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Recommend some WordPress Plugins!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 10:08 pm
by Luke
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
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:02 am
by matthijs
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.
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:14 am
by RobertGonzalez
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)
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:42 pm
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
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:49 pm
by matthijs
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.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 3:44 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I have never had a problem with Akismet. I had a huge problem without it, but with it... nuthin.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:40 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Just found
this blog post and thought you might like it.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:22 am
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.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:08 am
by matthijs
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/
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:49 am
by Mordred
There still remains the issue of relying on a 3rd party server.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:14 am
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)
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:11 am
by matthijs
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.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:19 am
by Chris Corbyn
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/
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:30 am
by RobertGonzalez
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:45 am
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?