Used Plugins
Below you’ll find a list of plugins I’ve used on this site. I reviewed (and often tested) literally hundreds of plugins to find the best ones and the best combination. The plugins are used to generate dynamic content, to enhance the frontend experience, to enhance the WordPress backend or to improve and/or simplify site administration. The overview offers a description of what the plugins do and links to the plugins’ homepages.
There are 90 plugins used: 48 active plugins and 42 inactive plugins.Active Plugins
Add Me Dichev 0.1
» Alexander Dichev (url)
Add Me Dichev simply renders social bookmark buttons after the post body, including the Bulgarian social networks. For tutorial and updates visit the plugin page.
Admin Management Xtended 1.9
» Oliver Schlöbe (url)
WordPress 2.5+ only. Extends admin functionalities by introducing: toggling post/page visibility inline, changing page order with drag’n'drop, inline category management, inline tag management, changing publication date inline, changing post slug inline, toggling comment status open/closed, hide draft posts, change media order, change media description inline, toggling link visibility, changing link categories
Advanced Category Excluder 1.3.1
» DjZoNe (url)
This plugin helps you to manage your content, and fine tune where you want to display your posts, or hide.
AJAXify FAQ-Tastic 0.3
» Matt Martz (url)
Used to add open close effects to the FAQ-Tastic WordPress plugin.
Akismet 2.2.3
» 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.
All in One SEO Pack 1.4.6.14
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
Clean Options 1.0.0 RC
» Mittineague (url)
finds orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_options table
Datafeedr Random Ads Plugin 1.1
» Datafeedr.com (url)
The Datafeedr Random Ads plugin is a free plugin which allows you to simply and easily show random ads anywhere in your template files or using widgets.
Disable WordPress Core Update 1.2
» John Blackbourn (url)
Disables the WordPress core update checking and notification system.
Email Users 3.1.5
» Vincent Prat (email : vpratfr@yahoo.fr) (url)
Allows the site editors to send an e-mail to the blog users. Credits to Catalin Ionescu who gave me some ideas for the plugin and has made a similar plugin. Bug reports and corrections by Cyril Crua and Pokey.
Exec-PHP 4.9
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.
Extended Options 0.1.1 β
» Scott Allan Wallick (url)
Extended Options keeps meta data and certain WordPress tweaks consistent regardless of the active theme without editing any theme files. A plaintxt.org experiment for WordPress.
FAQ-Tastic 1.0.7
» John Godley (url)
Create and manage FAQs. A short overview is given on the help page.
Flickr Photo Album 1.0.3
» Joe Tan (url)
This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts. Configure…
Google Analytics for WordPress 2.6.3
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2
» 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
Latest From Each Category 1.8
» Dagon Design (url)
Displays a list of the latest post in each category.
Mail From 1.0.1
» Andrew Hamilton (url)
Change the default address that WordPress sends it’s email from.
More fields 0.6.8
» Henrik Melin, Kal Ström (url)
Adds any number of extra fields (text, textareas and selects), in any number of additional boxes in the admin. Get the data by do_action(’more_fields’, ‘Name of box’);
Most Recent Visitors 0.3
» Chen Ju (url)
Show most recently visitors on your siderbar widget
NextGEN Gallery 0.98
» NextGEN DEV-Team (url)
A NextGENeration Photo gallery
NextGEN Gallery Widget 1.22
» NextGEN DEV-Team (url)
Adds a sidebar widget support to your NextGEN Gallery
Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu 2.3.4.1
» Ozh (url)
Replaces admin menus with a CSS dropdown menu bar. Saves lots of clicks and page loads! For WordPress 2.5+
Ozh' Better Plugin Page 1.2
» Ozh (url)
Adds a little sliding plugin list and buttons to toggle display of Active/Inactive/Out-of-date plugins to the “Manage Plugins” page. For WordPress 2.6+
Plugin Central 1.41
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Wordpress 2.5+ only. Automatically installs and updates WordPress plugins.
qTranslate 1.1.3
» Qian Qin (url)
Adds userfriendly multilingual content support into Wordpress. Inspired by Polyglot from Martin Chlupac.
Random Image Selector 1.2.5
» Keith Murray (url)
Selects a random image from a specified folder, and provides
Recently Updated Posts 0.3
» Hannes Hofmann (url)
Returns a list of the most recently updated posts.
Reveal IDs for WP Admin 1.0.6
» Oliver Schlöbe (url)
WordPress 2.5+ only. 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.
Revisions 1.8.3
» Paul Menard (url)
Provide Versioning, Preview and Rollback ability on Pages and Posts.
RndImgDisplayer 1.2
» WauloK (url)
Picks a random image from the subdirectory and displays it with auto tags
Search Meter 2.3
» Bennett McElwee (url)
Keeps track of what your visitors are searching for. After you have activated this plugin, you can check the Search Meter Statistics page to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog.
Search Unleashed 0.2.24
» John Godley (url)
Advanced search engine that provides full text searching across posts, pages, comments, titles, and URLs. Searches take into account any data added by other plugins, and all search results are contextually highlighted. You can also highlight incoming searches from popular search engines.
Sensitive Tag Cloud 0.9
» René Ade (url)
This wordpress plugin provides a highly configurable tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context.
Simple Tags 1.6.4
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags !
TimeZoneCalculator 0.80
» Bernhard Riedl (url)
Calculates times and dates in different timezones with respect to daylight saving on basis of UTC.
WassUp 1.6.3
» Michele Marcucci, Helene D. (url)
Wordpress plugin to analyze your visitors traffic with real time stats, chart and a lot of chronological informations. It has sidebar Widget support to show current online visitors and other statistics.
Widgetize It 0.1
» Gerrit Garberder (url)
Ermöglicht das einfügen PHP Code als Widget
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.2
» 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-CMS Post Control 1.11
» Jonnya (url)
Post Control hides unwanted items on the write page and write post pages within WordPress, eg custom fields, trackbacks etc. Requires WP 2.5.0 or above, tested upto WP 2.6.1
WP-Cumulus 1.16
» Roy Tanck (url)
Flash based Tag Cloud for WordPress
WP-DBManager 2.31
» 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 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-Polls 2.31
» 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.
WP-RelativeDate 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’.
WP-ServerInfo 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display your host’s server PHP and MYSQL information (integrated into WordPress Admin Style) on your WordPress dashboard.
WP Security Scan 2.3
» Michael Torbert (url)
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.0.6
» mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) (url)
Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches, limited by a certain relatedness threshold. New and improved, version 2.0!
Inactive Plugins
Adminimize 1.4.6
» Frank Bueltge (url)
Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the main administrative menu because having it sit in the tip-top black bar was ticking me off and many other changes in the edit-area. The plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the WordPress administration menu, with or without admins. You can also hide post meta controls on the edit-area to simplify the interface.
Advanced Category Excluder Widgets 1.3
» DjZoNe (url)
This plugin adds some basic widgetsm that support category exclusion
AJAXed Wordpress 1.23.5
» Aaron Harun (url)
A plugin that incorporates the best AJAX Wordpress features and wrap them in a single framework–including such features as inline posts and comments, the ability to paginate posts, submit comments, thread comments, edit comments and posts inline. The Admin panel is under design tab. Need Help? Visit the Official AWP support thread or try reading the full documentation.
Broken Link Checker 0.4.8
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
Category Icons 2.0.7
» Brahim Machkouri (url)
Assign icons to your categories easily. Thanks to the following contributors : Kristian Bollnow, Hugo Chen, Kalin Dimitrov, Dimox, Gianni Diurno, Samuel Kroslak, Jean-Christophe Marie, Andrew Senyshyn, Henrik Schack, Vincent Sparreboom, TechnopodMan, TenderFeel, Oliver Weichhold.
cforms 8.7
» Oliver Seidel (url)
cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes.
CG-FlashyTitles 1 1.4.3
» David Chait (url)
A quick drop-in implementation of sIFR 2.0 Flash-based nice graphical titles. Please find a way to support CHAITGEAR!
CID-ListPostsInCat 1.0
» Ivo Vandeberg (url)
Plugin to list all posts and pages in the ‘current’ category, even if on a single post or page.
Commentluv 1.99
» Andy Bailey (url)
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Will parse a feed from most sites that have a feed location specified in its head html. See the Settings Page for styling and text output options.
Contact Form 7 1.8.0.3
» Takayuki Miyoshi (url)
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Counterize II 2.14.1
» Steffen Forkmann (url)
Simple counter-plugin with no external libs - saves timestamp, visited URl, referring URl and browserinformation in database, and can display total hits, unique hits and other statistics in WordPress webpages. Admin-interface available with detailed information…
Dashboard Widget Manager 1.3.1
» Viper007Bond (url)
Greatly enhances your WordPress 2.5+ dashboard by allowing widget re-ordering and storage of preferences on a per-user basis.
Different Posts Per Page 1.7.4
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Show different number of posts in home, category, search or archive page. Adjust your settings here.
Events 1.5.3
» Arnan de Gans (url)
Enables the user to show a list of events with a static countdown to date. Sidebar widget and page template options. And more…
FAlbum 0.7.1
» Elijah Cornell (url)
A plugin for displaying your Flickr photosets and photos in a gallery format on your Wordpress site.
Flickr Manager 2.0.4
» Trent Gardner (url)
Handles uploading, modifying images on Flickr, and insertion into posts.
GeneralStats 0.72
» Bernhard Riedl (url)
Counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.
Lighter Menus 2.7.2
» corpodibacco (url)
Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the Wordpress 2.5 interface taking the less room possible.
Live Search Popup 1.4.7
» Stefan Schimanski - heavily based on John Nunemaker's Addicted Search (url)
Live Search with an AJAX popup
MailPress 1.9.2
» Andre Renaut (url)
This is just a plugin, to manage mails, subscribers, and much more … with style !
Manageable 1.1
» Aaron Harp (url)
Inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Requires WordPress 2.5 or above.
MyDashboard 0.3.1
» clearskys.net (url)
This plugin provides a replacement ajax based Dashboard for WordPress.
PDF24 Post to PDF 1.5
» Stefan Ziegler (url)
A plugin that convert a post to PDF and send the PDF to an email
Pre-Publish Reminders 4.0.0
» Nick Ohrn (url)
This plugin allows you to set reminders of actions you need to take prior to pressing the Publish button on your posts. The list is customizable via an administration panel that you can find under the manage tab.
Register Plus 3.5.1
» Skullbit (url)
WordPress 2.5+ ONLY. Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimer, Captcha Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation, Profile Fields and more.
Related Posts 0.1
» René Ade (url)
This wordpress plugin provides tagcloud that shows the related posts of a post, and can replace a keyword within a post to a list of related posts.
Remove Max Width 1.3
» Dion Hulse (url)
This plugin removes the max-width of the WordPress 2.5 Admin interface.
Social Bookmarks 4.0.64
» Apostolos Dountsis (url)
Adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites. Use the plugin options in Options>Social Bookmarks to configure the plugin.
Tabbed Widgets 0.73
» Kaspars Dambis (url)
Place widgets into tabbed and accordion type interface blocks. Configuration options are available under Design » Tabbed Widgets.
tags4page 1.1
» Michele Marcucci (url)
Now you can add tags to pages too (native Worpdress 2.3 tagging support) - Works ONLY with Wordpress >= 2.3
Theme Test Drive 2.6.1
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.
WordPress Admin Bar 3.0.2
» Viper007Bond (url)
Creates an admin bar inspired by the one at WordPress.com. Credits for the look of this plugin go to them.
Wordpress Navigation List Plugin NAVT 1.0.26
» Greg Bellucci (url)
Create, organize and manage your web site navigation by logically grouping your pages, categories and user’s via a drag’n drop interface. Manage your navigation lists from the NAVT Lists menu tab in the Manage menu.
WP-Flickr 1.6
» Jon Baker @ Clockwork Objects (url)
The plugin adds a new tab to the upload panel when writing posts / pages to insert img tags from flickr
WP-Polls Widget 2.31
» 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.
WP-Post-Banners 0.51
» Huseyin Uslu (url)
WP-POST-BANNERS HAS BEEN RENAMED TO FEATPLUG. Please instead use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featplug and redownload the plugin
WP Ajax Edit Comments 2.1.2.0
» Ronald Huereca (url)
Allows users and admin to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments.
WP Hive 0.4
» ikailo (url)
Hive manager for multiple blogs with a single WP installation.
WP Limit Posts Automatically 0.7
» Jens Törnell (url)
Limit your posts automatically. This way you don’t need the use of the more tag. You can limit posts by letter, word or paragraph and apply it to home, categories, archive and search.
WP Super Cache 0.8.2
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once activated, you must enable the cache. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada.
WP Vault 0.8.6.6
» Motoo Yasui (url)
WP Vault allows you to store any files to WordPress installation, and link them to a post or page. Please read installation instruction completely before proceding with activation.
Zemanta 0.5.0
» Jure Cuhalev , Marko Samastur , Zemanta Ltd. (url)
Contextually relevant suggestions of links, pictures, related content and tags will make your blogging fun again.
