Many features of this website would not be possible if it were not for the following plugins. This page serves as my way of recognizing the respective developers and their many hours of hard work. If you operate a WordPress blog, I encourage you to explore each of these plugins and see if any of them will work for you as well as they have for me.

Akismet   Akismet
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

Automatic WordPress Backup   Automatic WordPress Backup
» Dan Coulter (url)
Automatically upload backups of important parts of your blog to Amazon S3

Better RSS Widget   Better RSS Widget
» GrandSlambert (url)
Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.

Block Bad Queries   Block Bad Queries
» Perishable Press (url)
Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests

Configure SMTP   Configure SMTP
» Scott Reilly (url)
Configure SMTP mailing in WordPress, including support for sending e-mail via SSL/TLS (such as GMail).

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator   Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
» Dagon Design (url)
Generates a fully customizable sitemap

Google Analyticator   Google Analyticator
» Ronald Heft (url)
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.

Google XML Sitemaps   Google XML Sitemaps
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

iRobots.txt SEO   iRobots.txt SEO
» Mark Beljaars (url)
iRobots.txt SEO is a SEO optimized, secure and customizable robots.txt virtual file creator.

jQuery Lightbox   jQuery Lightbox
» Pedro Lamas (url)
Used to overlay images on the current page. Original jQuery Lightbox by Balupton.

Maintenance Mode   Maintenance Mode
» Michael Wöhrer (url)
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Settings → Maintenance Mode to get started.

NextGEN Gallery   NextGEN Gallery
» Alex Rabe (url)
A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.

Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu   Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu
» Ozh (url)
All admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Saves lots of screen real estate! For WordPress 2.8+

PollDaddy Polls   PollDaddy Polls
» Automattic, Inc. (url)
Create and manage PollDaddy polls and ratings in WordPress

Pretty Link Pro   Pretty Link Pro
» Blair Williams (url)
Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website!

Register Plus   Register Plus
» Skullbit (url)
WordPress 2.5+ ONLY. Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields and more.

ShrinkTheWeb Website Thumbnails   ShrinkTheWeb Website Thumbnails
» Neosys Consulting, Inc. (url)
Add ShrinkTheWeb Link Previews to your blog.

Simple:Press Forum   Simple:Press Forum
» Andy Staines & Steve Klasen (url)
Fully featured but simple page-based forum

Simple Tags   Simple Tags
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.8 and 2.9 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!

TinyMCE Advanced   TinyMCE Advanced
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.

W3 Total Cache   W3 Total Cache
» Frederick Townes (url)
The fastest and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your blog by adding: page caching, database caching, minify, content delivery network (CDN) functionality and more…

WP-DBManager   WP-DBManager
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

WP-EMail   WP-EMail
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Allows people to recommand/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.

WP-PageNavi   WP-PageNavi
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.

WP-PluginsUsed   WP-PluginsUsed
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-Polls   WP-Polls
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.

WP-PostViews   WP-PostViews
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts.

WP-Print   WP-Print
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

WP-ServerInfo   WP-ServerInfo
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display your host’s server PHP and MYSQL information (integrated into WordPress Admin Style) on your WordPress dashboard.

WP-Task-Manager   WP-Task-Manager
» Thomas Genin (url)
Integrate in Wordpress, a task manager system. V2 IS COMING SOON !Options | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist

WP-UserOnline   WP-UserOnline
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots).

Theme Credit

This site uses a theme called Mystique developed by digitalnature. If you are using Wordpress as your blog platform, I encourage you to try this theme. It has many configuration settings and in my opinion, looks great!