Well after over six months using WordPress to drive jappler.com, I thought I would report for anyone out there that might be interested, what plugins and modifications I have put in place to create jappler.com what it is today.
User Interface
- Admin User Interface Enhancemnt: Tiger Style Administration Plugin. If you know me, you know I am very particular with user interfaces, and this one passes the test.
- Page Navigation: WP-PageNavi Plugin. This creates page number links at the bottom of my blog.
- Search Term Highlighter: Search Hilite Plugin (this is now built-in). When someone searches for information on your WordPress site/blog, the search term will be higlighted in the found posts/pages
Utilites
- Anti-Spam: Spam Karma Plugin. Help ward off comment spam by using this awesome spam stopping plugin.
- Email This Post: WP-EMail Plugin. This plugin allows visitors to email a post to themselves or anyone who might find something interesting.
- Click Counter: Click Couter Plugin. This plugin tracks how many times all the links on jappler.com have been clicked.
- Search: Search Pages Plugin. Since I use WordPress for more than a blog, I needed to have a way to search through all my content and pages, not just my blog. This plugin searches everything on jappler.com
- Sitemap: Google Sitemaps Plugin. This plugin creates a Google compliant sitemap (which helps with your Google rank).
- Counter: WP-OnlineCounter Plugin. I never had a counter back in the late 1990s when I first put up my first web pages…so here it is.
- RSS Aggregator: aggrss, an rss aggregator Plugin. This plugin drives my <a href="/news/" section.
- PHP: Run PHP Plugin. This allows me to use PHP into any of my posts/pages
- Modification Date: Last Modified Plugin. This plugin puts the “last modified” next to my posts/pages.
Fun
- SNL Fun: Deep Thoughts Plugin. We all need some deep thoughts. This plugin is used in my randomness section.
- Weather: WeatherIcon Plugin. This plugin displays the weather on my home page.
- Jappler History: One year ago Plugin. Jappler.com is random…it is sometimes fun to see what I was thinking/posting about a year ago. Soon I will have to add “Two years ago” too.
- Polls: WP-Polls Plugin. I have started playing around with this plugin…watch for some exciting Jappler polls soon
Let me know if you have questions! I will be happy to help any beginner or intermediate bloggers get started!
[tags]WordPress, WordPress Plugins, jappler.com[/tags]
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sweet! Can I have your template too so I can look as good as yours?
[...] I started looking around for something to put in there, and finally settled on using the Deep Thoughts plugin Jen outlined in her post “jappler’s wordpress”. (a great guide to some cool plugins) I installed and activated the plugin, and called it in the sidebar.php code using an else statement, so that in any situation where there was nothing in that space, there would now be a JH quote. Everything worked great. One problem, I am too impatient to wait 24 hours for a new quote. So I modified the code a little and created my first WordPress plugin. [...]