i-TONG is powered by Wordpress. In fact, all of my blogs are powered by Wordpress and if you are a Wordpress user then I’m sure you are familiar with Plugins. Plugins extend the capabilities of Wordpress by adding new features to it and as a Wordpress user, I’m always looking for cool plugins to add to my blogs. Plugins that enhance my blog’s usability.

Below is a list of cool plugins that I’m using with my blogs:

• About Me widget – Adds an “About Me” widget to your sidebar. By Samuel Devol
• Add Your Own Headers – This plugin allows you to add tags to the header of an individual page or post such as keywords/descriptions, custom meta tags, external style sheet links, or embedded style tags. You no longer need to use conditional statements or separate templates just to change something like a background image, text style, etc.
• Ad Rotator – Displays an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location. Tested on WordPress 1.5 & 2.x. Should work with earlier and later versions (future and past proofed). It can also be used with other CMS systems or anywhere where PHP is supported. By Angsuman Chakraborty
• Another Wordpress Meta Plugin – This plugin allows you to specify META information, that is keywords and descriptions, for your posts and pages. Additional META keywords are derived from your categories.
• Arkayne Widget – The Arkayne Plug-in displays a list of related articles at the bottom each blogs. The widget can be visually blended into your blog using the WorPress admin interface. Each page gets statistics like conversion rates, clicks, hits, and reader velocity. By Paul Kenjora
• Blog_LinkIt is a free simple plugin for WordPress or Drupal 5 to automatically convert text from your posts and pages into links from a central list of links. This makes it easy to add value your site but maximizing links to other sites and keeping them consistent throughout your site. By DCoda Ltd.
• Brian’s Threaded Comments – Brian’s Threaded Comments is a threaded comments plugin for WordPress. By Brian Meidell
• Contact Form ][ - Contact Form ][ is a drop-in form that allows site visitors to contact you. It can be implemented easily (via QuickTags) within any post or page. By Chip Cuccio
• Contextual Related Posts - Show last 5 contextually related posts on single blog posts, increase exposure By Mark Ghosh (LaughingLizard)
• Daiko's YouTube Widget - Finally Daiko’s YouTube Widget is ready for you YouTube bloggers. It displays a pre-defined number of YouTube videos as thumbnail images and plays them in a pop-up ThickBox window or my very own VideoPlayer Widget (included and integrated). This gives you the power and flexibility to play your favourite YouTube videos on your site in the format you desire. y Rune Fjellheim
• Digg This - Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story. By Aviran Mordo
• DoFollow - Selectively disable the “nofollow” tagging for comments. By Kimmo Suominen
• Exec-PHP - The Exec-PHP plugin executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets. By Sören Weber
• FeedBurner FeedSmith - Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. By FeedBurner.
• Flexi Pages Widget - Flexi Pages Widget is a highly configurable widget to list pages and sub-pages in WordPress sidebar. User friendly widget control comes with plenty of options. ‘Flexi Pages’ widget can be used as an alternative to the default WordPress ‘Pages’ widget. By Srini G
• If You Liked That ~ plugin - Following the content of a post, this plugin inserts links to a user selectable number of other posts in the same category as the main post. By bochgoch
• Lightbox JS v2.2 Plugin - Wordpress plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups. Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar. By Peppe Argento
• MightyAdsense - Keep your adsense code & output it in posts. By mightyhitter
• MyAvatars - This plugin allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to Wordpress comments. By Andrea Micheloni & Napolux
• Optimal Title - Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before. By Aaron Schaefer
• Really Simple Sitemap - Adds a really simple sitemap to your Wordpress blog. Add to any page or post and the site map will be added there. By Dominic Foster
• Subscribe Remind - Give your readers a little remindet to subscribe to your blog’s feed at the end of each post. By Trevor Fitzgerald
• Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith
• Top Commentators Widget - Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin. By Lorna Timbah
• WordPress.com Stats - Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. By Andy Skelton
• WordPress Database Backup - On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Austin Matzko
• Wordpress Video Plugin - A filter for WordPress that displays videos from myvideo.de, youtube.com, google video, Stage6, Brightcove, Aniboom, 123video.nl, MyspaceTV, Yahoo! Video, Veoh, Wandeo, Glumbert, Gametrailers, Gamevideos, LiveLeak, sevenload.de, clipfish.de, break.com, Metacafe, dailymotion.com, Vimeo, videotube, blip.tv, revver, IFILM, Tu.tv, grouper, Cellfish.com, Sumo.tv, Last.fm…others coming soon. Modified by Oliver Wunder By Oliver Wunder
• WP-EMail - Allows people to recommand/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend. By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
• WP-Footnotes - Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. By Simon Elvery
• WP-Links - WP Links allows you to put your links on your blog. It can be implemented on a page or a post. By Andrei Cipu
• WP-Polls - Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers. By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
• WP-PostRatings - Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page. By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
• WP-PostViews - Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. It will not count registered member views, but that can be changed easily. By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
• WP-UserOnline - Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are(Members/Guests/Search Bots). By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
• Youtube Brackets - Insert YouTube videos in post using [brackets] method. Enables YouTube blogging to standalone wordpress setups. By Robert Buzink + Mike Thompson

All of the above listed Wordpress Plugins works with Wordpress 2.3.1. I have a few of them installed here and most, if not all, of them are installed at Kabalyero.com