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Seeing as a certain member of the team expressed an interest (you know who you are @Plip!), I thought it worth sharing the current set of plugins I have installed on this WordPress blog. Yes, I know, I could be opening up this blog to all sorts of attacks, but I’d prefer to help others than get all paranoid about security. If I get attacked, I’m sure it’ll the subject of a future blog post!

AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget

Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark your site easily with many popular services. Sign up for an AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content–which services they’re using for sharing, which content is shared the most, and more. It’s all free–even the pretty charts and graphs.

Version 2.2.1 | By The AddThis Team | Visit plugin site

Akismet

Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the "Activate" link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

Version 2.5.3 | By Automattic | Visit plugin site

FD Feedburner Plugin

Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed

Version 1.45 | By John Watson | Visit plugin site

Google Analyticator

Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.

Version 6.2 | By Ronald Heft | Visit plugin site

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

Version 3.2.5 | By Arne Brachhold | Visit plugin site

SEO Ultimate

This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex/nofollow, meta tags, rich snippets, slugs, canonical tags, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and more.

Version 6.9.4 | By SEO Design Solutions | Visit plugin site

Simple Lightbox

Customizable Lightbox for WordPress

Version 1.5.5.1 | By Archetyped | Visit plugin site

Smart 404

Rescue your viewers from site errors! When content cannot be found, Smart 404 will use the current URL to attempt to find matching content, and redirect to it automatically. Smart 404 also supplies template tags which provide a list of suggestions, for use on a 404.php template page if matching content can’t be immediately discovered.

Version 0.5 | By Michael Tyson | Visit plugin site

Spam Free WordPress

Comment spam blocking plugin that uses anonymous password authentication to achieve 100% automated spam blocking with zero false positives, plus a few more features.

Version 1.5.1 | By Todd Lahman, LLC | Visit plugin site

Twitter for WordPress

Displays your public Twitter messages for all to read. Based on Pownce for WordPress by Cavemonkey50.

Version 1.9.7 | By Ricardo González | Visit plugin site

W3 Total Cache

The highest rated and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress.

Version 0.9.2.4 | By Frederick Townes | Visit plugin site

WP SyntaxHighlighter

This plugin is code syntax highlighter based on SyntaxHighlighter ver. 3.0.83 and ver. 2.1.382. Supported languages: Bash, C++, CSS, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB, XML, XHTML and HTML etc.

Version 1.4.4 | By redcocker | Visit plugin site

 

Original Post by Rupert Benbrook on September 6th, 2011

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