Plugin Junkie
I am a plugin junkie. I confess. I need a 12-step program or something. Wordpress allows all these ‘plugins’ to be added, and hundreds more here. They do all sorts of neat stuff, including comment spam filters (Akismet and Spam Karma 2)
Here they are. I recommend all of them.
| Plugin | Description |
| Akismet | Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under “Manage” and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. Hat tip: Michael Hampton and Chris J. Davis for help with the plugin. By Matt Mullenweg. |
| AutoMeta | Automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. By Rich Boakes . |
| Comment Quicktags | Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. By Owen Winkler. Lets commenters add links more easily. |
| Democracy | Ajax polling plugin By Andrew Sutherland. Used for the Hastert and Bush Impeachment poll. |
| Polite-ifier | Cleans up commenters’ bad language. By Elliott Back. Some people thinkit’s too strict; I have to edit the “bad words” list. |
| Related Posts | Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov & Mike Lu. |
| Show Top Commentators | Encourage more feedback and discussion from readers, by rewarding them every time they post a comment! Readers with the most comments are displayed on your Wordpress blog, with their names (linked to their website if they provided one). By Nate Sanden . Not activated. |
| Spam Karma 2 | Ultimate Spam Killer for WordPress. Activate the plugin and go to Manage >> Spam Karma 2 to configure. See Spam Karma 2 >> About for details. By dr Dave. |
| wp-cache | Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. By Ricardo Galli Granada. |
| WP-Amazon | WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon to your entries. This plugin adds a button called “Amazon” on the post page. By Rich Manalang . |
| WordPress Database Backup | On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill. |
| Sidebar Widgets | Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu By Automattic, Inc.. |
| WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup | Fixes a number of annoying bugs in WordPress 2.0.3 By Mark Jaquith . |
Enabling links in comments - Quick tags plugin
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