3 plugins that are on everyone's "must install before you write a single post" lists. I never spoke to Ben outside of the comments thread for timthumb to intro

3 plugins that are on everyone's "must install before you write a single post" lists. I never spoke to Ben outside of the comments thread for timthumb to introduce my modifications, but in 2009-2010 (then I lost my site to a bad host who didn't do backups), I know I hosted my cross-domain timthumb and it received tens of thousands of downloads before the exploit was found. If I recall correctly, the 0day patch was just a list of approved external domains that you had to open the code to add, but it was 5 or 6 years ago, so it is hard for me to remember everything perfectly.