My Plugins

These are my favorite plugins or extras that I use on my blog:

You can download recommended plugins here.
After you download this package, upload it to your plugins directory via FTP

yourblog.com/wp-content/plugins

Video Commenting
leave video comments as chapter markers. real-time commenting.
The comment area can accept a comment at given point in the video and saves itself in the existing word press database so no additional configuration is needed. All comments are listed in the individual post as a regular comments (with timecode) and can be easily modified or removed by the editor.

snap.com
enables Link Previewing. every site and blog should have this

Sociable
welcome to web 2.0
add posts to social bookmarking sites like delicious and digg.com

PhoneBlogz
leave a phone message on my blog. if you want to make it work right, you need to setup an account. otherwise, you can only leave 1 message/day. nice as a prototype, but still in the workings…

AudioPlayer
a flashy audio player for your blog. nice and customizable. it took me a while to make it work, because i uploaded it wrong. but i got it to work.

TAGGING / Search Engine Optimization:

Ultimate Tag Warrior:

SEO Title Tag makes is dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. Not just your posts, not just your home page, but any and every title tag on your site! If this plugin, along with a few hours of keyword research and copywriting of optimized titles, doesn’t make a significant impact on your search traffic, you’re doing something wrong!

Simple Tags: 

SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need, so you can now easily generate tags with your preferred method of posting, be it by email, a blogging tool like w.bloggar or from WordPress itself.

Anyone use anything else?

Here are two articles:
6 Golden Tips for WordPress

Top Plugins for WordPress

Here is A LONG LIST OF WORDPRESS PLUGINS

Here is another cool plugin for photos and images that I am not using yet:
Lightbox JS

Socially Bookmarkit!
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  • Reddit