As promised below is a list of the WordPress plugins used on this site. I find it’s useful to do a plugins post every few months or two to share what I’m using with readers, but also to get suggestions from readers for other WordPress plugins I should give a try.
This list was created with Viper’s Plugins Used v1.12 by Viper007Bond, which allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. It also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output.
- Akismet v2.1.3 by Matt Mullenweg — Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. The number one anti-spam service for WordPress.
- All in One SEO Pack v1.4.5.3 by uberdose — Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
- Brian’s Latest Comments v1.5.8 by Brian Meidell — This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them. Original idea and code fixes contributed by Michael Heilemann.
If you have Dunstan’s Time Since installed, this plugin uses it for the title=”” attributes on the comments and posts. (For WordPress 1.5)
- Dean’s Permalinks Migration By Dean Lee- With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank
- Dofollow v2.0 by Denis de Bernardy — Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
- Extended Live Archives v0.10beta-r18 by Arnaud Froment — Implements a dynamic archive, inspired by Binary Bonsai and the original Super Archives by Jonas Rabbe. Visit the ELA option panel to initialize the plugin.
- FeedBurner FeedSmith v2.3 by FeedBurner — Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
- Full Text Feed v1.04 by Ronald Heft, Jr. — Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed.
- Google XML Sitemaps v3.0.3 by Arne Brachhold — 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
- Less v1.1 by Bennett McElwee — Change the (more…) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “more”.
- Lightbox 2 Plugin v0.7 by Kjell Bublitz — Auto-converting all linked images in a post, excerpt and even comments to lightboxed links. (see options menu). — Using Lightbox v2.03.3 and compressed Prototype Javascript.
- Mint Popular Posts v0.95 by Yaakov Ellis — Creates a list of popular posts based on an attached Mint tracking system. Be sure to customize the cache path on line 49 if you would like to take advantage of caching
- MyAvatars v0.2b by Andrea Micheloni & Napolux — This plugin allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to Wordpress comments.
- Paged Comments v2.6.4 (2007-07-31) by Keyvan Minoukadeh — Breaks down comments into a number of pages
- Post Templates by Category vR1.3 by Kaf Oseo — Use custom single post templates for specified categories. I use this to track the traffic and earnings of my guest editors.
Redirect Old Slugs v0.3 by Mark Jaquith — Allows you to change your post slugs without breaking the old ones (which will redirect to the new one!)
- Show Top Commentators v1.05 by Nate Sanden — Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one).
- Simple Tags v1.3.2 by Amaury BALMER — Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3. Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags !
- Subscribe To Comments v2.1.2 by Mark Jaquith — Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess
- Text Link Ads v3.0.3 by Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin & Alex King — Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use
- WP-PageNavi v2.20 by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan — Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
- WPvideo v1.10 by Antonio Perez — Allows you to insert online videos in your post by providing the video url between the <video> tags. Also allows download the video (using DownThisVideo!) with a link below the video.
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin v1.1 by Alexander Malov, Mike Lu, Peter Bowyer, mitcho (Michael Erlewine) — Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches, limited by a certain relatedness threshold. Like the tried and true Related Posts plugins—just better!
- the_excerpt Reloaded vR1 by Kaf Oseo — This mod of WordPress’ template function the_excerpt() knows there is no spoon.
That’s the lot, all 24 of them! What do you think should be the 25th?
February 19th, 2008 20:38 GMT
@ k stone
1.
http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/12/04/fixed-final-wordpress-23-errors/
2. http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/wp-content/themes/Eureka/ela.css
February 19th, 2008 16:31 GMT
http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html
February 19th, 2008 15:54 GMT
Hi Everton,
Your archive page is absolutely incredible. I just upgraded to WP 2.3 and it seems that Extended Live Archives no longer works. (I was using it before).
So two questions:
1. How have you made it work with WP 2.3
2. Is it possible to copy the cutomization you have done with your archives? Do you offer it either in instructions or as a plugin?
Thank you kindly.
BTW, Your blog is beautifully designed. I like it a lot. And I’m so excited to absorb all the great info I’ve found here!
Thanks
February 16th, 2008 21:04 GMT
I hear that there are 6 plugins for Wordpress that can be used to start a product review blog but… I’ve tried to do a Google search to find them myself but I only managed to find 1 of them:
1) The DG Review Site (DGRS) plugin for WordPress
can anybody help here?
February 16th, 2008 15:48 GMT
Thanks for providing this list Everton, it’s always handy to see what other webmasters are using and what I might be missing out on!
I wish I’d known about Dean’s Permalinks Migration at the start of December - I changed my permalink structure and my Google traffic has been next to none existent ever since. I think I’ve maybe been sandboxed, I just hope I come out of it at some point soon - gutting not to be getting Google traffic, I’d reached a nice level before that change too!