I said I’d share some recommendations for plugins and themes for a friend who is setting up his own blog (there was *definitely* no alcohol or coercion involved in this decision making, just to be clear) and so it seems sensible to do that by blogging here, because hopefully a few others might chip in on top with some extras that they find useful and I might learn something new too if the pro-social web really is alive and kicking….
Some thoughts in no particular order on how I set up my own site here and some of the tools I use to manage it for various purposes: