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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 2.2.7

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 <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
By Matt Mullenweg.
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.
By deborah mcdonnell.
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.
By Dan Cameron.
5. 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.
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.
By Sören Weber.
7. Dagon Design Form Mailer 5.4

The WordPress plugin version of my secure php form mailer script
By Dagon Design.
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.
By Alex Tingle.
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.
By Darrell Schulte.
10. Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.8

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 1.41

Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed
By John Watson.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. In Series 3.0.12

Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series.
By Travis Snoozy.
17. JournalPress 0.3

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.
18. KB Advanced RSS Widget 2.8.02

Gives user complete control over how feeds are displayed.
By Adam R. Brown.
19. Library Thing widget 1.0

Adds a sidebar widget to display your LibraryThing widget
By Chris Rose.
20. 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.
21. NextGEN Gallery 1.4.3

A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.
By Alex Rabe.
22. 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.
23. 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+.
By Isaac Wedin.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Simple Tags 1.7.4.4

Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.8 and 2.9 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!
By Amaury BALMER.
27. 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.
28. Theme Test Drive 2.7.4

Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.
By Vladimir Prelovac.
29. WordPress.com Popular Posts 2.4.1

Shows the most popular posts, using data collected by WordPress.com stats plugin.
By Frasten.
30. WordPress.com Stats 1.6.2

Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
By Andy Skelton.
31. Wordpress PDA & iPhone 1.2.8

This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda and iPhone browser.
By Imthiaz Rafiq.
32. WP-Footnotes 3.3

Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post.
By Simon Elvery.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. WP Super Cache 0.9.9

Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
By Donncha O Caoimh.
36. 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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