For those of you checking this out for the links I promised during the presentation, let me know if you found any other great plugins I may have missed or if you have any questions about how to configure these plugins and I’ll see if I can help :D

After the slides are the links to all of the plugins.

The top 13 plugins featured in my presentation

• Disqus
• Twitter Tools
• WP-OpenID
• Clean Archives Reloaded
• WP 2.5 Gallery Lightbox
• WP Super Cache
• WP-Contact Form
• Mint: A Fresh Look at your Site
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
• iPhone Webclip Manager
• WP-DB Manager
• WordPress Automatic Upgrade
• Sociable

There you have. Keep checking back for my ongoing series of posts on the best new plugins and ways to better your blog as well as other hints, tips and tricks to help make your blog stand out.

*UPDATE*

Here’s the much requested “honorable mention” plugins list:

• WP Calais Autotagger
• WP Calais Archive Tagger
• Fluency Admin Dashboard theme (will be deprecated with the release of WordPress 2.7)
• iWphone (theme for iphones)
• Treasurelicious (widget)

Thanks to Dale Chumbley for recording this. While I shudder a bit at some of the bad jokes I made to ease my own palpable tension it’s nice to see that it came out ok.

Before I get to the video I want to thank everyone of the presenters, the attendees and Aaron Hockley for giving me one of the greatest experiences with the Portland Tech community. Reading the responses on twitter to my presentation as well as the experts panel really made my day. Additionally getting to finally meet Viper007Bond who’s written some great plugins (some of which should be core, but more on that at a later date) & Marshall Kirkpatrick as well as a few other people was awesome.

Without further ado here’s the video (I’d recommend headphones for this).

Direct Link to the video

Also keep checking the WordcampPDX site for information on the next wordcamp here as well as a possible November 10th upgrade party to version 2.7!

Late Saturday night I decided it was high time to finally make a webclip icon for cdcstudios. It was a total piece of cake and shortly thereafter I made another one, this time for the folks over at Silicon Florist. For those not in the know, a webclip icon is the iPhone or iPod Touch desktop bookmark icon. They’re really easy to make and quite useful as displayed in the pic above.

With this plugin you can make a custom icon for your wordpress site or your wordpress multiuser site (yep this plugin will allow each individual WPMU blog to have full support for custom webclips). Head to the plugin page to get it or if you have any questions about it.