WordPress Plugins

I have used the following WordPress plugins to create this blog site:

Adsense-Deluxe - Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higher. By Acme Technologies.

Advanced WYSIWYG Editor - Adds more styling options to the WYSIWYG post editor. By Assaf Arkin.

Backlinks - Backlinks makes a nice graph that shows how your number of inbound links (backlinks) grow. By Gustaf Dymov.

Category LiveBookmarks Plus - CLB seamlessly generates a customizable set of contextually relevant “autodiscovery” category feed links. Automatically creates a user-specified set of category feed links in the document head, as well as an optional set of category feed links that may be called from anywhere within the document body. By Perishable @ Monzilla Media [monzilla.biz].

Contact Form ][ - Contact Form ][ is a drop-in form that allows site visitors to contact you. It can be implemented easily (via QuickTags) within any post or page. This version is *specifically* for WordPress 2.0 only. Original code derived from Ryan Duff’s WP-ContactForm plugin. By Chip Cuccio.

email_users - Allows the administrator to send an e-mail to the blog users. Credits to Catalin Ionescu who gave me some ideas for the plugin and has made a similar plugin. This plugin is using PhpMailer. Bug reports and corrections by Cyril Crua and Pokey. By Vincent Prat.

Extract blockquote info - A WP plugin based on Dunstan’s Blockquotes that extracts cite="" and title="" details from blockquote to display with attribution and link below the quote. cite field is for the web address of source quoted from. title for the name of the author or source. By Chyetanya Kunte.

Feedburner Feed Replacement - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from. By Steve Smith.

Get Recent Comments - Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. By Krischan Jodies.

Goodlinks - This Plugin shortens long links in the comments, so that the won’t destroy the layout of the page. It also adds sets the target-attribute of the link and optionally removes the rel=”nofollow”-attribute. By Markus Rehrs.

Google Sitemaps - This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold.

Google Sitemaps - UTW Tag Addon - This plugin will add the tags used within Ultimate Warrior Tags (v3.141) automatically to the google sitemap as outputted by the Google Sitemap (v3.0b1) plugin. By Stewart Farquhar.

Incoming Links - Shows incoming links on your sidebar. You need to add one line of code to your sidebar.php file. By Pinyo Bhulipongsanon.

Lefthanded Feed Image - This plugin moves the feed image to the left when you are listing your categories. By whoo.

Link Indication - Adds CSS class attributes to external links and optionally to any other link types such as flickr, wikipedia, imdb, etc. By Michael Woehrer.

marketingop.us SEO - Making SEO easier for Wordpress. By Jason Brown.

Mullet - Creates a long-tail list of blog entries for display on a Wordpress homepage or dedicated Archive page. The homepage instance automatically skips any entries already shown on the homepage and shows a user-configured number of entries. By Jonathan Broome.

Permalink Redirect - This plugin ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued. By Scott Yang.

Polite-ifier - Cleans up commenters’ bad language. By Elliott Back.

Related Posts - Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne.

SearchHistory - Stores details about previous searches in your blog. By Anders Holte Nielsen.

SEO Alt Tag Optimizer - Improves your Search Engine Optimization by up to 5% by optimizing the use of your ALT image tags under the disguise of a fully working font resizer tool to aid reading and site accessibility ratings By Stewart Farquhar.

Share-this - allow your visitors to share your content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend. By Alex King.

Silver's CAPTCHA - Silver’s CAPTCHA implementation to protecting comments from spam robots. The handfont2.ttf was taken from Openfontlibrary.org. By Silver .

SimpleTags - Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can use it with any blogging tool/method, not just when posting from WordPress itself (doesn’t use custom fields). Supports multiple words within tags. Also allows in-post tagging of words by enclosing them in tags. Works with the WYSIWYG editor. By Broobles.

Smart Update Pinger - Replaces the built-in ping/notify functionality. Pings only when publishing new posts, not when editing. By Christian Davén.

Social Bookmark Links - Add social bookmark links to your posts. By Thomas McMahon.

Star Rating for Reviews - Insert inline rating stars within your posts based on the score you assign, supports outputting list of reviews sorted by date or scores. By Yaosan Yeo.

Subscribe2 - Notifies an email list when new entries are posted. By Scott Merrill.

Todo List Plugin - Adds a Todo panel into the admin interface under ‘Manage’. Useful for ideas (for posts) and management of the weblog. Create lists to organise yourself from the comfort of you blog admin. By Abstract Dimension.

Ultimate Tag Warrior - Add tags to wordpress. Tags and tag/post associations are separated out for great justice. Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation. By Christine Davis.

Witty Text - Outputs a random quote, predefined in text file. By Alexander Malov.

WordPress allow dashes - Ensures WordPress allows registration of user names with dashes. By Manuel Amador (Rudd-O).

WordPress Database Backup - On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.

WP-Ban - Ban Users By IP Or Host Name From Visiting Your WordPress Site. By GaMerZ.

WP-Email - Enable You To Send Your Webblog Entry To A Friend. By GaMerZ.

WP-Leftycats - Allows you to move your Category RSS Feed icons to the left of your category list names. By Village Idiot.

WP-PageNavi - Adds a more advanced page navigation to Wordpress. By GaMerZ.

WP-Polls - Adds A Poll Feature To WordPress. By GaMerZ.

WP-PostRatings - Enables You To Have A Rating System For Your Post. By GaMerZ.

WP-PostViews - Enables You To Display How Many Time A Post Had Been Viewed. By GaMerZ.

WP-Print - Displays A Printable Version Of Your WordPress Weblog Post. By GaMerZ.

WP-RelativeDate - Displays Relative Date To Your Post. By GaMerZ.

WP-Stats - Display Your WordPress Statistics. By GaMerZ.

…and 8 other security and anti-spamming plugins (who are remaining anonymous for security reasons!).

All my thanks goes to all WordPress and the plugin authors who provide these plugins for free.

Let the Open Source battle continue (and win).

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6 Comments

  1. James Weddle wrote
    at 3:31 pm - 12th December 2006 Permalink

    Great information for any WP user…it is great to see a site and then get feedback directly from author on which plug-ins they use and why. Thank you!

  2. Dicontas Blog Admin wrote
    at 4:10 pm - 12th December 2006 Permalink

    Thanks for the kind comments.

  3. mark buss wrote
    at 3:52 am - 4th December 2007 Permalink

    Wow… what a lot of plugins for one blog. I use several as well but not that many. Your tag list also looks a bit long ;)

  4. George "Desk Man" wrote
    at 2:23 am - 12th December 2007 Permalink

    I think this is great. Thanks for detialing out these plugins and what they are - gives some great ideas for my blog and this may save a bunch of time looking. I also like your captcha as it’s easier than many to read and use.

  5. Geoff Dodd - Australia wrote
    at 7:09 am - 13th December 2007 Permalink

    Thanks for your guiding info about plugins for use with WP blogs. A great adjunct for good blog making.

  6. Martin Cole wrote
    at 5:00 pm - 22nd December 2007 Permalink

    Very useful site. I like the evaluation of the different plugins and will be using a few myself to make my site more secure and relevant

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