WordPress has to be the most powerful publishing platform in the internet right now. The fact that is free and Open Source just makes it even sweeter. Now folks one of the things that Open Source has that is a blessing and a curse at the same time is the constant development. The blessing is that when some thing new comes up it is rapidly implemented the curse is when some thing new comes up it is rapidly implemented. Folks I do not know if it is my age or what but I am a firm believer if it is not broke do not fix it. Unless I know that my platform has a serious security breach I do not upgraded. Every time you upgrade you have to take time and deal with what ever breaks in the process. I rather spend that same time buying a new domain and setting up a BANS site.
Now I am getting many emails asking for my plugin list. So I decided today besides touching the subject of the upgrade to the new WordPress platform to make a quick post on my plugin list. I will not go into detail why or why not.
Adman 1.6.7 Plugin for inserting ads right in the middle of posts. By uberdose.
Adsense-Deluxe 0.8 Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts.
Advanced Category Excluder 1.0.6 With this plugin you can define categories for some parts of the site to be hidden. By Zsolt Lakatos (DjZoNe).
Akismet 2.1.3 Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
All in One SEO Pack 1.4.5.1 Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. By uberdose.
BloggingZoom Vote Button 1.0 Digg Style Button For WordPress from BloggingZoom By BloggingZoom.
Chunk Urls for WordPress 2.0 This plugin shorten urls in comments so that they won’t break your site. By whoo.
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator 3.12 Generates a fully customizable sitemap By Dagon Design.
Exec-PHP 4.3 Executes code in your posts, pages and text widgets.
FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 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. By FeedBurner.
Feed Footer 1.1 Add custom footers (copyright, notices, advertisements) to the bottom of your posts in your RSS feed. A special BlogClout plugin By Sherief Mursyidi.
Fuzzy Recent Posts 4.12 A WordPress widget that lists a fuzzy number of recently posted entries. By Denis de Bernardy.
Get Recent Comments 2.0.2 Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin. By Krischan Jodies.
Google XML Sitemaps 3.0.3 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 By Arne Brachhold.
No Duplicate Comments 0.9.2 Prevent visitors from leaving duplicate comments/pingbacks/trackbacks to a post. By Scott Reilly.
No Ping Wait 1.0 Adds pinging as a shutdown hook, so you don’t have to wait forever while WordPress publishes By Robert Deaton.
No Self Pings 0.2 Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site. By Michael D. Adams.
No WWW 1.0 WWW checks in, it doesn’t check out. By Matt Mullenweg.
Related Posts 2.02 + 404 Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.
SatayTube 1.6 Add hosted flash videos into your blog using satay method, silently. Just copy and paste the codes provided by YouTube, Google Video, or Yahoo Video, no special tags used. Custom alternative image if Adobe Flash Player is not installed. Not compatible with rich editor.
SRG Clean Archives 4.2 This plugin is designed to display your archive listings in a clean, uniform, single-query fashion that’s Search Engine friendly on a dedicated page or in your sidebar. By Sean R..
Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2 Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess By Mark Jaquith.
Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265 Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging plugin, that’s heavy on tag visualisation. I Like Pi! By Christine Davis.
WordPress Database Backup 2.1.5 On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
WordPress Duplicate Content Cure 1.0 Duplicate content cure is a very simple, yet effective SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages. By Badi Jones.
WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition 1.1 WP-ContactForm: Akismet Edition is a spam-resistant drop-in contact form. It is derived from Ryan Duff’s WP-ContactForm 1.4.3 with the addition of code from the Akismet plugin. Debugging and improvements graciously contributed by DD32. By Blogging Expertise.
WP-EMail 2.11 Allows people to recommand/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
WP-PageNavi 2.20 Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
WP Super Cache 0.5.4 Very fast caching module for WordPress. Once enabled, you must enable the cache. Based on WP-Cache by Ricardo Galli Granada. By Donncha O Caoimh.
Yet another threaded Comments plugin 0.6.1 This comment allows to have newly created comments relate to existing comments, so you can comment on a comment. This information allows to display the Comments in a hierarchical fashion (e.g. a Tree). By Joachim Praetorius
My WordPress is 2.3.1 and will stay for as long as I feel no huge improvement or feature that I feel is a must. Again if it is not broken I do not try to fix it.
WordPress Plugin List And Set-Up
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Vic,
Do we need these plug-ins on our local niche blogs?
Denise this is my setup and with a reason for every plugin so as such yes this is how I recommend it. Now I know you are a bit new to all this things. I know that we need to give you that extra bit of support so I will talk to Elliot to see if he can help me by helping you a bit more.
Denise,
I got your email, but I am on a 48 hour shift and will be home tomorrow. I will try to get back with you and help you with Skype and plugins.
Denise,
If Elliott is too busy or not available I am also willing to help. Hope you don't mind Elliott. But I know how frustrating it gets when we want to do things and nobody is there to answer us.
Vic,
Thanks for the list. Funny, I was just reading the article telling about Movable Type going open source on December 12, 2007. I missed it, I must have been shopping! Ha Ha!
Right now WordPress is the most solid platform period for many reasons but a few have to do with how wordpress interacts with Google. I would stick with it
Thanks for the great list. I'm off to check out the recommended backup plug-ins, after yesterday's hosting debacle.
No doubt I have backups emailed every 3 days on all my sites. I too have been hacked and had hosting issues and tell you what nothing better then to have a fresh backup
Thanks Vic and Elliot! You must have checked out my local niche blog
I am learning and doing and zooming.
Denise no worries we all had our first day. The important thing is to have you catch up as fast as possible to you can start making progress as quick as possible.
lol, and here I thought I was actually going to have a 3-day weekend coming up. Every time I come to your site, I end up leaving with a new "to do" list. And man do I wish I could blow it off … but the stuff you share just makes too much sense.
Stop Vic, stop!
Keep havin FuN!
Todd
Todd – You are right on target. Now lets see 10 niche blogs times 20 new plug-ins….see you in February! Ha ha!!!
LMAO my bad. But some of the plugins in that list have specific needs and reason so I knew it was important you see how I setup all my sites.
No worries Vic, I'm not complaining at all.
I'm glad to know you. If you were (like some) "established A-listers", you'd have to set up a membership site, charge us $50-$100 a month, then make us sit through hours and hours of Camtasia produced tutorials.
… after which, many of us would still have no clue how to actually make money with our pretty new blogs.
Todd all you guys have to tell me is that you want a few videos of me eating dinner and hey I am for that. I want to please all you guys. LMAO
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is the real inside info I relish and learn from; not from watching grass grow nor eating tv dinner videos.:D
Mike
LMAO yeah I figured this would be more beneficial then a tv dinner video.
Quick newbie question…..what is a BANS site?
BANS
I am having trouble setting up the word press related posts plugin. btw: this is a great list – thanks!
My system does require the manual install but the code the help file gives seems a bit unclear.
ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` ADD FULLTEXT `post_related` (
`post_name` , `post_content`
)
I have added this and variations of this to my phpmyadmin sqlquery and it keeps giving error messages. Could anyone chime in on by offereing the exact code (i.e.: exact to the point we can copy/paste directly to the mysql query so this will work?
thanks
Who are you hosting with?
Hi Vic, any reason you need both the Dagon sitemap and Google sitemap?
Dragon: http://bloggerunleashed.com/site-map/
Google Sitemap: http://bloggerunleashed.com/sitemap.xml
Google Sitemap easier read for spider bots
The Dagon one will let you create a sitemap page for your site, and the Google one will create an .xml sitemap for Google and the other search engines.
I prefer the "all-in-one adsense and YPN" plugin for goog ads myself http://www.linewbie.com/wordpress-plugins
Never tried it but I sure will.
I'm trying to figure out what plug-in people are using to cloak their affiliate links. For instance, showing http;//www.domain.com/go/bookmarkingdemon instead of bookmarkingdemon.com/affil/1234 or some nonsense.
Also, you don't have it on your blog, but maybe other readers will know… what plugin (if any) is used to display those groups of 125×125 ads? For example, the ads listed in court's sidebar under sponsors. Frank at Optempo has them too, I think.
DVS,
I'm not sure of a plugin to cloak affiliate links, there might be one however.
There are two ways that I use to cloak them as needed. One is a simple JAVA method and the other way is to create a subdomain with your host account under your main account. You then redirect that subdomain to point to your affiliate link. This way if anyone hovers over your "affiliate link" they see a subdomain.
One way to protect affiliate links is create the directory /go then /"productname" and create a file there with the affiliate information, saved as index.php
e.g.
Thanks, Mirol & Elliot. With what the two of you said, plus Vic's link to BANS, I figured out how it was being done. Go Go meta refresh!
Oh, and I figured out the name of the ad plug-in I was looking for, too. It's "Got Banners".
And thanks to you too, Vic. I've barely got the word out on this local niche site and I'm already getting calls regarding it.
Looks like the code was stripped in the comment. My example is for these lines between the usual opening and close php tags.
<code>
$url='http://"insertaffiliatelinkhere";
header("Location:$url");
exit();
</code>
Quick tip on using plugins.
If you are using one, two or ten different themes for your sites, once you have your base wordpress install on your server, you still have to upload your theme that you are using to it, right? It is in a folder called "themes".
I keep a "plugin" folder on my desktop that has all of the plugins that I would use on my site. Now I keep two of them, depending on what type of site I am installing, niche vs. full blown legit site.
When I notice that one of my plugins has a new version out, I can then download the new version and unzip it into my two plugin folders, or just upload the single plugin if I need to.
Hope that helps!
No doubt Elliot I have a folder that has what I call my niche setup it already has all the files that I have moded or the plugins I need.
Vic,
How are you getting Ultimate Tag Warrior to work with Wordpress 2.3.1? On the site you linked to it says, "Ultimate Tag Warrior is not supported in Wordpress 2.3+"
Thanks
LMAO that is a really good question cause that is the tag cloud you see in this site. Also that is the plugin I use to place my tags in the feed. So mmm I do not know. Maybe I will have to sit down and delete the plugin and see what works and what not.
Great list Vic,
I can attest to most of these plugins since I have used them before. I need to however install more in my niche blog now. Here goes another late night. LOL
This has been the best combination I have found that works for me. I hope it helps out you folks too
WOW! I finally got some time off. A 3 day weekend.
I am going to be adding these plug-ins and activate them. That much I do know how to do.
I also just got Skype so I will be contacting you all with my Skype username.
Thanks Monika! I am in Eastern time zone so I hope that works out well for you cause I am out for all the help I can get. I really want to be a success with this.
Denise that is great and so cool that all these nice folks have stepped up to help out. I look forward to having more time.
Vic,
1. Which Related Post plugin do you download? That site has 4 different versions.
2. Can you explain the importance of sitemaps and google sitemaps?
3. What do you use the Exec-PHP plugin for?
As always,
Thanks
Ultimate Tag Warrior is discontinued with 2.3 (if you or your readers haven't upgraded, you should because there's a serious vulnerability).
Check out Christine's page of other plugins (related to UTW)for some of the goodness.
http://www.neato.co.nz/wordpress-things/
Vic-
I'm not sure you are reading these old comments, but I remember about 6 months ago you mentioned I believe in a video that you use a scripted install for Wordpress so everything get's set up the same. I need to set up 5-10 new WP sites for a class I am teaching and dread having to do it by hand.
I searched your site for Wordpress Script and such, but don't see any reference. Am I dreaming?
Thanks!
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