Below is the list of the plugins this site uses. As I mention in my own “Plugin” category, I’m not even close to a plugin programmer, I just use them. Plugin Version Author Description Akismet 2.5.6 Automattic Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from [...]
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WordPress Overview
I created a WordPress Overview video that walks through some of the features of WordPress (version 2.0.4). WordPress Overview Help Video The video covers: adding a category, adding a post, pasting content (as Plain Text and from Word using (modified) Advanced WYSIWYG Editor plugin), inserting (and editing) an image (using Image Manager plugin), adding (and [...]
Bling for Your Blog
In the not-terribly-useful-but-oh-what-fun category comes Bunchball, bling for your blog. I played around and ended up accidentally installing this.
Membership
The WP Members plugin looks like something that would be a big help to WP sites with memberships, groups, different access levels, etc. I haven’t had a chance to work with it, but I’m making this note partly to remind myself to check it out. Looking for the “best” member (membership) plugin. Some links: – [...]
WP-PagesNav
Great pages plugin from adsworth.info that helps with page navigation in WordPress. Andreas Viklund is using it in WP Andreas 09 but Litquake wanted the top menu to have different hover over qualities. I knew I could get the "current" state to be a certain class and could easily do it by manually putting in [...]
Form Mailer
Dagon Design's Secure Form Mailer Plugin For WordPress allows for some fancy form fabrication without getting knee-deep into code--not even ankle deep! Note to self: remember to put the CSS file into the theme directory.
Event Calendar
Alex over at Firetree has a great plugin called Event Calendar. All was just dandy until it stopped showing the (single post) for an event. Yes, it's in the future and it turns out it wouldn't show up if the visitor wasn't logged into the site. Thanks to Norman for the hack.
Email This
GaMerZ has written a great plugin called Email This that provides a great way for viral marketing of your site, your products, or your services. Here's a help video that shows how it's used with BNI Embarcadero to refer a fellow member. Email This Video
The Excerpt Reloaded
Kaf has a fantastic plugin called The Excerpt Reloaded. I was having real trouble getting the 'allowtags' to work until I finally replaced: "the_excerpt_reloaded" with "wp_the_excerpt_reloaded" then it all worked like a charm.
Headline Images
Brian Dupuis created a plugin I just love. It renders regular old text into any font you can upload (.ttf, true type font). So you can grab any font you like and make that your banner, your headline images, etc. I use it on this site and here are a few other examples: Left Coast [...]
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