One of the truly wonderful and fun things about having your own Wordpress blog is that you get to experiment with all the additional plugins and add-ons that are available for free.

I thought I’d list the ones I am using so far and if anyone has any reccommendations I’d be grateful for them!

So far I have installed:

Askimet - as standard, everyone needs a good spam filter.

All in One SEO Pack - I’m hoping that means Google will pick up less random bits of my blog in searches.

Broken Link Checker - for I had many in the transfer over to joannageary.com.

Google Analyticator - so that I can track my website stats.

Wordpress Database Backup - just in case it all goes wrong.

Wordpress Reports - allows me to see “at-a-glance” Google Analytics and Feedburner stats in my Wordpress dashboard.