Friday, August 10, 2007

One of the advantages of using WordPress for blogging is that with the proper plug-ins you can add a huge amount of functionality and features.When I see a function or capability on a WordPress site I’m always curious if it’s being provided by a plug-in and if it’s something I could merge into Meandering Passage.Since I’ve often borrowed plug-in inspiration from others, I though I would share my own selection of plug-ins.Current WordPress Plug-ins:Plug-in: 404 NotifierVersion: 1.0Author: Alex KingDesc: This plugin logs 404 hits on your WordPress powered site and will notify you of them via e-mail or in an RSS Feed….  Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.Plug-in: Better FeedVersion: 1.01Author: OzhDesc: Allows you to enhance your feeds with several highly customizable features such as copywrite notice, etc.Plug-in: Comment RelishVersion: 1.0Author: Justin ShattuckDesc: Helps to Increase your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your weblog.Plug-in: DoFollowVersion: 3.0Author: Kimmo SuominenDesc: Disable the “nofollow” tagging for comments.Plug-in: Embedded Video with LinkVersion: 3.4Author: Stefan HebDesc: Filter for embedding videos from various portals with the corresponding direct link into a blog entry.Plug-in: FAlbumVersion: 0.7.0Author: Elijah CornellDesc: A plugin for displaying your Flickr photosets and photos in a gallery format on your Wordpress site.Plug-in: FeedStatsVersion: 2.2Author: Andres Nieto Porras, Frank BueltgeDesc: Simple statistics for WordPress FeedsPlug-in: Google SitemapsVersion: 2.7.1Author: Arne BrachholdDesc: Creates Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.Plug-in: Imageless Alt FeedVersion: 1.0Author: Kaf Oseo, modified by Shelley PowersDesc: Removes images from full text feed, insereting the alt text as replacement.Plug-in: Link HarvestVersion: 1.0Author: Alex KingDesc: This will harvest links from your WordPress database, creating a links list sorted by popularity.Plug-in: Now ReadingVersion: 4.4Author: Rob MillerDesc: Allows you to display the books you’re reading, have read recently and plan to read, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon.Plug-in: Optimal TitleVersion: 3.0Author: Aaron SchaeferDesc: Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.Plug-in: Page Links ToVersion: 1.4Author: Mark JaquithDesc: Allows you to set a “links_to” meta key with a URI value that will be be used when listing WP pages….  They are gathered in descending order (newest at the top), but then group them together by post title, so that comments from the same post are listed together.Plug-in: Related PostVersion: 2.02Author: Alexander Malov & Mike LuDesc: Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.Plug-in: Smart CommentsVersion: 2.0Author: Ryanne Lai & Patrick O’LearyDesc: A plugin which prints “comments off” instead of “no comments” if comments are turned offPlug-in: Sphere Related ContentVersion: 1.3Author: Watershed Studio, LLCDesc: Automatically show related blog posts and news articles from Sphere.Plug-in: Subscribe to CommentsVersion: 2.1Author: Mark JaquithDesc: Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.Plug-in: Text Link AdsVerion: 3.0.1Author: Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin & Alex KingDesc: Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial UsePlug-in: Tiger Style AdministrationVersion: 3.0Author: Steve SmithDesc: Makes administration area feel more like an application, and less like a traditional website.Plug-in: Ultimate Google AnalyticsVersion: 1.5.3Author: Wilfred van der DeijlDesc: Enable Google Analytics on your blog.

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