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My plugins

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. µAudio Player 0.6.2

Converts links to mp3 files to a small flash player and a link to the raw file. Player by 1 Pixel Out.
By Christopher O'Connell.

2. Akismet 2.4.0

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an 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.
By Automattic.

3. BookLinker 1.0

Automate the creation of book links to IndieBound, Powells, Amazon, and WorldCat.
By Michael Hartford.

4. BuddyPress 1.2.5.2

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.
By The BuddyPress Community.

5. BuddyPress Template Pack 1.0.2

Add support for BuddyPress to your existing WordPress theme. This plugin will guide you through the process step by step.
By apeatling.

6. 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.
By Dan Cameron.

7. Comment Timeout 2.1.1

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.
By James McKay.

8. 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.
By Sören Weber.

9. Dagon Design Form Mailer 5.4

The WordPress plugin version of my secure php form mailer script
By Dagon Design.

10. Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.9

Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any "consumer" side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.
By Simon Wheatley.

11. FAQ-Tastic 1.0.16

Create and manage FAQs. A short overview is given on the help page.
By John Godley.

12. FD Feedburner Plugin 1.42

Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed
By John Watson.

13. Follow Me 2.1

The Follow Me plugin is designed to allow users the ability to add links to their social media profiles in their blog. To get started activate and visit the Settings Page.
By Brian Chappell @ Ignite Social Media.

14. 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.
By http://dancameron.org.

15. 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.
By Scott Merrill.

16. Hello Dolly 1.5.1

This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.
By Matt Mullenweg.

17. In Series 3.0.12

Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series.
By Travis Snoozy.

18. JournalPress 0.3.3

Mirrors your WordPress blog to any number of LiveJournal-based external journalling sites. Supports per-journal-per-post userpics and custom permission levels via the separate WP-Flock plugin.
By Alis Dee.

19. KB Advanced RSS Widget 2.8.02

Gives user complete control over how feeds are displayed.
By Adam R. Brown.

20. Library Thing widget 1.0

Adds a sidebar widget to display your LibraryThing widget
By Chris Rose.

21. 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.
By Matej Nastran.

22. Organize Series 2.1.7

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 2.8 to work.
By Darren Ethier.

23. Organize Series Publisher 2.1.7

Allows an editor to publish an "issue", which is to say, all pending posts with a given series. Until a series is published, all posts with that series will remain in the pending state. Credit really needs to go to Jonathan Brinley for his original Issue Manage plugin because all I did was modify it for use with series rather than categories. Also NOTE that this REQUIRES Organize Series to be installed or something could go wrong...
By Darren Ethier.

24. Page Links To 2.3

Allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.
By Mark Jaquith.

25. Photopress 1.8.1

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. Tested and working with WP 2.9.1.
By Isaac Wedin.

26. Photopress widget 1.8.1

Adds a sidebar widget to dispay random Photopress images.
By Isaac Wedin.

27. PollDaddy Polls 1.8.8

Create and manage PollDaddy polls and ratings in WordPress
By Automattic, Inc..

28. 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.
By Dustin Barnes.

29. 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`.
By Matt Mullenweg.

30. SexyBookmarks 3.2.4.2

SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts. See configuration panel for more settings.
By Shareaholic.

31. Simple Tags 1.8

Extended Tagging for WordPress 3.0 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!
By Amaury BALMER.

32. 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
By Mark Jaquith.

33. Surveys 1.01.6

The Surveys WordPress plugin lets you add surveys to your blog. You can let the vistors take surveys and see the result from the admin side.
By Binny V A.

34. Theme Test Drive 2.7.5

Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.
By Vladimir Prelovac.

35. Twitter Tools 2.4

A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin.
By Crowd Favorite.

36. Twitter Tools - Bit.ly URLs 2.4

Use Bit.ly for URL shortening with Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.
By Crowd Favorite.

37. Twitter Tools - Exclude Category 2.4

Exclude posts in certain categories from being tweeted by Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.
By Crowd Favorite.

38. Twitter Tools - Hashtags 2.4

Set #hashtags for blog post tweets sent by Twitter Tools. This plugin relies on Twitter Tools, configure it on the Twitter Tools settings page.
By Crowd Favorite.

39. WordPress.com Popular Posts 2.4.2

Shows the most popular posts, using data collected by WordPress.com stats plugin.
By Frasten.

40. WordPress.com Stats 1.7.3

Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
By Andy Skelton.

41. WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.
By Austin Matzko.

42. WordPress PDA & iPhone 1.2.8

This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda and iPhone browser.
By Imthiaz Rafiq.

43. WP-Footnotes 4.2

Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post.
By Simon Elvery.

44. WP-Polls 2.50

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.
By Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan.

45. WP Ajax Edit Comments 3.02

The most powerful comment-editing solution for WordPress. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.
By Ajay D'Souza, Ronald Huereca.

46. WP Super Cache 0.9.9.3

Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
By Donncha O Caoimh.

47. 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).
By Joachim Praetorius (yatcp@organisiert.net).


Output generated by My-Plugins plugin by Matej Nastran.

7 Comments »

7 Comments

  1. David de Beer David de Beer on 12.04.2008 at 06:51 (Reply)

    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.

    1. David de Beer David de Beer on 12.04.2008 at 06:59 (Reply)

      scratch last comment, I see now you have added the share icons.

      1. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 12.04.2008 at 10:33 (Reply)

        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.

  2. Kate Baker Kate Baker on 12.04.2008 at 16:02 (Reply)

    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!

    1. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 13.04.2008 at 01:44 (Reply)

      Hm… did you check at the wordpress.org site?

  3. Tempest Tempest on 12.04.2008 at 21:32 (Reply)

    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.

    1. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 13.04.2008 at 01:56 (Reply)

      Of course! Happy to help.

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