The most popular FREE WordPress Plugins according to ProBlogger users.

Over at ProBlogger, Darren Rowse asked his community, “What are your favourite FREE WordPress Plugins?”

With more time than sense on my hands, I compiled a list of the 183 unique WordPress Plugins which commenters mentioned:

The Top 10

Plugin name Number of mentions
Akismet 39
All in One SEO Pack 31
Google XML Sitemaps 26
CommentLuv 16
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YAFPP) 16
WPtouch iPhone Theme 12
Broken Link Checker 11
SexyBookmarks 11
WP Super Cache 10
Contact Form 7 9

How I totaled it up.
Pasted the comments into an Excel spreadsheet, and removed all the non-recommendations.
Then I matched the plugin name to the plugin home page (mostly the WordPress plugin sites).
Next I tidied up the various spellings people used.
Finally, I did a pivot table in Excel, and here we are.

The other 173

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A Green Cow is back …

For a while now I thought the A Green Cow blog had gone the way of the cow pictured right.  But I was wrong, and that makes me happy.

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“The Diary of a Microsoft Marketing Man”

Must remember not to have a mouthful of coffee while reading one of Phil Factor’s blog posts:

The Diary of a Microsoft Marketing Man

I woke up, in a ‘one stop’ process requiring a subtle paradigm shift. I was in my bed at home, a complete integrated platform. The Sun™ was streaming through [...]

The top 10 books borrowed by Microsoft UK staff

Originally saw this over at the Microsoft UK Schools Blog.

The Top 5

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 51Osk63EaBL._SL160_ Have read this myself.  Worked with a bloke who thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.  Considering that Mark Macy was one of the sharpest operators I’ve ever worked with, I’d recommend a read.
I thought the next book was a better read.
Getting Things Done412mHGHqzzL._SL160_ This is the book I loved when I read it.
My biggest problems with GTD is that
a) I fall off the wagon, and
b) I’ve yet to find a rigorous method to manage my tasks.
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?41EKJT9JEYL._SL160_ “Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle: How the World’s Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers”

Or, as I’ve often said to people, the thought process  on how to work though solving the problem is more important than just knowing the answer.
I would move Mt Fuji by erecting a SEP field.
But why are Microsoft staffers reading a book on how companies like Microsoft are selecting staff?

The Tipping Point.41iEG6VDU9L._SL160_ Have not read this book, and judging by the Amazon reviews, I won’t be anytime soon.
Linked.41f2lxLHk8L._SL160_ “How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science and Everyday Life”
Apparently talks about how everything is inter-linked.
That everything is interlinked, does not surprise me.

The bottom 5

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“MySpace Angles”

Saw a blog article over at www.officialdatingresource.com, probably via a LIfeHacker article, about “MySpace Angles”.  Hadn’t heard the term before.

Here is a couple of photos which illustrate MySpace Angles perfectly.

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Printer toner

Printer toner, depending on who you ask, is cancerogenic.

Or not.

The Material Safety Data Sheets I’ve seen, say not.  But I still wouldn’t breath toner in.

Now some of the printers I’ve worked on over the years, have conspired to leak toner over me. 

There was the StorageTek mainframe printer, with [...]

How to redirect Blogger Beta to WordPress.com (Laffers.net)

This was originally a post at Laffers.net, but I’m getting constant timeouts to that site, so I’m going to repost it here, just in case Laffers.net has gone down. This copy was captured by the Google Cache as it appeared on 24 Dec 2009 04:44:07.

I refer to this article in the following [...]

"… concerned about the heating of external drives …"

“I’m concerned about the heating of external drives because many of these little enclosures provide no active air flow across the drive.”, opines Steve Gibson.

And in the field of hard disk maintenance, he would have to be the expert.  SpinRite is the result of his knowledge in the field.

My Seagate FreeAgent Classic [...]

"Beware of Integrated eSATA ports"

I don’t like quoting whole slabs of another blogs posts, but this is worth spreading to a wider audience:

… If you only use a single drive attached to an eSATA port, you can quit reading, but if you are like me and want the best performance possible, you have probably invested in a [...]

Dilbert talking about Microsoft licensing & pricing?

I saw Ed Bott’s “Microsoft’s Grinch kills Windows 7 Family Pack”, and then saw today’s Dilbert:

It kinda fits.  Ed talks about Microsoft removing the Windows 7 Family Pack offering.  From my past experience, Microsoft pricing is hard to understand, with it’s multiple ways to buy and license a product.

But don’t you [...]