That way, a single post does not take up the whole page. Imagine these two posts on the main page, without any hiding mechanism. It would make it impossible to have more than a couple of posts, and sometimes maybe just one.

And since I do post a lot of pictures and on occasion, lengthy rants, I figured that it would be useful to have something that will help me provide an excerpt. Secondly, I also use this tool when I have new blog entries and the old ones are taking too much real-estate on the main page.

After a while, I basically make sure that only the excerpt remains of older entries (unless it is short) so that I can use the real-estate for other newer posts.

Btw, if you are interesting in the feed subscription, look at Feedburner. There are some interesting plugins supporting WP and FB.

And thank you for your list of plugins — installed LaTeXRenderer and even blogged about it. Very useful.

Cheers.

Thanks a lot for pointing me to these very interesting plugins. I’ll be trying them out soon. Though, I don’t find show/hide content plugin to be very useful – why not show the entire text to begin with?

My most required features right now: Tag visualization, Recent comments/commentators, subscribe to comments (using feeds), advanced search. SPAM isn’t a big problem yet.

I’ll definitely be updating this page when I get around to installing more plugins. Cheers.

If you have pages, the SearchPages plugin [1] lets you extend WP’s search capabilities to your pages, too, not just posts.

If you want to have a dynamic show/hide content link for Read More kind of scenarios, there is a plugin [2] that lets you do that.

And not to mention Askimet [3], which has saved me from heaven knows how many millions of spam comments. And if spam is a genuine problem, try looking at the Anti-Spam image plugin [4], which renders captchas.

There is also the AJAX comment preview plugin [5], which lets your posters preview their comments, without a submit.

And finally, there is the WP DB backup [6] plugin, which is immensely useful.

[1] http://randomfrequency.net/wordpress/search-pages/
[2] http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/05/20/show-hide-more-with-wordpress/
[3] http://akismet.com/
[4] http://www.infor96.com/~nio/archives/369
[5] http://blogwaffe.com/ajax-comment-preview/
[6] http://www.skippy.net/blog/plugins/

So, there you go!