7 Awesome WordPress Plugins

One of the great things about WordPress is that it can basically do anything you want. If you feel there is something missing, just write or download a plugin. It's amazing how many plugins Akismet from the moment it became available and it's made life considerably easier. Akismet is a spam management tool. Check that. It is a hassle free spam killer. Akismet now comes bundled in WordPress 2.0. 2. WP On-Demand Database Backup Coming from the world of dealing with highly sensitive financial data, this Silas Partners) is an uber WordPress plugin developer. I recently became aware of his 4. Flickr Photo Album Joe makes the list twice. This time with his this plugin, you can quickly create a WordPress page with any sort of content you want. I previously used it alter the home page of my blog, changing what and how much information was displayed for each post. 6. Jerome's Keywords One of the fellas who helped me code this great design created a plugin to limit the length of the author name and title for my comments section. Rather long trackbacks were effectively "breaking" the design - he threw together a quick plugin to limit the author length to 33′ characters. Why do I include this plugin? To end with an encouragement that if for some reason WordPress isn't doing what you want it to, even a couple lines of code from a plugin might solve your issue. And the chances are that if you are wanting a plugin to do something, someone has already written it. Have any plugins that you think are awesome? Feel free to share them below. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: TECHNOSIGHT blog.