Several people have asked me what plugins I use in my Wordpress installation, so I thought I would do a list here for reference.
| Nr. | Plugin | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Akismet | 2.2.4 | 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 |
| 2. | Audio player | 1.2.3 | Highly configurable single track mp3 player. |
| 3. | BiblioFly | 0.34 | Allows management of a bibliography through WordPress. Stores data in the database, features a variety of functions to allow display of publications in a list (eg for the sidebar) or on a page. Styled through CSS. |
| 4. | Comment Quicktags + | 1.1 | Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. js_quicktags is a slightly modified version of Alex King's newer Quicktag.js plugin modified from original found here. |
| 5. | Comment Timeout | 2.0.1 | Automatically closes comments on blog entries after a user-configurable period of time. It has options which allow you to keep the discussion open for longer on older posts which have had recent comments accepted, or to place a fixed limit on the total number of comments in the discussion. Activate the plugin and go to Options >> Comment Timeout to configure. |
| 6. | Comvatars | 2.4 | Shows avatar images on user comments to uniquely identify the author much like various bulletin board systems do. The Gravatars plugin by Skippy and the Favatars plugin by Jeff Minard must be installed and activated to achieve the full functionality. Please visit the plugin homepage for further documentation. |
| 7. | Dagon Design Form Mailer | 5.4 | The WordPress plugin version of my secure php form mailer script |
| 8. | Event Calendar | 3.1.4 | Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar. You can subscribe to the calendar from iCal (OSX) or Sunbird. Change settings on the Event Calendar Options screen. |
| 9. | Event Calendar Widget | 3.1.4 | Adds sidebar widgets for Event Calendar and Upcoming Events. Requires the EventCalendar and Widget plugins (WordPress version 2.1 and earlier). After activating, please visit Sidebar Widgets for WordPress version 2.1 and earlier or Widgets for WordPress version 2.2 and subsequent to configure and arrange your new widgets. |
| 10. | Google Ajax Search | 1.003 | Adds a Google AJAX Search box on your site. Example found here. Options include searching your site through Google Blog Search and/or straight up Google, a second search option is available that is perfect for flickr. Widgetized for your pleasure. MAKE SURE TO CONFIGURE your options and enter your API key. |
| 11. | Gravatars | 2.6 | This plugin provides an administrative interface to control default gravatar options. Registered users can also (optionally) define local gravatar images that will override their gravatar.com default. Copyright 2005 Scott Merrill; Licensed under the terms of the GPL. |
| 12. | In Series | 3.0.12 | Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series. |
| 13. | JournalPress | 0.2.1 | Mirrors your WordPress blog to any number of LiveJournal-based external journalling sites. Now with WP-Flock support! |
| 14. | My-Plugins | 0.2 | Displays all the plugins - just insert [my plugins] in post where you want to display a table of plugins that you use. Example here. |
| 15. | NextGEN Gallery | 1.3.3 | A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0. |
| 16. | Photopress | 1.0 | Photopress adds some image handling tools to Wordpress, including a popup upload and browse tool, a random image template function, and a simple album. Installs and uses new database tables. Works with WP 2.1+. |
| 17. | Random Quotes | 1.3 | This plugin allows you to embed random quotes into your pages. It also has a spiffy management tool in the administrative console. |
| 18. | Random Redirect | 1.1 | Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can also specific in the URL `random_post_type` or `random_cat_id`. |
| 19. | Simple Tags | 1.6.6 | Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags ! |
| 20. | Subscribe Me | 4.3.2 | Adds widgets that let you display feed subscription buttons. |
| 21. | Subscribe To Comments | 2.1.2 | Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess |
| 22. | WordPress.com Stats | 1.5 | Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. |
| 23. | Wordpress PDA & iPhone | 1.2.8 | This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda and iPhone browser. |
| 24. | WP-Footnotes | 3.3 | Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. |
| 25. | WP-Polls | 2.40 | Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress's blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers. |
| 26. | WP-Polls Widget | 2.40 | Adds a Poll Widget to display single or multiple polls from WP-Polls Plugin. You will need to activate WP-Polls first. |
| 27. | WP Ajax Edit Comments | 2.3.2.1 | Allows users and admin to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments. |
| 28. | WP Super Cache | 0.9.4.3 | Very fast caching plugin for WordPress. |
| 29. | Yet another threaded Comments plugin | 0.6.5 | This comment allows to have newly created comments relate to existing comments, so you can comment on a comment. This information allows to display the Comments in a hierarchical fashion (e.g. a Tree). |
Output generated by My-Plugins plugin by Matej Nastran.
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ah, I’ve been wondering how you do those related posts:)
some interesting stuff here, but it’ll have to wait. Got to upgrade wordpress first, which means I gots to backup wordpress first. Le bah, next month, too much work right now.
You prefer Akismet? I use a different spam catcher, seems to work well. Had no idea wordpress gets hit by so much spam though, def. necessity.
Why did you change your mail contact form?
couple ones you might find of use:
Broken Link checker (http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/) - automatically checks for broken links and notifies you on the dashboard. Works well, but it does have a glitch. I removed a page and have been unable to convince it the page is gone.
Share This buttons (http://sharethis.com/) - I think me and Neil Clarke have both said enough about this, but it really is a cool little feature:) Scalzi uses something else, not sure which one.
scratch last comment, I see now you have added the share icons.
When I first used “Share This” it caused my site to load really slowly, so I took it off. This plug-in doesn’t seem to do that.
Akismet works really, really well. Occasionally it snags you, but I think I’ve talked it out of that now.
I’ll check out Broken Link checker. That would be handy.
Hrm. I can’t seem to get my hands on the related posts nor the original gravatar plugin. They both seem to be out of ordah.
Oh well, thanks for posting this though!
Hm… did you check at the wordpress.org site?
yay! Thank you
As soon as i’m done migrating to my new server I will add a bunch of new plugins to my WP. Now all I need is an awesome design! 
I actually like the one I have now, but someday soon i’ll want one a little more personal.
Of course! Happy to help.