WordPress plugins this site uses

• 2008
  June 29th
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This site, like many other WordPress site, makes use of several plugins to extend the default functionality and I thought that I’d share what I use and why so that others could potentially discover new ones. Hopefully, if you’re using WordPress you’ll share with me what plugins you use.

• 404 Notifier
  Can email me when someone gets a 404 error, either by coming across a bad or old link. It also creates an RSS Feed of the 404’s that I’ve subscribed to, instead of getting the emails.
• Akismet
  Comes with WordPress in the default install and is vital to any site uses the blog feature of WordPress.
• cforms
  A very nice AJAX contact form that I’m using in the footer. It hides my email address from spammers and creates a record of the submission in WordPress so that even if I lose the email, I can still find out who contacted me.
• Edit Comments XT
  This ones is self-explanatory, it allows users to edit their comments for a limited number of minutes after posting.
• Flickr Widget
  I’m using this widget to display the 4 last photos I uploaded to flickr on my homepage.
• Gravatar
  Adds the globally recognized avatar functionality to my site, so that users can comment with their own avatar
  
• Live Comment Preview
  Again, self-explanatory, lets the user see how his comment will look before he/she posts it. Check it out below.
• No Self Pings
  I’ve never used this one before but WordPress 2.5 will ping itself, creating pingbacks in its own posts. This plugin disables this functionality.
• Search Pages
  Allows WordPress’ default search to also search pages.
• ShareThis
  This plugin adds the ShareThis functionality to all my articles.

• ThickBox 3 Plugin
  Makes it insanely easy to add thickbox functionality to any post - mostly used in the portfolio section
• Twitter Tools
  This plugin is what runs the last twitter update in the footer as well sends a new ‘tweet’ everytime I write a new article.
• WicketPixie Source Manager
  This plugin came with the WicketPixie theme by Matt Brett and Chris Pirillo. The source manager, in combination with other code is what is responsible for the Social Me page.
• Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
  This plugin is so awesome, I wrote a full article about it
• WordPress Database Backup
  Backing up the WP database is important and this plugin handles it for you automatically - emailing you when it’s ran and lets you download the latest backup, should something go wrong
• wp-Table
  Adds some pretty cool table creation functionality to WordPress - something which is sorely needed.
• WP Since Last Visit
  I’m not using the plugin to its full potential at the moment but it lets you tell a user what’s new since they last visited.
• WPtouch iPhone Theme
  This plugin will override an active WP theme if someone is using an iPhone to visit your site, giving them larger buttons and easier navigation to all of your articles.
• WYSIWYG Text Widget
  This doesn’t yet work in 2.5.1, but I’m hoping the author updates it soon as I think this is something WordPress desperately needs - especially for people who need to use widgets but don’t know html

Again if you’re some that I’ve not listed, please leave a comment below, I’m constantly amazed at what the community is able to do to push WordPress to new and better heights.