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Plug-ins used

Many thanks to these authors for extending the WordPress function set, and providing features that I have come to depend on.  There is a lot of good stuff here.  I regularly test new plug-ins and these are all keepers. The descriptions supplied come from the authors of the various plug-ins to which I’ll add one word — essential!

Automatic Upgrade

techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html

• WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

Auto-Hyperlink, Scott Reilly, aka coffee2code, coffee2code.com/

• This plugin seeks to address certain shortcomings with WordPress’s default auto-hyperlinking function. This tweaks the pattern matching expressions to prevent inappropriate adjacent characters from becoming part of the link (such as a trailing period when a link ends a sentence, links that are parenthesized or braced, comma-separated, etc) and it prevents invalid text from becoming a mailto: link (i.e. smart@ss) or for invalid URIs (i.e. http://blah) from becoming links.

Evermore, www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/evermore-wordpress-plugin

• Evermore automatically displays a short preview of your posts on your blog home page. The preview also appears on the archive and category pages. For each post, the first few paragraphs are shown along with a “read more” link to read the full post.

FeedBurner, www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/topic.py?topic=13252

• This plugin makes it easy to redirect 100% of traffic for your feeds to a FeedBurner feed you have created. FeedBurner can then track all of your feed subscriber traffic and usage and apply a variety of features you choose to improve and enhance your original WordPress feed.

WordPress Related Posts, fairyfish.net/2007/09/12/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin

• WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.

Simple Tags, code.google.com/p/simple-tags/

• Simple Tags is THE perfect tool to manage perfeclty your WP 2.3 tags It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of NEW functions.