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If you aren’t familiar with Wordpress, this isn’t going to mean a whole lot. Other than maybe kick you in the rear to switch to it. I upgraded to WP 2.0 for a whole three days. The upgrade process was easy and painless. The usability was not as good.
In fact - I hated it. Mainly because of the plugin situation. I’m reading everyday, more and more plugins are becoming available. I’m glad. Maybe by 2.0123456 it will be worth upgrading.
However, more than a few of you have asked -”how are you doing that?”, “what’s that plugin?” Here are my vital plugins for Wordpress:
Alphabetical Plugins - Even I’m not as random as how the plugins are listed on the plugin page in WP. This gets them all in ABC order.
Get Recent Comments - See “The Latest Buzz” in the sidebar? That’s what this one does.
Show Top Commenters - See the “Talkers of the Month” in the sidebar? That’s what this one does.
Simple Tags - See the “tags:” at the end of this post? That is what this one does.
Smart Archives - This is one of my favorites. See here. How cool is that for an archive?
Tiger Admin - No, Tiger Woods doesn’t do all my paperwork now. A behind the scenes plugin that makes the interface much more palatable. Or in Canadian…it makes WP’s face easier to look at. “Your face is easier to look at.” “Your mom’s face is…”
Subscribe to Comments - When you make a comment and want to keep up with the convo, this is your tour guide.
WP Flickr Post Bar - This plugin was the lynchpin in my switch to wordpress. It takes the pics I have on Flickr and let’s me post them just like Picassa and Hello did with Blogger. With a lot more flexibility and options. He just recently updated it..AWESOME!
X Comments - See “My Thoughts Elsewhere” in the sidebar? Those are the comments I’ve left on other blogs I’m reading. I’m loving this one.
Spam Karma 2 - This plugin is so complicated and has so many options…it’s just sick. I don’t know how it all works. I just know it works. No s p a m.
So there you are…a completely nerdy, geeky post to satisify the geek population of this blog.
Tags: blogging, plugins, Wordpress, your face
3 responses so far ↓
1 Paul - SteelerDirtFreak // Jan 17, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I used SK2 for a long time, and it worked great. Never had any real problems. The only complaint might be that occasionally it would trap something legit, and somehow it was ‘hidden’ so I never knew about it until a later date when someone would mention they had tried to comment several times and it never came thru.
I switched to Akismet (which comes included in WP2) before I made the switch to WP2, and it was so good that I have installed it on all of my client’s sites, all of which are still running WP 1.5.2 (I’m also waiting for a little more stability before upgrading all of them) Anyways, Akismet seems to be even better than SK2, people who understand such things tell me the coding is much cleaner, AND, it is extremely easy to find and restore any mistakes (of which I have only had 1 in a little over 500 captures)
I might have to give X-comments a try, I like that.
2 Jerry // Jan 17, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Well done, young Jedi. I see the force is strong with you.
3 Daily Dose of Dave » Blog Archive » Me, Bragging… // Jan 18, 2006 at 3:15 pm
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