Cool Wordpress Plugins
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Below are the Wordpress plugins I use on this site. All these plugins, as far as I can tell, are compatible up through version 2.7. Based on Wordpress.com stats this is consistently one of the most popular posts on the site. Go figure.
Coppermine Photo Gallery Integration
- The CoppermineSC plugin allows you to integrate thumbnails and full-size images into your posts simply by including a bracketed tag within the post. You can also add it to your sidebar or wherever you like. (See this post if you run into problems with this plugin.)
- This counter uses a database table backend for visit counts. It also uses a text file to keep track of recent visits and won’t count visits from the same IP within a ten minute windows. Shows total visits and current visitors online.
- Compacts the Wordpress archives listing into a smaller format. There are two compact options to choose from. Good for blogs that have a lot of posting history.
- Allows you to simply and easily enter bracketed tags into a post and display various video formats including YouTube or Google video.
- A simple and fun plugin that allows you to display a random quote in a sidebar or wherever. Uses a database backend and a simple admin interface to enter new quotes.
- The GeneralStats plugin displays various statistics about your blog, such as number of posts, comment, categories, etc. It’s got a nice drag and drop configuration gui in the admin panel.
- Displays facts you may or may not know about the mighty Chuck Norris. If you don’t know them then he’ll probably hunt you down and kill you with a roundhouse kick to your pathetic face.
- Enables your blog with collapsing page menus for sub pages. Very cool plugin; I’d like to see this feature available in the core source code.
- With a Wordpress.com API key you can track various statistics about visits to your site.
- This plugin was created by Automattic (the Wordpress.com team) and does a very good job of keeping spam comments off your blog. You’ll need a Wordpress.com API Key but it’s free. You can also use the same API key on different self-hosted blogs.
- Allows you to display a random post in your blog. I use it primarily in my sidebar but I also display a random post on my 404 not found page.
- By default comments are displayed from oldest to newest, top to bottom. This plugin allows you to reverse the order. I use it for my guestbook page.
- By default Wordpress search only allows searching posts. This plugin enables searching pages as well. (Page searching was introduced natively in version 2.5)
- Displays text tagged as code to be displayed in a plain text, scrollable text box.
- Displays post categories and/or archives in a compact drop down box.
- Enables an advanced editor for writing pages and posts. Allows choice of fonts types and colors, tables, advanced links, etc.
- Easily allows for breadcrumb navigation of your posts and pages with a simple admin interface and function call.
- Produces a caption beneath images in your posts. If you don’t want a caption simply set the “title” tag to a null string (img title=”") and the plugin won’t produce the caption.
- Takes all the work out of generating an XML sitemap used by Google, Yahoo, and others. Automatically updates each time you update your blog.
- Provides a very simple way to implement one or more contact forms on your blog without doing any coding. It also ties into Askismet for spam protection.
- Places a small button at the bottom of your posts and pages automatically that allows a user to bookmark your page/post, e-mail it, or share it through services like Facebook and Delicious.
FACT: Chuck Norris likes to knit sweaters in his free time. And by "knit", I mean "kick", and by "sweaters", I mean "babies".
i love those plugins!
thanks!