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If you wonder which plugins I use on my wordpress installation, here comes a list.
- Akismet v2.1.5
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put<?php akismet_counter(); ?>in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. Matt Mullenweg - Lightbox 2 Plugin v0.7
Auto-converting all linked images in a post, excerpt and even comments to lightboxed links. (see options menu). — Using Lightbox v2.03.3 and compressed Prototype Javascript. Kjell Bublitz - TLA InLinks v1.2.0
Text Link Ads InLinks program sells links within your blog posts Text Link Ads - More Smilies v2.1
Allows you to choose different emoticon (smiley) sets to use in WP. Matt Read - Optimal Title v3.0
Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before. Aaron Schaefer - Postalicious v2.0rc5
Automatically create posts with your del.icio.us bookmarks. Pablo Gomez - Popularity Contest v1.3b3
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog. Alex King - PlugInstaller v0.2.1
Easy (un)installation of new plugins directly from the admin interface Henning Schaefer - Photopress v1.0
Photopress adds some image handling tools to Wordpress, including a popup upload and browse tool, a random image template function, and a simple album. Installs and uses new database tables. Works with WP 2.1+. Isaac Wedin - Random Posts widget v1.5.0
Display Random Posts Widget. Based on Random categories with random posts by Mike Stickel. Ady Romantika - WordPress.com Stats v1.2.2
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. Andy Skelton - Subscribe To Comments v2.1.2
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess Mark Jaquith - Sexy Comments v1.4.6
Sexify your comments with avatars and forum-like formatting. Matthew Batchelder - Top Commentators Widget v0.999a
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin. Lorna Timbah (WebGrrrl.net) - Viper’s Video Quicktags v5.4.4
Allows you to embed various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video as well as videos you host yourself, into WordPress. Credits: Owen Winkler for ButtonSnap and An-archos for help with WP 2.1+ button code. Viper007Bond - WP-phpMyAdmin v2.10.3
Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin console Roland Rust, Christopher Hwang - WP-Plugin List v1.0
WP Plugin List is a simple plugin to allow yout post your current WordPress 1.5+ Martin Wiso - WordPress Database Backup v2.1.5
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started. Austin Matzko - PopStats v2.2.2
Simple blog stats panel that shows popularity and relevant data about visits. Shows only human visits, hiding every kind of bot Luis Sancho - Wordpress Automatic Upgrade v1.1
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode. Keith Dsouza - Woopra v1.1
Woopra plugin for Wordpress Woopra - What Would Seth Godin Do v1.3
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors Richard K Miller - Force Word Wrapping v1.0.0
Prevents long sentancesconstructedlikethis from horizontally stretching the page. Ported from the phpBB MOD of the same name - Force Word Wrapping. For support / comments / whatever, visit the support forums. Jim Wigginton - WordPress Related Posts v0.9
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress Denis
Does the landing sites plugins work on Wordpress 2.1? I’ve tried it but it didn’t work…how about you?
and sorry for the link…my new url is http://blogosquare.com
hey ain’t the comment’s box a bit too small?
Is there relevance to the DoFollow plugin? I have considered installing it, but hesitate, as there are SEO penalties to any site considered a ‘link farm’.
Once a blog becomes well visited and well commented, there would be a diverse amount of comment author links heading out - and many might not be relevant to your site. Bang - SE penalties may ensue. Any thoughts?
Hans; on this blog I am still on 2.0, as I have heard some horror stories about plug-ins not working (though the real reason is more lack of time).
The comment box is a bit on the small side, but since I get so few comments, I don’t want to dedicate too much screen space.
Adrian; I do this blog just for fun, and have never bothered to learn much about SEO. The search engines should be smart enough to differ between logs with many comments and sites set up barely for link farming.
But this lacks any scientific data, as I don’t know anything about it…
General;What sort of page load speeds do you get at my blog? I have the impression that it loads a bit slow - guess I have to go through all my plug-ins and the external services…
Thanks for all feedback!
I just read a post in which Google’s Adam Lasnik was interviewed regarding NoFollow. Very interesting to see how Google uses NoFollow.
Page loads are fine by the way! Your index page takes me about 4 to 5 seconds.
Adrian, thanks for the link.
…whatever that means in real life terms…
(And thanks for the feed-back on the page loading times.)
Thanks for information you shared…
I am now using it…
Shongaks
Thanks for your comment.
I always find it helpful to see what plug-ins other bloggers use, there are always undiscovered gems out there