5 über-cool, über-useful WordPress plugins

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Part of the joy of WordPress is the extensive number of plugins that offer added functionality and make blog management easier. Here are five of my favorites.

WP-Cache

UPDATE: Try WP Super Cache which turns your WordPress entries into actual HTML pages so that they don’t even need to be passed through the PHP parser. Make your site wicked-fast with this Caching plug in. WP-Cache turns your dynamic, database-driven pages into static ones, offering faster response times to visitors. You can set a cache expiration time, prevent some pages from being cached, and clear cached pages at any time.

Akismet

Excellent comment spam protection, but you do have to sign up for a free API key. You also have to pay if you earn more than $500 per month from your blog.

Link Limits

Provides an additional layer of comment spam protection by automatically limiting comments to a 2-link maximum, and automatically rejecting comments containing BBCode.

Comment Timeout

Auto-closes comments after a set number of days or a set number of days of inactivity. For WordPress 2.0

Tiffany’s Simple Technorati Tags

This plugin only makes the list because I wrote it :-). Add a custom field with keywords that are automatically turned into Technorati tag links.

If you use WordPress, which WordPress plugins do you swear by and why?