Plugins Used in This Site

September 13th, 2006 Filed in: WordPress Jump to comments

As 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.

Miles Johnson

# 1

September 18th, 2006 at 6:12 am

The sitemap link within the sitemap plugin is broken, just an fyi.

Knowledge Base Script

# 2

September 19th, 2006 at 3:36 am

The sitemap link within the sitemap plugin is broken where you say “Check out my sitemap to see a demo”

Viking KARWUR

# 3

September 19th, 2006 at 9:15 am

Cool vector wallpaper, I found here… Thanks!

Ben

# 4

September 20th, 2006 at 7:55 am

Hi, so beautiful website :)

I have a question:
How do you make email rewrinting like this:” http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/wordpress/plugins-used-in-this-site” ?

thanks

Benjamin

milo

# 5

September 20th, 2006 at 12:32 pm

Beautiful site and layout, thanks for the tips /plugins.

Erika

# 6

September 21st, 2006 at 1:52 pm

This is cool! Thanks ;-)

# 7

September 21st, 2006 at 1:53 pm

I’m just wondering why my gravatar is not showing…it works fine in other blogs! ;-(

anima

# 8

September 24th, 2006 at 11:54 pm

these are nice, maybe i’ll use some for my blog
thx for the info

stewie

# 9

October 17th, 2006 at 11:47 pm

I want to know same as ben.. How did u made URL *** http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/wordpress/plugins-used-in-this-site ***

Thx,
Stewie

Nick

# 10

October 18th, 2006 at 12:45 am

Go to Admin > Options > Permalink,

under Custom Structure, enter “/blog/%category%/%postname%”

mahews

# 11

November 9th, 2006 at 6:32 am

this the best webpage ieverfound.what to say..shee is abeauty queen

Dave

# 12

December 30th, 2006 at 2:01 pm

Firstly, this site is really cool and well thought out. Well Done!
Secondly, a question. Do you know how I might change the link of a page button. For example, I’ve created a page called ‘blog’, but I want this to go to the root directory to display the page that loads when the user types in the address. I thought of simply adding the tag in the list before the Wordpress page list, but the problem is when the user clicks on this it doesn’t display the active state. Could you please give me some information on how you’ve created your navigation and pages in terms of permalinks etc.
Thanx

Jesse

# 13

January 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm

I just don’t get this plugin. ( Dagon Design Sitemap Generator ) Is it suppose to create the links (sitemap) or do I need to point something to it? The plugin is activated, where is the change or the links to the created sitemaps? I’ll still will try to play with it.

oliver

# 14

February 11th, 2007 at 7:59 pm

3 things really. I have same problem as Jesse with sitemap plugin, I need help making my blog page link to the main page rather than a seperate page on its own (help us! hehe) and I tried clicking the “Custom Posts Per Page” link but it doesn’t send me to the correct page. Is the link wrong?! thanks

Stef Grindley

# 15

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.

Cars

# 16

March 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 am

asfas

# 17

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!

sysadmin

# 18

April 17th, 2007 at 6:53 am

I have the very same problem with the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator!

# 19

April 17th, 2007 at 6:55 am

(by the way asfas is me! i just changed my username!)

Stephen

# 20

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

I-Theme Rocks!

# 21

June 3rd, 2007 at 9:20 pm

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