Site Design
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 December 2, 2008
Active Plugins
Akismet 2.2.4
» 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
Clean Notifications 1.1
» Mike Davidson (url)
Make e-mail notifications for new comments/pings cleaner and more readable. No configuration necessary.
Contact Form 7 1.10.0.1
» Takayuki Miyoshi (url)
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
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 3.1.4
» 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.
Link A Dink 1.8
» Dax "The Hammer" Herrera (url)
Replace strings with links (or other words I guess).
Maintenance Mode 4.3
» Michael Wöhrer (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 Settings → Maintenance Mode to get started.
OIOpublisher Direct 2.0 2.11
» Simon Emery (url)
Control your Ad Space with OIOpublisher.
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.
Related Posts 2.04
» Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne (url)
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
RSS Footer 0.8.2
» Joost de Valk (url)
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.
Search Regex 1.4.8
» John Godley (url)
Adds search & replace functionality across posts, pages, comments, and meta-data, with full regular expression support
SEO Title Tag 2.3.3
» 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
WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
Inactive Plugins
Broken links Remover 1.2.1
» Rajesh (Techblissonline Dot Com) (url)
Eliminate Broken links
Hello Dolly 1.5
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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.
Post Teaser 4.0.1
» 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.
