At the time of writing, I have these plugins installed...

• All in One SEO Pack
  Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
  Generates a fully customizable oldfashioned sitemap. Google loves sitemaps (have a look at the bottom of this site where it says "sitemap")
• Easy Contact
  An easy contact form you can use to set up a contact page (have a look at my contact page)
• Link Cloaking Plugin
  Excellent plugin to cloak outgoing links in your posts, pages, sidebar, etc... (see my woothemes goto-links in the sidebar)
• WassUp
  Excellent plugin to analyze your visitors traffic in real time with stats, charts and a lot of chronological informations.
• WordPress Database Backup
  Cheap hosting providers usually don't backup things for you, so here's your chance to have a backup feature for free.
• WP Super Cache
  A traffic surge might come to your site one day. Be prepared. Here's a very fast caching module for WordPress, ideal to handle heavy traffic. (You can activate this plugin in "off mode", and switch it on and off again whenever you need it)

Oh, BTW, I missed the Thank a Plugin Developer Day some days ago... Mister Matt Mullenweg declared Jan 28th as the official "Thank a Plugin Developer" day. Hope this post makes it up. Thanks everybody!

However, to be honest with you, there are a couple of things that I don't like about wordpress. But the beauty of it is that you can use wordpress' excellent flexibility to "change" what you don't like. "Yes Wordpress can!"

So what is it that I don't like and how did I fix it?

One thing that I definitely don't like about wordpress is that it automatically replaces "straight quotes" with curly quotes (amongst other things). Wordpress texturizes special characters for easier reading, but the result doesn't look good when you look at the source code (think search engine wise), and it's a pain in the butt if you try to share some programming code or if you try to paste some copied texturized text.

The solution?
A simple and free plugin written by Jason Litka called disable wptexturize. Download it and upload it via FTP to your plugin-folder:
your domain » wp-content » plugins.
Then activate the plugin via your wordpress dashboard. Click on plugins and find "disable wptexturize". Voila!

Now let's move on to the second wordpress feature I don't like: revisions and autosave. Each time you change something in your post, wordpress automatically saves a copy of the previous post version so that you can easily undo the changes you made (a revision).

Now this gets really annoying after a while, especially when you use the google toolbar as your primary spell checker. Google underlines the words it doesn't recognize and wordpress sees the underlining as a change, so it makes a copy, etc...

You can easily disable revisions and autosave by installing and activating a free plugin called... disable revisions and autosave. It was written by Exper Giovanni Rubaltelli and it works flawlessly.