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Update: The plugin author, Brad, has fixed this issue and has released an updated version.

If you don’t already know Wordpress 2.5 RC2 is out now. I’m now using it but I had a major issue with one plugin: CoppermineSC. This plugin allows me to tie my Coppermine photo gallery into my Wordpress blog. When activated it broke all my other plugins and WP functions. I really can’t run my sites without this plugin so it was imperative that found a solution to this problem. After several days of fretting and research I’ve solved the problem.

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Below are the Wordpress plugins I use on this site. All these plugins, as far as I can tell, are compatible up through version 2.5. Based on Wordpress.com stats this is consistently the most popular post 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.)

Simple Visit Counter

• 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.

Compact Monthly Archive

• 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.

Wordpress Video

• Allows you to simply and easily enter bracketed tags into a post and display various video formats including YouTube or Google video.

Random Quotes

• 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.

Blog Stats

• 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.

Chuck Norris “Fact” Generator

• 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.

Collapsing Page Menus

• 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.

Wordpress.com Stats

• With a Wordpress.com API key you can track various statistics about visits to your site.

Akismet

• 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.

Random Posts

• 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.

Reverse Order Comments

• 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.

Search Pages

• By default Wordpress search only allows searching posts. This plugin enables searching pages as well. (Page searching was introduced natively in version 2.5)

SemCodeFix

• Displays text tagged as code to be displayed in a plain text, scrollable text box.

Daniel’s Dropdowns

• Displays post categories and/or archives in a compact drop down box.

TinyMCE Advanced

• Enables an advanced editor for writing pages and posts. Allows choice of fonts types and colors, tables, advanced links, etc.

Image Caption

• 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.

I finally finished the conversion of the old photo gallery to the new photo gallery. I liked the old gallery but this one has a killer interface and loads of features. I hope everyone likes it. I have transferred all the old pictures to the new gallery now but the …read more »