Plugins Used in This Site
September 13th, 2006 Filed in: WordPress Jump to commentsAs most of you probably know that this site is powered by WordPress as a blogging and content managment tool. Here are the plugins that I used to manage my site.
Breadcrumb
Breadcrumb navigation plugin, by Dan Peverill, is used in all static pages (located above the heading). Breadcumb navigation tells the user what page they are viewing and also allow them to quickly jump back to previous location.
Customizable Post Listings
Customizable Post Listings allows you to display the most recent posts, recently commented posts, random posts, and recently modified posts. I used this plugin to display the recent posts and recent commented posts at the footer.
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
This sitemap plugin generates a sitemap containing all posts and pages of your site. It is totally customizable. It allows you to choose what to display, how they are displayed, and what to exclude. Check out my sitemap to see a demo.
Gravatars2
I use Gravatars2 plugin in the comment form to display the avatar of the commenters.
A gravatar is a Globally Recognized AVATAR. They follow the user and display next to the users name everywhere the user posts on the web, assuming the website has enabled them.
Paged Comments
Paged comments plugin creates a pagination navigation for the comment entries. This is useful if you get a lot of comments. It allows you to customize how many comments to display per page, in descending or ascending order.
Custom Posts Per Page
I used Custom Posts Per Page to control how many posts to display in different page types. I set homepage to display four posts, six posts in archive or category page, and eight posts in search result page.
WP PageNavi
I replaced the default WordPress "next and previous page" navigation with this advaced page navigation, WP PageNavi. It creates paginated navigation (Page 1 2 3..) so user can quickly jump between pages.
SEO Title Tag
SEO Title Tag inserts search engine optimized title tags using custom field (if defined) or tag name for tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin. I used this plugin to display the title tag.
Search Pages
Since I have a lot of static pages and I want them to be searchable, so I installed this Search Pages plugin. Just in case you don’t know, by default WordPress (current version 2.0) does not search any static page.
Admin Drop Down Menu
This plugin replaces admin menu and submenu with a 2 level horizontal CSS dropdown menu bar. It saves me so much time and clicks!
Customized More Link
A simple plugin that adds a CSS class to the default "read more" link tag, by Mark Jaquith.
January 28th, 2008 at 7:34 am
To access the list of plugins used in any wordpress blogs that are installed on server just suffix /wp-content/plugin
for eg: http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/
this will list our the dir of the plugins :D
sorry for bumping a old post ;)
October 21st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Capital N for Nick! Dude even on plugins on wordpress you always at the top of the rank! Thanks for your great tuts.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Does anyone have time to make me one small blog with simple design on site where you make your blogs.PLeaseeee contact me on my mail
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
[…] If you want to see how Nick’s implemented some other useful plugins in his main site, then I strongly suggest you check them out here. […]
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hi Nick
Thanks for this list - it’s great for people like me who are experimenting with WordPress to know what other people use… I particularly like the most recent comment first and reverse page numbering used. I’ll give that a try.
Just wondering though… any chance of a walkthrough on how you did the RSS feed that shows bottom right of your i-theme sidebar? Was there a plugin used for that one?
Thanks mate. Keep up the good work!
Stephen
April 17th, 2007 at 6:55 am
(by the way asfas is me! i just changed my username!)
April 17th, 2007 at 6:53 am
I have the very same problem with the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator!
April 17th, 2007 at 6:28 am
Hi!
I have activated the Customizable Post Listing plugin but i can’t see anything in my site! How will i do it?
Thanks!
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 am
:)
February 12th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hi there,
Thanks for the great plugin lists. There are definitely a few I will be trying out there. I have a question though.
I am just getting my head around wordpress and incorporating a portfolio using a similar structural style to your site. It looks as though you are using static pages as opposed to posts.
Do you have any advice on how to go about customizing the page listings.
On a page such as /resources you are generating a list but are including a thumbnail image and a short description in there too.
This is exactly what I need to do. I thought you were perhaps using a plug-in to have more control over your page_list but since there doesn’t seem to be anything here that is applicable I thought I’d ask you for some advice.
Many thanks.