I just installed the plugin wp-cache. I’m not sure why more Wordpress users don’t enable this. From the Wp-Cache description:
WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future [...]

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I found a couple plugins that make the tag and category features function the way I’d like.

Simple TaggingThis plugin allows each post to have an associated set of tags. This enables a clean category system while still being able to show the subjects that each post talks about.
Simple Tagging Widget
This widget Enables a cloud [...]

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Well, after evaluating a lot of templates, I’ve realized I’ll need a bookmarking plugin. There aren’t very many templates that contain the bookmarking widgets already.
Here are the ones I’ve tried:

Social Bookmark Plugin
This one is OK. I like how you can dynamically choose which sites you’d like included in the list of links. [...]

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