rom 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.

What follows below are some of my favorite WordPress plugins and why. Many of them I have in common with Cavemonkey’s excellent Top Ten WordPress Plugins list. Here’s my list, in no particular order:

Performancing has been on a roll lately. First, a blogging tool for Firefox and now, Performancing Metrics has been launched, a service for tracking blog statistics. We now have Measure Map (Review), BlogBeat (Review), and Performancing Metrics offering e

Now Republics and Democrats, Americans and non-Americans alike, can rejoice in the witty candor of George W. Bush. His dialect — moving, inspirational, candid, but never boring — can be displayed daily on your Wordpress journal / blog with one click o

This site is powered by WordPress. For nearly eleven years, it was powered by hand-coding. Let me put “nearly eleven years” into perspective. It’s 3924 days. And it’s about how many times I opened an HTML editor to update this site’s content. I

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.