Plugins
While WordPress on its own is a wonderful piece of software, the plugins that are availible are amazing. In appreciation for their hard work, below is a list of the plugins, the authors, and links to where the plugin can be obtained.
| Plugin | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| All in One SEO Pack | Michael Torbert | Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. |
| AJAX Comments | Mike Smullin | Post comments quickly without leaving or refreshing the page. Bugfixed by Zsolt Lakatos |
| Akismet | Matt Mullenweg | 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. |
| Dunstan-style Error Page | Andrew Ferguson | A fuller featured 404 error page modeled from http://1976design.com/blog/error/ |
| FeedBurner FeedSmith | FeedBurner | Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. |
| Google XML Sitemaps | Arne Brachhold | 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 |
| Headache With Pictures | Alex Günsche | “I’m having one of those things… A headache with pictures…” |
| Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu | Ozh | Replaces admin menus with a CSS dropdown menu bar. Saves lots of clicks and page loads! For WordPress 2.5+ |
| Plugins Used Plugin | Andrew Chen | This plugin will give you a function to display what plugins you are using. Thanks to Sören Weber for submitting a fix for a display problem. Now sorts by plugin name instead of plugin file name as it had. |
| Related Posts | Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne | Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. |
| Recommended Tags | CyberNet | Creates a list of recommended and existing tags (JavaScript must be enabled). Visit Settings -> Recommended Tags to change some of the options available. This version is only designed to work with WordPress 2.5. |
| Subscribe To Comments | Mark Jaquith | Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess |
| SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) | Eric Martin | A modal Ajax contact form built on the SimpleModal jQuery plugin. Once Activated, go to “Options” or “Settings” and select “SimpleModal Contact Form”. |
| WPhone | Stephane Daury, Doug Stewart, and Viper007Bond | A lightweight admin interface for the iPhone and other mobile devices. |
| WP-Print | Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan | Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page. |
| WP-DBManager | Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan | 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. |