Wordpress, slowly becoming the best blogging platform on the web. Everyday I’m seeing more and more switching to this platform, such as Digg.com and QuickOnlineTips.com. One of the reason’s it’s become so big, besides it’s ease of use, are the plugins. Here is Wordpress’s description of a plugin:
Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs.
I took advantage of these as soon as I figured them out. I even attempted to create one, but that’s much easier said than done. Here are the one’s I’m using on this site:
AdsenseBeautifier - AdsenseBeautifier is a plugin available for Wordpress to make your Adsense look beautiful in order to increase you Adsense earnings. Images adjacent to ads can help increase click through rate (CTR). By Supriyadi Slamet Widodo.
Adsense Deluxe - Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. For complete usage and configuration click on AdsenseDeluxe under the ?Options? menu. By Acme Technologies.
Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under ?Manage? and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. Hat tip: Michael Hampton and Chris J. Davis for help with the plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.
Customizable Post Listings - Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner. You can narrow post searches by specifying categories and/or authors, among other things. By Scott Reilly.
DiggClick - Displays a ?digg it? button at the beginning of your posts, with a lot of configuration options. By Michael Moreno.
CJD NotepadA notepad, scratchpad solution for notetaking in WP By Chris J. Davis.
Popularity ContestThis 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 Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog. By Alex King.
PHP ExecExecute PHP Code inside a post. Do NOT use this plugin if you don?t trust your WP users. By Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo.
Related Posts - Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne.
SRG Clean Archives - A nice uniform way to display your archives. By Shawn Grimes.
Admin Drop Menus for Spotmilk - Create Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels running the SpotMilk theme By Andy Staines.
Spotmilk Admin Theme - SpotMilk is an admin theme for WordPress 2.0.x, which is originally inspired by Spotlight on Mac OS X Tiger and the Milk theme by Max Rudberg, and its overall main layout remains based on the default admin theme that comes with WP 2.0.x. By Sunghwa Park.
Show Top Commentators - Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one). By Nate Sanden.
SEO Title Tag Plugin - Inserts search engine optimized title tags using custom field (if defined) or tag name for tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin By Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts.
Ultimate Tag Warrior - Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that?s heavy on tag visualisation. I Like Pi! By Christine Davis.
WP-Mint - Automatically include the Mint javascript in your WordPress theme header By Dave Verwer.
Wordpress Database Backup - On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.
WP-Lightbox 2 - Lightbox JS v2 is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page written by Lokesh Dhakar. Add rel=?lightbox? attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. This plugin integrate its feature into your WordPress blog. By Safirul Alredha.
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| Posted: October 23rd, 2006
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January 16th, 2007 00:09
The trouble with CJD notepad is that he seems to have removed the download link!