Last i looked at wordpress probably was for version 2.3?
Seems that there is lots of changes since then and lots of new plugins and tools for wordpress. I had lots of problem searching for plugins, there were just too many of them all of which had quite reasonable ratings. Had quite a lot of fun downloading them, though it’s really time consuming.
*edit* Did’nt realise that we can do search for plugins in the admin page of wordpress under Plugins->Add New, even allows you to do installation directly, no more fancy shell access like below.

To me, the fastest way to install these plugin was to through the shell access of your hosting company. This is what I used

First get to the correct directory

wp-content/plugins

[bawls]$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin.1.0.zip....
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After getting the zip file, we can use the unzip command
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[bawls]$ unzip wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin.1.0.zip

Pretty easy right? Beats using http, and transferring to the your webhost.

Manaaged to google a good site from mashable.com for all the fun plugins, do check whether it is supported up to 2.7 though

http://mashable.com/2007/08/16/wordpress-god300-tools-for-running-your-wordpress-blog/

Hope this helps you all getting plugin faster. Going to post a list of plugins that i am currently using and firefox extensions that i find useful.

One of the key features of 2.7 which i figured was very important is|
auto-updater. Yeah, now security holes will be plugged faster and with ease.

Lots of work to be done still, changing themes and further customization. Still lots of cleanup in my hdd as well.