Plugins are tools that can be added to your WordPress blog to enhance or alter the functionality of your WordPress weblog. For your convenience, PressHarbor pre-installs the following Plugins on all sites:

• Akismet - by Matt Mullenweg
  Protects your blog against comment and trackback spam by comparing the incoming against the
• Podpress - by Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)
  Everything you need in one easy plugin to use WordPress for Podcasting.
• Redirection - by John Godley
  Redirect visitors from an old URL to a new one. Very useful for bloggers who migrate their blogs to PressHarbor from another non-WordPress platform.
• Share This - by Alex King
  “Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites.”
• SpamKarma 2 - by dr Dave
  “Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress.”
• Subscribe To Comments - by Mark Jaquith
  “Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.”
• WP-Cache - by Ricardo Galli Granada
  High performance caching allows your blog to serve pages faster.

Our WordPress Auto-Update System will install the latest version of these Plugins whenever they are updated. For this reason, you should not customize any of the pre-installed Plugins as your changes would be erased when our Auto-Update System writes over your revised version of the theme with an updated version of the original theme.

If you would like to customize one of the pre-installed Plugins, you should first download a copy of it to your computer. Make your customizations locally, then re-upload the customized version of your Plugins to a new directory within the Plugins directory of your web server.