I’m So Impressed With These WordPress Plugins

May 28, 2006

As a relatively new WordPress user, I find myself like a child with a new Lego building set. The plugins I’m using are all part of the construction of a terrific system that’s perfectly suited to my needs.
I am delighted at how painless it has been so far to get the plugins working the way I want them to.

Here’s what I’m using so far:

  • Adhesive – Allows easy marking of sticky posts in WordPress 2.0.
  • Akismet – the latest version of this great anti-spam tool for comments
  • Comment Quicktags – Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form
  • Duh Gallery – Makes a gallery out of the uploaded files in the wp-content/uploads folder that are above a certain size. I’ve modified the php a little so that the output is cleaner and now validates
  • Dashboard Options – Enables or disables the 3 default Dashboard RSS Feeds, allows custom messages or custom PHP to be executed in the Dashboard and enables the addition of custom RSS feeds in the Dashboard.
  • Dagon Design Sitemap Generator – Generates a customizable sitemap containing all posts and pages.
  • Exec-PHP – Allows PHP tags inside of your posts to execute PHP code.
  • Fold Page List – Provides PHP functions to display a folding page tree
  • Google Sitemaps – This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
  • WP-ContactForm – a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post.

I’m sure over time I may feel I will need other plugins to extend the functionality of this site, but for now I’m really happy with the status quo.

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6 Responses to “I’m So Impressed With These WordPress Plugins”

  1. DimP
    May 29th, 2006 at 1:27 pm

    Thanks for sharing! Adhesive and the sitemap generators are plugins which I will be needing for a client.

  2. Aleister
    May 29th, 2006 at 3:17 pm

    I’m glad that you like my sitemap generator plugin, but why do you have another contact form listed instead of mine? j/k ;)

  3. Danny Weiss
    May 29th, 2006 at 9:38 pm

    Karen -

    Given you interest in WP plugins, I thought you might find this one interesting – it turns the WP console management menu into a bit of a drop down affair, considerably speeding up navigation for an author. See: http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css. I’ve also see a “subscribe to posts” plugin that you might find useful, e-mail me for the link.

    -Danny.

  4. Karen
    May 29th, 2006 at 11:22 pm

    DimP, I’m glad to have helped in a small way :-)

    Aleister, oh, I didn’t know you have a contact form plugin too…I’ll have to take a look!

    Danny, thanks for the link to the plugin…it looks good! I’m not sure if I need a subscribe to posts plugin, but it’s definitely worth considering.

    I do like WordPress plugins and I really am very grateful to all the developers like Aleister et al for their contributions and hard work.

  5. nate
    June 1st, 2006 at 5:52 pm

    Thanks for the link to the Duh-Gallery. I do appreciate it!
    There\’s a wiki for this project and updated versions to download at http://duhgallery.wikispaces.com

    Thanks again!

    Nate

  6. Karen
    June 2nd, 2006 at 10:09 am

    Hi Nate,

    no problem…good luck with the wiki ;)