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 2.4.0
» Automattic (url)
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.
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
Broken links Remover 1.2.1
» Rajesh (Techblissonline Dot Com) (url)
Eliminate Broken links
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 2.3.1
» 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.
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).
LinkWithin 0.81
» LinkWithin (url)
Displays recommended stories and associated thumbnails from your blog
LinkXL.com 2.5
» LinkXL (url)
LinkXL enables Wordpress bloggers to easily sell text link advertisting within existing content.
Maintenance Mode 5.2
» 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.
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.
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.
Print Friendly & PDF 1.4
» PrintFriendly (url)
Adds a Print Friendly & PDF button for your pages. Help your users save paper and ink, and engage with your content. [Settings].
Search Regex 1.4.11
» 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.
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.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 3.1.9
» mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) (url)
Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.
Inactive Plugins
Get Recent Comments 2.0.6
» Krischan Jodies (url)
Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.
Hello Dolly 1.5.1
» 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.
Popularity Contest 2.0b2
» Crowd Favorite (url)
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Widgets and Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.
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