Plugins I Like

I spent today working on my personal domain and installing or uninstalling a lot of plugins to make the site work. Since I went through all the hassle to find just the right plugins to do what I wanted to do, I thought I’d share them with you. I think they’re all great plugins for a personal site.

• Akismet Along with the Wordpress API Key will allow you to block spam comments. Does a great job blocking, but also blocks one of my friends. Wonder why..
• Bubs Button Board A plugboard for your site. Everyone loves leaving their button on someone else’s site.
• Clean Archives The only archive script I use. I don’t like having archives in the sidebar, I prefer to have them on a page of their own.
• DoFollow Google is the only search that follows “nofollow” but if you use this plugin, it will remove that tag from all the links in your blog. I’ve also heard that it might lower your Page Rank, too.
• FlickrRSS Show your latest Flickr photos on your site. I love this.
• Reinvigorate The best website stats program ever. I highly suggest it.
• Theme Switcher I used to use this on my site, but I’m going to be disabling it now because my theme is way different from the others.
• WP-Contact Form Everyone needs a good contact form. Very simple.
• WP-UserOnline Tell everyone how many people are on your site. Also includes a dashboard page telling you who’s online and everything about them.
• WP Grins Adds smilies to your posts and comments.

I’m looking for more great plugins, too, so if you have some you use on your personal site that you’d like to recommend, comment and let me know.