’t have it. So, I use this plugin to add an authorbox to the posts.
Link to the plugin
6. Block Spam By Math Reloaded
This plugin protects your blog login, comments, and new user/new blog signup process against spam-bots with a simple math question. I can even show proof that the spam comments/registration had gone down drastically after replacing the Re-Captcha plugin with this Math Captcha plugin.
7. Comment Reply Notification
Comment reply notification plugin notifies the commentators when there is a reply for their comment. This plugins helps improving the conversation/discussion in your blog, making your blog more interactive.
8. Contact Form 7
Very simple looking contact form for your blog.
9. Featured Articles Lite
This is a JavaScript Featured Article Slider. You can see this plugin in action in our homepage.
10. Google XML Sitemaps
This is a cool sitemap generator for your blog. You can see the sitemap generator by this plugin here. The plugin maker claims that these sitemaps help your site to get indexed better by Search Engines likes Google and Bing.
11. Mobile Press
I use this plugin to make my blog available to mobile users in a completely different and a simple theme(very light and simple).
12. nRelate Related Content
This is definitely the best “Related Content” plugin you will ever find. You can choose different themes and the relevancy level. It also allows you to make money. How?
Read this to find it out: 3 Easy Steps To Make Money With nRelate Plugin
13. Peter’s Collaboration Emails
This plugin notifies the admin when a post has been submitted for review and also notifies the contributor about the post’s status when changed or published or scheduled.
14. ShareBar
This adds a dynamic floating share buttons to your articles. It can also adjust itself according to the browser size, screen resolution and page location.
15. Simple Author Highlight
You can see that my comments appear in a blue background. That has been done with the help of this plugin, it helps you to highlight certain user’s comment.
16. Top Contributors
It lists the top contributors of your blog. i.e It’s a widget where it can display the top commentators or the top guest authors of your blog.
17. WP Smush It
This is one of the most recommended and a must have plugin. It compresses the images that you upload to your blog, which in turn helps in keeping your blog little more fast.
18. WP Subscribers
This plugin allows you to add a lightbox or popup to your blog. If you have visited my site for the first time in 30 days then you could have noticed the pop-up window that appeared in the homepage prompting you to subscribe to our mailing list. This is the only premium plugin used. It costs $47 or $97 depending on the license you purchase.
Theme – BioRaz
But, by now there are very less similarities between the original BioRaz and the current Geeks4share’s theme, as it has been re-designed twice.
Hope this was helpful 
Yipeee got one for I am searching for that is Simple Author Highlight. Thanks a ton for the share praveen
You’re welcome buddy
Such a great list! Although I’ve already heard of the most of them, there are some really cool stuff. Just one question: if you decided to use AntiSpam Bee, why do you still have Akismet on your blog? I used to have Akismet (it is a standard feature of WP blogs), but it puts many worthy comments into the trash.
I liked the idea of having double security
I like the them and it loads fast.
Some great plugins to use. I use many of these and really thing they add to the sites which I design. One thing missing is a backup plugin – I still prefer Backup Buddy by Ithemes. It is pricey but the top of its class.
Hi Praveen
I see that I am using a lot of the same plugins on my own blog like: ShareBar, All In One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps and Contact Form 7.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing the plugins you use on the site Praveen. I’m surprised not to find WP Cache in the list, because it is so highly recommended. My favorite one is nRelate Related Content although I don’t use it on my blog, it certainly is attractive and clickable.
Hey,
I don’t think my blog loads very slow, so I didn’t find the need to install a cache plug-in
Thanks for your comment
I think supercache is a great plugin. It doesn’t only make your site faster to load (load speed is one of Google’s measure for search rank), it also greatly reduces load on the server. And if you get swamped with a huge flood of users supercache will make it much more likely your site stays online instead of getting overloaded and turning away thousands of users.
All in one seo is one of the best plugins for seo but you can use more than 2 plugins for seo but just check they are not inter-lapping or counteracting each other.
Good list! It is nice to know what plugins a successful blog like geeks4share uses..
They are all useful from what i read, but as you stated Ad Injection looks the best one.
Thanks for sharing
WP Smuth It is a must have specially if you regularly add images to your post or you have lots of images in your blog.
Great list!
Hey… thanks for this list. Definitely I am going to take a closer look at all the plugins and will try to use some of them on my blog tool
Hey there, Thanks for sharing us your secrets about plugins you use on your blog. They are really nice collections!
Thank you for the thorough list and for the links. I use most of these plugins, but I will try to take a look on the WP Smush It plugins, as my blog doesn’t seems to load too fast.
Nice list of WP plugins. I did not know of some of them like Authorbox and nRelate Related Content. I will check them both out for my sites.
-Jean
Thanks a lot for sharing this list of wordpress plugins. I have been searching this one. Thanks!
You might add your name and email address to a signature to ensure readers know you are the author and have the ability to contact you. You might also use a signature to add a copyright date to each post. Install the WP Post Signature plugin to automatically add your personal signature to the bottom of each WordPress post.
Great info released, praveen!
I use some of these plugins, but the rest look quite unfamiliar to me. Some such as Akismet and All In One SEO Pack are must-install plugins!
Simple author highlight is the kind of thing I have been meaning to add for quite some time: thanks for the tip.
I am surprised the math captcha decreased spam (vs. recaptcha), I wonder why?
Some of the plugins like author highligher can be removed as this is easily achieveable using some css code. Thus can save plugin loading time, otherwise a great collection of plugins. Little bit disappointed that you are not using wp smash.it plugin to reduce the image size and w3 total cache to decrease page loading time
I generally use most of the plugins except adinjection, instead, I use manual method to add ads on my blog that will improve my blog speed a little bit.
Great collection of plugins you have.
Thanks for sharing!!