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  From early of March, I started blogging on QuantMinds.com powered by WordPress. I updated WP platform twice over the past three months from version 2.8 to 3.0. Thanks for the wonderful Artiless theme, I did not experienced much troubles in these transition period. Last night, I finished another modification on this theme to reorganize [...]

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From early of March, I started blogging on QuantMinds.com powered by WordPress. I updated WP platform twice over the past three months from version 2.8 to 3.0. Thanks for the wonderful Artiless theme, I did not experienced much troubles in these transition period. Last night, I finished another modification on this theme to reorganize the contents structure to fit a bit better. I think it is time to summarize the plugins applied on this site. Totally I installed 39 plugins on this site – Wow!  Some of them are only fir to my personal presences. I will mark the necessary ones with “$”.

• 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. Version 2.4.10 | By John Godley | Visit plugin site

• $$$Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an 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. Version 2.3.0 | By Automattic | Visit plugin site

• $$$All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. Options configuration panel | Upgrade to Pro Version | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist Version 1.6.11 | By Michael Torbert | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Article Directory – Specifically designed for this theme

Displays the structured list of categories (like in article directory), which can be easily customized with CSS. See an example at articlesss.com. Version 0.9.9 | By Dimox | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Baidu Sitemap Generator – I have tons of traffic from China, never miss the mainstream search engine over there

This pulgin generates a Baidu XML-Sitemap for WordPress Blog. Also Build a real Static Sitemap-Page for all Search Engine. | 生成百度 Sitemap XML 文件。就相当于网站被百度–全球最大的中文搜索引擎订阅，进而为您的网站带来潜在的流量。同时生成一个静态的站点地图页面，对所有的搜索引擎都有利。 Version 1.30 | By 柳城 | Visit plugin site

• Blogroll Links

Displays blogroll links on a Page or Post. Insert [blogroll-links categoryslug="blogroll"] to a Page or Post and it will display your blogroll links there. Version 2.2 | By Rajiv Pant | Visit plugin site

• Collapsing Archives

Allows users to expand and collapse archive links like Blogger. Options and Settings | Manual | FAQ | User forum Version 1.3.1 | By Robert Felty | Visit plugin site

• Collapsing Links

Uses javascript to expand and collapse links to show the posts that belong to the link category Version 0.3.5 | By Robert Felty | Visit plugin site

• Collapsing Pages

Uses javascript to expand and collapse pages to show the posts that belong to the link category Version 0.6.1 | By Robert Felty | Visit plugin site

• Cool Contact Form

A Cool Contact form plugin. Version 1.00 | By Nischal Maniar | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Featured Post with thumbnail

This widget allows you to add in your blog's sidebar a list of featured post with thumbanil. Version 1.4 | By Nando Pappalardo e Giustino Borzacchiello | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Get The Image

This is a highly intuitive script that can grab an image by custom field input, post attachment, or extracting it from the post's content. Version 0.4 | By Justin Tadlock | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Google XML Sitemaps with qTranslate Support

Version 3.1.6.3 | By NeoEGM, Arne Brachhold | Visit plugin site | Settings | FAQ | Support | Donate

• $$$ Infolinks Ad Wrap – I was kicked out by Google Adsense (I did not understand till today), but infolinks is a good alternative

Simple plugin to add infolinks ad to a wordpress web site. Version 1.0.2 | By Rubayat Hasan | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Inline Javascript Plugin – very simple coding when I wanna embed a video or java scripts on the posts

Plugin that insert inline javascript in Posts/Pages Version 0.5 | By Volcano | Visit plugin site

• Keyword Link Plugin

A SEO plugin that helps you to automatically link keywords to articles. Version 0.7.1 | By Martijn Dijksterhuis | Visit plugin site

• Link Library

Display links on pages with a variety of options Version 3.3.7 | By Yannick Lefebvre | Visit plugin site

• List category posts

List Category Posts allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page. Version 0.10.1 | By Fernando Briano | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Meta Tag Manager – very useful to add tag info when I tried to submit sitemap to any search engine

A simple plugin to manage meta tags that appear on all your pages. This can be used for verifiying google, yahoo, and more. — Settings page — edited by Martin Lormes Version 1.1 | By NetWebLogic LLC | Visit plugin site

• NuRelm Get Posts

Adds a shortcode tag to display a list of posts. Version 0.2 | By Sami Shaaban | Visit plugin site

• Post-Plugin Library

Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin. Version 2.6.2.1 | By Rob Marsh, SJ | Visit plugin site

• Random Posts widget

Display Random Posts Widget. Based on Random categories with random posts by Mike Stickel. Version 1.5.0 | By Ady Romantika | Visit plugin site

• Recent Posts

Displays a highly configurable list of the most recent posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed. Version 2.6.2.0 | By Rob Marsh, SJ | Visit plugin site

• $$$ SexyBookmarks – so far it is the most beautiful social networking button!

SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. See configuration panel for more settings. Version 3.2.3.1 | By Shareaholic | Visit plugin site

• $$$ SidebarTabs – Highly recommended to save sidebar spaces!!!

sidebarTabs allows you to easily widgets into Tabs Version 3.1 | By Newton Horta | Visit plugin site 

• Simple Pull Quote

Easily add pull quotes to blog posts using shortcode. Version 1.0 | By Toby Cryns | Visit plugin site

• Simple Tags

Extended Tagging for WordPress 3.0 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc! Version 1.8 | By Amaury BALMER | Visit plugin site

• Simple TNX/XAP Widget

Simple TNX/XAP Widget automatically add code of system TNX.NET/XAP.RU on your blog in the sidebar. The knowledge of PHP and HTML is not necessary now. Version 1.2 | By mad31 | Visit plugin site

• $$$ Smooth Slider – very simple design for a slideshow post on frontpage!

Smooth Slider adds a smooth content and image slideshow with customizable background and slide intervals to any location of your blog Version 2.2 | By Tejaswini Deshpande, Sanjeev Mishra | Visit plugin site

• Subscribe Me

Widgets that let you display subscribe links to RSS readers such as Google Reader. Version 5.0.2 | By Denis de Bernardy | Visit plugin site

• $$$ TinyMCE Advanced – It is the best editor in WordPress so far!

Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress. Version 3.2.7 | By Andrew Ozz | Visit plugin site

• Wikinvest Stock Charts

Display stock charts on your blog Version 1.01 | By Wikinvest | Visit plugin site

• $$$ WordPress Code Snippet – wanna publish your coding? you won’t miss this one!

Add code snippets to posts without reformatting issues. Version 1.0 | By Allan Collins | Visit plugin site

• $$$ WordPress Database Backup – You need this every time when WP is upgraded!

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started. Version 2.2.2 | By Austin Matzko | Visit plugin site

• $$$ WP-MulticolLinks – a Chinese outstanding contribution to split the blogroll into multiple columns!

Show the links with multiple columns layout in the sidebar. Version 1.0.2 | By mg12 | Visit plugin site

• $$$ WP-PageNavi – a beautiful navigation design!

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog Version 2.72 | By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan & scribu | Visit plugin site

• WP Colorful Tag Cloud

A colorful tag cloud easily customizable using the user-friendly administration/settings interface. Version 2.0.1 | By Lionel Roux | Visit plugin site | Settings

• $$$ WP Super Cache – please use this if you felt your blog is loaded slowly! but be careful sometimes you will get confused!

Very fast caching plugin for WordPress. Version 0.9.9.3 | By Donncha O Caoimh | Visit plugin site WP Super Cache must be configured. Go to the admin page to enable and configure the plugin.

• $$$ Zemanta – I just found this one last night, it is able to make your contents looks rich!

Contextual suggestions of links, pictures, related content and SEO tags that makes your blogging fun and efficient. Version 0.6.6 | By Zemanta Ltd. | Visit plugin site

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