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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

alex farguson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:42:30 -0000

It's been quite sometime since I last visited this blog. Look like you have another great post entry again. lol. When are you going to stop posting good stuffs? :D

Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Michael Robinson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:41:46 -0000

When it comes to WordPress plug-ins I have a long nose. So thanks for sharing the ones you use.

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Susan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:16:22 -0000

Thanks for this list, I've been looking for a new related posts plugin.

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gaj — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:39:11 -0000

back to the excerpt images Everton, trying to find more info on it, do you know where I can find more info on it? is it a custom field or function or something in the excerpt?

I have tried not to play with wordpress too much to date but I think the time has come to get my hands dirty.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Gaj — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:49:10 -0000

Don't worry about it, I have read about it somewhere so I will do a bit more digging around. You've helped me a lot with the autors as I can create a profile page for each blogger too.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Everton — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:43:58 -0000

@Gaj

The post thumbnail images are something clever built into this theme, which is too complicated to try and explain in a comment. Sorry!

Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Gaj — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:18:43 -0000

Sorry I should be clearer, you display a thumb next to each post on the homepage. That look great - I'm thinking about editing my theme to do that too.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Everton — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:10:05 -0000

@Gaj

Now I need to find the best way to display the image on the from page with post summaries.

Not sure what you mean- do you mean the author bios on each post like on this site?

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Gaj — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:31:22 -0000

Thats brilliant Everton, I'm not a wordpress coder but I just read the link above and with a bit or wordpress magic managed to get it working - ha ha...(I tried this before and it didn't work but I realise that it works on user names.

http://www.gaj-it.com/index...

Now I need to find the best way to display the image on the from page with post summaries.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Everton — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:04:07 -0000

@Gaj

one of the cool things I loved about your last theme was that you could display all posts by a blogger - did you use a plug-in for this?

Do you mean like this page? That's just a standard part of Wordpress. More on this here

Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Gaj — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:21:58 -0000

Everton, one of the cool things I loved about your last theme was that you could display all posts by a blogger - did you use a plug-in for this?

Also, how can you display the first image of every post on the home page. I love that about this theme.

Cheers,
Gaj

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Gaj — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:02:51 -0000

Thanks for the list, I am always looking out for the latest must-have plug-ins.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Ronald Huereca — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:10:48 -0000

If you're willing to test a fairly stable plugin, try the newest RC1 of Ajax Edit Comments.

If you're used to AEC 1.x, it's a radical, but nice change IMO.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Juan — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:46:13 -0000

Good analysis to the wordpress plugins.

Thunks.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Everton — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:54:31 -0000

@Mark

Defo ditch Lightbox.

Glad you like the new theme. I'm in love with it as it's so easy to use, and I've already got a huge list of improvements I want to make.

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Mark at MeAndMyDrum.com — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:46:15 -0000

Your comment about the database problem you were experiencing caught my attention. I, too, have had errors not being able to establish a database connection. In fact, it just happened to me today. Trouble is that, after reading this post, I went to turn off the Lightbox plugin I had, but it was later in the day that I had the trouble with "establishing a database connecdtion." So maybe that's not it after all. Aargh! I'm not giving up though! ;)

Btw, love the theme. Very clean and organized.

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Everton — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:52:17 -0000

@ShaharY

That's not a plugin - Feedburner does that. Go into your feed settings and go to optimize/feedflare

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ShaharY — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:31:54 -0000

Hi,

What plugin do you use for the addition of "number of comments", "save to del.icio.us",... to your RSS feeds?

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Everton — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:22:14 -0000

@Zath

I've been lucky that I've had someone in to find which plugins are hogs and to find alternatives e.g. being told that Lightbox alone was accounting for 50% of my load time.
Also, I dont' think you should add a plugin unless there is a real reader benefit. If you look at my list the only plugins which are for 'me' are: admin big width, php widgets, all in one and TLA. There are many tweaks I've done manually to reduce the need to use a plugin

@Barry

I think Sitemaps are totally useless. No reader is going to scroll through a page containing a huge long list of posts and cats e.g this site has nearly 2,500 posts.....I do use the ELA plugin which at least makes my archive pages more manageable, and definitely a lot better looking!

I use mint for stats, which I combine with a plugin to generate the most popular posts

Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Barry Cleave — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:58:31 -0000

Just noticed there are no stats plugins in your list do you use any?

Barry

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Barry Cleave — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:44:44 -0000

Hi Everton,

Good set of plugins, I use several of them already but the CommentLuv one looks a really great idea, I will be giving it a try :)

BTW have you tried Dragon Design Sitemap Generator for a Site Index?

Barry Cleave

Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Zath — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:39:23 -0000

You can never use too many plugins...to a point at least. ;)

I'm running a similar amount myself - all adding additional functionality for my readers or myself. The only problem would arise if the site suffers as a whole in terms of performance and having too many options that bamboozle it's readership.

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Re: May 2008: WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

Joe Cole — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:42:32 -0000

I think you use too many plugins :-D I only use 4 - 6 plugins

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