This page details the technical stuff related to this site, so others can learn. Give me some time to fill it out with all the stuff I want to put in here.
WordPress plugins used on this blog
Here is a list of all the plugins used on this site. I am always on the lookout for good plugins to use. If I have missed one that you think is a doozie, please let me know!
| Plugin | Version | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down) | 1.2 | AddThis.com | Help your visitor promote your website or blog. Put the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget on your site or blog, so any visitor can easily bookmark it. The widget works with all popular bookmarking services. |
| Adsense-Deluxe+ | 0.8 | Acme Technologies | 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. |
| Akismet | 2.5.7 | Automattic | 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. |
| BigHead | 1.0.20070204 | Alister Cameron | All the stuff you need in your HEAD (tag), in one plugin! |
| Blog Copyright | R2.1 | Kaf Oseo | Display dated copyright mark. Post/Page (post date or custom field) and archive aware. |
| CoSchedule by Todaymade | 0.9 | Todaymade | Schedule social media messages alongside your blog posts in WordPress, and then view them on a Google Calendar interface. Account Settings |
| Comment Relish | 1.0 | Justin Shattuck | Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your weblog. |
| Do Follow | 4.0.1 | Denis de Bernardy, Mike Koepke | Removes the evil nofollow attribute that WordPress adds in comments. |
| Dunstan’s Time Since | 1.1 | Michael Heilemann & Dunstan Orchard | Tells the time between the entry being posted and the comment being made. |
| Embedly | 2.1.3 | Embed.ly Inc | The Embedly Plugin extends WordPress’s Oembed feature, allowing bloggers to Embed from 230+ services and counting. |
| Exec-PHP | 4.9 | Sören Weber | Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets. |
| Executable PHP widget | 2.1 | Otto | Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Up to 9 instances of this widget may exist. |
| Extended Options | 0.1.2 β | Scott Allan Wallick | Extended Options keeps meta data and certain WordPress tweaks consistent regardless of the active theme without editing any theme files. A plaintxt.org experiment for WordPress. |
| FeedBurner FeedSmith | 2.2 | 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. |
| FeedWordPress | 2013.0504 | Charles Johnson | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress |
| Insights | 1.0.5 | Vladimir Prelovac | Insights allows you to quickly search and insert information (links, images, videos, maps, news..) into your blog posts. |
| Kramer | 0.7.7 | Nik Cubrilovic and Mark Jaquith | Implements Technorati inbound links to a post as Pingbacks. Also provides a template function to display general inbound links. |
| OIOpublisher Ad Manager 2.55 | 2.55 | Simon Emery | Control your Ad Space with OIOpublisher. |
| PagerFix | 1.0 | Jaimie Sirovich | Makes the paging in WP more SE-friendly. |
| Related Entries | 2.9 | Denis de Bernardy | Returns Yahoo! terms as related posts. |
| Related Searches | 2.9 | Denis de Bernardy | Returns Yahoo! terms as search queries. |
| Related Tags | 2.9 | Denis de Bernardy | Returns Yahoo! terms as technorati tags. |
| SEO Friendly Images | 2.7.5 | Vladimir Prelovac | Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well. |
| SEO Slugs | 1.0 | Andrei Mikrukov | Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO. |
| SEO Smart Links | 2.7.6 | Vladimir Prelovac | SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. |
| ServerBuddy | 1.0.2 | Dustin Bolton | Various tools & tests to analyze server configuration & troubleshoot issues. Navigate to Tools: ServerBuddy. By PluginBuddy.com. |
| Snazzy Archives | 1.7.2 | Vladimir Prelovac | Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates completely unique archive pages. |
| Subscribe To Comments | 2.1.2 | Mark Jaquith | Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess |
| Viper’s Plugins Used | 1.12 | Viper007Bond | Allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. Also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output. |
| Viper’s Video Quicktags | 6.4.5 | Viper007Bond | Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts. |
| W3 Total Cache | 0.9.2.9 | Frederick Townes | The highest rated and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress. |
| WP-Cats | 0.13 | Mike Purvis | Ajax-y category controls added to the Manage Posts screen |
| WP-ContactForm | 2.0.4 | Douglas Karr | WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+. The plugin was originally developed by Ryan Duff but has been modified by Doug Karr to require a challenge question and response to fight spam as well as some other features. |
| pageMash | 1.3.0 | Joel Starnes | Manage your multitude of pages with pageMash’s slick drag-and-drop style, ajax interface. Allows quick sorting, hiding and organising of parenting. |
| tagaroo | 1.4.7 | Crowd Favorite and Reuters | Find and suggest tags and photos (from Flickr) for your content. Integrates with the Calais service. |
