10 Wordpress Plugins I can’t live without

On 11.03.09, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

How many times has this post been made on numerous sites? There are countless number of them out there. I couldn’t even imagine how many there are. But I’m gonna post this anyways, because these are the plugins that I personally could not live without on any of my Wordpress sites.

  1. After the Deadline. If you’re like me and don’t have perfect grammar, then this plugin is definitely for you. Not only does it check for spelling errors but does a pretty damn good job.
  2. All in one SEO Pack. This plugin does a really good job at making most of your SEO ready. It doesn’t do everything for you, but it does enough in my opinion. This is a must for every site.
  3. Now Reading Reloaded. This plugin isn’t for everybody, since it’s a plugin that keeps track of the books that you’ve read. However for those who want to keep track and show the books they’ve read, this is probably one of the best plugins I’ve seen out there. It has customizable templates and a widget to display the books on the sidebar.
  4. Subscribe to Comments. This is something that should be built into Wordpress in my opinion. But, what can you do, so this plugin works. This plugin allows you to opt in to receive emails when a new comment has been posted on a post you’ve commented on. Definitely should be built in.
  5. Text Replace. This plugin will search through your posts and replace it with something else which you specify. I use this plugin to replace the names of friends to links to their website or set acronyms for certain words. I definitely recommend it.
  6. Wordpress Mobile Edition. This is a great plugin to easily make your site view-friendly to mobile phones. I recommend it because everyone should have a mobile version of their site without having to do their own browser checking.
  7. WP-Polls. For polls to attach to your sidebar (with a widget) or posts, this is by far the best plugin I have ever seen. You should be using this if you have polls.
  8. WP Ajax Edit Comments. I like to have my users able to edit their comments just in case they made some grammar errors or perhaps they forgot to mention something else. So without having to enter another comment, this allows them to edit their comments without leaving the page. Very useful plugin for admins as well since you can easily edit comments on the comment page.
  9. WP lightbox 2. This plugin automatically puts your linked images in your posts as lightbox style images. You know, the method where it blacks out the page and displays the image only without having to leave the page. Very cool effect.
  10. WPtouch iPhone theme. This plugin, like the mobile edition plugin, will display a different version of your site, completely customizable for iPhone, iPod touch, and touch screen type phones. This is the same thing that is used on wordpress.com. I love it!
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Wordpress Media Upload Sketches

On 10.08.09, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

Interested in seeing some sketches of the new Media Upload in Wordpress Dashboard? Check it out. (via Wordpress Development Updates)

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Wordpress 2.8 Beta 2

On 05.23.09, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

2.8 Beta 2 is out now and is available for download. Find out more details.

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Wordpress 2.8 beta 1

On 05.16.09, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

A new Wordpress is available for testing. You can download it here. You can see details about it here.

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Things I wish Wordpress did natively

On 05.13.09, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

You know, as much as I like Wordpress, there are some things to me that should just natively be part of it without having to add plugins. IMHO, plugins are overhead and well, if they could be implemented natively into the code I just think things would flow a lot better. One thing was just recently, which is to make a post “sticky”. This was such an about time thing that I am hoping they implement the other things in the future:

  1. Subscribing to comments via email. I know that in many cases this is not desirable. Especially on high traffic sites where you get over a 100 comments in a day. However, if there was an option for it, I would just love that instead of having to have a plugin to do it. Also, natively having this I think would make management so much easier.
  2. Support for Multiple blogs. Honestly. This would put the nail in a lot of other CMS/Blogging tools. If this was possible, then I would be a very happy man. Let me explain. Supporting multiple blogs would entail one admin control panel being able to post to any number of websites. Please, this should happen.
  3. Top Commentators widget. I use this on hello! yoshi, and I love it. But I think it should be something that’s native. Part of a stats widget if you will. I think this would be awesome.
  4. Polls. I think polls should be included. I know it’s really an unnecessary thing but perhaps you can have it load/not load as a preference.
  5. Rating/Karma. Finally, I think some kind of comment and entry rating system should exist. Again, if you didn’t want it, you could disable it and it wouldn’t load.

So there you have it. Do you have anything you’d like to add to the list? Or perhaps you want to say that there is no need to add them because the plugin works fine and doesn’t require much. Let me know your opinions!

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Wordpress releases Wordpress.tv

On 01.17.09, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

Wordpress releases Wordpress.tv, your visual guide to everything Wordpress. This site seems to be more than just a conglomeration of how to videos about wordpress, but also puts together in one place all the Word Camp videos, and well, everything else that even relates to wordpress.

It’s very well put together, and looks really easy to navigate, just like the original Wordpress website.

I must say this is a great way to get to learning how to use wordpress if you’re not proficient already. Bravo guys. The Introduction video pretty much sums up the website. 

 
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Wordpress 2.7 Beta 2 Available

On 11.06.08, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

You can now download Wordpress 2.7 beta 2. Here are just some fixes, visit the site to find more. You can also update your beta 1 via tools -> update as well. But it might not work so be prepared to download it manually.

* The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed.

* JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed.

* Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed.

* Various Autosave fixes.

 
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Wordpress 2.7 Beta 1 available

On 11.01.08, In Blogging, Wordpress, By Yoshi

For those of you who have been looking forward to trying out the latest and greatest in Wordpress, 2.7 beta 1 has been released for everyone to download. Remember that it is beta, so you will not want to use this on a live production site. (Unless you are daring like me)

I have not tried this out just yet, and I am looking forward to seeing the vast changes in the visual design. 

 
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Wordpress 2.5.1 Released

On 04.26.08, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

This release of Wordpress is set to squash out the bugs that have been annoying some people, and also is a security fix related to open registration that has not been made public yet. If you’re using 2.5, you’re urged to update. There are apparently over 70 other fixes in this update as well. Including fixing the flash media uploader for IE 7. Unfortunately for myself, it doesn’t fix the issue I’m having, which is most likely because of all the stupid stuff I’ve installed since I moved to wordpress in the recent past.

I tell you, upgrading and upgrading your installs of any software will eventually make it do things you’ve never thought would happen. I’m about this close to converting my personal blog back to ExpressionEngine. But no, I won’t do that. Yet.

 
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Wordpress 2.5 RC1

On 03.18.08, In Wordpress, By Yoshi

Ok, so I’ve downloaded, installed and tested Wordpress 2.5 RC1. I’m happy to announce that all my entries work just fine. The import process went great. It even asked me if I’d like to upload any images that were uploaded in my prior install. I didn’t see this in prior installs, so I’m guessing this is relatively new. Here’s a list of likes and dislikes (which I have already sent in to the 2.5 feedback email):

Things I don’t like :

1. too much wasted space at top. If there was only one line of stuff, that would work great. but there’s a lot of wasted space there. don’t like that. I would suggest that the name of the site show up next to “dashboard” or something similar to that and the visit site could go next to that. that would save so much more space.

2. on the write page. the categories are at the bottom. I’m likely to forget to choose a category and get pissed about it. I like in the 2.33 how you can move the items around. you can’t do that anymore. I don’t like that. I’d almost like to see the categories on the right under the post buttons.

3. Still no way to do sticky posts! This is really needed!

Things I like:

1. The menu options is just about right. i like that. “unimportant” items (settings/plugins) or items I don’t use everyday are small and set aside.

2. I like the “most used” clicking option on categories. neat.

3. i like the way tags are done. it looks like it still uses a bit of space though. but that’s ok.

Other than that, so far so good. I’d almost say that it’s ready to put out to the wild. I’m guessing and hoping that this is the kind of feedback they want.

Plugins that didn’t work for me?

Popularity Contest

WP Sticky

Top commentators widget

 
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