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2. Disqus (www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment
-system/)—Disqus is a comment plug-in that adds a great deal
of functionality to the WordPress comment function, includ-
ing the ability to see the history of blog comments from anyone
leaving comments, nested comments, avatars, and additional
social media contact details, such as Twitter mentions of your
blog post.

3. AddToAny (www.addtoany.com/)—This plug-in makes it
very easy for anyone to subscribe to a blog via their chosen
RSS reader, such as Google Reader or Bloglines, or via e-mail.

4. podPress (www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/)—pod­
Press was built to make it easy to add a podcast and audio player.
The plug-in also supports video podcasting features. Download
stats, support for many file formats, and the ability to manage
and view feeds to services such as iTunes make this a great
plug-in for anyone posting audio or video content to their blog.

5. Custom Class Selector (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
custom-class-selector/)—This plug-in is a little on the techie
side, but allows you to create unlimited numbers of CSS classes
and then insert them on the fly to customize content styles in
your blog posts. This can be very helpful if you want to create
icons or styling for certain types of content, but don’t want to
open up and change the theme style sheet.

6. Author Exposed (www.colorlightstudio.com/2008/03/14/
wordpress-plugin-author-exposed/)—Multiauthor blogs are
becoming very commonplace. Sharing the load of blogging with
other experts or employees is a great way to keep lots of fresh
content coming. Author Exposed makes it very easy to create
and show profiles for the author of an individual blog post.

7. Sociable (www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/)—
Sociable adds a list of sharing links to dozens of social media
and bookmarking sites, like Delicious, Twitter, and Facebook,

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