Plugins That Work: Look What We Have Under The Hood

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We’re always curious about what other people use in their site designs and figured you are too. So here’s a list of what we are running under our engine hood.

Obviously, all of these ACTIVE plugins work with WordPress version 2.3, otherwise they wouldn’t be here. It may be another story for the inactive plugins, as I may have tried them and am still experimenting with it. Now some of you may say “Are you crazy, testing a plugin in a live enviroment”? LOL - I’m not that crazy, most of them I test on a development blog before installing on our live blogs.

There are 51 plugins used: 40 active plugins and 11 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

  Add Sig 1.3
» Dagon Design (url)
Add a custom signature to the bottom of posts with the author’s information

  Ad Rotator 1.0
» Angsuman Chakraborty (url)
Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file

  Akismet 2.1.6
» 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.

  Author Complete Post List 2.0
» José Lopes (url)
Displays the complete post list (all posts) of one Author including his participations as co-author.

  Author Profile Picture 0.1
» Hannah Gray (url)
Adds picture to Author profile

  Breadcrumb Navigation XT 1.8.0
» John Havlik/Michael Woehrer (url)
Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location. For details on how to use this plugin visit Breadcrumb Nav XT.

  Category Replacement Widget 0.5
» Alan Morgan (url)
Replacement to allow for greater customization of the category widget.

  Dagon Design Sitemap Generator 3.12
» Dagon Design (url)
Generates a fully customizable sitemap

  diggIT 1.1.2
» Paul Cheek (url)
This plugin allows quick integration for WordPress users that want to automatically have the “digg” button show up for each of their posts. Need help? Check out the support forums!

  Email Immunizer R1
» Kaf Oseo (url)
Protect email addresses and mailto links on your blog from email harvesters.

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Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www.

  Evermore 2.2
» Bennett McElwee (url)
Abbreviate all posts when viewed on multiple post pages. This makes all posts behave as if there is a “<!–more–>” at an appropriate spot inside the content.

  Favicon Manager 0.1
» Digital Ramble (url)
Adds your favicon to your headers and/or rss feeds.

  FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3
» 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.

  Full Text Feed 1.04
» Ronald Heft, Jr. (url)
Prevents WordPress 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed.

  Future Calendar 1.0
» Aaron Harun (url)
A simple plugin that utalizes a modified get_calendar function that shows what dates have a future post scheduled in a calendar format, and makes it easy to change the current timestamp. Temperature Functionality and some tweaks by Flavio Jarabeck (www.InternetDrops.com.br)

  Fuzzy Recent Posts 4.13
» Denis de Bernardy (url)
A WordPress widget that lists a fuzzy number of recently posted entries.

  Genki Pre-Publish Reminder 1.1
» Genkisan (url)
Display a pre-publish reminder tasklist on the Posts Admin Panel

  Global Plugin Update Notice 1.1.1
» Viper007Bond (url)
When a new version of an activated plugin is available for download from WordPress.org, you will recieve a notice on all admin pages. No more having to check the plugins page!

  Google Analyticator 2.12
» Ronald Heft, Jr. (url)
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the options page and enter your Google Analytics’ UID and enable logging.

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.0.1
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page

  In Series 3.0.12
» Travis Snoozy (url)
Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series.

  Language Translator 1.0
» Lancelhoff (url)
Adds a multi-language sidebar widget which enables visitors to translate your blog in their own language.

  Limit Posts 1.1
» Alfonso Sánchez-Paus Díaz y Julián Simón de Castro (url)
Limits the displayed text length on the index page entries and generates a link to a page to read the full content if its bigger than the selected maximum length.

  MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer 1.2
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin

  Permalink Redirect 0.8.1
» Scott Yang (url)
Permalink Redirect ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued.

  PlugInstaller 0.2.1
» Henning Schaefer (url)
Easy (un)installation of new plugins directly from the admin interface

  Reveal IDs for WP Admin 2.5 0.7.6
» Oliver Schlöbe (url)
Reveals hidden IDs in Admin interface that have been removed with WordPress 2.5 (formerly known as Entry IDs in Manage Posts/Pages View for WP 2.5). See Options Page for options and information.

  Ryans Suckerfish WordPress Dropdown Menu 1.9.1
» Ryan Hellyer (url)
A WordPress plugin which adds a Suckerfish dropdown menu to your WordPress blog. Visit the Suckerfish WordPress Plugin page for instructions on how to add a dropdown menu to your theme or for help with this plugin.

  Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form v.2.0WP B20070213
» Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley (Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley“>url)
This powerful yet easy-to-install contact form features exceptional accessibility and usability while still providing extensive anti-spam and anti-exploit security features. A marriage of communication and peace-of-mind.

  SEO_Wordpress 2.2.1
» UTheGuru (url)
SEO_Wordpress builds upon an earlier plugin, dupPrevent. This plugin is designed to reduce the incidence of ’supplemental results’ inherent to Wordpress installs. For more information click here.

  ShareThis 2.1
» ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com) (url)
Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Configuration options are here. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README.

  Simple Feed Copyright 1.0
» Quick Online Tips (url)
Adds a simple copyright notice at end of full text articles in your feed.

  TinyMCE Advanced 3.0.1
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE.

  Viva La Revolution 2.6
» Tim Waddell (Tim Waddell“>url)
Automatically adds the homepage thumbnails in Revolution Themes from the first Uploaded image in a post (WP2.5) No custom fields required!! Upload an image and BANG the correct size thumbnail is on your homepage.

  What Would Seth Godin Do 1.3
» Richard K Miller (url)
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors.

  Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 0.7
» Keith Dsouza (url)
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode.

  WP-DBManager 2.11
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.00
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-Polls 2.30
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.

Inactive Plugins

  Exec-PHP 4.6
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets. See the local documentation for further information.

  Link to Me Textbox 1.0
» Jim Westergren (url)
This plugin will set up a “link to me textbox” with HTML code in your blog posts and increase your search engine rankings.

  Manage Multiple Blogs RPC for comments 0.1
» Keith Dsouza (url)
Plugin is used to fetch comments from a external blog configured in a central blog using Manage Multiple Blogs

  Obfuscate E-mail 2.0
» Scott Reilly (url)
Obfuscate e-mail addresses that appear as text in your blog in an effort to deter e-mail harvesting spammers while retaining the appearance and functionality of hyperlinks.

  OIOpublisher Direct Pro 1.52
» Simon Emery (url)
OIOpublisher’s aim is to connect bloggers with their target audience, whether that be readers, advertisers, or other bloggers, in practical and effective ways.

  Robots Meta 2.9.5
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds and handle unused archives.

  TanTanNoodles Version Checker 0.1
» Joe Tan (url)
Checks for updates to plugins released by TanTanNoodles. Note: Compatible only with WordPress 2.1.

  Wordpress Duplicate Content Cure 1.0
» Badi Jones (url)
Duplicate content cure is a very simple, yet effective SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages.

  WordPress Reports 0.85
» Joe Tan (url)
Generates reports from Google Analytics and Feedburner data

  WordPress Reports Most Active Widget 0.1
» Joe Tan (url)
A widget that displays the most active content (requires the WordPress Widgets plugin)

  WP-Polls Widget 2.30
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Adds a Poll Widget to display single or multiple polls from WP-Polls Plugin. You will need to activate WP-Polls first.