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I use a handful of plugins for this blog, and as I’m always on the lookout for more useful plugins to add/activate, I thought it’d be useful to come up with my own list of favorite WordPress plugins.

• Bird Feeder
  Like many bloggers, I have a Twitter account. Bird Feeder publishes a tweet to my blog every time I publish a blog entry, which is a lot easier than doing it manually as I’d forget!
• JournalPress
  There are quite a few crossposting plugins out there, but JournalPress is my favorite. It handles drafts and scheduled posts, and it can also crosspost simultaneously to more than one external journal site. I have mine set to crosspost to both my LiveJournal and Dreamwidth accounts.
• Random Redirect
  This plugin is a “randomizer” of sorts for your blog entries. It’s very similar to StumbleUpon, for it allows visitors to “stumble” across random entries within your blog. After you activate the plugin, you simply need to add /?random at the end of your blog URL to view a random blog entry! To see it in action on my own blog, click here.
• Secure WordPress
  No script is 100% secure, and WordPress is no exception to that. Secure WordPress makes a few small/minor changes to your WordPress installation to make it a little more secure against hackers.
• WP Super Cache
  WP Super Cache quickens the speed of a WordPress installation. I’m not entirely sure how it works (something to do with generatic static HTML files, Apache, and easing database processing load), but it’s all explained on the plugin page. Recently, my host’s support team suggested for me to use WP Super Cache, and it’s worked wonderfully since I started using it.

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.