As Google and other search engines penalize sites that have duplicated content, you may want to use post excerpts everywhere other than the single post page. But in order to do that, you would have to edit your theme files which might be a big trouble for those who are not familiar with php codes. This is where Post Teaser plugin comes in handy.
This plugin actually generates a preview or “teaser” of a post for the main, archive and category pages, with a link underneath to go to the full post page. It includes features to generate a word count, image count, and an estimated reading time as well.
Staska.net had compiled a list of the top 30 WordPress plugins in blogosphere. The list is done by votes from 48 bloggers on their favorite plugins.
The list is based on the Lists of favorite Wordpress plugins, made by Lorelle last month. Lorelle found 48 lists with a total of 280 plugins that were recommended by other bloggers to their readers.
So I went through all those lists and compiled a spreadsheet of the mentioned plugins to see which of them were the most used in blogosphere.
One way of getting your readers back to your blog is by sending them a “Thanks for commenting” email after they comment on your blog for the first time. This is what Comment Relish plugin does.
Comment relish is a Wordpress plugin developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before. The message dispatched to the user is defined within the plugin’s preferences. Numerous tags have been integrated to allow for information to be included in the message easily (I.E.: timestamp, author name, comment, ETC.).
As I mentioned in the previous post, I found a plugin which can let you change your permalinks without losing the traffic you’re already getting to your blog. This plugin actually redirect the old permalinks to the new permalinks of the same post.
Many people want to change their permalink structure,for example, from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/
But doing so will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid,moreover, losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to you.
Are you tired of upgrading your WordPress versions just to keep up? WordPress has been releasing new versions more frequently lately and it would be troublesome for some of us to upgrade it. Luckily, there is a plugin where you can upgrade your Wordpress versions just by one click! (Err.. Maybe a few clicks.. )
How does it work?
The InstantUpgrade plugin downloads the latest WordPress version from the WordPress server and unpacks it at your server. In the next step, it deletes all of your old WordPress files (except wp-content/ and wp-config.php, language packs are preserved, too) and puts the new files into your WordPress directory. At last, it runs the upgrade script contained it the new WordPress version.
If you are a MyBlogLog user that have been commenting in this blog recently, you will notice that your MyBlogLog avatar will appear just beside your comments. How do I do it? Just use this Wordpress plugin, MyAvatar.
This plugin will show users’ MyBlogLog avatar beside their comments in your blog. In my opinion, it is much better than Gravatar, another plugin that requires user to upload their own avatar to your server in order to show their avatar beside their comments. Who will want to upload their avatar to every blog they comment to? 
