I was hooked to Wordpress about 2 years ago when I first started exploring what blogging is all about. As a software programmer, I learned a bit here and there, occasionally trying to tweak the code here and there and pray hard that things don’t breakdown!

It was not until I started writing my own customized codes to improve the blog’s theme that I began to really learn a little bit more than what I could do with adding Wordpress plugins and don’t know how to figure out the fix things up when new code breaks.

Now, hacking Wordpress themes and plugins have become a hobby for me! If you’re here just for plugins, then I’m pretty sure you’ve something to learn from the collection of plugins that I use on my blog. It’s really a little guide – a list of plugins that I find useful through my own experiences that you may one day fine tremendous value in.

I trust that you’ll learn something new here. Feel free to drop me a comment, what you think about my recommendations, and most important of all, if you decide to reveal over here, some of your best kept plugin secrets or favorite plugins!

Thanks a lot & enjoy!

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My Favorite Management Plugins:

1. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
2. FeedBurner FeedSmith
3. Get Recent Comments
4. Inline Posts
5. LMB^Box Comment Quicktags
6. MailPress
7. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
8. Microkid’s Related Posts
9. Ozh’ Better Feed
10. Post/Page Update Notification
11. Previous Posts
12. Quotes Collection
13. RSSupplement
14. Separate Comments & Pings
15. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
16. WordPress Database Backup
17. WP-RelativeDate
18. WP-Stats
19. WP-UserOnline
20. WP Ajax Edit Comments
21. WP Pngfix
22. WP Super Cache

My Favorite Security Plugins:

1. Akismet
2. AskApache Password Protect
3. WP-SpamFree
4. WordPress Exploit Scanner
5. WP Security Scan

My Favorite SEO Plugins:

1. All in One SEO Pack
2. Platinum SEO Pack (Replacement for All In One SEO Pack)
   
3. Google Analytics for WordPress
4. Google XML Sitemaps
5. Search Unleashed
6. Traffic Getting SEO PluginTM Free Version
7. Ultimate Tag Warrior

My Favorite Social Networking Plugins:

1. AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (Rating: 4 Stars)
2. Add to Any: Share/Save/Bookmark Button
3. Bookmarkify (Rating: 4 Stars)
4. diggIT
5. MyAvatars
6. podPress (Rating: 4 Starts)
   
7. ShareThis (Recommend: AddThis+Bookmarkify)
8. Subscribe To Comments
9. Tell a Friend (Recommend: AddThis+Bookmarkify)
10. Thank Me Later
11. Viddler Video commenting plugin
12. Wordbook (Only if you use Facebook)
    
13. WPtouch iPhone Theme (Optimize for iPhone Visitors)
    

My Disabled/Debug Plugins:

1. 404 Notifier
2. Maintenance Mode
3. PluginHogDetector
4. WP-o-Matic
5. WP-OpenID
6. Inline Google Maps

Other Plugins:

1. Snow and more