ultimate geek girl

WordPress is a easily customizable blogging/web design platform. In order to make this site easy to navigate and fun to visit, I have used a combination of the following plugins activated on my site. I have included a brief description of the functions of these plugins, too.

Last updated July 29, 2008

Active Plugins

  AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down) 1.2
» AddThis.com (url)
Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services.

  Akismet 2.1.8
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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.

  Better Comments Manager 1.5.1
» Keith Dsouza (url)
Better Comments manager allows you to view your comments post wise, it also allows you to reply to your comments from within admin panel without you having to visit the site to respond to comments

  Brian's Threaded Comments 1.5.20
» Brian Meidell (url)
This gives you threaded comments and a “wandering” comment form.

  Click Tags 2.0.2
» Andy Staines (url)
Produces a list of tags in the write/edit post pages - click to use

  commentluv 2.5.3
» Andy Bailey (url)
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.

  Comment Timeout 2.0.1
» James McKay (url)
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.

  Enforce www. Preference 1.3
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www.

  FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» FeedBurner (url)
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 3.1.0.1
» Arne Brachhold (url)
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

  In Series 3.0.12
» Travis Snoozy (url)
Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series.

  Lighter Menus 2.7.2
» corpodibacco (url)
Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the Wordpress 2.5 interface taking the less room possible.

  Link A Dink 1.8
» Dax "The Hammer" Herrera (url)
Replace strings with links (or other words I guess).

  Maintenance Mode 3.2
» Michael Woehrer (url)
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Options → Maintenance Mode to get started.

  Odiogo Listen Button 2.5.4
» Odiogo (url)
Give your blog a voice! Add a “Listen Now” button to your blog so your readers can listen to your posts and download podcasts. Free Sign up.

  OIOpublisher Direct Pro 1.62
» Simon Emery (url)
OIOpublisher’s aim is to connect bloggers with their target audience, whether that be readers, advertisers, or other bloggers, in practical and effective ways.

  Photo Dropper 1.0.8
» Photodropper (url)
Lets you add Creative commons licensed Photos to Your Posts from Flickr. By activating this plugin you agree to be fully responsbile for adhering to Creative Commons licenses for all photos you post to your blog.

  Plugin Central 1.41
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Wordpress 2.5+ only. Automatically installs and updates WordPress plugins.

  Post Teaser 3.10
» WeyHan Ng (url)
Post Teaser generates a preview or “teaser” of a post for the main, archive and category pages, with a link underneath to go to the full post page. It includes features to generate a word count, image count, and an estimated reading time.

  RSS Footer 0.8
» Joost de Valk (url)
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.

  SEO Title Tag 2.3.2
» Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts (url)
Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Create a customized title tag for any post, static page, category page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page - indeed, any URL! And will auto-insert the tag name into the title on tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin. Admin allows for mass editing of title tags.

  SRG Clean Archives 4.2
» Sean R. (url)
This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean, uniform, single-query fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar.

  Star Rating for Reviews 0.4
» Yaosan Yeo (url)
Insert inline rating stars within your posts based on the score you assign, supports outputting list of reviews sorted by date, score or post title.

  Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

  WP-ContactForm 2.0.7
» Douglas Karr (url)
WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+. The plugin was originally developed by Ryan Duff but has been modified by Doug Karr to require a challenge question and response to fight spam as well as some other features.

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP 2.3 Related Posts 0.51
» Denis,PaoPao (url)
Generate a related posts list via tags of WorPdress 2.3

Inactive Plugins

  Broken links Remover 1.2.1
» Rajesh (Techblissonline Dot Com) (url)
Eliminate Broken links

  Full Text Feed 1.04
» Ronald Heft, Jr. (url)
Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed.

  Search Regex 1.4.8
» John Godley (url)
Adds search & replace functionality across posts, pages, comments, and meta-data, with full regular expression support

  WordPress Database Backup 2.2.1
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started.

  WP-PageNavi 2.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.