Blogging with wordpress means tweaking with plugins. I spend my last three days venturing good plugins and toying with my blog. Here are some top plugins I could recommend to use all the time:
1. Contextual Related Posts. This plugin automatically shows related post read by your reader below the comment box (or anywhere you put it). I chose this plugin because it doesn’t require any modification toward the mysql database.
2. Comment Quicktags +. Have you noticed the tags button on the comment box of this blog? That’s what this plugin does. It adds additional tag buttons to help editing comments. I used this because the absence of WYSIWYG visual editor for comment box for wordpress.org.
3. StatPress. This plugin is monitoring your blogstats in real-time. You could see detailed information in control panel. Just beware of the rising size of the database though (could be deleted easily through myphpadmin panel)
4. All in One SEO Pack. I’m pretty sure you are all more knowledgeable about these SEO-stuff and meta-thingies than me. I just recently used this plugin to optimize and increasing pageviews of my blog. Apparently you could add keywords in all of your posts so it’s simply “Optimizing”.
5. WordPress Gravatars. This one will add support for gravatar in your wordpress commentator picture. It’s useful especially when if your visitors don’t have their own profile picture.
6. Yahoo/MSN Style Smileys. Sick of these crappy smilies provided by wordpress.org? You could easily change them with this plugin. I just recently used it and now I could smile at my heart content.
7. WordPress.com Stats. Tracks your site alternatively by using wordpress.com service. It’s good alternative if you somehow deleted your database statistic.
8. Browser Sniff. Detect the commentators’ OS and Browser and display them in their comment. It’s a nice eye-candies.
9. Brian’s Threaded Comments. Make your comments threaded, just like livejournal. I don’t have plan to use it soon because it doesn’t seem compatible with this Amazing Grace theme.
10. Google Analytics. Pretty helpful tools to track your site’s statistics by using google service. Yes, I use three statistic plugins.
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