Favorite community-focused WordPress plugins

I’m giving a talk tomorrow night called Cultivating Community where I’ll be sharing some insight into the process of running a blog with 10 authors and 45k registered users. I’ve given the talk once before and already my have own list of favorite plugins growing, but I was curious what you guys use.

Are there any community plugins you can’t live without? Or something new you’ve seen floating around that you’d like me to investigate and talk about during my session tomorrow? It doesn’t even have to be a plugin really, feel free to leave me some broad questions about practice or strategy, I’m really just looking for some extra angles to cover to make sure everyone finds use in tomorrow’s talk.

2 thoughts on “Favorite community-focused WordPress plugins

  1. Hello,
    I am looking forward to your presentation.

    1) I would appreciate if you pick couple of sites and evaluate them wrt how to grow their community? Share couple of sites that used your ideas and have succeded.

    2) What do you keep in mind , how do you start out.

    3) Suggestions on having the site open or moderated

    4) The pros and cons of building a site in WordPress.org and WordPress.com.


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