The "What Anthony Montalbano thinks about WordPress plugins and why they're super awesome and how WordPress wouldn't be, without the power of plugins and they're cool developers. Oh and here's a few helpful plugins" presentation.

1. The Power of WordPress Plugins
The "What Anthony Montalbano thinks about
WordPress plugins and why they're super awesome and
how WordPress wouldn't be, without the power of
plugins and they're cool developers. Oh and here's a
few helpful plugins" presentation.

2. Who is Anthony Montalbano?
Passionate for code
Bachelor's in Computer Science
Passionate for WordPress
WordCamp Detroit Organizer
Passionate for open source
WordPress plugin developer
Passionate for words
Serial blogger
Passionate for possibilities
Co-founder of flipfrog

3. What is a WordPress plugin?
"Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress."
~ http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins
MEGA IMPORTANT!
The Codex
The online manual for WordPress and a living repository
for WordPress information and documentation.

4. What can plugins do?

5. WordPress Plugins by the Numbers
19,048 285,729,716
# of plugins # of plugin downloads
63
% of users that use
10 plugins or less 9,783
# of plugin
10,282,222 developers
# of downloads of the most popular
plugin - All in One SEO Pack
Sources:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
http://digwp.com/2010/01/poll-results-how-many-plugins-do-you-use/
http://www.daveligthart.com/top-1000-wordpress-plugin-authors/

6. Your WordPress plugin "Google"

7. PSA: The Codex
codex.wordpress.org
A glimpse into the WordPress codex
http://bit.ly/wpcodexglimpse

8. WordPress SEO by Yoast
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

9. Jetpack by WordPress.com
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/

10. WP-DB-Backup
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

11. Lightbox Plus
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-plus/

12. Splee's Fuzzy DateTime
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/splees-fuzzy-datetime/

13. There's a Plugin for That
WordCamp Detroit 2010
http://bit.ly/wcdetplugins

14. Ask me something
Anthony Montalbano
anthony@flipfrog.com
http://www.anthonymontalbano.com
http://www.room3064.com
@italianst4
YAY PLUGINS!