This is my talk on plugins at WordPress.

1. Accessorize Your Blog: Ten Ways to Improve Reader Experience Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD http://www.raulpacheco.org/blog http://hummingbird604.com

3. Once you launched your blog, focus on writing good content...

4. In case I haven't drilled it into you enough yet – WRITE GOOD CONTENT!

6. Readability (visual)

7. Accessibility (integration)

9. Sociable

10. Subscribe to Comments

11. TweetMeme

13. WPtouch

14. YARPP (related posts)

15. Contact Form 7

16. Akismet

19. TweetMeme

20. WordTwit

21. Yet Another Related Posts

24. (Add QuickTags)

25. (WP-FootNoteS)

28. (Add QuickTags)

29. (WP-FootNoteS)

31. Provide link love as much as you can

32. Test the plugins you choose and if they don't work, ditch them

33. Get rid of the visual editor (use the HTML editor)

34. Make your RSS button VERY visible (and make it easy to subscribe to your blog)

35. Include photos/video (make your posts pretty)