Plugins I Use
Recently, I was asked “Seeing as you write a lot of plugins which ones do you suggest?” The following is a complete list of plugins that are active on this website and, as you can see, I eat A LOT of my own dog food. You will also see plugins listed that I wrote but that aren’t actually available on this site: these will be released in the future.
| Plugin | Version | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plugin | Version | Author | Description |
| Akismet | 2.1.5 | Matt Mullenweg | 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. |
| AJAXed Wordpress | 1.21 | Aaron Harun | A plugin that incorporates the best AJAX Wordpress features and wrap them in a single framework–including such features as inline posts and comments, the ability to paginate posts, submit comments, thread comments, edit comments and posts inline. The Admin panel is under presentation tab. Need Help? Visit the Official AWP support thread or try reading the full documentation. |
| Access Keys | 1.0 | Aaron Harun | This plugin allows you to add Access Keys to Category and Page navigation menus to make your website far more accessible. |
| Admin Drop Down Menu | 2.1 | Ozh |
Replaces admin menus with a CSS dropdown menu bar. Saves lots of clicks and page loads! For WordPress 2.5+ |
| Code Escape | 1.5 | Aaron Harun. | A plugin to display preformatted code in WordPress. Outputted code is both structurally and symantically valid, and is always 100% HTML and XHTML valid. |
| Dagon Design Sitemap Generator | 3.14 | Dagon Design |
Generates a fully customizable sitemap |
| Day Archive Calendar | 0.5 | Aaron Harun | A simple plugin that utilizes a modified get_calendar function that shows all dates that have posts from the beginning of time. |
| Dashboard Editor | 1.1 | Aaron Harun | Allows you to customise the dashboard. |
| Easy MimeTex | 1.0 | Aaron Harun |
Adds MimeTex support. |
| Executable PHP widget | 1.1 | Otto | Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Heavily derived from the Text widget code in WordPress. |
| Feedburner Feed Replacement | 2.2 | Steve Smith | Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. |
| Future Calendar | 1.0 | Aaron Harun | A simple plugin that utalizes a modified get_calendar function that shows what dates have a future post scheduled in a calendar format, and makes it easy to change the current timestamp. Temperature Functionality and some tweaks by Flavio Jarabeck (www.InternetDrops.com.br) |
| Feed Locations | 1.0 | Glenn Slaven |
Set the location of the RSS and Atom feeds in options. Enables the use of services like FeedBurner without editing templates. |
| FireStats | 1.4.4-stable | Omry Yadan | Statistics plugin for WordPress. |
| FD Word Statistics | 1.1 | John Watson | Computes Gunning-Fog, Flesch, and Flesch-Kincaid readability indexes about posts as they are edited for the purpose of improving their readability. |
| Google XML Sitemaps | 3.1.0.1 | Arne Brachhold |
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page |
| Google Analyticator | 2.12 | Ronald Heft, Jr. | Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the options page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging. |
| MoveComments | 0.1 | Alex Günsche |
Move one or more comments from a post or page to another |
| Multi-Plugin | 0.1 | Aaron Harun | Allows you to add small PHP scripts and filters without creating an entire plugin for them. |
| Ozh’ Absolute Comments | 2.2 | Ozh | Reply instantly to comments, either from the email notification, or the usual Comments page, without loading the post first. For WordPress 2.5+ |
| Photo Dropper | 1.0.1 | Photodropper | Lets you add Creative commons licensed Photos to Your Posts from Flickr. |
| Redirection | 1.7.18 | John Godley | A redirection manager |
| runPHP | 2.2.2 | James Van Lommel | Allows you to put PHP code into a post and have it eval()’d. |
| Social Bookmarking RELOADED | 2.9 | valent | Social Bookmarking RELOADED - Add the social bookmarks services’s icons to your articles in your blogs in order to submit them easyly. Plugin based on Apostolos Dountsis one |
| Subscribe To Comments | 2.1.2 | Mark Jaquith | Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess |
| Simple:Press Forum | 3.0.3 | Andy Staines | Fully featured but simple page-based forum |
| Simple Tags | 1.5.6 | Amaury BALMER |
Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3 and 2.5 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags ! |
| Smilies Themer | 0.5.3 | Ricardo González | Allows you to choose different smilies themes. Based in More Smilies by Matt Read. |
| TD Word Count | 0.43 | TDavid |
Word count stats |
| Ultimate SEO | 0.0 | Aaron Harun |
This plugin combines the functionality of other SEO plugins. |
| WordPress Database Backup | 2.1.5 | Austin Matzko | On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started. |
| WP-PostViews | 1.20 | Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan |
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. It will not count registered member views, but that can be changed easily. |
| WP AJAX Edit Comments | v1.1.5.1 | Ronald Huereca | Allows you and your users to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments. |
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Your site is great, so as the plugins you posted here. I’m going to install all of them on my new Wordpress Blog on http://wwn.110mb.com . I love Wordpress!
Reply to DragosThe compiled list is what im looking for. I would like to some of it in my sites http://www.mystarhill.com . must check if got any updated version first.
Reply to mobyI’m glad it has been useful for you.
Reply to AaronSounds great… I’ll try it
Reply to PannyHmmm… so you are not using Super Category (multi-blog) Plugin. Can you tell me any site which is using this plugin ?
Reply to CuckooNo I never kept track of things like that. Although there have been many downloads, there were no reports of specific websites.
Reply to AaronVery nice list of plugins… will be using a few them on our site soon!
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Reply to KAPSCigarBarHey, how did you post your categories across the top in a horizontal menu bar like that? Very cool
Reply to CerbHere you go.
Reply to Aaronhmmm great plugin for Ajaxed Wordpress, but how can i add or change the smilies??? thx for plugin
Reply to wiebzwiebz »
You can use smilies themer. It works with AWP. (If you use .png smilies, please see the fix I posted above.)
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Reply to gAApit is too more！
Reply to chonghuaI only use 5 plugins from the lists above
Reply to ColeI like your list of plugins but I was wondering where your “related posts” plugin is.
Reply to atlanta wedding photographerThank for your site. I found some of the plugins useful (well, except maybe complicated PHP oriented)
Reply to Tania RedI used before on my blogHarry Red and Boy Is Gay only Future Calendar, but will try other plugins…
Thanks.