So there are a lot of topics regarding the best and the most in demand plugins for WordPress. However, not all of them suit your needs, hence I’m listing here the WP plugins that my blog uses that I find very useful.

Excerpt Editor - Add or edit excerpts for Posts and Pages. If you check the main page of my blog, you can see the word “continue reading”. You can actually customize it to any word that you want to be displayed e.g. “read more”.

Head META Description - Insert HTML META description tag: excerpt/content brief for post/Page, description for category, and blog tagline for everything else.

My Page Order - Useful plugin to sort your pages in order. Some WP templates actually mess up the ordering of your pages especially when you add up new ones. This plugin solves that dilemna.

Search Meter - Good for admin purposes. This plugin outlines what topic your visitors search in your blog. This way, you would know and possibly write more about the topics that they searched.

Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form - This is the plugin that I used for my contact me form.

wp-cache - Very fast cache module, lets you cache your posts and your layout so that server does not have to reload contents every time a visitor checks out your blog.

WP-PageNavi - Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog

For now, these are the plugins that my blog uses. If there would be any new plugins that I come across, I will post them here so as to give new and old WP users a headstart.

Yahoo will now face massive fireworks from its major shareholders after turning down Microsoft’s latest offer. I’m pretty certain that this is greed (aside from pride) in Yahoo’s case. They wanted Microsoft to keep upping the ante and look what happened, MS withdrew. Although Yahoo’s CEO said that he’s willing to open talks with MS again, I doubt MS will go right ahead and offer a new one. They probably will wait and see Yahoo’s status as a company. When MS’ latest offer got turned down, Yahoo’s shares fell right away. Although not a big drop, as shareholders felt strongly that MS will offer Yahoo again after some time. I was right (when this first started after Yahoo said that its offer undermines its value as a company) that knowing MS as a very big company, they wanted to squeeze more cash from them as possible in order to at least maybe match their targeted share price that they failed to reach. So I wonder how this will turn out now. MS might offer Yahoo a new offer sheet in order to save them if its stocks plunge deeper. This will then not turn out what Yahoo expected it to be and their CEO might get whacked out by its majority shareholders.

While i was busy sorting and configuring my wordpress blogs, my site went down all of a sudden. I said to myself, “not again! what’s going to be the reason this time?”. Having a short downtime I don’t mind. But more than 10 minutes??? No way! I finally emailed them after an hour. They never said anything regarding what the problem was other than an admin was on it and fixing the issue. I tried to login to their control panel and see what the error may be. Would you believe, overload? What the … The only thing I did the previous day was upload pics. That would be a lame reason for an overload. 4 hours passed … nothing. I had to email them back, told them I’m new with them and it’s only been a few weeks and this is the second downtime I have experienced with them, happened on a weekend and this one’s worse. It was boredom last night as I couldn’t do anything with my site, didn’t even bother checking if it’s alive after 6 hours. I went to sleep instead. And now, it’s back. They are pretty bad. If you plan to get your hosting with bluehost.com, don’t, they’re the same. They have disappointed me thus far but I will still monitor how it goes since I am still new with them.

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