Since everybody loves lists, plugins, and lists with plugins in them, thought I'd get in on that list-loving demographic of the WordPress community and list me up some plugins! Here's the ten or so bestest plugins I run here at MacStansbury.com.

10. Admin Drop Menus
Puts some javascript drop-down menus so the 8,000,000 plugins you have to use in WordPress don't jones the entire interface. With this plugin, you can get to any other menu item at all times. Much better than the built-in system of multiple clicks to a region.

9. Counterize
No longer in active development, but I loves it all the same. Uses a database to save server data, and show you your traffic and referrers and lots of other goodies. Almost as good as the Textpattern logs, but with some better bells/whistles.

8. podPress
If you've never heard the MacStansbury Podcast, you can thank podPress for making it incredibly simple to integrate it within your WordPress blog. If you have heard the MacStansbury Podcast, you can blame it for making it incredibly simple to integrate it within my WordPress site.

7. WP-Amazon
I heart money. Amazon lets you set up an affiliates link for Amazon, and this plugin makes it quite simple to add links to posts, pages, and anywhere else you can think of.

Yes, even there.

6. Related Entries 2.0
You can see its handiwork at the bottom of this page (if you're reading this on the site, and on it's own page). This plugin finds other possibly related pages in case you're interested in what the page was all about. Endless fun chasing Related Post rabbits.

5. Extended Live Archive
Used on the Archive page. Nifty little plugin makes it simple to put all your posts into one page. Then, you can go through the archives without leaving the page.

4. Ultimate Tag Warrior
Also on the Archive page, as well as every single page. Single page, as in the pages with just a post on them, and not the static pages. I'm confusing you, but all you need to know is that UTW makes it incredibly simple to add Technorati tags (and even more stuff) to your pages.

3. Search Everything / Search reloaded
These two plugins (see? 11) really help the built-in search function. I'm not entirely sure what all they do, but they sure don't make it harder to find stuff.

2. Better Feed
If you've got my RSS feed, you'll see all the dodads and widgets at the bottom of the post. That's from Better Feed, and it's a plugin that adds whatever you want to posts in your feed. One of the first and favorite plugins I've found for WordPress.

1. No Self Pings
The best plugin in the history of man. Seriously. No more deleting pingbacks from MacStansbury.com! It's like a dream come true!

And just like that, my plugin-y post was done. Here's to you, WordPress Plugins list, and here's to the massive traffic that only a list of plugins can bring!

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lastmod: '2006-11-07T09:03:56.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
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