CugDugPlugins
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 27th, 2006 5:22 pm
After reading, Quentins nicely shared post of the WordPress plugins used on his site (and more shared in the comments), I thought, “Great idea! Let’s go into borrow mode!”.
And it made sense to build one of those, um, colo– colofuns, coloph…. oh what the heck, Blog Bits, that describes some info about what’s under the hood here at CogDogBlog.
To re-iterate, my plug-in pile:
- Dunstan’s Time Since Displays in human language how much time has passed since a post was published, “This entry was posted 6 days, 8 hours ago”
- Jerome’s Keywords Allows keywords to be associated with each post. Not very optimal, Bunny’s Technorati tag stopped working for me; need to look into Ultimate Tag Warrior.
- Optimal Title Allows <title>…</title> content to put the title first and blog name last, not as “good” if you are after search engine points, but of more use to web site taggers.
- podPress The ultimate podcast feed creator, I might use it more if I had anything interesting to say audibly.
- Preserve Code Formatting — allows source code to be displayed as HTML in <pre>…</pre> tags without needing to convert codes, not interpreted as HTML
- Recent Comments — alows display if recent comments to front page sidebar.
- Related Posts Displays a list of the related entries based on keyword matches.
- Spam Karma 2 Ultimate Spam Killer; please bow reverently toward Dr Dave. I would not blog without this protection. Ask my spammers.
- Site Statistics displays the stats for your blog, useful for a sidebar.
- Subscribe To Comments Lets readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
- Taragana’s Del.icio.us mp3 Player Plugin Makes any mp3 link (in post or page or any other location) playable directly on your webpage via s small flash player.
- Tiger Style Administration Converts the admin area to something more modern in terms of layout and style.
- WordPress Database Backup back up, and backup often.
Some of these were newly added, and after some rummaging arouund other Word Press blogs, like the totally geeky cool named 0xDECAFBAD who truly has a colophon. It was there I saw the Steve Smith’s Tiger Style Administration plugin, which reformats that old blue WordPress admin display to something more modern, as described by the author
After working with WordPress for several months now, I felt the Administration area needed a little “freshening up”. I wanted the utility to feel more like an application, and less like a traditional website.
So your panels can go from:
to this:
So maybe this is eye candy, and no one but me sees this interface, but after all, it is my blog 
I do have to clean up and better organize m categories, I’ve not been the best filer, and its likely time to consider moving to Ultiamte Tag Warrior so I can play folksonomy at home, and have a cool tag cloud.
December 28th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Hey Alan,
Thanks for the list and the pointer to Quintin’s. I’m running right out and grabbing Tiger Style Administration… Then I’ll mess with a few more…
How is the beer holding out?
December 28th, 2006 at 11:20 am
There’s plenty of beer (and chips) in the pantry. Good thing, as I am looking outside at a foot of fresh snow!
December 28th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
[...] Seems like the Cog Dog and teachinghacks.com having been doing a little sharing about their WordPress plugins, which I find extremely useful -so thanks. I have been talking a bit lately about some of the plugins I have recently discovered here, here, and here -but the following list is a quick and dirty look at what’s beneath the hood of bavatuesdays: 404 Notifier 1.0: This plugin will log 404 hits on your site and can notify you via e-mail or you can subscribe to the generated RSS feed of 404 events. Adjust your settings here. By Alex King. Aggregate 1.0: Allows you to place the contents of an RSS feed into your posts. By Rob Miller. Articles 1.1: Display posts in an ‘Articles’ list. To include a post in the list, add a custom field to the post: ‘article’ = ‘1′. By Alex King. BDP RSS Aggregator 0.4.10 (test): RSS Aggregator - collate RSS feeds and summarise to a page - updates regularly without the need for cron. By Bryan Palmer. Code Markup 1.1.1:: A filter that displays code blocks nicely while still allowing formatting. By Bennett McElwee. Exec-PHP 3.0:: Allows php code tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files. By Sören Weber. Kimili Flash Embed 1.1: Provides a wordpress interface for Geoff Stearns’ excellent standards compliant Flash detection and embedding JavaScript. By Michael Bester. Netflix 2.1 :Displays info from your Netflix account. This includes text and images via RSS feed. By Albert Banks. Optimal Plugin (formerly, OPML Renderer) : Renders valid OPML from any source as an expandable/collapsible list. By Dan MacTough. podPress: The podPress plugin gives you everything you need in one easy plugin to use WordPress for Podcasting. Set it up in ‘podPress’->Feed/iTunes Settings. By Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r). Share This: Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Thanks to Thomas McMahon for footwork on the URLs. By Alex King. Spam Karma 2: Reloaded: The only spam filter for WordPress. Period. Viper’s Video Quicktags:: Creates quicktags for embedding various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video, into WordPress. Uses the ButtonSnap class by Owen Winkler. By Viper007Bond. Wikipedia Link 0.1: With this plugin, you can link to Wikipedia entries just like within Wikipedia by simply enclosing the word you want to link with in double brackets. By Andreas Krennmair. WordPress Database Backup:: On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill. WordPress Mobile Edition 2.0: Show a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device. By Alex King. WP-FLV 0.2: This plugin eases insertion of Jeroen Wijerings FLV Video Player By Roel Meurders. (PodPress does play FLVs, but this is still the slickest and most solid FLV player for WordPress) Brian’s Latest Comments 1.5.10: This shows an overview of the recently active articles and the last people to comment on them. By Brian Meidell. [...]
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