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Taking a quick look at Robert Scobles new project over at Building 43 to see how Rackspace and Robert are working together to talk about what they do and what the goals of Building 43 are going to be, didn’t find much about goals, but found a pot of gold in the web site anyways.

One question that I often get asked is what Wordpress plugins do you use. While my list is simple, twitter tools, askimet, all in one seo pack, and Google site map generator I run a lean and only partially integrated Wordpress install. I really run a bare bones Wordpress installation mostly due to hosting issues, the more plugins, the more overhead and learned the hard way that the more plugins can bring my Wordpress blog to a crawl due to hosting issues.

The pot of gold in the case of Building 43 though is a full list of the Wordpress plugins that they are using, on a full server that does not have some of the hosting issues that I have from time to time. Robert has been using Wordpress since before man walked upright, so he has an idea of what is important to him to have, and the listing of plugins is rather fantastic. For people who are interested in what a community leader thinks is important, this is the list you want to grab over on the Building 43 credits page.

These are the Wordpress plugins that building 43 is using. Go to the Site Credits page, they are direct linking to the plugins, some of the pages didn’t load for me this morning.

Advanced Expert
Askimet
Bad Behavior (this is one I am going to add to my package of plugins)
Category Icons (this is another one I am going to add to my package of plugins)
Dragon Design Sitemap Generator
Feedburner Feed Smith
Google Analyticator
Head Space 2
JS-Kit Comment System
KB Advanced RSS Widget
Maintenance Mode (another add for me)
More Fields
Page Links
Page Mash
Role Manager
Search Everything
Sociable
TinyMCE Advanced
TS Custom Widgets
WP-DBManager (another add)
WP-PageNavi
WP-PostViews
WP-RelativeDate
WP-TwitterSearch (another add)
WP-Super Cache
WP-Widget Cache

A very cool list of plugins, some of these are going to be download and add for me, some I don’t think I need but still fascinating to find out what plugins Building 43 thinks are essential to run their Wordpress installation. There is nothing wrong with downloading and applying the whole list if you think you will use them. One of the things I have noticed about a Wordpress plugin is that they are forever, especially if they modify the database, and write entries to the database. If you turn off a plugin that has to write to the database, you might find that the WP install still wants to write to the database, and your site will start throwing errors (happened to me, your mileage might vary on this one).

If you want to know what the pro’s use, this is a very cool list of plugins.