Darren Rowse of Problogger.net fame, just recently put up a list of his active plugins in a post called I’ll Show you Mine if You Show me Yours (WP Plugins)
Currently he is using only a few plugins, but they are pretty important for the types of sites he has.
In his list he includes:

Spam Karma 2 [...]

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S.E.O. is on the mind of many bloggers these days. What can I do better to make it so my entries rank higher on Google, and are filled with the information that people are looking for? Usually it is just changing a few things, and voila, you have a blog that is a little better [...]

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Since we’re on the subject of GreaseMonkey and I just started using this very cool Firefox extension, here is a GreaseMonkey Script that replaces the “Clip/Blog This” links in Bloglines with a WordPress bookmarklet popup, sending the item title and link to a new WordPress Post.

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Update: Here are a few more WordPress GreaseMonkey scripts that the author is offering.
wordpressuncheck.user.js is a GreaseMonkey user script that waits until the admin “Write Post” page loads, then goes through and unchecks whatever WordPress chose as the default category. It only deselects when a new post is created, otherwise it would overwrite the [...]

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I need a sticky post plugin for an upcoming announcement on Blogging Pro. The first place I looked of course was BloggingPro and the only plugin I found was Adhesive, but it does not work in 1.5.1.2. So I went to Google and searched and couldn’t find one sticky post plugin for WordPress.
I can’t believe [...]

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Here’s another WordPress Sitemap Generator for Google that is configurable and includes posts, pages, and archive & category pages.

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Michael Nguyen has written some php code that generates a Google Sitemap xml file with all your posts ordered by time - newest posts first.
I used one of the suggestions in the comments section and altered the MySQL query to include Pages as well as posts on my Google Sitemap.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Sitemap [...]

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UrbanGiraffe has released the 4th and final issue of Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 4.

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It appears there is a RSS feed bug in WordPress 1.5.1 as talked about here. The problem is the feeds are not accurate, and returning with error 304. The “/feed” page which should reflect the entire installs feed is only outputting a feed when a new entry is produced, and, after what seems to be [...]

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Dissection of a WordPress theme: Part 3 is now available.

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Here’s part 2 of a Dissection of a WordPress Theme.
Web design is a notoriously tricky subject. Often we give up any thoughts of innovation when the process of realizing them is such hard work. Part two of this WordPress dissection continues to try and explain the basic workings of the software, how this relates to [...]

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Matt Googly has a nice article for WordPress and PHP newbies. He takes the mysterious PHP out of the templating system by explaining each item in the “loop”.

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If you want to run affiliate banners on your WordPress website here’s a short tutorial on running random advertising banners in WordPress using the plugin RandomFile. This plugin retrieves the name of a randomly chosen file in a given directory.

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The WordPress Codex has a nice tutorial on dynamically highlighting the current Page in your navigation menu using CSS and a little PHP. This method will work with version 1.5 created Pages only.

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WordPress Lessons is a part of the WordPress Codex which includes tutorials, tips, techniques, and step-by-step guides for WordPress users. Whether you are new to WordPress or a veteran these articles may be of benefit to you.
Our goal is to help you learn more about how to use WordPress, and how to take advantage [...]

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Weblog Tools Collection has a tip for optimizing your WordPress database tables. As Mark mentions several times, backup your data first.
My database currently holds 1,174,948 records and is 167 MB. I don’t use any spam recording plugins so this does not include any spam records. It’s mostly traffic stats. Crazy.

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Land of Opportunity has a few tips for those installing WordPress 1.5 on Windows 2003 Server with IIS6.

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If you have used Spam Karma in the past but are not using it any longer Weblog Tools Collection has some tips for increasing WordPress performance after deleting Spam Karma.
I used Spam Karma since it first came out and was really pleased with the results but after reading Tom Raftery’s article on preventing comment spam [...]

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If you’d like to display your family’s genealogy inside WordPress by integrating Retrospect-GDS with WordPress this article will tell you how to do it.

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Here’s a super tutorial with tons of screen shots on how to use One Click Backup from Weblog Tools Collection.

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