May14th2008

Wordpress Plugins


The following is a list of Wordpress Plugins that I currently have enabled:

(Wordpress Rocks!! In fact the WP-PluginsUsed 1.30 plugin is being used to display the information below)

There are 87 plugins used: 64 active plugins and 23 inactive plugins.

Active Wordpress Plugins

AddQuicktag   AddQuicktag
» Roel Meurders, Frank Bültge (url)
Allows you to easily add custom Quicktags to the editor. You can also export and import your Quicktags.

Akismet   Akismet
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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.

AsideShop   AsideShop
» Raimonds Kalnins (url)
A WordPress plugin which allows you to create templates for your asides posts. Instantly.

Bad Behavior   Bad Behavior
» Michael Hampton (url)
Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site.

Better Blogroll   Better Blogroll
» Jon Dyer (url)
Pulls a configurable number of links and their categories from the WordPress 2.3 Link Manager and gives you more control of your blogroll.

Better Howdy   Better Howdy
» Matt Martz (url)
Remove ‘Howdy’ and restructure the ‘Howdy’ line. Props to Ozh for No Howdy.

Blog Stats   Blog Stats
» Improving The Web (url)
Adds shortcodes for important blog stats, updates daily automatically.

Breadcrumb NavXT - Adminstration Interface   Breadcrumb NavXT - Adminstration Interface
» John Havlik (url)
Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location. This enables the administrative interface for specifying the output of the breadcrumb trail. For details on how to use this plugin visit Breadcrumb NavXT.

Category Icons   Category Icons
» Brahim Machkouri (url)
Assign icons to your categories easily.

Comment Analysis   Comment Analysis
» Mark Styles (url)
Various functions for analyzing comments

Contact Form 7   Contact Form 7
» Takayuki Miyoshi (url)
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

CoppermineSC   CoppermineSC
» Brad Guilford (url)
Include images from Coppermine Galleries in WordPress entries. Based on original script by Lennart Groetzbach that was enhanced and adapted as a plugin by Matthias Jell.

Different Posts Per Page   Different Posts Per Page
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Show different number of posts in home, category, search or archive page. Adjust your settings here.

Drain Hole   Drain Hole
» John Godley (url)
A download management and monitoring plugin with statistics and file protection

Drop Caps   Drop Caps
» Thomas Milburn (url)
My first plugin used to generate the code for drop caps.

Excerpt Editor   Excerpt Editor
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Add or edit excerpts for Posts and Pages.

Exclude Pages from Navigation   Exclude Pages from Navigation
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

Executable PHP widget   Executable PHP widget
» Otto (url)
Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Heavily derived from the Text widget code in WordPress.

Favorites Menu Manager   Favorites Menu Manager
» Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp) (url)
Control what goes into the favorite actions menu in WordPress 2.7+

FeedStats   FeedStats
» Andres Nieto Porras, Frank Bültge (url)
Simple statistictool for feeds.

GeneralStats   GeneralStats
» Bernhard Riedl (url)
Counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.

Google XML Sitemaps   Google XML Sitemaps
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page

Improved Include Page   Improved Include Page
» Vito Tardia (url)
This plugin is an improved version on the Include Page plugin by Brent Loertscher (http://beetle.cbtlsl.com/categories/include_page). It adds an iinclude_page() function that allows you to include the contents of a static page in a template with several options. It also adds a shortcode allowing you to include the same page into a post or static page.

Insights   Insights
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Insights allows you to quickly access and insert information (links, images, videos, maps..) into your blog posts.

K2 Date Stamp   K2 Date Stamp
» Steve Lam (url)
Displays the post/comment dates in stamp fashion.

KB Advanced RSS Widget   KB Advanced RSS Widget
» Adam R. Brown (url)
Gives user complete control over how feeds are displayed.

My Category Order   My Category Order
» froman118 (url)
My Category Order allows you to set the order in which categories will appear in the sidebar. Uses a drag and drop interface for ordering. Adds a widget with additional options for easy installation on widgetized themes. Visit the My Category Order page after updating Wordpress to apply essential file patches.

NoFollow Free   NoFollow Free
» Michele Marcucci (url)
Remove the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments with a lot of options customizable, per user type removal, per comments count removal etc… Supports multilingual and a Top Commenters sidebar Widget.

Nofollow Reciprocity   Nofollow Reciprocity
» Lazar Kovacevic (url)
Searches for links to large sites using ‘nofollow’ tags for external links, and puts the same tag on links to those sites (Wikipedia.org, StumbleUpon.com, and similar) Added top 1000 sites from Quantcast.com. This plugin is based on Wikipedia nofollow and Identify External Links.

No Self Pings   No Self Pings
» Michael D. Adams (url)
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.

Platinum SEO Pack   Platinum SEO Pack
» Rajesh - Techblissonline Dot Com (url)
Complete SEO solution for your Wordpress blog.

Plugin Central   Plugin Central
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Wordpress 2.5+ only. Automatically installs and updates WordPress plugins.

Post-Plugin Library   Post-Plugin Library
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.

Random Posts   Random Posts
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of randomly selected posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

Recent Comments   Recent Comments
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of the most recent comments. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

Redirection   Redirection
» John Godley (url)
A redirection manager

RSS Footer   RSS Footer
» Joost de Valk (url)
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.

Running Time   Running Time
» Andrew Hamilton (url)
Outputs the date of the oldest post and/or the newest post. Also will output how long the your site has been running for based on the first post date or a specified start date.

Search Unleashed   Search Unleashed
» John Godley (url)
Advanced search engine that provides full text searching across posts, pages, comments, titles, and URLs. Searches take into account any data added by other plugins, and all search results are contextually highlighted. You can also highlight incoming searches from popular search engines.

SEO Friendly Images   SEO Friendly Images
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

Similar Posts   Similar Posts
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of related posts. Similarity can be based on any combination of word usage in the content, title, or tags. Don’t be disturbed if it takes a few moments to complete the installation — the plugin is indexing your posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

Simple Image Link   Simple Image Link
» BlogWell (url)
A simple way to add an image with a link to your sidebar

Simple Tags   Simple Tags
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags !

Sociable   Sociable
» Joost de Valk (url)
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Go to Settings -> Sociable for setup.

Sort Admin Menus   Sort Admin Menus
» Janis Elsts (url)
Sorts the items in ‘Manage’, ‘Settings’ and ‘Plugins’ menus in alphabetic order.

Subscribe2   Subscribe2
» Matthew Robinson (url)
Notifies an email list when new entries are posted.

Subscribe To Comments   Subscribe To Comments
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

Tangofy   Tangofy
» Demetris (url)
Better icons for the admin menu of WordPress 2.7: Select an included icon set (Fugue, Silk, Tango, Tango 2) or add your own!

Thank Me Later   Thank Me Later
» Brendon Boshell (url)
Sends a customizable “thank you” message after (a few hours, few days, weeks) a comment has been posted. This acts a reminder of your blog and can bring “one-time” readers back

TinyMCE Advanced   TinyMCE Advanced
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE.

Tippy   Tippy
» Chris Roberts (url)
Simple plugin to display tooltips within your WordPress blog.

What Others Are Saying   What Others Are Saying
» SarahG (url)
Use the RSS field in your Blogroll and display the most recent post from sites that you link to.

WordPress.com Popular Posts   WordPress.com Popular Posts
» Frasten (url)
Shows the most popular posts, using data collected by WordPress.com stats plugin.

WordPress.com Stats   WordPress.com Stats
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

Wordpress.com Stats Helper   Wordpress.com Stats Helper
» Vlad Bailescu (url)
This plugin helps you extract data from wordpress.com stats and use it across your blog.

Wordpress Gravatars   Wordpress Gravatars
» Rune Gulbrandsøy (url)
Makes use of Gravatars and MyBlogLog Avatars, places Gravatars, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or MyBlogLog Avatars in the comments section. Uses the comment authors email to display their Gravatar. It also gives the user an Author Profile picture, based on his or hers Gravatar. Developer blog at this site.

WP-Cumulus   WP-Cumulus
» Roy Tanck (url)
Flash based Tag Cloud for WordPress

WP-DBManager   WP-DBManager
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

WP-dTree   WP-dTree
» Ulf Benjaminsson (url)
A fork of Christopher Hwang’s WP-dTree, improving performance and adding useful features.

WP-PageNavi   WP-PageNavi
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.

WP-PluginsUsed   WP-PluginsUsed
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP Greet Box   WP Greet Box
» Thaya Kareeson (url)
Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins.

WP Security Scan   WP Security Scan
» Michael Torbert (url)
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.

WP to Twitter   WP to Twitter
» Joseph Dolson (url)
Updates Twitter when you create a new blog post or add to your blogroll using Cli.gs. With a Cli.gs API key, creates a clig in your Cli.gs account with the name of your post as the title.


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