One of the truly wonderful and fun things about having your own WordPress blog is that you get to experiment with all the additional plugins and add-ons that are available for free.

I thought I’d list the ones I am using so far and if anyone has any reccommendations I’d be grateful for them!

So far I have installed:

Askimet – as standard, everyone needs a good spam filter.

All in One SEO Pack – I’m hoping that means Google will pick up less random bits of my blog in searches.

Broken Link Checker – for I had many in the transfer over to joannageary.com.

Google Analyticator – so that I can track my website stats.

WordPress Database Backup – just in case it all goes wrong.

WordPress Reports – allows me to see “at-a-glance” Google Analytics and Feedburner stats in my WordPress dashboard.