Plugins on my site

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WordPress out of the box is a great tool but thanks to these plugins and the people that made them it can be just a little bit better! it took a lot of searching and countless tries of other versions of most of these plugins but i pretty much have them nailed down now. so i feel it is my responsibility to share my findings with the public.

anything else you notice that seams different on my site may be a modification and if i can help you out jsut leave a comment and ill see what i can do.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. Spam runs ramped on the net these days and this is one of the best ways to stop it.

AMM – Amazon Media Management Extension

The Amazon Media Manager lets me post reviews of basically anything on Amazon i choose books and music. By Denyerec and Marcel Dunn.

AutoMeta

Automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. By Rich Boakes.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator

Generates a customizable sitemap containing all posts and pages. very handy and i used this to replace the default Archives page. By Aleister.

Dean’s Code Highlighter

This plugin using Geshi to highlight source code in your posts. i was searching for days to find a plugin that would allow me to show code in wordpress without it getting formated by the editor. this one seams to be one of the best that i could find.. By Dean Lee.

Download Manager

I have a few files for download and before it gets to be to many i decided to use a manager to control were they are stored and to make it easy for me to link them in a post. By Kaf Oseo.

Google Analyticator

Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. I’m not ritch from it but it works!. By Ronald Heft.

Google Sitemaps

This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold.

Search Everything
Adds search functionality with little setup. Including the option to search pages, attachments, drafts, comments and custom fields (metadata). wp-admin options page added to customize default searches. By Dan Cameron.

Search Hilite

When someone is referred from a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or WordPress’ own, the terms they search for are highlighted with this plugin. Packaged by Matt. By Ryan Boren.

Social Bookmark Creator

Add social bookmark links to your blog. Get people buzzing about yout site. By Thomas McMahon.

WordPress Database Backup

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced page navigation to WordPress. Instead of next or previous page this will give your page 1, 2, 3, and so on. its much faster when you have a lot of content to cover. By GaMerZ.

WPG2

Embeds Gallery2 within WordPress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into your Blog & Sidebar Content.
This plugin is prety much the most valuable plugin to me without it i would be lost. By Ozgreg help and invaluable support by WPG2 Team.