There are many ways that you can interact with the readers on your blog. Many bloggers enjoy sharing tips and other information, since these tidbits can prove to be very useful to all the other bloggers out there. If you’ve ever wondered how one site managed toinclude a certain feature, you can understand and appreciate the value of this creation.

Lester Chan is well-known in the WordPress community for developing a range of WordPress plug-ins and one of the often overlooked plug-ins in the bunch is WP-PluginsUsed. Now in version 1.40 and compatible with WordPress 2.6/2.7, this plug-in creates a page where your readers can see what plug-ins you are using.

This serves a couple of purposes. First, it offers some link love back to the developers who created the plug-ins that you are using (for free). This can act as a small thank you. Second, such a page can be useful to your readers in case they want to do something similar. Maybe you’re using a plug-in to create polls, generate custom archive pages, or integrate Twitter replies. Now, they can know how you do it.

On the flip side, this could possibly result in an increased security risk, since hackers can know which plugins they may hijack or exploit to harm your blog. As always, you should tread carefully with any blog customization.

For screenshots, a demo, and to download the WP-PluginsUsed 1.40 plugin, head over to LesterChan.net.