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 | 2.1.5 | 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 | 0.31 | 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. | 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. |
| 6. | Dagon Design Form Mailer | 5.4 | The WordPress plugin version of my secure php form mailer script |
| 7. | Event Calendar | 3.1.0 | 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. |
| 8. | Event Calendar Widget | 3.1.0 | Adds sidebar widgets for Event Calendar and Upcoming Events. Requires the EventCalendar and Widget plugins. After activating, please visit Sidebar Widgets to configure and arrange your new widgets. |
| 9. | 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. |
| 10. | 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. |
| 11. | In Series | 3.0.12 | Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series. |
| 12. | LiveJournal Crossposter | 2.0 | Automatically copies all posts to a LiveJournal or other LiveJournal-based blog. Editing or deleting a post will be replicated as well. This plugin was inspired by Scott Buchanan’s Xanga Crossposter |
| 13. | 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. |
| 14. | 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+. |
| 15. | ProgressFly | 0.60 | A plugin which stores work-in-progress data in the database, and displays a graphical progress-meter |
| 16. | 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. |
| 17. | Random Redirect | 1.0.1 | 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. |
| 18. | Related Posts | 2.04 | Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. |
| 19. | Simple Tags | 1.5.7 | Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags ! |
| 20. | 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 |
| 21. | TTFTitles | 0.4.2 | This plugin provides two new template tags to replace plain text with styled images. This is primarily a reworking of the Image Headlines plugin. Of course, THAT was a reworking of another plugin by Joel Bennett. The main changes over Brian’s plugin are (a) a richer admin interface, (b) the ability to predefine multiple image text styles, and (c) using template tags instead of depending on arguments to the_title. Anything that works really well probably came from Brian’s code. Anything screwed up is probably my fault. |
| 22. | Wordbook | 0.13.5 | Cross-post your blog updates to your Facebook account. Navigate to Options → Wordbook for configuration. |
| 23. | WordPress.com Stats | 1.2.2 | Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. |
| 24. | Wordpress Automatic Upgrade | 1.1 | Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode. |
| 25. | Wordpress PDA & iPhone | 1.2.6 | This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda and iPhone browser. |
| 26. | WP-Footnotes | 2.2 | Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. |
| 27. | 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.
Tags: Journal, Wordpress
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.