I just realized I haven’t done a new post in two months, so here’s a quick and easy one: the complete list of WordPress plugins I use on this blog. It’s a nicely structured definition list with links in alphabetical order, you see. I’ll do my best to forget to update it if I add or delete any.
- AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
- Adds the “share/save/email/whatever this” button you see at the bottom of this post. Turns out nobody clicks it.
- Akismet
- Checks new comments for spam, and most of the time finds it.
- Cookies for Comments
- Used to be an effective anti-spam mechanism, but it looks like spammers have got their way around it after Matt Cutts publicized it. Nice move, Matt.
- Core Control
- Not really using it on this blog; just makes me feel like I have complete, low-level control. Also helped me solve auto-upgrade issues on some servers.
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
- The maker of this nice HTML site map.
- FeedBurner FeedSmith
- 302 redirects your feed URL to FeedBurner, except when FeedBurner itself wants to grab the RSS (legit cloaking).
- Follow My Links
- Brings authority back to the author by removing the idiotic default nofollow from links in authorial comments. I shall also note this plugin was authored by the undersigned.
- GZippy
- Helps you save some bandwidth by re-enabling gzip compression, which is disabled in WordPress (dunno why).
- Limit Login Attempts
- A security plugin which will kick you in the butt after the Nth failed login attempt.
- Subscribe To Comments
- Lets your commenters opt-in to be notified by e-mail when someone else posts a comment. Don’t know why this isn’t built-in in WordPress, either.
- TweetMeme Retweet Button
- The little green button you’ll click after reading this post.
- Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool
- Since noindex is already taken care of by Thesis (albeit with a nasty default nofollow issue), I’m really just using this plugin for noindexing the WP login page.
- Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger
- Lets you control which services your blog should ping, and when. Sweet.
- WordPress.com Stats
- Because we all like some charts and graphs with our morning coffee.
- WP FancyZoom
- Smooth and sexy
AJAXJavaScript image zooming. Bonus point: it doesn’t require any additional styling on your<img><a> tags. - WP Security Scan
- A nice checklist that will help you automate 90% of WordPress security administration. ‘Cause you’re better safe than spammed to death.
That’s it. Hope you find this list helpful. If you have any questions about my use of the above plugins, don’t be shy.
Oh, and happy 2010 to you too.
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Nice list, a few I might have to check out. Appreciate you forgetting to update any added or deleted plugins in the future, nice. Be easy brotha.
An alternative to Cookies for Comments:
Bad Behavior
I’ve been using it for a couple weeks now. It seems like a pretty reputable plugin, especially since it’s available for several different publishing platforms.
Thanks, Mofo.
I had checked out Bad Behavior months ago and had chosen not to install it because I found the documentation was somewhat vague about how the plugin works exactly; I understand that must be intentional, but I was concerned about false positives. I’ll re-check it though, now that Cookies for Comments has become useless.
Great list! I’ve been doing a lot of tweaking lately and your list gave me some great new ideas. (I’m about to click the green button now!)
Thanks, Christine!