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Technical

March 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I upgraded my blog to a new version of WordPress today without much trouble. Most of the changes are only visible to me, automatic plug-in update feature is worth the upgrade by itself. I found a little plug-in which can display all the plug-ins used on the blog, so I thought it would be neat to share mine and see what else I need to consider. I know that quite a few people here use WordPress, please share your finds.

Also notice my beautiful favicon in the URL bar of your browser.
There are 41 plugins used: 19 active plugins and 22 inactive plugins.

Akismet 2.2.3  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.

Audio player 2.0b6  Audio player 2.0b6
» Martin Laine (url)
Audio Player is a highly configurable but simple mp3 player for all your audio needs. You can customise the player’s colour scheme to match your blog theme, have it automatically show track information from the encoded ID3 tags and more. Go to your Settings page to start configuring it.

Easy Gravatars 1.2  Easy Gravatars 1.2
» Dougal Campbell (url)
Add Gravatars to your comments, without requiring any modifications to your theme files. Just activate, and you’re done!

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

FB StandardStats 1.0b  FB StandardStats 1.0b
» Thomas McMahon aka TwisterMc (url)
Plugin to easily incorporate FeedBurner’s StandardStats into your blog.

FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1  FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» 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.

Flickr Photo Album 1.1  Flickr Photo Album 1.1
» Joe Tan (url)
This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts. Configure…

Google Analyticator 2.24  Google Analyticator 2.24
» 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 Reader widget 1.9  Google Reader widget 1.9
» James Wilson (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to show your latest shared stories.

Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.2  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

Official StatCounter Plugin 1.0  Official StatCounter Plugin 1.0
» Aodhan Cullen (url)
Adds the StatCounter tracking code to your blog. After uploading this plugin click ‘Activate’ (to the right) and then afterwards you must visit the options page and enter your StatCounter Project Info to enable logging.

Smart Youtube 2.7.2  Smart Youtube 2.7.2
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Insert YouTube videos in posts, comments and RSS feeds with ease and full customization.

Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2  Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

WordPress.com Stats 1.3.5  WordPress.com Stats 1.3.5
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

WP-PluginsUsed 1.40  WP-PluginsUsed 1.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-Polls 2.31  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-Polls Widget 2.31  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-PostViews 1.31  WP-PostViews 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.1.6  Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.1.6
» mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) (url)
Returns a list of the related entries based on a unique algorithm using titles, post bodies, tags, and categories. Now with RSS feed support!

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Burrowowl // Apr 2, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    I was tempted to do automatic plugin updates, but it requires an FTP server, which I simply don’t run (all my back-end file transfers happen via scp these days and I’m not keen on opening ports needlessly). I’m somewhat curious why a site that isn’t running ads would bother with search engine optimization and a bunch of Google spy-stuff, though. I know you Russians like to have other Russians looking over your shoulder all the time, but you’re in America now. You don’t need comrade Sergey combing through data on everybody that visits your site.

  • 2 meesha.v // Apr 2, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    I am not hosting my site, I didn’t need any additional services to do automatic upgrades. To upgrade the engine itself I have a plug-in and it works pretty good. As far as SEO, I just wanted to know how it works, maybe when I get kicked out from my job I’ll have some useful knowledge to work at Best Buy.

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