A Quick Roundup of My Blog Plugins

I’ve had my own self-hosted blog for about 6 months now, and so far I haven’t posted anything about tinkering with wordpress. So let me talk about the plugins my wordpress uses.

Here’s my plugin list, in alphabetical order, with download links:

Akismet Blocks spam comments. No need to say more about this one~

All in One SEO Pack SEO optimization. Tons of people say you need it, tons of people say you don’t, uh~ I’m confused~ so I’ve never removed it

Comment Info Detector Shows each commenter’s location, browser and operating system. Very cool. I’m using a modified version

Clean Archives Reloaded A very handy plugin for displaying post archives

Delete-Revision Deletes redundant post revisions. Very useful. You don’t need to keep it enabled, just clean things up every so often

Executable PHP widget Lets you add PHP code directly in sidebar widgets. Very handy, though also a bit of a “nice but not really needed” thing

Fluency Admin An admin dashboard makeover plugin, recommended by the BOSS of SHOWBLOG. Once you use it, your dashboard looks really slick!

Google XML Sitemaps Google sitemap generator. This one is a must!

Hacklog Highslide Picture A modified image display plugin

Highslide4WP Enhances emoticons in comments

Highslide for Wordpress reloaded Image zoom plugin

Mail To Commenter Email replies to comments. Since my blog theme doesn’t support threaded comments, this one is great, and it keeps users coming back!

NextGEN Gallery Photo gallery. It’s too bloated, so it’s turned off for now and I’m using a different gallery

OpenID Not enabled for regular users yet. It lets people log in quickly. I recommend reading this post by Lanbing

Page Links To Makes a page link straight to another URL. Very handy, no need to edit the source code

Post Layout Ad insertion plugin. Makes it easy to insert ads into posts

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved A very powerful code plugin, though my blog also has a built-in code plugin

Thumbnail For Excerpts Plugin for showing thumbnails, disabled for now

Wibiya Toolbar Very cool tools, removed for now

WordPress Mobile Pack Plugin for mobile access

wp-comment-warrior Top commenters list, disabled for now

WP-Cumulus Tag cloud with Chinese support. I’ve optimized it to support Chinese text and the YaHei font, with no jittering. The original version doesn’t support Chinese, and some versions jitter. Here’s the download link for the 3D tag cloud: click here to download from 115 cloud drive

WP-MulticolLinks Splits the blogroll into columns so the links don’t take up a lot of space. CSS could do this too, but I’m lazy

WP-PageNavi Pagination plugin. It improves on wordpress’s default pagination

WP-reCAPTCHA Comment CAPTCHA plugin. It’s way too powerful, so I don’t dare use it. People would curse me out if I did

WP-RecentComments Sidebar recent comments plugin, with ajax enabled, mainly to go with my theme

WPVN - Username Changer Plugin for changing the super admin username, mainly for 2.9.2. You don’t need it in 3.0

That’s it. I’m still on 2.9.2, so there aren’t many compatibility problems and everything works fine. Some plugins might have issues in 3.0. Let’s all share what we find~

10.09.2015 update

It’s rare for me to look back like this. I used wordpress for so long, and I really miss these plugins