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December 2nd, 2006

Adding Audio to Your Blog Posting

The Audio Player WordPress Plugin is an excellent way of streaming audio from your blog posting.

Here’s an example of it in action from my collection of mp3s :-


Mind blowing isn’t it ;)

August 27th, 2006

WordPress Plugins I Use

A few people have asked me about WP plugins that I use for this website. Well here it is taken directly from my ‘Plugin Management’ page with some slight editing :-

Plugin

Version

Description

Ad Rotator

1.0

Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file By Angsuman Chakraborty.

Adsense-Deluxe

0.7

Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. For complete usage and configuration click on AdsenseDeluxe under the “Options” menu. By Acme Technologies.

Akismet

1.12

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under “Manage” and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. Hat tip: Michael Hampton and Chris J. Davis for help with the plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.

Code Auto Escape

2.0

Automatically escape code within <code>…</code> tag By Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo.

FAlbum

0.5.6

A plugin for displaying your Flickr photosets and photos in a gallery format on your Wordpress site. By Elijah Cornell.

Dara’s Flickr Tags

1.0a

This plugin, creates an image link to a flickr slideshow based off key word(s). By Dara Pressley .

Footnotes

0.1 (Beta)

Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. By Simon Elvery.

Geo

1.0

Attaches geographic coordinate information to posts. Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Copyright 2004 Owen Winkler. By Owen Winkler.

Gravatar

1.1

This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options. See the documentation for syntax and usage. By Tom Werner .

Recent Comments List

2.3

This plugin will add a list of the most frequent comments posted to your blog. They are gathered in descending order (newest at the top), but then group them together by post title, so that comments from the same post are listed together. The list items will be links to the comments, and will contain the name of the commenter. Derived from the “Top/Recent Commenters” plugin by Scott Reilly (http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/) By Jared Bangs.

Live Comment Preview

1.7

Activate to supply users with a live comment preview. Use the function <?php live_preview() ?> to display the live preview in a different location. By Jeff Minard & Iacovos Constantinou .

Feedburner Feed Replacement

1.0

Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from. By Steve Smith .

Page Links To

1.1

Allows you to set a “links_to” meta key with a URI value that will be be used when listing WP pages. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your By .

Google Sitemaps

2.7

This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold .

SitemapView

0.6

Import Googles sitemap.xml for a list af all posts and sites. You can format with css. You can create sitemap.xml with a Plugin for WP: Arne Brachhold (+ extra options: Sidney ) By Frank Bueltge .

Subscribe To Comments

2.0.2

Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry By Mark Jaquith and Jennifer (ScriptyGoddess).

Sidebar Widgets

1.0

Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu By Automattic, Inc..

WP-Amazon

1.3.2

WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon to your entries. This plugin adds a button called “Amazon” on the post page. Make sure to configure the plugin before using. By Rich Manalang.

wp-cache

2.0.14

Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. By Ricardo Galli Granada.

Contact Form ][ (WP-2.0)

2.0.6_wp-2.0

Contact Form ][ is a drop-in form that allows site visitors to contact you. It can be implemented easily (via QuickTags) within any post or page. This version is *specifically* for WordPress 2.0 only. Original code derived from Ryan Duff’s WP-ContactForm plugin. By Chip Cuccio.

WP-Cron

1.3

periodic execution of actions By Scott Merrill.

WordPress Database Backup

1.7

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.

WP Unformatted

With this enabled, you can add a custom field of ’sponge’ set to ‘1′ to a post to disable the auto formatting and a custom field of ’sandpaper’ set to ‘1′ to a post to disable the auto smart-quote conversion. By Alex King.

Click Counter

1.02

Adds a click counter to links in your posts (quick readme & manual) By Ozh .

Audio Player Wordpress plugin

1.2.3

Highly configurable single track mp3 player. By Martin Laine .


January 10th, 2006

Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plugin

Have you ever commented to a blog and have to regularly check back to see if the blog owner has replied to your comments?

If your answer is yes and would like to make life easier for your readers you might want to take a look at the subscribe to comments plugin.

This useful plugins allows your readers to subscribe to comments on a particular post. If the person comments to your post he/she will automatically be added to the subscribe list and be notified via e-mail when new comments are posted.

The user is also able to subscribe without commenting and also remove himself from the subscription.

I’m actually using this plugin for this site and you can see some extra fields in all the comments section that is added by this very useful plugin.

I wish more blogs would use this plugin.

What are you waiting for?

Install it ……now! :)

January 2nd, 2006

WordPress Theme Toolkit

If you are a theme author and would like to allow your theme users to configure elements of your theme from the admin pages you will be grateful for the WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh.

I’ve integrated this excellent plugin into my Tiga theme and now some of the things that the Tiga theme user1 will be able to do are :-

  1. Easily modify the height of the header.
  2. Easily add background image to the header.
  3. You can now set the minimum and maximum page size to avoid your page from being stretched or squished to ridiculous values.
  4. Widths of left and right sidebars are now modifiable.
  5. Some color and font adjustments are also possible.

My thanks to you Ozh for contributing a great tool to the WordPress community, what a great time saver for theme developers.

  1. Also known as ‘Tigarati’ ;) . [back]