Just in time for the holidays. Affordabl.es is "creative designs and gifts for under $50". I made it live in about 7 days but have been adding products 1 by 1 for the past few weeks.

So here's my list of plugins:

● Theme is a very modified version of IMBALANCE by WPSHOWER.

● Better WP Security, locks out bad logins, and is a must have, the first plugin you should install

● Advanced Custom Fields Plugin, used to add custom fields for product listings like the link to the store, the last checked price in the upper left corner

● Contact Form, used for the "submit product" form

● Displet Pop, Popup window script used to ask new visitors if they want to sign up for the monthly newsletter

● Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite, Sends out a newsletter of all the posts that month and emails them to subscribers

● NextScripts Social Networks Auto-Poster, Automatically posts links to content to Twitter, Facebook, Google +

● Scheduled Post Shift, changes the dates of the old products one by one each hour

● WP-PageNavi, Turns "older posts" into "Page 1 [2] 3 4"

● Widgets on Pages, Used for my "submit product" page along with Contact Form plugin

● W3 Total Cache, takes a huge load off your server by creating a static html version of your site

● Use Google Libraries, Use Google's hosted version of Jquery

● Ultimate Posts Widget, used for the "Featured Posts" section on product pages

= TODO =

● Implement AJAX loading when a user reaches page bottom

● Implement a "love it"/"stupid" voting system

● Remove my picture, other design blogs do it to add a more personal touch but mine just feels strange

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