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October 22nd, 2008

Overview:

Here are some of the WordPress add-on components that I used to build this site:

Site Template:

Bytetips 1.4 This is an excellent 3-column template that I modded heavily. I liked the overall layout and design.



WordPress Plugins:

These are the WordPress Plugins that I have installed. I find them invaluable to enable me to layout, organize, and manage JimsTips.com.

Akismet 2.2.7  Akismet 2.2.7
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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.

All in One SEO Pack 1.6.10  All in One SEO Pack 1.6.10
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Upgrade to Pro Version | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist

AStickyPostOrderER 0.3  AStickyPostOrderER 0.3
» AndreSC (url)
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 pagination of post lists.

AutoBlogged 2.4.22  AutoBlogged 2.4.22
» Autoblogged.com (support@autoblogged.com) (url)
Automatically creates posts and builds content from RSS or ATOM feeds, Blog searches, and other sources.

Breukie's Categories Widget 2.1  Breukie's Categories Widget 2.1
» Arnold Breukhoven (url)
Breukie’s Categories Widget is a wordPress widget, to replace the standard categories widget by Automattic. This widget displays your categories on your sidebar using the wp_list_categories function, utilizes all available parameters for this function like hierarchy, order and exclude categories in your sidebar. You can also set up to 9 intances of this widget in your sidebar(s).

Different Posts Per Page 1.7.6  Different Posts Per Page 1.7.6
» MaxBlogPress (url)
Show different number of posts in home, category, search or archive page. Adjust your settings here.

Easy Contact 0.1.2 β  Easy Contact 0.1.2 β
» Scott Allan Wallick (url)
Easy Contact is a simple, semantic contact form that utilizes the Sandbox design patterns. Insert using [easy-contact]. A plaintxt.org experiment for WordPress.

Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.2  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.2
» 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.

HeadSpace2 3.6.32  HeadSpace2 3.6.32
» John Godley (url)
Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many many other goodies.

Import Legacy Media 0.1  Import Legacy Media 0.1
» Alan Trewartha (url)
Imports existing media items in to WPs media library

Live Comment Preview 1.9  Live Comment Preview 1.9
» Brad Touesnard (url)
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.

Live Search Popup 1.4.7  Live Search Popup 1.4.7
» Stefan Schimanski - heavily based on John Nunemaker's Addicted Search (url)
Live Search with an AJAX popup

Peter's Post Notes 1.0.6  Peter's Post Notes 1.0.6
» Peter Keung (url)
Add notes on the “edit post” and “edit page” screens’ sidebars, as well as general notes on the dashboard, in WordPress 2.7 and up. When used with Peter’s Collaboration E-mails 1.2 and up, the notes are sent along with the e-mails in the collaboration workflow.

Picasa Image Express 2.0 RC2  Picasa Image Express 2.0 RC2
» Scrawl (url)
Browse, search and select photos from any publicly available Picasa Web Album and add them to your post/pages.

Post Layout 2.1.1  Post Layout 2.1.1
» Satollo (url)
Adds HTML o javascript code before, after or in the middle of the content of pages or posts without modify the theme. For any problem or question write me: satollo@gmail.com.

Redirection 2.1.25  Redirection 2.1.25
» John Godley (url)
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors

Reveal IDs for WP Admin 1.1.5  Reveal IDs for WP Admin 1.1.5
» Oliver Schlöbe (url)
WordPress 2.5+ only. Reveals hidden IDs in Admin interface that have been removed with WordPress 2.5 (formerly known as Entry IDs in Manage Posts/Pages View for WP 2.5). See Options Page for options and information.

Search & Replace 2.5  Search & Replace 2.5
» Mark Cunningham and Frank Bueltge (url)
A simple search for find strings in your database and replace the string.

SEO Smart Links 2.4  SEO Smart Links 2.4
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

Shashin 2.5  Shashin 2.5
» Michael Toppa (url)
A plugin for integrating Picasa photos in WordPress.

Simply Exclude 1.7.6  Simply Exclude 1.7.6
» Paul Menard (url)
Provides an interface to selectively exclude/include categories, tags and page from the 4 actions used by WordPress. is_front, is_archive, is_search, is_feed.

TinyMCE Advanced 3.2.7  TinyMCE Advanced 3.2.7
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.

WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2  WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

Wordpress Gravatars 2.7.1  Wordpress Gravatars 2.7.1
» Rune Gulbrandsøy (url)
Makes use of Gravatars and MyBlogLog Avatars, places Gravatars, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or MyBlogLog Avatars in the comments section. Uses the comment authors email to display their Gravatar. It also gives the user an Author Profile picture, based on his or hers Gravatar. Developer blog at this site.

WP-o-Matic 1.0RC4-6  WP-o-Matic 1.0RC4-6
» Guillermo Rauch (url)
Enables administrators to create posts automatically from RSS/Atom feeds.

WP-PageNavi 2.61  WP-PageNavi 2.61
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.

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

WP-Slimbox2 1.0.2  WP-Slimbox2 1.0.2
» Greg Yingling (malcalevak) (url)
A Wordpress implementation of the Slimbox2 javascript, utilizing jQuery, originally written by Christophe Beyls. Requires WP 2.6+

WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.9.8.1  WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.9.8.1
» Dale Mugford & Duane Storey (BraveNewCode) (url)
A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android and other touch-based smartphones.

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