{"id":13894,"date":"2009-02-24T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=13894"},"modified":"2009-02-24T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T20:27:58","slug":"my-current-collection-of-wordpress-plug-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/my-current-collection-of-wordpress-plug-ins.html","title":{"rendered":"My current collection of WordPress plug-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"WordPress\" height=\"45\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imageswordpress.jpg\" width=\"162\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Apologies for this blog having become &#8220;All WordPress! All the Time!&#8221; of late, but clearly it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m putting a lot of attention into lately.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to highlight here some of the plug-ins I&#8217;ve installed on my site &#8212; a much longer list than some folks will probably think wise. (Actually, there&#8217;s an argument that you should Never, Ever Tell what plug-ins you are using, since Black Hats will use that as a way to crack into your site. I don&#8217;t worry about that tooooo&nbsp;much, but there it is).<\/p>\n<p>GOTTA HAVE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a>: This came bundled with WP, and serves as a community anti-spam detector. With Akismet, I&#8217;ve had nary a spamlet show up on these pages. Huzzah!<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/urbangiraffe.com\/plugins\/redirection\/\">Redirection<\/a>: Watches post renames and redirects folks to them (with a 301) when they go to the &#8220;old&#8221; permalink for a post. Tracks all sorts of 404 errors, and lets you create redirections to them. Works all internally to WP, rather than through .htaccess. Very clevery, very useful.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/lesterchan.net\/portfolio\/programming\/php\/\">WP-Print<\/a>: Create a printer-friendly version of any page. Brilliant!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SHOULD HAVE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.jodies.de\/archiv\/2004\/11\/13\/recent-comments\/\">Get Recent Comments<\/a>: WP comes with a &#8220;Recent Comments&#8221; widget, but this adds all sorts of configurable bells and whistles, such that you can do what do and show the most recent <em>posts <\/em>commented upon, which is more informative than just the most recent comments to my mind.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/alexking.org\/projects\/wordpress\">Twitter Tools<\/a>: Turn tweets to posts and posts to tweets. Twitter from your sidebar. Etc. If nothing else, it lets you remote post to your blog from your cell phone (140 characters at a time).<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blaenkdenum.com\/wp-recaptcha\/\">WP-reCAPTCHA<\/a>: Adds a CAPTCHA to registration and comments &#8230; which also ends up assisting scanning old books for the Internet. Keen!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>COULD HAVE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <\/li>\n<th class=\"check-column\" scope=\"row\"> <\/th>\n<td class=\"name\"> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/semperfiwebdesign.com\">All in One SEO Pack<\/a>: Gives you control over how page titles are formatted, META data, etc., all for the elusive High Page Rank and Search Engine Optimization. The WP community is apparently obsessed with this. The plug-in does no particular harm, and it does provide some nice controls over what it says it does. <\/td>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.g-loaded.eu\/2006\/01\/14\/creative-commons-configurator-wordpress-plugin\/\">Creative Commons Configurator<\/a>: Decide on a CC license you want to use, have it automatically (optionally) inserted into your page header, your RSS feed, your posts, etc. Used to create the CC &#8220;Legal Lingo&#8221; bit in the sidebar.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/php-code-widget\/\">Executable PHP widget<\/a>: Lets you load PHP into a sidebar element, rather than just text or HTML. Also being used in the &#8220;Legal Lingo&#8221; sidebar.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/cavemonkey50.com\/code\/google-analyticator\/\">Google Analyticator<\/a>: Lets you insert your Google Analytics code automatically into the your blog in the appropriate places. Saves you the trouble of doing it yourself.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\">ShareThis<\/a>: I remain mixed on this one. It provides the little &#8220;ShareThis&#8221; link with each post, letting someone forward a post to a number of social sites, readers, or email. Question is &#8230; does anyone actually want to do that?<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Visit plugin homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/ajaydsouza.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/top-10\/\">Top 10<\/a>: Tallies post access. 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(Actually, there&#8217;s an argument &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/my-current-collection-of-wordpress-plug-ins.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My current collection of WordPress plug-ins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/imageswordpress.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13732,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/dave-does-the-blog-v30.html","url_meta":{"origin":13894,"position":0},"title":"***Dave Does the Blog v3.0","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-09 8:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, if we assume that my original Blogger blog (Aug. 2001) was v1.0, and the shift to Movable Type (Dec. 2001) was v.2.0, that makes this (shifting to WordPress) v3.0, right? 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