One of the major advantages of blogging with Wordpress is that there is a wide variety of plugins available.  I thought I would briefly share the plugins that I make use of on this blog.

• Acronyms automatically finds acronyms and wraps <acronym> HTML tags around it.
• Akismet come standard and does a very good job at filtering out comment spam.
• All in One SEO Pack helps optimize things a little bit for search engines.
• FD Feedburner Plugin connects my blog’s feed with the Feedburner service.
• Google XML Sitemaps creates a sitemap of pages, helping search engines to find all the pages.
• Ozh’ Who Sees Ads allows for detailed control of the people who will see advertisements.
• Permalink Redirect makes sure that pages/posts are only viewed at their official permalink address.  This helps with SEO and with blog migration.
• WP Super Cache puts less load on my server by caching pages.
• Yet Another Related Post Plugin is the first related post plugin which I’ve considered to do a pretty good job at automatically finding related posts to display.

I’ve also used a variety of lightbox, thickbox, and other such pluggins, but I’m not sure which one I would recommend.