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Recommend some WordPress Plugins!

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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
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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.
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These are the ones I use on my blog:
Plugin (Version)
Akismet (2.0)
del.icio.us widget (1.0)
Google Search widget (1.0)
PJW WP Cache Inspect (0.5)
Sidebar Widgets (1.2.1.20070210b)
Tiger Style Administration (3.0)
WP-ShortStat (1.3)
WP-Syntax (0.5.2)
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Post by Mordred »

Remove that Akismet and install SpamKarma instead.
Otherwise, I haven't blogged anything for PHP (hmmm...) so I'd be glad to hear a recommendation for a highlighter
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Why remove akismet and install spamkarma? I have excellent experiences with akismet. 99.8% success rate. 14,365 spam stopped in a few months, maybe 20 got through.
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I have never had a problem with Akismet. I had a huge problem without it, but with it... nuthin.
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Just found this blog post and thought you might like it.
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Post by Mordred »

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.
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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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There still remains the issue of relying on a 3rd party server.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

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)
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Mordred wrote:There still remains the issue of relying on a 3rd party server.
That's true.
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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Mordred wrote:Otherwise, I haven't blogged anything for PHP (hmmm...) so I'd be glad to hear a recommendation for a highlighter
I use(d) this one. It uses GeSHi like this forum does.

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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WP-Syntax (the one listed in one of my posts in this thread) is a very clean and working implementation of GeSHi for Wordpress. It is really well done.
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Post by Luke »

Anybody have any recommendations for a plugin to add all of the add-to-"digg/furl/del.icio.us/etc" links on my posts? Is there any reason why I shouldn't add a plugin like this?
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