The search excerpt plugin greatly improves the standard search feature with wordpress.

We use this plugin with our content management solution and all our blogs.

Instead of just returning search results showing the page title and the standard post excerpt (which may not contain the search term), this plugin, search excerpt, displays the search term highlighted (like so) and the text before and after the search term.

So your searches will show you exactly where the search term was found and you will know if that is the right context you are looking for.

Programmers website: Search Excerpt WordPress Plugin

Paul.
Portagemma
http://www.portagemma.com

It really is the Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress.

Spam Karma 2 is a widely used anti-spam solution for wordpress blogs. Works very well, extremely configurable and works automatically

Best of all none or extremely limited input required from blog operator on a daily or ongoing basis.

Spam Karma 2′s development has been moved over to the GNU General Public License v2 and is now hosted at Google Code.

Visit the Google Code Spam Karma’s website Spam Karma 2 google code website.

Spam Karma can not be automatically installed, if you want to use this plugin follow these steps;

• visit the Google code of this plugin (link above) website,
• download it,
• unzip it,
• upload it to your plugins folder and then
• activate it in your wordpress control panel.

Once activated, it will email you once a day informing you off all comment spam activity.

If you want to fine tune the configuration (the default settings work very well) visit the Spam Karma 2 control panel.