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The Top Ten WordPress Plugins

Mar 5, 2006 at 6:45pm in Software

If you run a blog from your own website, most likely you’re using WordPress. While WordPress is great by itself, the majority of WordPress’ usefulness comes from its plugins. Some of the best and most creative features come from plugins, and because plugins are so easy to create and install, there are literally hundreds of WordPress plugins.

If you’re new to WordPress, finding the perfect plugin is often a difficult task. Sometimes there are eight plugins that do the same thing, which makes it difficult to find the plugin which works the best. Or, you just simply don’t know that a plugin exists. That’s why I’m here to help.

I’ve been a WordPress user since the 1.0 days. During that time, I’ve seen my share of WordPress plugins. Some have failed, while others have evolved into essential features. From my experience, I hope that when you’re done reading this list, you’ll have some plugins that will not only make your life as blogger easier, but that your visitors will find your site more useful.

10. Permalink Redirect

One of the fatal flaws of WordPress is that URLs with a trailing slash are the same as URLs without. This is bad for your stats since one page can show up under multiple URLs, and it’s also bad for search engines who may duplicate your pages in their results. That’s why there’s Permalink Redirect. Permalink Redirect will issue a 301, permanently moved, redirection to anyone accessing your page via the non-permalink URL. This insures that it won’t happen again, and that your web stats will remain clean.

9. Time Zone

If you run your blog in a time zone that observes Daylight Savings Time, you’ll quickly learn WordPress doesn’t like DST. While Daylight Savings Time only occurs twice a year, it’s still a pain to remember to set your GMT offset when DST takes effect. Time Zone solves this problem of forgetful DST switching. Instead of basing your blog time off of an offset from GMT, Time Zone enables WordPress to use your actual time zone, thus allowing WordPress to observe Daylight Savings Time. A must for any DST-bound blogger.

8. WordPress Database Backup / WP-Cron

Backing up your WordPress database is just as important as backing up your computer. You never know when you’ll do something stupid to your database. Unfortunately backing up a database can be an annoying task. That’s why WordPress Database Backup was created. It allows for one-click backups via download, server directory, or email, all straight from your WordPress administration interface.

Since WordPress 2.0, the WordPress creators have acknowledged that database backup is important, and now include WordPress Database Backup by default. However, you can still make the plugin more useful. WP-Cron, a plugin by the same author, gives WordPress Database Backup a new option, automatic backups. With WP-Cron installed you can schedule backups of your database to be made every 24 hours; perfect if you have a Gmail account just hungry for something to store.

7. Popularity Contest

Wouldn’t it be great to know just how popular your entries are? Popularity Contest does just that. By tracking page views, feed views, comments, and trackbacks, Popularity Contest assigns each post a rating based off of your most popular post. After it has a post rating, you can display the popularity in a number of ways. You can put the percent popularity in each post, display your top X posts somewhere on your site, or just keep the statistics to yourself by viewing the detailed popularity page which is added to your WordPress administration interface. Popularity Contest is perfect for new visitors, helping them get up to speed by viewing what’s popular on your site.

6. Gravatars

One of the most popular ways to identify users on forums is by avatars. The Gravatars plugin brings that same personalization to WordPress comments. By using the power of the Gravatar service, the Gravatars plugin is able to display an avatar next to users’ comments. Many of your visitors probably already have a Gravatar, so why not make your visitors’ comments a little more personal by letting them display it.

5. WP-ContactForm

Don’t want to give away your email but still want your visitors to contact you? An email form added by WP-ContactForm is the perfect solution. Instead of messing around creating one yourself, WP-ContactForm does all the hard work for you, allowing you to just drop a contact form on any post or page throughout your WordPress site. Your visitors will thank you when then realize how easy is to contact you.

4. Subscribe to Comments

Often on blogs, visitors will leave comments on which they want to track. Unfortunately, they often forget to check back, or choose not to because they don’t have an easy way. Subscribe to Comments solves this problem. By placing a checkbox next to your comment form, visitors can easily check that box to receive email updates as comments are added to the post. This not only makes it easier on your visitors to follow conversations, but increases the chances that the visitor will check back on your site. A win-win situation!

3. Related Posts

When a visitor finds your website via a search engine or other website, they’re often there for a reason. They want to find out about a particular topic of interest. Related Posts makes life easier on your visitors by showing them other posts you’ve written on the subject. This greatly increases the chance that a visitor will stick around browsing your blog, and is perfect for existing visitors to find out your past thoughts on a particular subject.

2. Ultimate Tag Warrior

Web 2.0 has brought a lot of interesting ideas to websites, tags being one of them. Ultimate Tag Warrior allows you to starting following the fad and tag your posts. There are a lot of great reason to tag. It helps narrow down what the post is about, it provides an easy form of navigating your site, and it allows Technorati to do a better job indexing your posts. The Technorati factor alone is a great reason to start tagging because your posts become easier to find at Technorati, thus driving more traffic to your website.

1. Akismet

Spam is a big problem with WordPress based blogs. It seems that as soon as your site is indexed in a search engine, the spam comments start flooding in. Stop the spam now with Akismet. Akismet, is a spam killing plugin created by Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, so you know it’s good. Akismet is tightly integrated with WordPress itself, allowing for easy comment management. Every comment you get is sent through Akismet’s spam-detecting servers for community-based spam analysis. The result? Ridiculously low false-positives, and an almost nonexistent false-negatives.

Don’t like the idea of all your visitors’ comments going through someone else’s server? Check out Spam Karma 2. It’s just as good as Akismet and deserves the rating along side Akismet as the number one WordPress plugin.

79 Comments

  1. 1 Viper007Bond on Mar 5, 2006 at 6:55 pm:

    Yeah, SK2 rocks.

    However, to cut down on the spam I get in the first place, I use Bad Behavior as well. It blocks bots from accessing my site in the first place so they can’t collect e-mail addresses and such, waste my bandwidth, etc.

  2. 2 cavemonkey50 on Mar 5, 2006 at 6:58 pm:

    Viper007Bond: Yeah, SK2 rocks.

    However, to cut down on the spam I get in the first place, I use Bad Behavior as well. It blocks bots from accessing my site in the first place so they can’t collect e-mail addresses and such, waste my bandwidth, etc.

    I’ve always had bad luck with Bad Behavior. I would often get kicked off of my own site for random reasons, and many of my visitors reported the same problem. It’s possible it has since been fixed, but I’m not worried about it anymore. My spam is virtually zero with Akismet installed.

  3. 3 HandySolo on Mar 5, 2006 at 7:32 pm:

    Good Stuff! Picked up a new plugin out of that list. :-)

    I’d add wp-notable (http://www.calevans.com/view.php/page/notable) as one of my “new” favorites. Oh, and “A different monthly archive” (http://www.oneofthosedays.org.uk/projects/plugin-archives) was introduced to me just yesterday and already being added all over the place.

    Cheers.

  4. 4 Moshu on Mar 5, 2006 at 8:27 pm:

    I guess it’s a very subjective question (and list).
    I found it depends very much on what the general structure of the blog is and what you want to do with your blog. Doing a lof of customization work for WP installs I use almost everywhere the get_a_post plugin by Kafkaesquí: it gives the possibility to edit different portions of the home.php template via the admin panel.
    Of course, the first two things I install are the spam protection SK and BB plugins.
    I don’t really have a list of 10 because it changes all the time. On my personal blogs I tend to keep the plugins’ number to a minimum.

  5. 5 Viper007Bond on Mar 5, 2006 at 10:22 pm:

    cavemonkey50: [quote removed]

    I’ve always had bad luck with Bad Behavior. I would often get kicked off of my own site for random reasons, and many of my visitors reported the same problem. It’s possible it has since been fixed, but I’m not worried about it anymore. My spam is virtually zero with Akismet installed.

    Well, what the hell. I’ll try it for a day. ;)

  6. 6 Kafkaesquí on Mar 5, 2006 at 10:53 pm:

    Since none of my plugins are on it, I absolutely hate this list. ;)

  7. 7 cavemonkey50 on Mar 5, 2006 at 11:06 pm:

    Kafkaesquí, none of my plugins are on the list either. ;-)

  8. 8 Kafkaesquí on Mar 5, 2006 at 11:22 pm:

    Well then you must hate it too, eh?

  9. 9 cavemonkey50 on Mar 6, 2006 at 12:51 am:

    Yeah, something like that. :lol:

  10. 10 frank on Mar 6, 2006 at 9:26 am:

    Great list. Thanks for pointing me to the permalink redirect plugin. The multiple entries for each page in Mint were starting to bug me.

  11. 11 Oyvind on Mar 6, 2006 at 1:54 pm:

    Great list. I use 6 of 10. Does anyone know if there is a plugin that searches Technorati for links to a post and displays the number of blogs pointing to it?

  12. 12 Dennis on Mar 7, 2006 at 8:12 am:

    This ia a good summary. I use pretty much all of these on my site.

  13. 13 Simran on Mar 15, 2006 at 1:29 pm:

    Super article ron! It’s in my del.icio.us, foxmarks and normal bookmarks. Thanks for taking the time to compile those, I’ve installed most. Very helpful, especially the contact form. Ciao…

  14. 14 signature103 on Mar 17, 2006 at 8:47 pm:

    Can someone tell me if this only works when you create a blog off the wordpress.com host? I have a wordpress but I am a little annoyed that I cannot add things. Is it me or is it just I really cannot add things unless I find a host?

  15. 15 cavemonkey50 on Mar 17, 2006 at 9:26 pm:

    signature103: Can someone tell me if this only works when you create a blog off the wordpress.com host? I have a wordpress but I am a little annoyed that I cannot add things. Is it me or is it just I really cannot add things unless I find a host?

    Correct. WordPress.com does not support installable plugins. If you run WordPress off of any other host that you install WordPress yourself, you can add WordPress plugins.

  16. 16 signature103 on Mar 20, 2006 at 4:28 pm:

    Thank you.

  17. 17 Thomas on Mar 21, 2006 at 8:22 am:

    i noticed that forcing users to register to post comments and to have their initial comments moderated is enough of a deterrent for those wanting to leave spam…

  18. 18 Zeke on Mar 21, 2006 at 10:43 pm:

    I was getting a lot of spam via my contact form plug-in. They were using the form to send random, garbled messages.

    Who gets off on that sort of stuff? :S

  19. 19 J on Mar 26, 2006 at 3:08 pm:

    This is a great article, really very helpful and informative.

    Thanks

  20. 20 Yvy on Apr 2, 2006 at 9:12 pm:

    perfect! just what i needed since i’m looking around for more plugins. :) great job.

  21. 21 Desi on Apr 9, 2006 at 1:53 pm:

    My top plugin is the transload plugin. It saves alot of time.

  22. 22 sitepoint on Apr 11, 2006 at 6:36 pm:

    Thanks! A perfect summary to (quick-)setup a brand-new blog! :-)

  23. 23 pcb on Apr 14, 2006 at 7:52 am:

    Very nice list. 3 of my favorites were mentioned:

    1. Custom Query String lets you easily control how many entries show up on your home page, in search results, archives, etc. Very handy.

    2. My favorite photo gallery plugin is myGallery. Once you figure how it works, it is very powerful and comes with the cool lightbox effect for viewing larger versions of photos.

    3. I don’t always use this but it’s nice to have a theme switcher on the website from time to time to allow users to pick their own.

  24. 24 BiZwiKi.CN on Jun 3, 2006 at 10:29 am:

    Greatful work !! And I choose the following to my blog, WordPress Database Backup, Permalink Redirect, Akismet, instead of Ultimate Tag Warrior, I use bonny tag.

  25. 25 Brad on Jun 12, 2006 at 2:19 pm:

    Thanks for the awesome list. Im going to start using three of them today.

    Love, Me

  26. 26 Jason Brown on Jul 8, 2006 at 11:13 am:

    Askimet, Ultimate Tag Warrior, and Related Post are all great… I use them the most on all my blogs.. they work great and never fail.

    I wrote a plugin that ties into Ultimate Tag Warrior that helps with WordPress blog meta tags and titles, even the auto discovery of your rss feeds as well.

    You can get it here at: WordPress SEO plugin

    It seems that most WordPress blog could stand to use some SEO, and I hope my plugin could help them

    Thanks for showing people how great Askimet, UTW3, and Related Post plugins are!

  27. 27 TannerShot on Jul 20, 2006 at 9:41 am:

    Great list! I’ve installed several of these on my photoblog and plan on using some more. You really pointed me in the right direction on tweaking my wordpress setup to something that feels intuitive, comfortable and fun to use. Great job, any chance of an update sometime soon?

  28. 28 Stengah on Jul 21, 2006 at 6:27 am:

    Yeah, thanks a bunch. Always nice when experienced users take their time to enlighten newcomers… I’m looking forward to try some of these plugs during the weekend.

  29. 29 fashion guru on Aug 16, 2006 at 9:18 pm:

    best list ever.. i have used some on my website already, will add more soon. is it possible to update this list?

  30. 30 qyasi on Oct 31, 2006 at 12:15 am:

    great article! Thanks.

  31. 31 Jamshed on Nov 7, 2006 at 1:03 pm:

    COOL plugins useful Thanks alot.

    regards,
    http://www.firefoxdir.com

  32. 32 Rich on Dec 2, 2006 at 9:51 pm:

    Thanks for the info!

  33. 33 TJP on Dec 17, 2006 at 10:02 am:

    Thanks for posting this awesome list.

    I’ve always wanted a way for users to easily track comments.

    Subscribe to comments does just that!

    Thanks!

  34. 34 shortcutguy on Jan 17, 2007 at 1:57 am:

    Great pick for Ultimate Tag Warrior, just started using it on my site. This will definitely on my work load.

  35. 35 Fundraiser on Jan 18, 2007 at 4:16 pm:

    A few questions from a blog idiot

    How do you keep the spammers from eating you alive? i\’ve seen blogs with nothing but spam postings.

    How do you keep some left wing extremist from posting racist or defamatory rhetoric? and if you cant stop them, what are you legally liabel when they do?

    can viruses be posted to blogs?

  36. 36 Marketing in Pakistan on Jan 24, 2007 at 5:09 am:

    I really like the Comments Spam plugin – Akismet. I will also try Spam Karma (never knew about it earlier).

    Great list compilation!

  37. 37 gio on Jan 28, 2007 at 7:18 am:

    2. Ultimate Tag Warrior

    Web 2.0 has brought a lot of interesting ideas to websites, tags being one of them. Ultimate Tag Warrior allows you to starting following the fad and tag your posts. There are a lot of great reason to tag. It helps narrow down what the post is about, it provides an easy form of navigating your site, and it allows Technorati to do a better job indexing your posts. The Technorati factor alone is a great reason to start tagging because your posts become easier to find at Technorati, thus driving more traffic to your website.

    thanks for this post i finally found this plugin.

  38. 38 Gutschein on Mar 3, 2007 at 11:32 am:

    Great article. I found some new plugins, which I’ll use in the future.

  39. 39 Steve Mills on Mar 28, 2007 at 4:56 am:

    Thanks for the great list of top plugins – just recently we came across cforms which is replacing WP-ContactForm in our client projects, it’s a very universal and powerful contact form plugin.
    Gravatars I’ve used in the past, but don’t quite see the value in it.

  40. 40 Mic on Apr 12, 2007 at 10:32 am:

    Hi there,

    thanks for this list of needful things …the DB Backup is one of my favorites! ;-)

    Cheers,
    Mic

  41. 41 Ali on Jun 4, 2007 at 3:55 pm:

    Thanks man very helpful I wasnt aware of track comments that can be very useful.

  42. 42 Budigelli on Jun 21, 2007 at 11:20 pm:

    Good Post. I have about 7 plugins from your list. I have been trying to get “Related Posts” plugin but no success. Bad Link!!!

  43. 43 Ronald Heft on Jun 22, 2007 at 2:15 am:

    Related Posts can now be found here: http://wasabi.pbwiki.com/Related%20Entries

  44. 44 nakliyat on Jul 1, 2007 at 12:50 pm:

    Nice plugins ..Thanks…

  45. 45 Pål-André on Jul 14, 2007 at 6:38 pm:

    Hi!

    Great list! I also use the BlogThis! plugin. It gives me a toolbar button for quick-writing a post about the site I visit.

    ___________________________________
    SEO-blogg: Blogg om markedsføring på internett og søkemotoroptimalisering

  46. 46 Müzikler on Jul 17, 2007 at 5:03 am:

    I will use comment spam plugin in my blog ..thanks

  47. 47 Glen on Jul 28, 2007 at 4:45 am:

    This article was really useful the right plugings can really make a blog more useful.

  48. 48 Victor on Jul 28, 2007 at 11:07 am:

    This article is first on google search for “top 10 wordpress plugins”, maybe you should make a poll or something to vote for number 11 for 2-3 months, then for number 12 for another 2-3 months and using this high rank you could build a really good community driven list.
    Great article, a little bit subjective, but it is ok.
    Good luck

  49. 49 Vic on Aug 2, 2007 at 11:09 pm:

    Thanks for such a great list of plugins, this list are so helpful for the new guy.

    Thanks

    Vic

  50. 50 danny on Aug 16, 2007 at 8:56 pm:

    Awesome stuff man. Thanks!!

  51. 51 Yenni on Aug 17, 2007 at 11:17 am:

    Thanks. They all are good, will it slow my site performance if I install all…

  52. 52 John Beckley on Aug 29, 2007 at 10:28 am:

    Since adding Akismet anti spam it has stopped 90% of our spam traffic. Thanks!! I look foward to trying some of the other plugins that have been recommended.

  53. 53 Artikelverzeichnis on Sep 2, 2007 at 2:59 pm:

    Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more.

  54. 54 Artikelverzeichnis on Sep 2, 2007 at 2:59 pm:

    This article is first on google search for “top 10 wordpress plugins”, maybe you should make a poll or something to vote for number 11 for 2-3 months, then for number 12 for another 2-3 months and using this high rank you could build a really good community driven list.
    Great article, a little bit subjective, but it is ok.
    Good luck

  55. 55 Eric Monse on Oct 21, 2007 at 10:36 am:

    Good stuff. I’ll have to check some of these out. – Eric Monse

  56. 56 Jens Törnell on Nov 2, 2007 at 7:54 am:

    Hi!

    I just developed a YouTube mass plugin for WordPress. It’s called WP YouTube and it makes it easier to publish YouTube videos on your blog. Colors, borders, width, height will change all the YouTube-videos at the same time.

    Let’s say you want all YouTube videos to be green. Only one setting and you are done!

    Visit http://www.jenst.se/2007/11/01/wp-youtube for download.

  57. 57 Jimm on Nov 19, 2007 at 2:37 am:

    Thanks for such a great list of plugins!

  58. 58 Kelly Wright on Dec 2, 2007 at 3:57 pm:

    A nice list of plugins. I’ve read several of them, and some plugins are real must have for any serious blogger out there. Not speaking about how easy they are to install and configure.

  59. 59 Jeff on Jan 5, 2008 at 2:52 pm:

    Nice 10 ten list thanks.

  60. 60 Spam Hater on Jan 19, 2008 at 4:35 am:

    These are great plugins. The only problem with Akismet is that you have to check your queue daily for legit comments. I found a kick butt plugin recently called WP-SpamFree that stops comment spam cold. It cuts spambots off at the source – the comments don’t even get into Akismet. Definitely check it out.

  61. 61 Andrew Kelsall on Jan 27, 2008 at 8:37 am:

    Thnanks for the list, tried the related posts pluggun but it doesn’t seem to work, even though it installed ok. Has anyone else had trouble?

  62. 62 Ronald Heft on Jan 27, 2008 at 6:48 pm:

    Andrew Kelsall: Thnanks for the list, tried the related posts pluggun but it doesn’t seem to work, even though it installed ok. Has anyone else had trouble?

    Andrew, the Related Posts plugin appears to be a dead project. I’ve switched to Similar Posts, which does the same thing better.

  63. 63 Andrew Kelsall on Jan 27, 2008 at 6:53 pm:

    @Ronald Heft, thanks for the heads-up, I’ll try the one you suggest…

  64. 64 Tom on Feb 4, 2008 at 7:59 am:

    Great list. Thanks for it!

  65. 65 Adam on Feb 8, 2008 at 5:46 pm:

    great list! I am using a bunch of these on my site. http://www.adam-richard.com
    Thanks!

  66. 66 moserw on Mar 9, 2008 at 9:33 am:

    Thanks for the list. Going to check them out. Using Akismet already, will check out the others.

    http://www.nela.in

  67. 67 Franca Richard on Mar 18, 2008 at 11:29 am:

    Really useful thanks for sharing

  68. 68 Uncle Che on Apr 10, 2008 at 6:32 pm:

    Plugins are so many out there that bloggers (especially newbies) just get mixed up in the plugin industry and end up intstalling very many “irrelevant” plugins. A list of this nature is very vital for blog management.

  69. 69 Jim on May 22, 2008 at 8:38 am:

    Paginated Comments is a wordpress plugin that is a must have for large sites or sites that receive a large number of comments!

  70. 70 Emily on Jun 13, 2008 at 5:41 am:

    One of my favourite plugin is DivvaFlip.

    DivvaFlip makes photos gallery more glamorous with a flipping engine

    Just try DivvaFlip, a page flipping engine, with a very easy
    backoffice in AJAX and working with WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 ! :-)

    Have a glance to the demo here http://www.divva-plugins.com/
    enjoy!

  71. 71 Stewie Griffin on Jun 25, 2008 at 1:31 am:

    Jeez, two years later and this post pops up on G on a best plugin search. Awesome post!

  72. 72 Kyle on Aug 7, 2008 at 9:28 pm:

    Sweet list. I’m definitely going to try Permalink Redirect.

  73. 73 Knoxville Website Design on Aug 19, 2008 at 1:39 pm:

    2yrs later and many of these still deserve to be on this list, that’s great. Never had a need for #9 or #10 but I have probably or do use every other one or variations of them on our wordpress installations.

  74. 74 Razib Miah on Aug 22, 2008 at 11:24 am:

    yeah, but i need more…

  75. 75 Andrew on Sep 10, 2008 at 6:09 am:

    Hi,

    I just write a new plugin WP Widget Cache, which can cache the output of your blog widgets. It will significantly reduce the server usage, especially when Google is crawling your site.

    Will you please have a try, and add it to this list. Thanks very much.

    Here’s the plugin url:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-widget-cache/

  76. 76 Frank Richard on Sep 26, 2008 at 3:33 am:

    I love the list, thanks for sharing!

  77. 77 Smigma on Oct 14, 2008 at 6:08 am:

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  78. 78 SaranR on Oct 16, 2008 at 6:11 pm:

    Cool Post,

    very helpful post for me,

    Thanks

  79. 79 Woo on Dec 30, 2008 at 11:36 am:

    Great list! Although for new bloggers looking for key added functions and performance, my top 10 list includes more USEFUL wordpress plugins:
    http://interactivewoo.com/2008/11/21/top-10-most-useful-wordpress-plugins-plus-a-few-more/

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  35. mindgrind.com » Wordpress Plugins
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  40. Top 20 Brilliant Wordpress Plugins » Life Goggles
    on Jan 4, 2007 at 4:46 am

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    on Jan 12, 2007 at 3:31 am

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  42. Eric’s Blog » Blog Archive » Awesome Wordpress Plugins
    on Feb 11, 2007 at 1:28 pm

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    on May 29, 2007 at 2:54 pm

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  51. How to Create a Successful Blog at We Are Dynamite
    on Jun 12, 2007 at 11:31 am

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  52. And He Blogs » links for 2007-06-29
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  53. 如何选择 WordPress 的插件 at 行云流水 | Yorick’s Blog
    on Jul 3, 2007 at 8:53 am

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    on Jul 23, 2007 at 3:37 am

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  57. EdTech » Well, I did it…
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    on May 2, 2008 at 7:37 am

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  64. What WordPress Plugins do Most Blogger Like to Use? « My Internet Stuff
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