Quick Blogging Guide: Working with Plugins
In your Wordpress blog’s Dashboard, you can find a tab called Plugins. Plugins are utilities and custom-written Wordpress add-on programs that extend the functionality and features of your blog.
Plugins can either enhance your comments form by adding a subscription option (Subscribe to comments plugin), or by displaying your commenter’s latest posts (CommentLuv plugin). You can also display your Top Commenters/Commentators or Recent Comments and posts on your sidebar (by using the widgets functionality).
You can also embed a YouTube video (Gecko Tube plugin) or embed any HTML code (video, ads, etc.) using the EmbedIt plugin. You can also block SPAM comments by activating the AKISMET plugin, or make your blog ranks well in the search engines by using the All-In-One-SEO plugin.
To use a plugin, you must activate it first. You can check if a plugin suits your need and preferences by clicking on the plugin’s information link.
Only compatible plugins are installed and available for Bloggista.net users. And more plugins will be added whenever better and useful plugins are available. The following basic plugins are currently installed for use.
Akismet 2.1.3
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. By Matt Mullenweg.All in One SEO Pack 1.4.6.8
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By uberdose.
bStat Upgrader 0.1
Upgrade from previous versions of bSuite stats/bStat to bSuite bStats. By Casey Bisson.
bSuite 3.03
It’s okay for a few things, but you could probably do better. Documentation here. By Casey Bisson.
bSuite bStat 3.02
Stats tracking, part of the bSuite collection of blog tools By Casey Bisson.
bSuite Slideshow .01
Animates a series of photos as a slideshow (requires bSuite v.3 or greater). Insert the following in your post content to create the slideshow (accepts any number of photos, seperate photo URLs with space or newline).
By Casey Bisson.Import bSuite tags and metadata to WordPress tags and taxonomy. Documentation here By Casey Bisson.
cforms II 7.3
cforms II offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes. By Oliver Seidel.
Commentluv 0.999
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Currently parses with wordpress, blogspot, typepad and blogs that have a feed link in the head section of their page. By Andy Bailey.
EmbedIt 0.1
A simple plugin that allows you to embed any HTML code (Youtube, UStream or whatever) in a post, deciding precisely where to embed it, allowing you freedom of coding your html without being annoyed by the wysiwyg editor. USAGE: While editing a post, create a custom field with key HTML1 and paste the code you want to embed into the Value field. Then just write [ H T ML 1] in your post where you want to embed the html code. (Just use the standard wysiwyg post content editing window, no need to switch to Code view). If you need, you can use up to nine times the trick: HTML2…HTML9 in order to embed up to nine html different snippets per post, placing each snippet in a different custom field. By Matteo Ionescu.
Flickr Manager 1.4.01
Handles uploading, modifying images on Flickr, and insertion into posts. By Trent Gardner.
Gecko Tube 1.1
Insert YouTube videos in post using same method as on wordpress.com. Adds link in RSS feeds for feed readers that disallow embedded content. By Gecko Rock.
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.
Gregarious 1.9.10c
Social bookmarking By Ankur Kothari.
Auto-converting all linked images in a post, excerpt and even comments to lightboxed links. (see options menu). — Using Lightbox v2.03.3 and compressed Prototype Javascript. By Kjell Bublitz.
Simple Recent Comments 0.1.2
Shows a list of recent comments. By GNot.
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.
Top Commentators Widget 0.999
Adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin. By Lorna Timbah.
WordPress.com Stats 1.1.1
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. By Andy Skelton.
wp-cache 2.1.2
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.
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