You’ll notice when taking a gander at my custom theme packages, that I reference “Celia’s Plugin Pack” quite a bit.  So, to help those that know how to help themselves, I thought I’d give ya’ll a list of my “must-have” plugins.

1) WP-DB-Backup: A plugin that will automagically email you backups of your database at a pre-determined time.  Something crashed and burned on your site?  Good thing you’ve got a backup stored in your email, right?  Find it here:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

2) Tiny MCE Advanced:  Adds bunches of other cool buttons to the normal text editor that comes with Wordpress.  Verra cool!  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

3) Ozh Admin Drop-Down Menus:  Makes navigating the back end of Wordpress much easier by adding drop down menus for everything.  AND, it’s IE6 compatible!  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu/

4) Pinpress.fm: Allows your blog posts to be forwarded and posted to oodles of other social networking platforms such as blogger and myspace.  One blog post, many blogs.  Yeah!  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pingpressfm/

5) Viper Video Quicktags:  Makes adding videos to your blogs as easy as copying and pasting a link.  Oooh, yeah.  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/

6) Stat Press:  Dashboard accesible statistics plugin that tracks ze cool stuff.  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/

7) WP-Spam Free: Denies ze spam AND acts as a spam blocking contact form if needed.  Two things, one plugin.  My kinda plugin, baby!  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/

So, those are automagically installed as part of the plugin pack.  What about you?  Any plugins that you can’t live without?

Celia