Recommended Plugins
Must Haves
- Theme Companion – Modify the look of your site without editing the original style.css
- WP-Supercache – Cache your pages into static output pages to save hosting processing.
- Akismet (Distributed with WordPress)
Good To Have
- Google Analyticator by Ronald Heft
Great additions
- Feed Statistics – by Christopher Finke – Instead of using feedburner to track stats.
- TweetMeMe Retweet Button – Make it easy to have users tweet your posts/comics.
- WCP Collective Ads Widget – by Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) – Advertise your comic book/mag for sale with other’s.
Additional
- WordPress Newsletter subscription Opt-in for SendBlaster – by Max – You do not NEED to use sendblaster, your hostings mailing list software will work fine for you to use to subscribe and unsubscribe people. (Used on ComicPress.net)
- Contact Form 7 – A form based contact form you can design and have email you from your site.
No longer supported
- ComicPress Manager – Manage your ComicPress theme.
Here are a few I use. My choices are all about making posting as easy for me as possible. (I will want to check out some of the ones you listed.)
Add Lightbox or Lightbox 2 – for automatically adding a lightbox popup for any extra graphics I include in my posts. (I usually put a 2 page spread together after both pages run)
Ultimate Google Analytics – get your site code from google analytics, paste here, and this plugin makes sure to include it properly on your site.
Google Analytics Dashboard - actually gives me a quick overview of my traffic inside wp dashboard, and little graphs next to each page-post. For deeper info, of course you’ll want to visit the official google analytics, but most of the time all you want is a quick snapshot.
Plugin Wonderful – Projectwonderful.com is another great banner system, affordable and easy to use. This plugin will fetch the link code to your banner, and you just drop the widget into your layout. If you change banner info back on projectwonderful.com, you just hit a button in your dashboard to grab the changes for you.
Contact Form 7 – useful, easy.
I’ve integrated comments with Intense Debate, but it’s not as easy or as cool as I thought it would be.
I’m curious if Discus is better, I really want to make commenting as easy and painless as possible, so if I could allow people to use their facebook, openid’s or twitter, without a fuss, I would. Also, no clue how to get my comments back from ID, or if they live there and on my server, and what havok uninstalling may cover. I mostly just let it do it’s thing.