A couple of folks have asked recently what plug-ins I have installed on this blog. Below is a cut/paste from our plug-ins page listing all the currently active plug-ins that I use. There’s always a couple more activated at any given time as I play around with different stuff. Currently exploring Ultimate Tag Warrior, but I just haven’t had time to look into it’s feature-laden capabilities yet, so I didn’t include it here.
Several other real estate bloggers listed their plug-ins awhile back. Here’s the lists from: BloodhoundBlog, Rain City Guide, RealCentralVA and The Future of RE Marketing. Good stuff…. and you can probably find more lists in the comments.
One word of advice – install plug-ins one at a time, activate them, and look around to see if anything is broken. Some plug-ins don’t play well together. If something is broken, don’t panic, just deactivate the plug-in and that will probably fix it)
My favorite plug-ins: Spam Karma (this or Askimet is **essential**), Database backup (I’ve never needed to restore the database, but I’ve come *very* close to imploding this thing and am glad it’s there), Sidebar Widgets – not really required as you can always cut/paste code, but widgets are very cool.
Displays a Random Post from the Archives on-demand. By sellsius / Blogging Systems. | |
Allows tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files By Sören Weber. | |
Displays one specific category of links; up to 9 instances of this widget may exist. Heavily derived from the Text widget code included with the widget plugin by Automattic, Inc. By M. Holger. | |
Returns a list of the previous ‘n’ posts. By Sadish Balasubramanian. | |
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov & Mike Lu. | |
Replaces the built-in ping/notify functionality. Pings only when publishing new posts, not when editing. By Christian Davén. | |
A simple, clean, and future-proof way to present your archives. By Justin Blanton. | |
Adds a Sidebar Widget To Display Partial Stats From WP-Stats Plugin By GaMerZ. | |
Display Your WordPress Statistics. By GaMerZ. | |
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold. | |
Social Bookmarks adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic linkss at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites. Use plugin options (In menu Options>Social Bookmarks) to configure the plugin. By Apostolos Dountsis. | |
Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can use it with any blogging tool/method, not just when posting from WordPress itself (doesn’t use custom fields). Supports multiple words within tags. Also allows in-post tagging of words by enclosing them in [tag] tags. Works with the WYSIWYG editor. By Broobles. | |
Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress. Activate the plugin and go to Manage >> Spam Karma 2 to configure. See Spam Karma 2 >> About for details. By dr Dave. | |
This plugin will help you displaying related permalinks. This plugin has been tested in WP 1.5.1.3 and 2.0 By Erwin Kodiat. | |
Creates quicktags for embedding various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video, into WordPress. Uses the ButtonSnap class by Owen Winkler. By Viper007Bond. | |
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill. | |
WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+ By Ryan Duff. | |
Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu By Automattic, Inc.. |
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Good advice to do one at a time. I tried some local weather thingee on mine. It made everything unstable. Now I’s scared to try anything else.
Someone else below asked this already.
I am getting nailed with Spam in my website for our blog website. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated. http://www.profesjonalna-reklama.pl
Thanks Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland
Workout music to get pumped up
Przemysl hotel Marko zaprasza na nocleg przy trasie do Lwowa
Best regards
There’s a new version of the Smart Update Pinger as Christian Daven has stopped developing this plugin – see Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger
Help me:)
Good tips. Sure will use some of them on my second site. thx
Thanks. I’ll implement these tips on my next blog
Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you
Hi. Do you have a real estate plugin?
I want a wordpress to sell home.
version 2.8 is way better ^^
version 2.8 is way better ^^
Well sure. But given that this post was written in 2006, version 2.8 wasn't an option….
version 2.8 is way better ^^
Well sure. But given that this post was written in 2006, version 2.8 wasn't an option….