The GTS Translation plugin provides human quality translation by allowing you to combine automatic translation and human post-editing (crowdsourcing). Your blog content is initially translated by our translation server. The content is then post-edited by human translators through our online editing system. You can use the GTS community of translators, or you can assign the post-editing to your own community of translators to maintain complete control of the process.

When you use the GTS Translation plugin, translated content is cached in your WordPress database and indexed by search engines. This will increase the traffic to your website and grow your international readership.

You can find more information and download the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gts-translation/

Another point worth mentioning is that using a theme like Thesis also allows you to code some things straight in that otherwise might have required bloated plugins, social media buttons being one of the main examples on this site.

I removed all but the most important to me and that’s the All-In-One-SEO, SEOQuake, Google Analytics.

I also like Ad Rotator so I can show multiple ads in the same block.