Oct
10th

What Plugins am I Running (WordPress 2.3)

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It’s been a while since I let everyone know what plugins I was running… and with the release of WordPress 2.3, I’ve done some housecleaning. Here are my active plugins now:

Plugin Description
Akismet Doesn’t everyone run Akismet?
All in One SEO Pack Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
Audio player Highly configurable single track mp3 player.
Bad Behavior Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site. This blocks spambots before they ever have to get processed by Akismet.
Brian’s Latest Comments This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them.
Brian’s Threaded Comments This gives you threaded comments and a “wandering” comment form.
Buy Me a Beer Allow your blog visitors to buy you a beer by sending you money through PayPal. A special BlogClout plugin
Clicky Web Analytics Integrate Clicky Web Analytics into your WordPress blog without the need to edit any templates. Includes support for automatically tagging your blog visitors by name, and the ability to ignore visits from blog administrators. Enable the plugin and click here to manage its options.
Comments Waiting Count This plugin modifies the main comment menu item to display the number of waiting comments. It also checks for and displays a count of any pending comments flagged as spam.
Dofollow Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments. Recommended to promote commenting for blogs that moderate their comments.
FeedBurner FeedSmith Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
Full Text Feed Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed.
Google XML Sitemaps 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
Inline Javascript Plugin Plugin that insert inline javascript in Posts/Pages
Jaiku Activity A plugin for users who wish to display their Jaiku Activity. Requires a Jaiku API Key, WordPress 2.1+ and PHP5+ (uses SimpleXML).
NiceAdmin I utilized the graphics and colors from the WordPress website to build this nicer admin interface on WordPress.
PostPost A plugin for users who wish to customize the content before and after every post on their blog and in their feed or in their pages.
Related Posts Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
Show Top Commentators Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment!
Subscribe To Comments Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess
TLA InLinks Text Link Ads InLinks program sells links within your blog posts
Technorati Rank A plugin for users who wish to display their Technorati Rank. Requires a Technorati API Key, WordPress 2.1+ and PHP5+ (uses SimpleXML).
Viper’s Plugins Used Allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. Also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output.
WP-Amazon WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon to your entries.
WP-ContactForm WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+. The plugin was originally developed by Ryan Duff but has been modified by Doug Karr to require a challenge question and response to fight spam as well as some other features.
What Would Seth Godin Do Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors
Wikipedia nofollow Searches for links to Wikipedia.org, and adds a rel=”nofollow” tag if necessary
WordPress.com Stats Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
aLinks A WordPress plugin that automatically links keywords in your blog post.
wp-cache Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”.

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10 Comments »

Comment by Guillermo
2007-10-11 08:38:14

And I was worried thinking I am running a lot of plugins…!
 
Comment by Julie Hunter
2007-10-11 14:22:42

Holy Gehosaphat, Batman! That’s a lot of plugins!
 
Comment by Feydakin
2007-10-11 20:58:30

Great list, thanks for posting it up.. Who knew that there were so many plugins that would play nice together?
 
Comment by Le secret
2007-11-05 11:26:21

Can i translate your post for my russian blog? With link, you can be sure.
Comment by Douglas Karr
2007-11-05 11:50:37

Yes, absolutely Le secret.
 
 
Comment by Le secret
2007-11-05 22:16:46

Thank you.
 
Comment by AskApache
2007-11-06 05:41:15

These are all great plugins, some of my favorite too and some new ones.. thanks! For 404 ErrorDocuments you have to try this new plugin Google 404 Plugin.
 
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Comment by Shirah
2007-11-22 11:22:02

Thanks for sharing! I’m always looking for great plugins. Now that I know how to install them, I’ve gone plug-in crazy. I use one that’s not on your list - Adsense Earnings Plugin @ http://adsense-wordpress-plugin.ayanev.com/.
 
2007-11-22 11:24:48

[...] useful tools and info for other bloggers/marketers. Of particular interest to me, a newbie, was the What Plugins Am I Running post. Not only does Doug tell you what he uses on his smooth-running blog, he also shares the links [...]
 
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