Matt Varone - Creative Designer

— Some WordPress love today :) Quick post with a list of the 16 plugins that power this site. I hope you find it useful!

ADMIN:

All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. By Michael Torbert.

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.

Preview Theme
Preview installed themes. By Nasser Al-Hilal.

WordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Austin Matzko.

BACKEND:

Dashboard Editor
Allows you to customise the dashboard. By Aaron Harun.

Lighter Menus
Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the WordPress 2.5 interface taking the less room possible. By corpodibacco.

Simple Tags
Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress. Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags. By Amaury BALMER.

FRONTEND:

flickrRSS
Allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. By Dave Kellam.

Last.Fm Records
This plugin shows cd covers on your WordPress weblog. It connects to last.fm and grabs the list of cds you listened to recently and tries to find the cover images at last.fm. To speed things up, it only fetches these data once a day and keeps a local copy for the rest of the day.

MaxBlogPress Favicon
Easily add favicon to your blog without editing any WordPress files. By MaxBlogPress.

COMMENTS:

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. By Matt Mullenweg.

Author Highlight
Author Highlight is a plugin that prints out a user-specified class attribute if the comment is made by the specified author. It is useful if you would like to apply a different style to comments made by yourself. By Jonathan Leighton.

No Self Pings
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site. By Michael D. Adams.

Quoter
Allows commenters to quote other comments (dynamically or server side if they have Javascript disabled) and any other text in a page (Javascript only). By Daniele Mancino.

Subscribe To Comments
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. By Mark Jaquith.

WP-RelativeDate
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.