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First of all, if you are reading this page, I hope you have a blog that uses WordPress 2.0 or higher. If you don’t, download it here. Install it. Learn to love it. Then come back here when you’re ready to take full advantage of it. WordPress is a labor of love supported by thousands of people, for free. WordPress can be enhanced by using plugins, which are all free for the downloading. These are the ones I use. You can find a complete list of WordPress plugins at WP-Plugins.net

Adhesive 3.2

Allows easy marking of sticky posts in WordPress 2.0. Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright 2005 Owen Winkler. By Owen Winkler.

Admin Menu 3.5

Terms of use • Doc/FAQ • Support forum — Adds a convenient admin menu to your blog. To customize the skin, drop a skin.css file in the plugin’s directory. The sample skin is courtesy of BureauBlumenberg. By Denis de Bernardy.

Ad Rotator 1.0.1

Like the Text widget, but it will take several chunks of HTML text separated with . In each page request new chunk will be displayed. Up to 9 instances of this widget may exist. Heavily derived from the Text widget code included with the widget plugin by Automattic, Inc. By Kpumuk.

Adsense-Deluxe 0.8

Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. For complete usage and configuration click on AdsenseDeluxe under the “Options” menu. By Acme Technologies.

Akismet 2.0

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put in your template. By Matt Mullenweg.

AutoMeta 0.4b

Automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. By Rich Boakes.

Cat2Tag v 2.0 2.0

Creating categories has never been so easy. Packed with moo.fx and Prototype. By Edmundo Hidalgo & Jeff Minard.

cforms 3.4

cforms offers convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. The form submission utilizes AJAX, however, falls back to a standard method in case AJAX/Javascript is not supported. Help and Configuration options can be found under ‘Options’ in wp-admin. By Oliver Seidel.

Code Auto Escape 2.0

Automatically escape code within … tag By Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo.

Comment Quicktags + 1.1

Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. js_quicktags is a slightly modified version of Alex King’s newer Quicktag.js plugin modified from original found here. By Dan Cameron.

Coppermine 3.9

Integrate Coppermine into Wordpress. Go here to configure. By Martijn van der Kwast, Matthias Jell and Jason Goldsmith.

Customizable Comment Listings 0.9

Display Recent Comments, Pingbacks, and/or Trackbacks, as well as other comment listings using the comment and/or post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner. You can narrow comment searches by specifying post IDs, comment types, and/or comment status, among other things. By Scott Reilly.

Democracy 2.0.1

This poll plugin is easy to use, install, and manage. It uses AJAX to load data, making it quick and fun to use. Add

to your posts to include polls in your posts, where *id* corresponds to the ID of your poll. By Andrew Sutherland.

Democracy Widget 1.0

Adds a sidebar widget for use with Andrew Sutherland’s Democracy Poll widget. By Andrew Sutherland.

Dofollow 2.0

Terms of use • Doc/FAQ • Support forum — Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments. By Denis de Bernardy.

Exec-PHP 2.0

Allows or [?php ?] tags inside of your posts to execute PHP code. For WP 2.0 you can restrict PHP execution by assigning the role exec_php which is assigned by default to the administrators and editors role. By Sören Weber.

Fancy Excerpt 2.1

Terms of use • Doc/FAQ • Support forum — Enhances WordPress’ default excerpt generator by generating sentence aware excerpts. By Denis de Bernardy.

Feedburner Feed Replacement 2.2

Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. By Steve Smith.

Feed List 2.02B

Displays any ATOM or RSS feed in your blog. By Bill Rawlinson.

Google Analytics 0.51v

This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your blog. By Rich Boakes.

Gregarious 1.999

The ultimate social bookmarking plugin. Need I say more? By Ankur Kothari.

Kramer 0.7.7

Implements Technorati inbound links to a post as Pingbacks. Also provides a template function to display general inbound links. By Nik Cubrilovic and Mark Jaquith.

Now Reading 4.3.5

Allows you to display the books you’re reading, have read recently and plan to read, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon. By Rob Miller.

Paged Comment Editing 0.4

Replaces the stock Comments Management page with a more flexible page that allows paging through comments as well as optionally showing _all_ comments, including spam comments. This way it is possible to correct false-positives and monitor the activity of the built-in spam countermeasures. Simply activate the plugin and visit the Manage -> Comments page. By Brian "ColdForged" Dupuis.

Post Word Count 1.02

Outputs the total number of words in all posts. By Nick Momrik.

Deactivate EditRandom Quotes 1.3

This plugin allows you to embed random quotes into your pages. It also has a spiffy management tool in the administrative console. By Dustin Barnes.

Related Posts 2.04

Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne.

Search Everything 3.02

Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, attachments, drafts, comments and custom fields (metadata). By Dan Cameron.

Share This 1.4

Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README. By Alex King.

Sidebar Widgets 1.2.1.20070210b

Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu By Automattic, Inc..

Snap Shotsâ„¢ Plugin 1.3

Add Snap Shots to your blog. Go to Options >> Snap Shots to configure. By Ajay D’Souza.

Sociable 2.0 beta 4

Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Go to Options -> Sociable for setup. By Peter Harkins.

Tiger Style Administration 3.0

After working with WordPress for several months now, I felt the Administration area needed a little “freshening up”. I wanted the utility to feel more like an application, and less like a traditional website. By Steve Smith.

Top Commenters Widget 4.1

This plugin will add a list of the most frequent commenters (in descending order) to your blog. The list items will be links (if the commenters supplied a URL with their comments), and will indicate the number of comments they’ve posted to your blog. Derived from the “Top/Recent Commenters” plugin by Scott Reilly  http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/) By Jared Bangs.

Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265

Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation. I Like Pi! By Christine Davis.

Wayback 0.1

Adds a cg_wayback() function to generate a list of posts from a previous period. By Chris Goringe.

Wayback Widget 0.1

Adds a sidebar widget to use the cg_wayback.php plugin By Sven Weidauer.

WordCount 0.01

Simple plugin - counts the number of words in one/all (puslished) posts and/or in one/all approved comments. By Anders Holte Nielsen.

WordPress Database Backup 2.0.4

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started. By Austin Matzko.

WP-Amazon 2.0 Beta 1.1

WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon to your entries. By Rich Manalang.

WP-PostViews 1.10

Enables you to display how many times a post had been viewed. It will not count registered member views, but that can be changed easily. By GaMerZ.

WPvideo 1.10

Allows you to insert online videos in your post by providing the video url between the video tags. Also allows download the video (using DownThisVideo!) with a link below the video. By Antonio Perez.

WysiwygPro 1.2 with WysiwygPro 2.2.13.2

Replaces the default WYSIWYG HTML editor with a more powerful commercial editor that includes image and file management. By Chris Bolt.

 

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