There are some really great WordPress plugins out there, and I thought I’d share the ones I’m using on this site.

The theme I use is the default Kubrick theme customized by me.

WordPress? What’s that? WordPress is one of the best blogging software out there. You can get a free account on WordPress.com or you can download the free source code and customize WordPress on your on server from WordPress.org. There are a great number of plugins and themes available for WordPress which makes it a very friendly blogging software.

So the plugins I use: (Note that these are WordPress 2 plugins)

• Adsense Deluxe for putting AdSense ads on my blog.
• CaptCha! for preventing spammers from spamming my blog with fake comments
• Dragon Design Sitemap Generator for generating my sitemap automatically (Also ideal for Google Sitemaps)
• WP-EMail for the sending this page to a friend link.
• WP-Print for the print this page link
• WP-PostViews for showing the number of times a post has been viewed
• Fuzzy Recent Posts for showing the last few posts on the sidebar
• Optimal Title plugin for putting the title of my posts before the name of my blog in the title bar
• HeadSpace 2 plugin for putting custom meta-tags and meta-description tags to each of my posts. (Ideal for AdSense)
• No Ping Wait plugin for pinging in the background (speeds up posting in WordPress)

I hope you find these plugins useful too.

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