Custom WordPress Theme Design

Okay, yes, I know, there are alot of “best WordPress plugins” type posts out there and while I am adding another its because that I have come to rely on this small group of plugins. I am a WordPress professional, WordPress is what I do day in and day out - creating new themes, modifying code, and yes managing clients blogs for them.

One common demoninator in all of the blogs that I develop is that they all use plugins. That’s the way that WordPress was designed - to have a small core that can be easily expanded with plugins for specific needs. This list is my personal list of plugins that I trust and use every day.

• TubePress
  TubePress is a free, highly configurable WordPress plugin that displays YouTube videos in an embedded gallery in your posts and/or pages.
• Counterize II
  Simple counter-plugin with no external libs - saves IP, timestamp, visited URl, referring URl and browserinformation in database, and can display total hits, unique hits and other statistics in WordPress webpages. Admin-interface available with detailed information
• Google (XML) Sitemaps
  This generator will create a sitemaps.org compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported By Google, MSN Search and YAHOO
• Breadcrumb Navigation XT
  Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.
• Related Posts
  Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches
• Role Manager
  Role Management for registered users of WordPress 2.0.
• Spam Karma 2
  Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.
• WP e-Commerce Lite
  The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.
• SRG Clean Archives
  A nice clean way to dislay your archives.