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- Guder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hmmm truthfully I'd suggest many other to be considered. A lot of these are sorta basic or inferior to what's out there. Someone went through a lot of time and trouble on a ***** list.
Listing of the plug-ins I use. Even lists ones I have installed.. and don't use (Either because of no need, didn't like or what not).
http://www.litwc.com/plug-in-used/ - yongfook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that is what you used to HAVE to do with Movable Type. Their solution to spam back in the day was "uh...just rename some stuff". Needless to say, this is only a temporary solution. Aksimet is about as perfect as we are going to get for now - a centralised, intelligent system for fighting / recognising spam, that everyone contributes to with minimum effort.
- AndyVenus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg doesn't send 'a bit of traffic', it sends loads and all in one go.
- yongfook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow, I have a real problem with spelling Akismet properly.
- aaronlidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://themes.wordpress.net/
- blackmath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there a good site for wordpress themes? Like good themes, not that weird *****.
- AndyVenus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There are also loads at http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/theme_browser.php
I shall look at installing a couple of these later! - vonskippy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3#9 - get a ISP that doesn't crumble after a bit of traffic.
- LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For those of you using WP-Shortstat there is an other version out that works much better. They worked out a lot of the bugs people have been experiencing with the original. http://blog.happyarts.de/wp-shortstat/
- tpacyk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Thanks. There's a few of these I hadn't run across yet.
- Spacemanspif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Gotta love the english language:
Flammable = Inflammable
Valuable = Invaluable
Sane != Insane - cinder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your list is waaaay more interesting than the linked list. Maybe you should do a top WP plugins article and digg it. :)
- Jakelshark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2not even making the frontpage generates hundreds of megabytes of data in a few hours
trust me, Im a scientist...actually I just have Webalizer and posted a story from my website... - GeneralFailure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@mpancha: If I remember correctly I believe it is about 100-300k pageviews. If the site is optimized correctly 300k pageviews of the same page is a bandwidth issue not a processor issue.
- cinder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have to recommend WP-Gatekeeper. It's a good anti-comment-spam plugin. You write your own obvious questions and users must answer before posting a comment (similar to making users type in a weird randomly generated image, but less annoying IMO).
"What color is an orange?"
"What is 5 3?"
etc. - mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Out of curiosity, how much traffic did they get from Digg?
I've seen a lot of these "get a better server" comments, but have yet to get a hard number of how much of an increase in traffic a site got b/c of digg. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't seem to be recording anything with Wordpress 2.0.2.
- mnc1031, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1I highlight the top five resources/tools that will PIMP YOUR BLOG (starting today) including two must-have Wordpress plugins. Check it out here: http://www.lifewithoutpants.com/awesome-friday/awe ...
- Viper007Bond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the hell of it, here's my huge ass list: http://www.viper007bond.com/about/plugins-used/
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With regards to his second one, "Get Custom": That functionality is already built into Wordpress. No plugin needed. Just use the post_custom() function to get your metadata values out of your posts.
Also, he misspelled "Akismet", but yes indeed, every Wordpress blog should use it. - jzimmerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think there is a "Super Size My Server" plugin available.
- Guder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have so far tried not to Digg my personal blog posts (so far I've only offered up 2... and then only in extreme situations) I love how my blog is going and all, but I understand why people dislike being linked to blogs. I've written up write ups at times when I thought a wordpress plug in was especially good. But I won't submit it myself.
That said, thanks for the compliment. It seems I've gone through a number of plug-ins. One nice thing I'll have to say I really like about Wordpress. - Guder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The one thing I've been tempted to do is what a freind had done to a different blog package. He renamed all the fields. None of the bots bother him now.
Now if only there was a simple walk htrough on how to do that with Wordpress. - joelhardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Question for anybody out there ...
I sysadmin a very high-traffic blog, with very high volume of comments. I tried Akismet when it first came out ... and it was great at filtering spam like everyone says. But it was also delaying comments from showing up by 5-15 minutes, because it queries a wordpress.com server on every comment submit. So basically, it completely interfered in the conversation flow and caused mass confusion. So ... have the wordpress.com guys figured out their load problems and solved this one? What's your comment volume and turnaround like?
Until then ... using SK2 for comment spam. It's unfortunately a constant babysitting task to tune the balance between false positives and letting in spam ... and it has the annoying feature of disabling WP moderation. (Note to SK2 author: moderating trolls != filtering comment spam. Plus, one is my job and one is the blog editor's job.)
Right now, I'm trying to avoid going to something intrusive like registration, captchas or requiring JS, so those are all out. But I'm sorely tempted to at least add a logic-puzzle captcha.
I'll give huge props to Bad Behavior while I'm on this topic. It has a horribly crippling logging feature (uh, that's what syslog is for ... I really *don't* want a MySQL write on every page GET, especially the belligerent ones) but that's perfectly disablable. Other useful mods there are to disable *all* unnecessary DB queries (has a "CREATE table IF NOT EXIST" on every page load) and change it not to filter GETs, since it causes problems with some corporate proxy servers. But those are all easy mods, and it does a great job of stopping spam ... I'm talking 1000s per day. - madwizard666, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Hi, please visit my wordpress installation guide here - http://mitchellespina.com/blog/2009/03/04/lets-tal ...
And please let me know if you understand the guide or need some corrections.
Thank you,
Mitchell - remiprev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I might add Edit Comments (http://code.jalenack.com/), Ultimate Tag Warrior (http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/) and Brian's Latest Comments (http://meidell/latestcomments/).
- johnpthomas278, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More useful WordPress Plugins can be found here
http://www.johntp.com/2006/04/06/wordpress-plugins/ - Guder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a few that are very specialized... but I also have a number that simplify and make the blog run nice.
Case in point:
• The gravatar plug-in is nice because it allows commenter to personalize at little work from me.
• The advanced Akismet plug-in is nice in that it automatically notes bad spammers and bunches the message for mass deletion. I'm also playing with server based IP blocking of the spammers using Akismet.
• The Landing pages one is nice because I get a number of my visitors via search engines, and they can get similar articles suggested to them when they "and on the "found" page.
• The extreme video one is great for embedding most videos
Yes I do have not priority ones like the BF2 plug-in and the Weather plug-in... but they are nice for looks and someone can gloat at my terrible bf2 stats. Over all I want to see different plug-ins not already in wordpress and bleh ones. And in some cases hey weren't compatible with the latest version of wordpress and/or wasn't really needed. (Why have 4 plug-ins when one can do the job of four?) - yongfook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In response, the article wasn't about "cool" plugins that do awesome-wicked things that perhaps only a few people need. It was about plugins that I consider essential to almost every Wordpress installation I roll out. Ones that have a very broad application - that add functionality that everyone needs. You list is full of interesting plugins, but many of them are quite esoteric, with a narrow audience.
- greg04, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1weezer's lead singer Rivers Cuomo is married to a girl who writes (wrote?) for Ping Magazine.
- xdoute, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I am not on that list, but I think that XDForum (http://www.xdweb.net/wordpress/) is a good plugin. As far as I know its the only forum plugin for WP. Works with 1.5 and 2 as well.
- id34, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Wordpress has definately overtook every other blog.
http://www.id34.com
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