Must have hooks/mods?

What are your "must have" mods/hooks for IP.Board? For me, I always install the Custom Sidebar Blocks hook as it's a really easy way to customise the sidebar without having to fiddle about with templates. I've heard IP.SEO is a must have as well but I haven't got around to installing it yet.

 

When I ran IPB I didn't go with that IP.SEO mod but I did look close at it.
I remember being pretty happy with the IP.Board sitemap mod that was around.

 

IP.SEO is quite good. It keeps track of all search queries coming to your site along with what search bots visit and when. Other than that I use a Guest Message hook, displays a message to guests explaining what they get when signing up.

 

For me, the must have mods is Shoutbox and Easy Pages.
The easy pages is to create custom page without need any PHP knowledge, quite easy to implement for lazy coder like me.

 

I've just installed IP.SEO and it looks pretty nifty, not sure why it isn't included by default actually. Did you notice any slowing down of your forums due to the logging of hits by search engine spiders/bots?

Haha, yeah custom page mod is definitely the way to go, saves a lot of time!

 

Not caused any problems that I have noticed, not much traffic at the moment so may be the reason.

 

IP.SEO is the only option for IPB. It's the best maintained and working one out there hands down.