I spewed about some themes earlier. It’s time to let loose about some plugins. This is mainly covering the backend or behind the scenes plugins. I’ll get to the plugins that make your blog space look all snazzy in a later posting.

Probably the two most important plugins, for me especially, after my web hosting snafu are:

• WP-DBManager by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan: It manages you WP database, allowing you to optimize, repair, backup and restore your database. You can schedule your backups and the database optimization. Backups are stored on your site and can also be emailed to you, if you so choose.
• WordPress Backup by Blog Traffic Exchange: Like WP-DBManager, except this will backup your uploads, current theme and plugins directory. Backups are stored on your site for easy download or can also be emailed to you.

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