N.Design Studio

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.