:: Note: This article originally appeared on RicShreves.net and is reproduced here with permission. (Ric is one of the partners here at water&stone.)::
This post is one of my favorite kinds of articles: That is, those that arise from real world experiences. A good friend of mine recently moved his personal site over to WordPress. At about the same time I had reason to build a couple of promotional microsites on WordPress. As a result of these two projects I had time to refresh my knowledge of WordPress plugins - and in the process I found some really useful items I’d like to share with you all.
In addition to must-have classics like Akismet or the All-in-One SEO Pack, I discovered a number of newer extensions that address common real world problems. I took the best of the bunch, added it into the list of plugins that make up our standard WordPress deployment, and put together this short article.