As most of you have probably noticed, I’ve been mega-busy over the last couple of months thanks to a combination of my day job, health issues, moving home and recently getting engaged and trying to plan a wedding. I had to put a lot of things on hold, but I think I’ve managed to get everything back under control and I can now start posting again regularly.
Things have been so busy that I haven’t even had time to read my personal email. I’ve just spent 5 hours clearing out my email and in amongst all the other emails was a request from Philip from MS Windows Home Server asking me to update the list of WordPress plugins in use on this site. Hopefully this list will be of use to other users. If you are using any plugins you want to recommend to other readers, then please leave a comment below.
WordPress Plugins I Use
- Admin Big Width v1.0 by XoraX — enlarge your wordpress administration.
- Akismet v2.1.8 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 v1.4.6.14 by Michael Torbert — Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.
- Bad Behavior v2.0.23 by Michael Hampton — Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site.
- Brian’s Latest Comments v1.5.10 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. Extra caching and 2.x table variables added by Donncha O Caoimh, http://ocaoimh.ie/ - Commentluv v1.99 by Andy Bailey — Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Will parse a feed from most sites that have a feed location specified in its head html. See the Settings Page for styling and text output options.
- Dean’s Permalinks Migration v1.0 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.
- 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 v2.2 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.
- Google XML Sitemaps v3.1.0.1 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
- MCEComments v0.4.5 by Thomas Au(MK) — A simple hack to enable WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE on the comment field.
- Mint Popular Posts v1.0 by Yaakov Ellis — Creates a list of popular posts based on an attached Mint tracking system. Set your options here.
- Paged Comments v2.7.1 (2008-07-14) by Keyvan Minoukadeh — Breaks down comments into a number of pages
- Samsarin PHP Widget v1.3.2 by Chris Pettitt — A text widget with support for including PHP.
- 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).
- Shutter Reloaded v2.1 by Andrew Ozz — Darkens the current page and displays an image on top like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. However this script is a lot smaller and faster.
- Simple Tags v1.5.7 by Amaury BALMER — Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 ! 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 v2 v2.0.1 by Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin — Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use
- Viper’s Plugins Used v1.12 by Viper007Bond — Allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. Also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output.
- WP Ajax Edit Comments v2.1.2.0 by Ronald Huereca — Allows users and admin to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments.
- WP Super Cache v0.7.1 by Donncha O Caoimh — Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once activated, you must enable the cache. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada.
- WP-PageNavi v2.31 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 v2.0.5 by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) — Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches, limited by a certain relatedness threshold. New and improved, version 2.0!
