Postcards from the Funny Farm

When I first started toying with Wordpress plugins back in November of 2006, a list like this would have been gold to me! There were so many that didn’t work right or didn’t work well enough, or didn’t fit my blog. I learned these 41 through hard trial and error. In fact, a few (not in this list) even knocked my site out for hours on end while I scrambled to reload everything. Of course the lesson there is: backup, backup, backup.

In all these things I still remember: “Content is king.” Plugins are mostly just cosmetic. There are some however in this list that I feel are CRUCIAL to my blog. Whether they keep it more fun or more functional, it doesn’t really matter, crucial is crucial and every individual knows what they require. I just wanted to share these that I love so maybe you can get some of these great plugins you may not know about under your hood.

If you have any questions about any of the plugins, read their files first, then you may contact me no problem. I’ve used and abused all of them! I’m actually running more than I link here . . . but I figured I had to keep the blog engine at least a little mysterious right? To all my WORDPRESS self-hosted friends and visitors: enjoy!

1. 7social plus
2. Aizatto’s Related Posts
3. Akismet
4. Batch Categories
5. Blogroll Autolinker
6. Brian’s Threaded Comments
7. Bunny’s Technorati Tags
8. Dofollow
9. Enforce Preference
10. Exec-PHP
11. Fancy Pullquotes
12. Feedburner Feed Replacement
13. Future Calendar
14. Genki Announcement
15. Google (XML) Sitemaps
16. Google Analyticator
17. In Series
18. KG Archives
19. No Life
20. PJW Wordpress Version Check
21. Popularity Contest
22. PXS Mail Form
23. Random Quotes
24. Random Redirect
25. Running Time
26. ShiftThis | Order Pages
27. Show Top Commentators
28. Simple Trackback Validation
29. Subscribe2
30. Subscribe To Comments
31. Taragana’s Del.icio.us mp3 Player Plugin
32. Ultimate Tag Warrior
33. Viper’s Video Quicktags
34. What Would Seth Godin Do
35. WordPress Database Backup
36. WP-Polls
37. WP-Polls Widget
38. WP-Stats
39. Zelig Dropdown Links
40. ?
41. ? (Gotta keep some mystery . . . )