Here’s a new series for you: How to make your blog not suck.

First up in the series is plugins. You can easily make your blog not suck and your readers not hate you by getting rid of all of those hundreds of plugins, badges, images, etc all in your sidebar and all around your blog. You should have a billion little things making the page really long and slowing down the load time. When you have a lot of junk in there it slows down browsers and just makes people get angry at you. Plus, it makes your blog suck.

Think about what value these plugins and images offer, and weight that against how much people hate you for them.

If you host your own Wordpress blog, WP Super Cache is a must have plugin. Many users of Digg and Fark constantly complain about Wordpress blogs because they cause a server to go down when heavily visited. Many Wordpress users don’t know that this is an easy problem to fix!

Instead of getting your site suspended by your webhost and losing out on tons of traffic, just get WP Super Cache. It is a plugin built from the original wp-cache 2 that improves on many things. I don’t really know all exactly how it works, but in the standard configuration it will keep your website up during heavy usage. And you can even lock it down more so new comments don’t cause the cache to be rebuilt. Download it, use it, be happy.