Today I spent a little time improving my comment area just for you. At least I tried, here's what I did:

Gravatars

Pictures are wonderful, so if you have a gravatar and make a comment, your gravatar will now appear thanks to Skippy's Gravatar Plugun. This had to be the easiest addition to the site today, just a few touches added to the style sheet and voila!

Comment Subscriptions

Yvonne keeps telling me to implement comment subscriptions. So I did. If you want to keep up with the comments on any post after you comment, just make sure you have the subscribe box ticked. I even styled the subscription manager to look like the rest of the site (a must in my opinion). Thanks to Mark Jaquith for the comment subscription plugin.

Related Posts

I have wanted to display a list of related posts for each post for ages. It seems like such a good idea. I am getting most of my traffic from search engines at the moment and the ability to show people, who just come across the site from a specific search, what else they can find here is brilliant. Thanks to Alex for the related posts plugin, another easy one to implement.

Live Preview

I think I have implemented the live preview plugin but I can't see it working. If it works for anyone else please let me know!

Chunk URLs

Finally, just in case any of you thought you'd post a really long link and break my template, you can't anymore, not with wp-chunk. Why would you do this anyway, since I have the nice and easy Markdown plugin too?

Are these plugins working for everyone else (especially the live comments)? What else am I missing that would make life easier around here? Do you have a favourite plugin that every Wordpress blog should have? Let me know!