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 | 2.2.4 | 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. |
| BackType Connect | 0.2.2 | BackType |
Show related conversations (from other blogs, Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed and more) inline with your own comments. |
| 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. |
| CDN Tools | 0.81 | Paul Kehrer | CDN Tools is a plugin designed to help you drastically speed up your blog’s load time by loading content onto a distribution network. You can use a commercial CDN or just load some of your larger JS libraries for free from Google’s servers! At this time Cloud Files is the only supported CDN. |
| 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. |
| Digg Button | 0.2 | Ryan Wagner | Make the Digg API work properly in Wordpress for all browsers. View the plug-in’s homepage for information on using it. |
| Dunstan’s Time Since | 1.1 | Michael Heilemann & Dunstan Orchard | Tells the time between the entry being posted and the comment being made. |
| Exec-PHP | 4.9 | Sören Weber | Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets. |
| Executable PHP widget | 1.2 | Otto | Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Up to 9 instances of this widget may exist. |
| 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 | 2009.0618 | Charles Johnson | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress |
| Google Talk Widget | 1.0 | Alax.Info | Google Talk Widget |
| HeadSpace2 | 3.6.28 | John Godley | Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many many other goodies. |
| Insights | 1.0.1 | Vladimir Prelovac | Insights allows you to quickly search and insert information (links, images, videos, maps, news..) into your blog posts. |
| JavaScript to Footer | 0.3.1 | Vladimir Prelovac | This plugin automatically moves JavaScript code to page footer, speeding up page loading time. |
| 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. |
| Lucia’sLinkLove | 0.3 (Added number count toggles.) | Lucia Liljegren | Where a commenter has commented at least some number of timeslinks are made “dofollow”. User interface permits blogger to do follow author link or links inside comments. |
| Moderator | 0.1 | Daniel Dura | Moderate comments from your WordPress blog on your desktop. |
| MyAvatars | 0.2b | Andrea Micheloni & Napolux | This plugin allows you to add MyBlogLog.com avatars to Wordpress comments. |
| OIOpublisher Direct 2.0 | 2.00.b2 | Simon Emery | Control your Ad Space with OIOpublisher. |
| PHP Speedy WP | 0.4.7 | Leon Chevalier | Speeds up the display of your blog by combining your JS and CSS files, adding far future expires headers and GZIPing. |
| PagerFix | 1.0 | Jaimie Sirovich | Makes the paging in WP more SE-friendly. |
| Photo Dropper | 1.0.8 | Photodropper | Lets you add Creative commons licensed Photos to Your Posts from Flickr. By activating this plugin you agree to be fully responsbile for adhering to Creative Commons licenses for all photos you post to your blog. |
| PingPressFM | 2.2.7 | Sold Out Activist | Allows you to spread your wonderful blog to 10+ social networks via Ping.fm. Now with support for scheduled posts and custom triggers. |
| Portable b5media Blogroll | 2.1.3 | Aaron Brazell | b5media Blogroll. |
| 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. |
| Retaggr | 1.15 | Retaggr | Retaggr – Adds Retaggr social/business cards to your comments |
| SEO Friendly Images | 2.4.2 | 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 | 2.1 | Vladimir Prelovac | SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. |
| SimpleTags | 1.2 | Broobles | 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. |
| Snazzy Archives | 1.2.3 | Vladimir Prelovac | Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates completely unique archive pages. |
| Sphere Related Content | 1.4 | Watershed Studio, LLC | Automatically show related blog posts and news articles from Sphere. NEW in this version, related video for news bloggers. You can now select from several plug-in types, see the Sphere Configuration Page for details. More plug-in types for politics and other categories coming soon. |
| 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 | 6.2.5 | Viper007Bond | Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts. |
| 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. |
| WP-PostViews | 1.50 | Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan | Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts. |
| WP-reCAPTCHA | 2.9.6 | Jorge Peña | Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam solutions with wordpress |
| WordPress Database Backup | 2.2.2 | Austin Matzko | On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started. |
| WordPress.com Stats | 1.4 | Andy Skelton | Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. |
| Wordpress Automatic Upgrade | 1.2.5 | Keith Dsouza | Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode. |
| b5media Blogroll (Portable) Widget | 2.1.3 | Aaron Brazell | b5media v2 Blogroll in a pretty widget box |
| 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 | 1.2.1 | Crowd Favorite and Reuters | Find and suggest tags and photos (from Flickr) for your content. Integrates with the Calais service. |
| wp-cache | 2.1.2 | Ricardo Galli Granada | Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. |
