Plugins
This is a complete list of the plugins that I use on The Geek Blog. Funny enough, I use a plugin to list all the plugins. Well, at least I found that slightly humorous.
On with the list! Feel free to use this as an enlightening experience of how to tweak your own blog.
There are 45 plugins used: 23 active plugins and 22 inactive plugins.
Active Plugins
Akismet 2.1.3
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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.
Counterize 0.53
» Anders Holte Nielsen (url)
Simple counter-plugin with no external libs - saves IP, timestamp, visited URl, referring URl and browserinformation in database, and can display total hits, unique hits and other statistics in WordPress webpages. Admin-interface available with detailed information…
Exec-PHP 4.3
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets. See the local documentation for further information.
FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» FeedBurner (url)
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.
LMB^Box Smileys 3.2
» Thomas Montague (url)
A Clickable Smilies hack for WordPress. Add, edit, remove, and manage the display of your smileys!
Page Link Manager 0.3
» Garrett Murphey (url)
Adds admin panel to choose which pages appear in the site navigation.
Page Links To 1.4
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows you to set a “links_to” meta key with a URI value that will be be used when listing WP pages. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your
Picasa Photos 1.1
» Sandaruwan Gunathilake (url)
Pick photos from picasa album and display them randomly
Post Updated R1
» Kaf Oseo (url)
Display notice/date/time of when a post was last updated.
Preserve Code Formatting 0.9
» Scott Reilly (url)
Preserve formatting for text within <code> and <pre> tags (other tags can be defined as well). Helps to preserve code indentation, multiple spaces, prevents WP’s fancification of text (ie. ensures quotes don’t become curly, etc).
Quick Code 0.94
» Chrissy LeMaire (url)
Transforms any code between <quickcode> and </quickcode> into a good looking div which can disappear or reappear with a click.
Similar Posts 2.3.6
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a list of posts similar to the current one by comparing the way they use words. Instructions and help online.
Sociable 2.0
» Peter Harkins (url)
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Go to Options -> Sociable for setup.
wbQuiz 0.1.0
» Wander Boessenkool (url)
Add a quiz to your page
WP-EMail 2.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Allows people to recommand/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.00
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-PostRatings 1.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
WP-PostViews 1.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
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-PostViews Widget 1.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Adds a PostViews Widget to display most viewed posts and/or pages on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-PostViews first.
WP-Print 2.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.
WP-RelativeDate 1.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’.
WP iTunes 1.0
» Nick Leeper (url)
WP iTunes is a script to add the songs you are currently listening to in iTunes to your WordPress blog. You must also have a program running on your local machine to send the songs to your blog, I prefer iTunesBlogger found at http://www.ituneshacking.com.
Xspf_player 3.2
» Jose Rodriguez (a.k.a. Boriel) (url)
Provides a quick and simple way to put MP3 soundtracks in your wordpress site. Music can be either local or remote (http). Uses free flash XSPF music player.
Inactive Plugins
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» Keith Solomon (url)
A tag cloud widget for Wordpress 2.3 to allow the changing of style options from the Widgets control panel.
Angsuman’s Multi-Page Plugin 0.1
» Angsuman Chakraborty, Taragana (Angsuman Chakraborty, Taragana“>url)
Adds button to UI to enable multi-page post.
Counterize II 2.12.7
» Steffen Forkmann (url)
Simple counter-plugin with no external libs - saves IP, timestamp, visited URl, referring URl and browserinformation in database, and can display total hits, unique hits and other statistics in WordPress webpages. Admin-interface available with detailed information…
Jerome’s Query Diagnostics 1.0
» Jerome Lavigne (url)
Simple plugin to output query diagnostics in a HTML comment block in the page footer.
Markdown 1.0.1
» Michel Fortin (url)
Markdown syntax allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format. Based on the original Perl version by John Gruber. More…
No Ping Wait 2.0
» Robert Deaton (url)
Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php
Now Reading 2.1
» Rob Miller (url)
Allows you to display the books you’re reading, have read recently and plan to read, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon.
Page Access 1.2
» James Asher (url)
Restrict a user’s access to a page, or set of pages (group).
Page Restriction 1.4
» James Asher (url)
Restrict access to pages.
Picasa Web Album Widget 0.6.2
» Stefan Venken (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to display random picasa images
Random File 1.0
» Scott Reilly (url)
Retrieve the name of a randomly chosen file in a given directory. Useful for displaying random images/logos or including text from random files onto your site (writing excerpts, multi-line quotes, etc).
Random Quotes 1.3
» Dustin Barnes (url)
This plugin allows you to embed random quotes into your pages. It also has a spiffy management tool in the administrative console.
StatTraq 1.1
» Murph (url)
This plugin will allow you to keep track of every hit on your public WordPress site (note that it does not track admin activity)
Textile 1 1.0
» Dean Allen (url)
This is a simple wrapper for Dean Allen’s Humane Web Text Generator, also known as Textile. If you use this plugin you should disable Textile 2 and Markdown, as they don’t play well together.
Theme Switcher 0.5
» Ryan Boren (url)
Allow your readers to switch themes.
wbQuiz 0.1.0
» Wander Boessenkool (url)
Add a quiz to your page
WeatherIcon 2.3.1
» Jeremiah, Garett, Viper007Bond, TechGnome, and Beel (Jeremiah, Garett, Viper007Bond, TechGnome, and Beel“>url)
Shows the current weather conditions by querying the NOAA website. Also includes a weather "widget" for WP-Dash. Configure on the Options > WeatherIcon page and/or view comprehensive test debug data here.
WordPress Database Backup 2.1.5
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started.
WP-EMail Widget 2.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Adds a EMail Widget to display most emailed posts and/or pages on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-EMail first.
wp-notable 1.14
» Cal Evans (url)
Add social bookmark links to each blog entry.
WP-PostRatings Widget 1.20
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Adds a PostRatings Widget to display most rated and/or highest rated posts and/or pages on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-PostRatings first.
wp-Table 1.42
» Alex Rabe (url)
This plugin is a simple table manager. I didn’t find anything in the web which creates the same result, for my purpose.
