About TTPC & Blog Technology Isaac on 20 Feb 2007 08:30 am
WordPress Plugins
Since I already posted about the upgrade to WP2.1 this week, I thought I might as well post a list of the plugins I’m using. This should automatically update, since (as listed below) I’m using WP-Plugin List.
- Akismet v2.1.5
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<?php akismet_counter(); ?>in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. Matt Mullenweg - Bad Behavior v2.0.15
Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site. Michael Hampton - DoFollow v2.2
Disable the “nofollow” tagging for comments. Timeout using comment age inspired by Christoph Rummel. Configuration: Options » DoFollow. Kimmo Suominen - flashSTAT v0.51b
The ultimative Flash statistic addon. Copyright Flash Statistic module by maani.us . This script is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Alex Rabe - Future Calendar v1.0
A simple plugin that utalizes a modified get_calendar function that shows what dates have a future post scheduled in a calendar format, and makes it easy to change the current timestamp. Temperature Functionality and some tweaks by Flavio Jarabeck (www.InternetDrops.com.br) Aaron Harun - LiveContact v0.9b
A warm and fuzzy Web 2.0 contact form John Wyles - Linkblock widget v1.0
Displays one specific category of links; up to 9 instances of this widget may exist. Heavily derived from the Text widget code included with the widget plugin by Automattic, Inc. M. Holger - One Click Plugin Updater v2.1.2
Upgrade plugins with a single click, install new plugins or themes from an URL or by uploading a file, see which plugins have update notifications enabled, control how often WordPress checks for updates, and more. Beta. Janis Elsts - Feedburner Feed Replacement v2.2
Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. Steve Smith - Role Manager v2.0.0
Role Management for WordPress 2.0.x and 2.1.. Thomas Schneider - Sociallist v1.5.1
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking service. Go to Options -> Sociallist for setup. Codemaster - Spam Karma 2 v2.3 rc1
Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress. Activate the plugin and go to Manage >> Spam Karma 2 to configure. See Spam Karma 2 >> About for details. dr Dave - Sociable v2.6.6
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Go to Options -> Sociable for setup. Joost de Valk - WordPress.com Stats v1.2.1
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. Andy Skelton - AskApache Search Engine Verify v3.5
Adds the verification meta tags to home page provided by Google and Yahoo Options configuration panel AskApache - Simple Trackback Validation v2.1
Eliminates spam trackbacks by (1) checking if the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to and (2) by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog. Michael Woehrer - Google Sitemaps v2.7.1
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. Arne Brachhold - TD Word Count v0.43
Word count stats TDavid - WP-Plugin List v1.0
WP Plugin List is a simple plugin to allow yout post your current WordPress 1.5+ Martin Wiso - WordPress Database Backup v2.1.5
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started. Austin Matzko - WP-ShortStat v1.13c
Track your blog stats. Visit Dashboard|ShortStat. Based on Shaun Inman’s ShortStat and Jeff Minards’s plugin wp-shortstat 1.2 Markus Kaemmerer - front page login v1.0
Adds a sidebar widget to allow logins on the front page Hermescb - Google Adsense widget v1.0
Monetize with AdSense in your sidebar widgets! Mike Smullin - Permalink Redirect v0.6.2
This plugin ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued. Scott Yang
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on 20 Feb 2007 at 1:38 pm
1.Ryan said …
Thanks Isaac. I don’t know if you stopped by, but over the weekend I began to “accessorize” the site. Since I’m on vaca. this week, I may have to play with your suggestions. Your site looks great, keep it up!
Ryan
on 20 Feb 2007 at 1:48 pm
2.Ryan said …
One more thing, you may want to look into http://www.mybloglog.com. There are some cool widgets there, and when you join the community it connects you to other bloggers. It’s increased the traffic at our site. If you join, shoot me a message through the community.
Regards,
Ryan
http://www.teachersusingtechnolog.com
on 20 Feb 2007 at 4:37 pm
3.Isaac said …
http://www.mybloglog.com looks interesting… I signed up, but their blog stat stuff is based on a remote script load and seems to track more user data (clicks and such) than I’m comfortable with…
on 20 Feb 2007 at 6:43 pm
4.Ryan said …
Why? Are there risks to this that I’m unaware of? Love to hear your thoughts.
on 20 Feb 2007 at 8:17 pm
5.Isaac said …
I don’t know that I’d say there are risks per se, but I know a fair number of people who are increasingly nervous about the volume of data collected about their web surfing habits, especially when this is done in an even-just-vaguely covert way, like with javascript from a third party site (the first two parties being the main site and the person viewing the site). Personally, I’m not hugely against this kind of thing and I take it as a given that most or all of my web surfing will be heavily tracked unless I proactively prevent it, but I fear driving away the tech-savvy privacy-cautious readers.
on 20 Feb 2007 at 8:28 pm
6.Ryan said …
That could be why you don’t see them on other tech. sites. I may reconsider their place on the site. Thanks
on 28 Feb 2007 at 10:24 pm
7.TDavid said …
Thank you for using the TD Word Count plugin
on 25 Mar 2007 at 11:34 am
8.TD Word Count v0.42 now available at TD Scripts Wordpress mods said …
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on 21 Mar 2008 at 8:22 pm
9.sevenpics said …
wp-cache never worked for me.
i tried 2 times.
the worst case was when i had to convert a full geeklog based blog to wordpress, couple of hours doing this. (more than 3000 stories/articles)
when i finally put the wordpress version online (I had huge traffic), the site went down.
so, a friend told me wp is very “database heavy”. I tried to do Apache setting tuning, PHP.ini with wp-cache…nothing.
I went back to geeklog and i using it…but i have another blog running WP too
but my experience says that WP can’t handle HUGE traffics.