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 v2.5.1
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and track-back spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key. Automattic - Bad Behavior v2.0.38
Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site. Michael Hampton - Future Calendar v1.6.2
A simple plugin that utilizes 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. Includes a widget to display posts on your website. Aaron Harun - 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 - LiveContact v0.9b
A warm and fuzzy Web 2.0 contact form John Wyles - Feedburner Feed Replacement v2.2
Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. Steve Smith - Permalink Redirect v1.0.1
Redirects all crap away from the end of the URL Joost de Valk - Role Manager v2.0.0
Role Management for WordPress 2.0.x and 2.1.. Thomas Schneider - Janrain Engage v1.0.1
Plugin to add authentication via the Janrain Engage service. forestb - Sociable v3.5.2
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Blogplay - WordPress.com Stats v1.7.5
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. Automattic - Google Sitemaps v2.7.1
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. Arne Brachhold - Sociallist v1.5.1
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking service. Go to Options -> Sociallist for setup. Codemaster - AskApache Search Engine Verify v3.5
Adds the verification meta tags to home page provided by Google and Yahoo AskApache - Do Follow v4.0
Removes the evil nofollow attribute that WordPress adds in comments. Denis de Bernardy - 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 - 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 v2.2.3
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started. Austin Matzko - Google Adsense widget v1.0
Monetize with AdSense in your sidebar widgets! Mike Smullin - front page login v1.0
Adds a sidebar widget to allow logins on the front page Hermescb
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9 Responses to “WordPress Plugins”
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.