Most blog powered by WordPress use ‘pretty’ links structure. This allows you to have hierarchical structure of the URL elements and that is much easier to read, and can even contribute to SEO results. And to achieve this WP adds rewrite code into htaccess.
With WordPress 2.8 we got another interesting feature called custom taxonomies. You can make taxonomies from anything you want and use them much like you already use tags and categories. Unfortunately, themes offer only partial support (unsolvable problem) for custom taxonomies, but it’s not that complicated to implement.
If you are plugin developer, it’s very important to give as much info about the plugin updates as you can before the blog admins update the plugin to a new version. Also, some of the plugin control panels go into different menus, and it’s a good idea to have direct links on the plugins panel also. And both things are easy to achieve.