Wow… WordPress plugins. What a topic.
I like WordPress, a lot! Barely a day goes by when I am not installing it or modifying it for one of our clients. WordPress simply rocks! For those who do not know, WordPress is the Open Source blog engine of choice for YVOD.
WordPress has a plugin architecture that allows anyone to extend what their blog can do. The plugins available for WordPress are simply astounding! Just today I spent over 2 hours learning about and trying new plugins I found off the weblogtoolscollection.com and guff sites.
I currently have a few plugins running and I thought I would share. Here they go, in order of importance.
Akismet – The best comment spam blocker on the planet!
Spam Karma 2 – The movie was terrible but the plugin works great! Lovely stuff =)
Bad Behavior – More comment spam goodness. Not sure if this is needed, but I like these guys just the same.
The Excerpt Reloaded – Display a snippet of your post with a “more…” link after it. Great for long posts!
Email Responder – Automatically send an email to those great folks who comment on your blog whenever you reply to their comments. How cool is that?
Get A Post – Place a post at the top of a page.
404 Notifier – What? Your page moved or does not exist? Find out via email.
Link Harvest – Harvest links from your WordPress database and create a links list sorted by popularity.
Sad Story: Translator used to be a great free plugin. Now he charges $30/download and does not link back to the old, free, code. What a waste. If folks want to make money off their code, fine. But I find it highly suspect when you use another companies translation engine to make money for yourself. All Translator does it feed your blog post to translate.google.com.
Here is a link to the old (free) code along with the image flags and an example text file you can place in your sidebar.