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Plugins: Another Reason to Love Wordpress
June 1, 2008 |
- Plugins: Another Reason to Love Wordpress
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Wordpress is an open source blogging platform. One of the most exciting aspects of this is the large number of interesting and useful plugins that developers have created to make Wordpress more suited to their own needs and, consequently, the needs of the rest of the Wordpress community. Here is a list of plugins I am currently using, or planning to use on this blog. Thanks to Lester Chan for creating the plugin (WP-PluginsUsed 1.30) that rendered the following list:
There are 24 plugins used: 15 active plugins and 9 inactive plugins.
Active Plugins
Add to Any: Share/Save/Bookmark Button .9.5.2
» MicroPat (url)
Helps readers share, save, and bookmark your posts and pages using any service. [Settings]
Add to Any: Subscribe Button .9.2.2
» MicroPat (url)
Lets readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader. [Settings - on the Widgets page]
Admin Menu 2.8
» Denis de Bernardy (url)
Terms of use • Doc/FAQ • Support forum — Adds a convenient admin menu to your blog. To customize the skin, drop a skin.css file in the plugin’s directory. The sample skin is courtesy of BureauBlumenberg.
Akismet 2.1.8
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
Amazon Showcase 1.3
» Aaron Forgue (url)
A sidebar widget for showcasing items from Amazon. Simply enter the ASIN/ISBN numbers of any products and optionally enter an Associate ID for earning commissions.
AMM - Amazon Media Management Extension 1.5
» Denyerec and Marcel Dunn (url)
The Amazon Media Manager for Wordpress 1.5
Diagnosis 1.2
» Niklas Lindblad (url)
Add a debugging page at Dashboard >> Diagnosis
Easy Tube 1.5
» Paul Bain (url)
Plugin to easliy place YouTube objects in Wordpress Content
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.0.1
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page
Organize Series 2.0.7
» Darren Ethier (url)
This plugin adds a number of features to wordpress that enable you to easily write and organize a series of posts and display the series dynamically in your blog. You can associate “icons” or “logos” with the various series. This version of Organize Series Plugin requires at least WordPress 2.3 to work.
runPHP 2.3.1
» James Van Lommel (url)
Allows you to put PHP code into a post and have it eval()’d.
SRG Clean Archives 4.1
» Geek With Laptop (url)
This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean, uniform, single-query fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.
WordPress Database Backup 2.2.1
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
wpStats 2.1
» J. Newing (url)
Schveett Stats - wpStas some of the greatest stats out there for WordPress.
Inactive Plugins
AStickyPostOrderER 0.2.2.8
» AndreSC (url)
AStickyPostOrderER lets you customize the order in which posts are displayed per category, per tag, or over-all, in WordPress 2.3+ blog. Useful when using WordPress as a Content Management System. Now with category or tag based meta-stickyness!
Breadcrumb NavXT - Adminstration Interface 2.1.4
» John Havlik (url)
Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location. This enables the administrative interface for specifying the output of the breadcrumb. For details on how to use this plugin visit Breadcrumb NavXT.
Breadcrumb NavXT - Core 2.1.4
» John Havlik (url)
Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location. This plug-in provides direct access to the bcn_breadcrumb class without using the administrative interface. For details on how to use this plugin visit Breadcrumb NavXT.
ImageManager 2.4.1
» Per Soderlind (url)
PHP ImageManager + Editor for WordPress. It will not be enabled until you have configured it via the Options >> ImageManager menu. *** Requires Wordpress 2.0 *** Licensed under the MIT License.
podPress 8.8
» Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r) (url)
The podPress pluggin gives you everything you need in one easy plugin to use WordPress for Podcasting. Set it up in ‘podPress’->Feed/iTunes Settings. If you this plugin works for you, send us a comment.
runPHP 2.2.2
» James Van Lommel (url)
Allows you to put PHP code into a post and have it eval()’d.
WP-GoogleTrends 2.0.1
» Neacsu Alexandru (url)
Gets google trends from google and display’s them in your sidebar.
WP-phpMyAdmin 2.10.3
» Roland Rust, Christopher Hwang (url)
Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin console
WP-Print 2.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.
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There may be some problems with plugins as you upgrade the WP core. For example, I created two plugins (cross-linker and captcha-godfather) and both were incompatible since WP 2.5.1. After a few emails from these plugins’ users I updated them and everything was fixed. But… when I installed some adsense plugin last time, one function’s name was exactly the same like one function’s name in my plugin. Thus, when I activated the new adsense plugin, my own plugin was activated too.
It’s too hard to follow all updates of WP and so on. It is worth it, but not always.