WordPress Plugins/Hacks in Use

This post will be updated as I try and remove various plugins for WordPress.

• Collapsable More Link by Chroder

Allows you to click a link and instantly display the rest of your post instead of loading the ‘view more’ page.

• Spam Karma 2: Reloaded by Dr Dave

The movie sucked. The plugin does not. Go to Manage >> Spam Karma 2 to configure. *** Requires Wordpress 1.5.1 to function correctly ***

• Ajax Spell Checker

The MOD of spellchecker plugin for wordpress. Allows you to spell check your posts and visitors to spell check their comments.

• Bad Behavior Log Reader by Simon Elvery

Primative log reader for Bad Behaviour in WordPress - needs Bad Behavior to run.

• Bad Behavior by Michael Hampton

Stop comment spam before it starts by trapping and blocking spambots before they have a chance to post comments.

• Del.icio.us Integrator by Eric Anderson

This plugin allows you to embed your recent links into your sidebar and your entire del.icio.us links into a seperate page. (Currently only viewed using the “Connections” theme for Miss Domestic)

• Drop Down Get Links by Ria Baltazar

This plugin is to be used within an already existing drop down/jump menu code. This will output the links in the WP Link Manager in the following format Site name. Credit for the original code goes to the Word Press team.

• Drop Down Categories by Ria Baltazar

This plugin is to be used within an already existing drop down/jump menu code. It will output a list of categories in the following format: “category name“. Tested with Word Press (ver. 1.5) and credit for the code goes to the Word Press team.

• Gravatars by Scott Merrill

This plugin provides an administrative interface to control default gravatar options. Registered users can also (optionally) define local gravatar images that will override their gravatar.com default. Copyright 2005 Scott Merrill; Licensed under the terms of the GPL.

• Referer Bouncer by Angsuman Chakraborty

Bounce referer spammers back to their own sites. The plugin comes with a list of default sites. However you can modify the referer.txt file to add/remove your referer’s(requires that the file is first created either manually or through a link provided later). I could not survive without this.

• Subscribe to Comments by Scriptygoddess

Allows users(readers) to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted after their own.

• Theme Switcher by Mr Peer

Allow your readers to switch theme. Configure on the Options > Theme Switcher page. Don’t forget to add get_theme_switcher() function in your templates…

• Archives Drop Down Menu w/o Plugin

Displays monthly archives in a dropdown list; the use of javascript is required to have an archive selection open on the page.

• Javascript needed to implement Drop Down Menus with and without the plugins by Ria

Copy the script from my .txt file and insert it into your index.php page. Doing so will allow your drop down menus to work properly. Thanks to Jenny for the info and help.

• FAlbum

This is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.

• Amazon Wishlist Blog Badge

Sidebar badge for displaying images of your Amazon Wish List items. Unobtrusive and neat.

Wow. That’s a great list.

Where do I find the translator page, though? “Bounces them back to their own page?” What do you mean?

Paul:

Go here and read the explanation of how it works. Basically, when you’re using this plugin, your .htaccess keeps track of urls that are spamming you, and when they attempt a spam, your server sends a 302 (temporary redirect), which essentially tells the spammer bot to go spam its own domain.

The only “issue”, if you can call it that, is that you must manually update your referer.txt file with the names of the URLs you want to “bounce”. For me, it was tedious at first, but I’ve had little to no referer spam monthly after installing this plugin. It’s really easy to install and has very detailed instructions.

Let me know if this was helpful.

Link for archives drop down menu doesn’t seem to be working. Hrm?

It’s working for me -

When you open that window, there is a grey box right at the top of the screen titled “Using Dropdown list”. Follow the instructions and use the Java that I’ve linked here and you should be fine. It looks almost exactly like the code for the other two dropdown menu things, only it’s not a plugin, it’s actually just a little script you put in your sidebar template.

Heh. The link itself wasn’t loading earlier. But it does now. And everything is right with the world. Hurrah.