Improving my blog with WordPress plugins

25 June 2005 at 16:50 CEST | In Blogging, Other |

Since I installed my blog, I’ve added some plugins. This weekend I played around with some more WordPress plugins to improve my blog. I’ve installed the following plugins:

  • Get Recent Comments
    This plugin gives me a PHP function to show the recent comments in the sidebar. I’ve also added the most recent posts in the sidebar, but that one is possible with a builtin function from WordPress.
  • Identify External Links
    I use this plugin to add a target=”_blank” attribute to all external links. This makes these links open in a new browser window. I also use the plugin to add a small icon to all external links indicating it will be opened in a new browser window.
  • Intouch
    Thus plugin is used to create a contact form that emails all input to me.
  • Google Sitemaps
    This plugin automatically creates a Google Sitemap and posts it to Google. This is supposed to help Google in indexing my site.
  • StatTraq
    This plugin keeps statistics in a number of MySQL tables. Every page requested is stored in these tables enabling quite detailed statistics.
  • Trackping Separator
    This plugin gives some functions to split the trackbacks/pings from the comments. WordPress doesn’t distinguish between visitor comments and trackbacks/pings. I wanted to separate them out in a posting page.
  • Click Counter
    This plugin keeps track of all external links that are clicked. It also enables the list of popular external links in the sidebar.
  • Google Hilite
    This is not actually a WordPress plugin, but just a handy PHP function that will highlight the terms used for a Google search when arriving at a page via Google. I tweaked this one a bit to also show search terms from Yahoo, MSN and the internal WordPress search.
  • Live Comment Preview
    This plugin shows a nice preview of your comment while your typing it! Should be easier for commenters to see if/what HTML is accepted.
  • CJD Spam Nuke
    Comment spams are automatically recognized by Wordpress and are safely tugged away. This plugin enables me to review those spam comments and remove them completely from the database
  • Update 12-jul-2005 PraColorizer
    Colorizes java, C, C++ and C# code
  • Update 17-jul-2005 Search Everything
    Search postings, pages and comments and not just postings
  • Update 21-jul-2005 Search Reloaded
    Significantly improve the relevance of WordPress’ built-in search engine

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  1. Thanks for sharing the WordPress plugins you use. I will definately install a few of them on my blog

    Comment by Eddie Awad — 1 July 2005 #

  2. Terrific Blog you have. Peace Out.
    TreeFrog

    Comment by TreeFrog — 22 February 2006 #

  3. Kewl blog you got goin on up here.
    Peace, JiggyWittit

    Comment by JiggyWittit — 6 March 2006 #

  4. Yes, they do that. Excellent plugins.

    Comment by Mattg — 10 January 2007 #

  5. hey, you got all the useful plugin which I could use and teach my student. Thanks alot.

    Comment by Wordpress QuickStart Guy — 15 August 2007 #

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    Comment by Grants — 27 August 2007 #

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  1. Eddie Awad’s Blog » My WordPress Plugins

    [...] I found some of the plugins I use while browsing Wilfred’s list of plugins  that he had installed on his blog. [...]

  2. Abigail

    Look good

  3. Michael

    Readed Weird enough for government work.

  4. Andrew

    Smile To boldly go where I surely don't belong.

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