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I started blogging on WordPress.com in April 2o07 and  switched over to self-hosting on WordPress.org in August 2008.

ACTIVE WORDPRESS PLUGINS
Plugins I’m currently using.

• Akismet
  Checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
• All in One SEO Pack
  Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
• Broken Link Checker
  Checks your posts for broken links and missing images.
• Category Order
  Allows you to easily reorder your categories the way you want via drag and drop.
• cformsII
  For contact forms across your blog.
• CommentLuv
  Shows a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment.
• Google XML Sitemaps
  Generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
• GZIP Output
  Allow GZIPped output for your WordPress blog. Restores functionality removed in WordPress 2.5.
• HeadSpace
  Meta-data manager that allows complete control over all SEO needs.
• Hide Pages
  A plugin that provides a simple way of hiding pages from the frontend menu
• Meta Robots
  Allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
• My Link Order
  Allows you to set the order in which links and link categories will appear in the sidebar via drag and drop.
• No Self Pings
  Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
• Redirection
  Manages all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors.
• Reveal IDs for WP Admin
  Reveals hidden IDs in Admin interface that have been removed with WordPress 2.5
• Robots Meta
  Allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
• SEO Friendly Images
  Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid.
• SEO Slugs
  Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.
• Subscribe to Comments
  Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
• Theme Test Drive
  Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.
• WordPress.com Stats
  Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks.
• WordPress Automatic Upgrade
  Allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
  Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds.