Wordpress plugins

I like the way you can alter and customize Wordpress by using plugins.

Next to the list below I used the ‘Smart Image Resizer’ script from Shifting Pixel to make thumbnails from different gallery images.

The list below shows which plugins I’m currently using on this site.

There are 33 plugins used.

AStickyPostOrderER 0.3.1 by AndreSC
AStickyPostOrderER lets you customize the order in which posts are displayed per category, per tag, or over-all, in WordPress 2.3+ blog. Useful when using WordPress as a Content Management System. Now with the ability to override itself.

Broken Link Checker 0.9.4.4 by Janis Elsts
Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

CodeColorer 0.9.8 by Dmytro Shteflyuk
This plugin allows you to insert code snippets to your posts with nice syntax highlighting powered by GeSHi library. After enabling this plugin visit the options page to configure code style.

Contact Form 7 2.3.1 by Takayuki Miyoshi
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

del.icio.us for Wordpress 2.0.2 by Ricardo González
Displays your recently listened links. Based on Pownce for Wordpress by Cavemonkey50.

EG-Delicious 1.2.0 by Emmanuel GEORJON
Manage Delicious links (Import into WordPress database)

FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1 by FeedBurner
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.

Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.4 by Arne Brachhold
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.

HeadSpace2 3.6.33 by John Godley
Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many many other goodies.

Hyper Cache 2.6.6 by Satollo
Hyper Cache is a cache system for WordPress to improve it’s perfomances and save resources. Before update read the version changes. To manually upgrade remeber the sequence: deactivate, update, activate.

IE6 No More 0.3.0 by Jerico Veloso
Encourages IE6 users to upgrade to a more modern browser by displaying a box at the top of the page informing them that they are using an outdated browser.

Kimili Flash Embed 2.1.5 by Michael Bester
Provides a full Wordpress interface for SWFObject – the best way to embed Flash on your site.

Live Comment Preview 1.9 by Brad Touesnard
Supply users with a live comment preview. Use the function <?php live_preview() ?> to display the live preview in a different location. Based on version 1.7 by Jeff Minard.

Maintenance Mode 5.2 by Michael Wöhrer
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Settings → Maintenance Mode to get started.

NextGEN Gallery 1.5.5 by Alex Rabe
A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.

Optimize DB 1.3 by Joost de Valk
Let’s you optimize your WordPress database tables with one click. Click optimize on the right to start optimizing!

Posts of Current Category 0.4 by Anup Raj
Lists (Show/Display title) Posts of Current Category and Order Posts by author,content,date,ID, .. etc Sort ASC/DESC. Go to Appearance>Widgets and Drag “Posts of Current Category” widget to your Sidebar.

qTranslate 2.5.7 by Qian Qin
Adds userfriendly multilingual content support into Wordpress. For Problems visit the Support Forum.

Really Simple CAPTCHA 1.1 by Takayuki Miyoshi
Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

Show Active Category (while browsing a post) 0.2 by Dirk Jaster
When browsing a single page, this plugin adds the CSS class “active_category” to all categories the active post belongs to.

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam 2.6.2 by Mike Challis
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots. Also is WPMU and BuddyPress compatible. Settings | Donate

Smart 404 0.4.2 by Michael Tyson
Rescue your viewers from site errors! When content cannot be found, Smart 404 will use the current URL to attempt to find matching content, and redirect to it automatically. Smart 404 also supplies template tags which provide a list of suggestions, for use on a 404.php template page if matching content can’t be immediately discovered.

Use Google Libraries 1.1.0.1 by Jason Penney
Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google’s AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from Wordpress’s own copies.

Viper's Video Quicktags 6.3.0 by Viper007Bond
Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.5 by Keith Dsouza
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode.

Wordpress Video Plugin 0.73 by Oliver Wunder
A filter for WordPress that displays videos from many video services. Enter [videosite id] at a post and you will see a video. For using the plugin, read the instruction page or readme file!

WP-phpMyAdmin 2.10.3 by Roland Rust, Christopher Hwang
Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin console

WP-PluginsUsed (kasper mod) 1.50 by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (mod by Kasper)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP CSS 2.0.5 by Halmat Ferello
Automatically GZIP your CSS files and puts all @imports into one file. Also add CSS files to specific posts/pages.

WP JS 2.0.6 by Halmat Ferello
Automatically GZIP your JS files and applies jsmin algorithm. Also add JavaScript files to specific posts/pages.

WP No Category Base 0.7 by iDope
Removes ‘/category’ from your category permalinks.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 3.1.9 by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)
Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.

Yoast Breadcrumbs 0.8.5 by Joost de Valk
Outputs a fully customizable breadcrumb path.