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Here is where I share with the community about the technology behind my blog.
I am using the free opensource CMS system WordPress with the theme “Mandigo” to run my blog. With this I also use the following plug-ins to customize my blog and present all the functions you enjoy.

Plugin Name Description
404 Notifier This plugin will log 404 hits on your site and can notify you via e-mail or you can subscribe to the generated RSS feed of 404 events. By Alex King.
AdSense Manager Control and arrange your AdSense & Referral blocks on your WordPress blog. With Widget and inline post support, configurable colours. By Martin Fitzpatrick.
AJAX Calendar A version of the WordPress calendar that uses AJAX to allow the user to step through the months without updating the page. Additionally, a click on the ‘expand’ link shows all the posts within that month, inside the calendar. Caching of content can be enabled to increase speed. By John Godley.
Akismet 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. By Matt Mullenweg.
All in One SEO Pack Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. By Michael Torbert.
AskApache Google 404 Adds Intelligent SEO Ajax-powered Google Search to 404 pages. Options configuration panel By AskApache.
Broken Link Checker Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. By Janis Elsts.
c6 Old Posts Alert Alerts users to out-of-date content By Brett Terpstra with code borrowed from Alex King and Ultimate Tag Warrior by Christine Davis.
Comment License Show license terms for your comments form. By Alex King.
Daiko’s YouTube Widget Adds a sidebar widget to display random YouTube videos of your own choice. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel and/or add your favorite tag(s), user(s). Syntax: [YouTube ID]@[Title]. By Rune Fjellheim.
Deko Boko A plugin for generating an extensible contact form, using re-captcha By Michael Toppa.
Delink Comment Author Adds a link to comment e-mails for you to remove the URL the commentor left. Useful if you want to ditch the comment URL but keep the comment. By Alex King.
DISQUS Comment System The DISQUS comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by DISQUS. Head over to the Comments admin page to set up your DISQUS Comment System. By DISQUS.com .
Feedburner Widget Adds syndicated chicklets to your sidebar. These are redirected through Feedburner. It also redirects your automatic feeds through Feedburner. By Jeremy T. Finke.
Flickr Photo Album This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts. By Joe Tan.
Google Analyticator Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the options page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging. By Ronald Heft, Jr..
Google XML Sitemaps This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. By Arne Brachhold.
iWPhone A plugin and theme for WordPress that automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. By ContentRobot.
LifeStream Displays your social activity in a lifestream. (Requires PHP/MySQL 5) By David Cramer.
Redirectify A plugin that redirects posts and pages that contain a certain meta tag. By Owen Winkler.
Related Posts This wordpress plugin provides tagcloud that shows the related posts of a post, and can replace a keyword within a post to a list of related posts. By René Ade.
Sensitive Tag Cloud This wordpress plugin provides a highly configurable tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context. By René Ade.
ShareThis Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README. By ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com).
Social Homes widget Adds a sidebar widget containing a subtle list of all your social homes as linked favicons. Current services include BlogCatalog, Blogger, BUMPzee, Dailymotion, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Last.fm, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Ma.gnolia, MyBlogLog, MySpace, Pownce, reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, Utterz, Vimeo, VIRB°, XING, YouTube, Zooomr. By Elie Zananiri.
Twitter Tools A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. By Alex King.
Woopra This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Simply sign up at Woopra.com, then activate the plugin and configure your site ID in the Woopra settings. By Elie El Khoury.
WP-Ban Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referer url from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent or referer url tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recordered on how many times they attemp to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
wp-cache Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. By Ricardo Galli Granada.
WP-Print Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
WP-reCAPTCHA Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam solutions with wordpress By Jorge Peña.
WP YouTube WP YouTube allows you to control all the YouTube videos at the same time. By Jens Törnell.