Wordpress is the best platform available to power your blog.
I love to use it also as CMS but one of the coolest thing is that you can download a lot of free themes.
In general they are very easy to customize and in few hours you can completely change their aspect.
Here you have a list of [...]

Below you have the list of the WordPress plugins that you can find in FrancescoMugnai.com.
One or two are very famous (see Akismet and WP Super Cache), some of these are hidden gems (see Feed Statistics or Page Links To).
I don’t want waste more time, enjoy the list and, if you want, please share your plugins [...]