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Wordpress & plugins
This site runs on Wordpress 2.9, augmented by independent plugins, and displayed in accordance with the Atahualpa Theme by Bytesforall. All are open source.
There are 75 plugins used: 66 active plugins and 9 inactive plugins.Active plugins
Add to Footer 1.0.1
» Ajay D'Souza (url)
Allows you to add absolutely anything to the footer of your WordPress theme. Configure…
» Arnan de Gans (url)
Make making money easy with AdRotate. Add advanced banners to your website using the simplest interface available!
» Yakup GÖVLER (url)
Displays your bookmarks as you want.
» Ron Rennick (url)
Adds an Advanced Export to the Tools menu which allows selective exporting of pages, posts, specific categories and/or post statuses by date.
» Automattic (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an 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.
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Upgrade to Pro Version | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist
» Emilio López (url)
Optimizes your website, concatenating the CSS and JavaScript code, and compressing it.
» English Mike (url)
A highly customizable and user friendly plugin to create one or more alphabetical indexes of selected posts in your Wordpress blog.
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
» Keith Solomon (url)
A tag cloud plugin for WordPress to give you more flexibility with the styling of your tag cloud.
» Takayuki Miyoshi (url)
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
» Ajay D'Souza (url)
Show user defined number of contextually related posts. Based on the plugin by Mark Ghosh. Configure…
» TheLinx (url)
This plugin adds a widget that’s almost like the vanilla meta widget, but it lets you choose what items to show.
» Dagon Design (url)
Generates a fully customizable sitemap
» J. Matt Fields (url)
Deactivates the visual editor for specific pages or posts.
» Eric Olson (url)
This plugin estimates the time it would take for a slightly below average reader to a slightly above average reader to read your post. It then applies the estimated reading time to the top of the post.
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.
» Fedmich (url)
This plugin will automatically add meta tags on the HEAD section of a post which will be used by Facebook and Digg as the share preview.
» David Frank (url)
Fully integrates media manager into editing interface, avoid having to reload it separately in thickbox pop-up; comes with enhanced features, suitable for precise image control.
» Casper (url)
Fast and easy way to insert videos from YouTube right into your WordPress blog posts.
» 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.
» Scott Reilly (url)
Use widgets or template tags to easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for posts or pages.
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
» Greg Mulhauser (url)
For WordPress 2.7 and above, this plugin displays a countdown of the remaining characters available as users enter comments on your posts, with a total comment length limit set by you.
» Hackadelic (url)
Easy to use, freely positionable, fancy AJAX-style table of contents for WordPress posts and pages.
» de77.com (url)
Lets you embed an iframe in a post
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
This plugin automatically moves JavaScript code to page footer, speeding up page loading time.
» Phil Nelson (url)
Personal, customized URL shortening for WordPress.
» Jacob M Goldman (C. Murray Consulting) (url)
Add buttons for table editing to the WordPress WYSIWYG editor with this very light weight plug-in.
» Tarkan Akdam (url)
Multipage posts with page titling and single page view. Fully featured quick jump and navigation options. Easy to use with Visual editor integration.
» John Syrinek (url)
Allows you to add noindex and/or nofollow attributes to archive, tag, or category links.
» Jules Stuifbergen (url)
This plugin makes it simple to add Piwik Analytics code to your blog. Configuration Page
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.
» Matt Hobbs (url)
Thesaurus box that sits on you ‘Add new post’ page for easy word lookup.
» Caseproof (url)
Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website!
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of the most recent comments. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.
» John Godley (url)
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
» Viper007Bond (url)
Allows you to regenerate all thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes.
» Dion Hulse (url)
Allows finer control over the number of Revisions stored on a global & per-type/page basis.
» John Godley (url)
Adds search & replace functionality across posts, pages, comments, and meta-data, with full regular expression support
» Alex King (url)
Auto-expansion macros – for example to turn ‘##wp.org’ into ‘<a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress<a>’.
» Dan Coulter (url)
Enable Shortcodes in the text widget.
» Michael Woehrer (url)
Eliminates spam trackbacks by (1) checking if the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to and (2) by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog.
» Andrew Hill (url)
A plugin that displays stock quotes with popup charts in the sidebar.
» 36Flavours (url)
Adds the ability to show a subheading for posts and pages using a custom field. To display subheadings place <?php the_subheading(); ?> in your template file.
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess
» Daniel Frużyński (url)
Subscribe to Comments plugin has “subscribe without commenting” form, but you must edit your template to insert it. This plugin displays this form without the need to edit anything.
» Kestas Mindziulis (url)
Adds a subscribe widget to the sidebar.
» Tom Saunter (url)
Adds subscription option icons for your RSS Feed; your FeedBurner Email Service; your Twitter Stream and even your Facebook page. 12 colour options. Totally user-defined.
» Kaspars Dambis (url)
Place widgets into tabbed and accordion type interface.
» Radu Capan (url)
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…).
» Ricardo González (url)
Displays your public Twitter messages for all to read. Based on Pownce for Wordpress by Cavemonkey50.
» Matt Jurmann (url)
Function that displays a ReTweet link which gives visitors the ability to ReTweet the current post; supports custom URLs (perfect for Google Analytics Campaign Tracking).
» Alan Trewartha (url)
Control widgets with WP’s conditional tags is_home etc
» Darcy Casselman (url)
Automatically links to pages, wiki-style.
» James Pearce & friends (url)
The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher, filtered widgets, and content adaptation for mobile device characteristics. Activating this plugin will also install a selection of mobile themes by ribot, a top UK mobile design team, and Forum Nokia. These adapt to different families of devices, such as Nokia and WebKit browsers (including Android, iPhone and Palm). If enabled, your site will be listed on mpexo, a directory of mobile-friendly blogs. Also check out the documentation and the forums. If you like the plugin, please rate us on the WordPress directory. And if you don’t, let us know how we can improve it!
» 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.
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Allows people to recommand/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan & scribu (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
» 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.
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.
» Don Benjamin (url)
Allows admin to build custom search form. Allows the site admin to configure multiple html inputs for different fields including custom fields. Also provides an extensible mechanism for integrating with other plugins data structures.
» Johnny Chadda (url)
WP Facebook Like makes it easy to integrate the Facebook Like button. Choose to automatically append the button before or after the content, use a shortcode, or use a template tag to place the button where ever you want.
» Tanin Ehrami (url)
Outputs your Blogroll links to a Page or Post. Add to a Page or Post and all your Wordpress links/Blogrolls will be rendered. This extremely simple plug-in enables you to create your own Links page without having to write a custom template.The output can easily be styled with CSS. Each category with its links is encapsulated in a DIV with a classname called “linkcat”. All the links are attributed with the class “brlink”.
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
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