May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Everton | May 17, 2008 | Comments


Zath asked me last night to do an update on the WordPress plugins I’m currently using on this site. I like doing these posts every month or so as it allows me to share my discoveries with readers, and because the comments always tend to throw up one or two new plugins I want to give a try.

The full list created by Viper’s Plugins Used by Viper007Bond is listed below, , but here are the WordPress Plugins I’ve installed over the last month:

  • Shutter Reloaded v2.1 by Andrew Ozz : This was a very important addition. when investigating my server performance, we discovered that Lightbox based plugins were very server intensive and that lightbox was accounting for 1/2 my page load time alone!!! Shutter Reloaded is a lot more efficient, and has some handy options to boot
  • Admin Big Width v1.0 by XoraX : enlarge your wordpress administration so that it takes advantage of bigger monitors/resolutions
  • Bad Behavior v2.0.15 by Michael Hampton : Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site. I added this as part of my site optimisation as although hardly any spam makes it through onto the site, the number of spam attempts was impacting my server
  • Comment Quicktags + v1.1 by Dan Cameron : Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. It took me ages to find one that worked
  • Commentluv v1.92 by Andy Bailey : Adds live links to commentators blog posts automatically to encourage comments. I’m really enjoying this plugin as it’s making me visit readers’ sites more often
  • Samsarin PHP Widget v1.3.2 by Chris Pettitt : Allow PHP to be added to WordPress Widgets
  • WP AJAX Edit Comments : Allows you and your users to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments.

Here’s the other plugins I’m using currently on the site:


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • I think you use too many plugins :-D I only use 4 - 6 plugins

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  • You can never use too many plugins...to a point at least. ;)

    I'm running a similar amount myself - all adding additional functionality for my readers or myself. The only problem would arise if the site suffers as a whole in terms of performance and having too many options that bamboozle it's readership.

    Read Zath's latest blog post....Lego Indiana Jones Demo>>>
  • Hi Everton,

    Good set of plugins, I use several of them already but the CommentLuv one looks a really great idea, I will be giving it a try :)

    BTW have you tried Dragon Design Sitemap Generator for a Site Index?

    Barry Cleave
  • Just noticed there are no stats plugins in your list do you use any?

    Barry

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  • @Zath

    I've been lucky that I've had someone in to find which plugins are hogs and to find alternatives e.g. being told that Lightbox alone was accounting for 50% of my load time.
    Also, I dont' think you should add a plugin unless there is a real reader benefit. If you look at my list the only plugins which are for 'me' are: admin big width, php widgets, all in one and TLA. There are many tweaks I've done manually to reduce the need to use a plugin

    @Barry

    I think Sitemaps are totally useless. No reader is going to scroll through a page containing a huge long list of posts and cats e.g this site has nearly 2,500 posts.....I do use the ELA plugin which at least makes my archive pages more manageable, and definitely a lot better looking!

    I use mint for stats, which I combine with a plugin to generate the most popular posts
  • Hi,

    What plugin do you use for the addition of "number of comments", "save to del.icio.us",... to your RSS feeds?

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  • @ShaharY

    That's not a plugin - Feedburner does that. Go into your feed settings and go to optimize/feedflare
  • Your comment about the database problem you were experiencing caught my attention. I, too, have had errors not being able to establish a database connection. In fact, it just happened to me today. Trouble is that, after reading this post, I went to turn off the Lightbox plugin I had, but it was later in the day that I had the trouble with "establishing a database connecdtion." So maybe that's not it after all. Aargh! I'm not giving up though! ;)

    Btw, love the theme. Very clean and organized.
  • @Mark

    Defo ditch Lightbox.

    Glad you like the new theme. I'm in love with it as it's so easy to use, and I've already got a huge list of improvements I want to make.
  • Good analysis to the wordpress plugins.

    Thunks.

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