- Automattic CEO and WordPress project leader Matt Mullenweg was a guest on episode 17 of the WordPress Weekly podcast with Jeff Chandler, and during the show, I asked Matt why WordCamp San Francisco, scheduled this upcoming August 16th at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the campus of the University of California at San Francisco, would be only one day instead of two, as it had been in previous years, as well as the overlap between it and the New Media Expo.
- WP Comment Remix is an entrant into the current Weblog Tools Collection plugin competition and it promises to bring “a plethora of new options and features to WordPress.” Ronald Huereca reviewed it at Weblog Tools Collection Videos. Some of the features it includes are:
- Reply and quote links for commenters - You can add a Reply link to each comment, which, when clicked, adds “@OriginalPoster”, and links it to the anchor of that comment. Also, clicking the Quote link has a similar action to the Reply link, but it adds the entire comment in a blockquote tag.
- Comment Ordering - You can choose how you want to order the comments for your readers - By Author name or Date, and Ascending or Descending
- Either separate or remove trackbacks- You can choose to separate the Trackbacks from the comments and move them to the bottom of the list, or remove them completely
- Comment Tags - allow your readers (and you) to find comments more easily, instead of having to read through potentially hundreds of comments in a single post to find something specific
- Mark comments as ‘In Need Of Reply’ - adds a button, similar to the “Awaiting Moderation” button that shows up on the right hand side of the Comments menu link. The new button tells you how many comments are in need of a reply, and when clicked, takes you to a list of those comments.
- New comment display links, allowing you to edit, reply, quote or mark as replied each comment directly from the comment admin page
- Added AJAX functionality allows you to edit pages and posts directly from the management admin pages
- Adds 4 new widgets allowing you to display recent comments along with gravatars, another to display recent trackbacks, one to display the most active posts based upon comment count, and one to display your more frequent commenters, along with their gravatars if you so choose, as a way of recognizing your more devoted readers. Each widget is tokenized, meaning you control the look and feel.
- WordPress Theme Design
written by Tessa Blakeley Silver and published by Packt Publishing is a recently published, 244-page book detailing just about everything you’d need to know about designing and coding themes for WordPress. It’s current as of version 2.5, and is available in paperback and as a digital download as well.
- No WordPress.com until Lorelle recuperates from surgery.
- Eric Amundson kicks off our inaugural “Ask Matt” segment with the question, “What resources are there about using WordPress as a Content Management System?” Matt directs Eric to a draft on the Codex for more places to look.
- Dave Jackson asks what our “Top 10 Plugins” are. We oblige, although Jonathan and I shared four identical choices (five if you count Jonathan’s waffling between Defensio and Akismet), so here are our combined “Top 16 plugins” (in no particular order):
- Fluency Admin/WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu
- PodPress
- Photo Dropper
- Digital Fingerprint
- Popularity Contest
- Related Posts
- WordPress Database Backup
- WP Ajax Edit Comments
- Defensio
- WP Super Cache
- FeedBurner FeedSmith
- Akismet
- Woopra
- What Would Seth Godin Do?
- Subscribe to Comments
- Share This
- Mark Ghosh’s comments during episode 39 of The WordPress Podcast recorded live at WordCamp Dallas 2008 about Bad Behavior and high server usage prompted a response from the plugin’s author, Michael Hampton.
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Excellent list of plugins. Thanks a lot!
LOL it’s Jeff Chandler, not Chambers
Chambers is a lot easier to pronounce, Chandler to me sounds like it would be “chan-dler” or “ch-and-ler”. You know, but Chambers, that is easy. It sounds like “Chambers of Commerce” which deals with money and everyone knows money.
It would explain why I’ve never tried your last name on the podcast.
As an alternative to “Photo Dropper”, consider Zemanta ( http://www.zemanta.com/ ). From the linked site, “Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Our solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into our system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be accessed from user’s preferred content publishing platform trough a simple plug-in.”
It’s made it easier for me personally to find related articles and images as necessary.
Jeff, I’ll simply claim that as a “senior moment” that lasted about 40 hours. Sorry!
*snicker* “42.”
(Somebody had to do it.)
Here’s my top 10 Plugin list (in no particular order):
- podPress
- NextGen Gallery
- Simple Tags
- Event Calendar
- Xmas BQuotes
- WordPress Admin Bar
- Ozh’ Absolute Comments
- Exec-PHP
- SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress
- ShareThis
Awesome article, great plugins. I’m going to check out woopra and I’ll post my findings in another comment
I use a lot of these plugins that are listed and have found that many of them can help you against such things as spam and plagiarism. I can’t wait until there are more plugins out there that make our blogging life much easier.
I would have included NextGen Gallery in the top ten, as well as WordPress.com Stats. I also like cforms a lot. Either way, this is a great list.
Nice list of plugins. I installed the WP Comments Remix, and I’m happy with it, however I think I will make some minor modifications, such as replacing the “Reply” and “Quote” links with icons. They’d match my blog theme better.
Okay, the WordPress Admin Bar Plugin just got and update and it’s now even better than before. This really is my Plugin n°1.
My Top 10:
Akismet
Advanced Permalinks
Redirection
Scrobbler
WPG2
Different Posts Per Page
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Subscribe to Comments
The Holy Scripturizer
the_excerpt Reloaded
Hi guys,
just wanted to let you know that I picked up my copy of Tessa Blakeley’s WordPress Theme Design book. Really good stuff…hope this is going to pimp my future blog design.
Since I use IntenseDebate, the enhancements to WordPress’s comments system are unnecessary for me.
Here’s my top 10 installed plugins, unordered:
-Google XML Sitemaps
-All in One SEO Pack
-Flickr Manager
-Fluency Admin
-WP-PostRatings
-AdSense Manager
-Google Analyticator
-podPress
-Shutter Reloaded
-I Love Social Bookmarking
There are other plugins that you’ve mentioned which I don’t feel need to be repeated on my list.
I have only just listened to this podcast (due to being busy) and I want to clear up a few things about Bad Behavior which were mentioned in episode 42.
Bad Behavior does not send any data back to a central server. I experimented with this a couple of years back but removed the feature due in part to privacy concerns and in part because I wasn’t getting much useful data from it. It never made it into an official stable release.
Bad Behavior’s database usage is minimal. Or as minimal as I can make it. Only requests which are blocked, and a few suspicious but permitted requests, are normally logged. This is done so that there is a way for people to go in and look to see that something legitimate wasn’t blocked. Even so the database use can be disabled entirely.
I see WordPress 2.6 was released recently…
looking forward to the next WordPress Podcast!
Marc,
Jonathan and I have a little pick-up recording to do this afternoon, then episode 44 will be coming out this week for sure, possibly even this evening.
Hi Folks,
why do you recommend the “podpress” plugin? Last updated on 2007-12-8 and it’s incompatible with WP 2.6