Mar 18 2006
Popular WordPress Plugins
Someone’s list of Top Ten WordPress Plugins:
- Permalink Redirect. This is a good idea for accurate statistics.
- Time Zone. I haven’t heard of this one. Useful.
- WordPress Database Backup / WP-Cron. I created my own script to do this.
- Popularity Contest. This sounds interesting only to the owner of the blog.
- Gravatars. I don’t know what a gravatar is nor do I care.
- WP-ContactForm. I’ve had trouble implementing WordPress’s mailing function.
- Subscribe to Comments. I’d like to implement this, but I can’t get WordPress to send emails.
- Related Posts. This is a nice idea.
- Ultimate Tag Warrior. I don’t care about tags.
- Akismet. I use this, getting about 50 spam comments a day.
I use these Plugins:
- Akismet: checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. I use this because I haven’t bothered to fix AuthImage.
- WP-PageNavi: adds page navigation to the bottom of your pages.
- WP-UserOnline: keeps track of the number of concurrent users online.
- Google Sitemaps: genereates a new version of your site’s Google Sitemap, which helps Google index your site.
Update: WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin has an excellent video showing how to create your own plugin.
I guess I won’t mention I just wrote one for Perl’s Template Toolkit then… :(
(note: link might not work for an hour or two)
I like the PHP Plugin tutorial. But you know what WordPress really needs? Java and Struts! Oh yeah, and a huge honkering Oracle database in the back-end running on a 8 CPU Solaris Machine!
Gravatars are like Avatars… but for blogs. So everytime you post a comment, you can add your pretty face.