Just in case you wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes of this blog. Here are the lists of plugins that I use to make this blog a little easier for you to read.

Plugins Used

Plugin Version Author Description
Akismet 2.2.3 Matt Mullenweg Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service.
AntiLeech 1.8 Owen Winkler Prevent errant parties from stealing your content and bandwidth.
Audio player 1.2.3 Martin Laine Highly configurable single track mp3 player.
Bad Behavior 2.0.25 Michael Hampton Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site.
Brian’s Latest Comments 1.5.9 Brian Meidell This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them.
Code Display 2.01 Viper007Bond Displays the contents of all <code> and <pre> tags and allows commenters to use non-allowed HTML tags in code in comments.
Dean’s Permalinks Migration 1.0 Dean Lee With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank.
Delink Comment Author 1.2 Alex King Adds a link to comment e-mails for you to remove the URL the commentor left. Useful if you want to ditch the comment URL but keep the comment.
Enforce www. Preference 1.3 Mark Jaquith Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www.
Feed With Comments 0.3 Christoph Boecken Displays the comments in the feed along with the post, so that your readers can follow the discussion easily
FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 FeedBurner Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2 Arne Brachhold This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page
Gravatars2 2.6.2 Kip Bond Implements Gravatars (global avatars) with enhanced caching support, cron support, & administrative interface to control default options.
Gravatars2 WP-Cron 1.1 Kip Bond Refreshes the cached gravatar images using a pseudo-cron implementation — Requires WP-Cron (http://skippy.net/blog/2005/10/09/wp-cron-14/) & Gravatars2 (http://zenpax.com/gravatars2/)
IP 2 Country 2.0 Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo Retrieves the country name of the visitor, guessed from is IP. Uses ip-to-country’s data
Landing sites 1.3 The undersigned When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific - often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog? This plugin/guide lets you do that, works with a long list of search engines!
Lightbox 2 2.8.0 Rupert Morris Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Mad props to Tanin for his crucial regular expression code! You rock!!
Lucia’sLinkLove 0.3 (Added number count toggles.) Lucia Liljegren Where a commenter has commented at least some number of timeslinks are made “dofollow”. User interface permits blogger to do follow author link or links inside comments.
MyDashboard 0.3.1 clearskys.net This plugin provides a replacement ajax based Dashboard for WordPress.
Official Comments 1.1 Brett Taylor Adds functions to distinguish authorised WP user’s comments.
Ozh’ Absolute Comments 2.2.2 Ozh Reply instantly to comments, either from the email notification, or the usual Comments page, without loading the post first. For WordPress 2.5+
Post Control 1.2 Ken Villines A simple and flexible Admin control for WordPress Posts
Post-Plugin Library 2.6.2.1 Rob Marsh, SJ Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.
Random Posts 2.6.2.0 Rob Marsh, SJ Displays a random list of posts.
Recent Posts 2.6.2.0 Rob Marsh, SJ Displays a list of the most recent posts.
Related Posts 2.04 Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
Run PHP 0.2.2 Mark Somerville Allows PHP to run in posts by using custom HTML style tags
SRG Clean Archives 4.2 Sean R. This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean, uniform, single-query fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.
ST Add Related Posts to Feed .02 Chris Kasten, aka HandySolo Adds Related Posts to your full content feed. Ultimate Tag Warrior or Related Posts is required. Big thanks to Otto42 of ottodestruct.com
Search Everything 4.7.8 Dan Cameron Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata). Also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. Does not search password-protected content.
ShareThis 2.3 ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com) Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Configuration options are here. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README.
Show Top Commentators 1.05 Nate Sanden Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one).
Sideblog Wordpress Plugin 5.1 Kates Gasis A simple aside plugin.
Licensed under the GPL
TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter 0.6.2 Joe Tan A plugin that does a simple sanity check to stop really obvious comment spam before it is processed.
Title Grabber 1.3 Nick Dienstbier Adds a title attribute to links that don’t have one, grabs title’s from the page the link goes to.
Trackping Separator 2.0.2 Thomas Au (MK) This plugin provide useful template functions to separate trackbacks and pingbacks from comments. Modified from MW Comments/Trackbacks
Twitter Tools 1.5.1 Alex King A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter.
TypePad AntiSpam 1.02 Matt Mullenweg, Six Apart Ltd. TypePad AntiSpam is a free service from Six Apart that helps protect your blog from spam. The TypePad AntiSpam plugin will send every comment or Pingback submitted to your blog to the service for evaluation, and will filter items if TypePad AntiSpam determines it is spam. You’ll need a TypePad AntiSpam API key to get started. For displaying your TypePad AntiSpam stats, use <?php typepadantispam_counter(); ?> in your template.
Viper’s Plugins Used 1.12 Viper007Bond Allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. Also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output.
WP CSS Streamliner 1.0.3 Marco van Hylckama Vlieg This plugin catches all your separate CSS files and inserts them into one compacted file. If something doesn’t work try adding phrases to the provided nocompress.inc file. Not all CSS plays nice with this plugin, though most of it does.
WP Super Cache 0.8.6 Donncha O Caoimh Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once activated, you must enable the cache.
WP-DBManager 2.20 Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
WP-PageNavi 2.31 Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
WP-PostViews 1.31 Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2 Austin Matzko On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.
WordPress.com Stats 1.3.5 Andy Skelton Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
cforms 9.1 Oliver Seidel cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes.
o42-CC 0.1.1 Michael Renzmann Select Creative Commons license and automatically sign your work.