Recommend some WordPress Plugins!
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Recommend some WordPress Plugins!
To those of you who operate a developer blog of any kind, what are some of your most beloved Wordpress plugins? There are so many, it's hard to tell what's crap and what's good without downloading and installing each one. I know I'd like some syntax highlighting, but is there anything else that you developer blog guys use all the time? Thanks
Indeed, there are a lot of plugins... however I don't use many. One I always use is searcheverything http://dancameron.org/wordpress/
Others are http://imthi.com/organizer/
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/old-style-upload/
http://www.thedevproject.com/projects/w ... mb-plugin/
but only the searcheverything is necessary. However, I'm waiting for the day that wordpress allows searching of "pages" natively. Because it's silly that that isn't the case now.
At the moment I'm looking at writing my own plugins. The problem I have with many plugins is that they either are not being updated, so that if wordpress has been updated they might not work again (doesn't happen often though). Or what started as a simple plugin evolves in a mammoth do-it-all application. As with all code, you have to be careful with what 3d party code you use.
Others are http://imthi.com/organizer/
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/old-style-upload/
http://www.thedevproject.com/projects/w ... mb-plugin/
but only the searcheverything is necessary. However, I'm waiting for the day that wordpress allows searching of "pages" natively. Because it's silly that that isn't the case now.
At the moment I'm looking at writing my own plugins. The problem I have with many plugins is that they either are not being updated, so that if wordpress has been updated they might not work again (doesn't happen often though). Or what started as a simple plugin evolves in a mammoth do-it-all application. As with all code, you have to be careful with what 3d party code you use.
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Just found this blog post and thought you might like it.
Have you guys read the Akismet link I posted?
Again: http://michaeldaw.org/alerts/alert-140507/
SpamKarma is a very good alternative and it runs in a stand-alone mode, without connecting to any 3rd party servers.
Again: http://michaeldaw.org/alerts/alert-140507/
SpamKarma is a very good alternative and it runs in a stand-alone mode, without connecting to any 3rd party servers.
No I didn't read the link because I thought it was just a link to the akismet page. Now I know you pointed to a vulnerability. In the meantime, that issue has been solved already. See http://michaeldaw.org/alerts/alerts-140507-1/
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fotobook -- Allows you to easily add your facebook albums to your blog.
I'm actually looking for a better plugin for adding facebook albums to a wordpress blog though. I might just take fotobook and work on it myself. It uses the lightbox plugin so you get the effects seen here (note I'm just testing at the moment, there will actually be some oz pics on there later this year):
http://www.chriscorbyn.co.uk/australia/photos (I need to sort the CSS out)
I'm actually looking for a better plugin for adding facebook albums to a wordpress blog though. I might just take fotobook and work on it myself. It uses the lightbox plugin so you get the effects seen here (note I'm just testing at the moment, there will actually be some oz pics on there later this year):
http://www.chriscorbyn.co.uk/australia/photos (I need to sort the CSS out)
That's true.Mordred wrote:There still remains the issue of relying on a 3rd party server.
Although in this case I have full confidence that the automattic guys will make sure their servers stay up. I mean, if their server is down, their complete customer base (wordpress.com, wordpress blogs, automattic clients, etc) will be having a lot of trouble. Which means major trouble for their company.
But, as always, it's never a bad idea to bet on more horses.
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I use(d) this one. It uses GeSHi like this forum does.Mordred wrote:Otherwise, I haven't blogged anything for PHP (hmmm...) so I'd be glad to hear a recommendation for a highlighter
http://blog.enargi.com/codesnippet/
Doh! Obviously the link is no longer available.
Here: http://www.adcworks.com/blog/code-snipp ... rdpress-2/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codesnippet-20/
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