Recommended Plugins
WordPress has countless amounts of plugins available for it, I happen to come across two very handy plugins for anyone using a WordPress blog/site etc. The first being Sexy Bookmarks which is perhaps the most presentable among the social network sharing plugins, it's got a nice concept and presentation about it unlike a few of the others which are pretty boxed up and cluttered. Sexy Bookmarks has been done by the people at Shareaholic, it's been downloaded over 350,000 times and I'm sure most of you have seen it on some website you ran across (see it in action below this post).
The 2nd one is the jQuery Lightbox, in fact when I searched for a plugin for this there were quite a few of them. After testing out a few others I finally the wp-jquery-lightbox which is the work of Ulf Benjaminsson. It's definitely great if you want to implement lightbox and you can have the ability of customising so it only certain images open through lightbox, a few others either didn't quite work or didn't have this option.