I have benefited from numerous lists of WordPress plugins. Now it’s time for me to give back to the blogging community by posting my favorite plugins.

1. AdMan: Places ads in the middle of posts. You can probably see an example on this page.
2. AdSense Deluxe: Allows you to have more customization over where you want your AdSense ads displayed. If you are not a member of AdSense, you can
   
3. Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter: Automatically adds a copyright message to the bottom of your posts in your RSS feed.
4. AutoMeta: Automatic Meta and Technorati tags.
5. Blog Copyright: Displays a copyright message at the bottom of your blog.
6. Brian’s Latest Comments: Displays the latest comments to your blog on the sidebar (or anywhere).
7. Bumpzee: Displays the Bumpzee widget that you see in the sidebar.
8. Buy Me a Beer: Displays the “Buy Me Coffee” PayPal donation link at the bottom of each post (this has not been that effective). Do you think this is Internet panhandling, or an alternative to subscription content?
9. DoFollow: Removes the “nofollow” attribute from links in your comments, allowing people who make comments on your blog more links to their Web sites in the eyes of search engines.
10. Dunstan’s Time Since: Displays the time since you posted the current post (example above).
11. ESV: Allows quick insertion of Bible verses into your posts. Example: [esvbible reference=”John 3:16” header=”on” format=”block”]John 3:16[/esvbible]
12. Extended Live Archives: Better archives for your blog.
13. Feedburner Feedsmith: Converts all you RSS links to your Feedburner account.
14. Google Sitemaps Generator: Generates an XML file to help Google index your site.
15. Gravatar: Display pictures of people who comment on your blog, provided they have registered at Gravatar.
16. Gregarious: Excellent social bookmarking plugin.
17. In Series: Create links to posts within a series. Example here.
18. Noteworthy: Allows you to mark your posts as “Noteworthy.”
19. Optimal Title: Optimizes the title of your blog pages for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
20. Polite-ifier: This removes bad language from your blog comments. I realized the need for this when I began allowing Spam Karma (below) to automatically approve non-spam post comments.
21. Post Teaser: Customizable short previews of your posts on your main page. Example here.
22. Quoter: Allows blog users to easily quote in their comments.
23. Random Posts: Displays a list of random posts.
24. Related Posts: Displays posts related to the current one.
25. SH-Autolink: Automatically places links on specific words in your posts or comments.
26. Spam Karma 2: Automatically approve blog comments, spam-free! Encourages real-time discussions.
27. Ultimate Category Cloud: Displays a cloud of your blog categories. Example at right.
28. Ultimate Tag Warrior: Allows you to add Technorati tags to your posts easily.
29. WP-Cache: Creates a cache of your WordPress pages to not overload your Web server when you suddenly reach thousands of unique visitors in a day. How can this happen to you? See my series on increasing blog traffic.
30. WP-Contactform: Adds a spam-free contact me form to your blog.
31. WP-Footnotes: add footnotes to your blog. Example here.
32. WP-Postratings: Allows users to rate your posts. To try it out, why don’t you rate this one?
33. WP-Postviews: Displays how many times a post has been viewed.

So that’s my list. I use most of these, plus some more. Is your favorite plugin on this list? If so, please comment below. Did I miss anything? If so, please leave a comment!

For a nice collection of free Christian resources, head on over to Free Christian Resources.

Since I have a daughter who will be three soon, I often play tag with her. Now I get to play tag on my blog.

Casey from Casey’s Critical Thinking has tagged me. This means that I am supposed to reveal seven things about me that my readers do not know and then tag three other bloggers so that they can do the same.

1. I used to work at Disneyland. If you visited the magic shop in the mid nineties, you probably saw me. Consequently, no one typically wants to play cards with me.
2. I will probably be raking leaves today. We were blessed with a Colorado home with mature landscaping. My wife loves to see the leaves change in the fall. I really don’t love to rake them.
3. We have no pets, but are thinking about getting a miniature Australian shepherd. Or, if you are or know of someone in CO who has a puppy looking for a home please let me know through the Contact me page.
4. I started playing hockey when I was five years old, but I think that’s what all five-year-old boys do who grow up in Michigan. I played roller hockey for a bit during high school in CA, but I don’t really play anything anymore.
5. My sister and I won a local doubles tennis tournament when we were around high-school age. We even beat the head coach and her daughter…substantially. I don’t play tennis anymore either.
6. I like to watch every flavor of CSI, along with House, The Office, The Soup, The Showbiz Show, and the 1/2 Hour News Hour. When my wife has the remote, we watch a plethora of reality TV shows. Hmmm…maybe I watch too much TV.
7. My goal is to eventually be involved in full-time ministry.

Those are mine. I tag:

• Wade at Christian Affiliate Marketers.
• C at C’s Weblog.
• Ron at Whatsoever You Do To The Least of My Brothers.

I just discovered a great way to get targeted traffic to your Christian blog. It’s called Blogrush and you can see it as a widget in the sidebar of this site. Please take a moment to look before continuing to read.

As you saw, there are links to other sites that have content that is related to what the widget finds on your page. After you install the widget on your blog, blog post titles from your rss feed will appear in the widget installed on other people’s blogs. It’s that simple.

To sign up, click on the “Add Your Blog Posts – Free” link on the widget or click here.

There are many blogs on the Internet. Only some of them are Christian. The Prudent Power Blogger award has been developed by Ric at Prudent Musings in an effort to recognize Christians who are fulfilling the Great Commission through contributing to the blogosphere.

The tagline for this award is: “This blogger shares the Truth.” That is, the Truth of God’s Word.

The rules:

This award is given by bloggers to bloggers. You must receive the award in order to give it. Bloggers given this award must have a Christian blog that emphasizes the Truth of God’s Word. If you receive this award you are eligible to give it to seven other Christian bloggers. When you pass along the award, you should do so in a post similar to this one that links to both Prudent Musings as the origin of the award along with a link back to the person who gave it to you (feel free to directly copy the text of this post, but without the ads that might be automatically inserted).

The recipients of this award are:

Casey’s Critical Thinking by Casey Carmical

Principled Discovery by Dana

Life in Student Ministry by Tim Schmoyer

On the Divine by Drake

Rend the heavens by Chris Davis

Learning Life’s Lessons by Darryl Bridges

Proverbs31WomanWannaBe by Shalene

Thank you for your contributions to the Christian blogosphere.

Since Prudent Musings is the originator of the award, it is the only site that can give it without receiving it. If you would like to be considered for the next round of nominations, which will happen at an unscheduled time, please leave a comment.