WordPress Plugins Used On The Michel Fortin Blog

I often get requests from peo­ple ask­ing me what plu­g­ins do I use on this blog. Or, what are my favorite plu­g­ins. Some­times, I post about them. But these lists usu­ally become stale fast, because I test new plu­g­ins and change them all the time.

So I wanted to post an update and list some of my favorite plu­g­ins. How­ever, it was cum­ber­some to pick and choose which ones I wanted to post about because there are so many. So I’ve decided to do some­thing dif­fer­ent this year.

Using a plu­gin that lists all the plu­g­ins in use on a par­tic­u­lar blog (I’ll share that one with you in a moment), I man­aged to print a list of all my plu­g­ins in a sin­gle post.

How­ever, the descrip­tions you will read are those of the plu­gin authors. Some of them are poor and insuf­fi­cient. Oth­ers don’t explain how I use them specif­i­cally on this blog.

So I’ve also added a mini-​​description with addi­tional com­ments to each plu­gin to explain why, how, or where I’ve used it on this blog. I sin­cerely hope this list is use­ful to you. If it is, con­sider it a Christ­mas gift from me.

There are 79 plu­g­ins used: 69 active plu­g­ins and 10 inac­tive plu­g­ins. Below is a list of all of them.

MichelFortin.com’s Active Plugins

Action Com­ments 1.0.5
Build your email opt-​​in list using blog com­ments. This plu­gin adds an extra signup box in the com­ments area, ask­ing com­men­ta­tors if they wish to also join my email list.

Action PopUp 2.2.4
Show an unblock­able exit pop-​​up on your blog. This plu­gin is what you see when you first vis­ited this blog, where the pop-​​up (really a layer, not a win­dow) opens up, and the back­ground dark­ens to place empha­sis on the pop-​​up box. (Much like light­box or grey­box, for example.)

AddQuick­tag 1.5.7
Allows you to eas­ily add cus­tom Quick­tags to the edi­tor. You can also export and import your Quick­tags. This plu­g­ins allows me to add com­mon tags, like “U” (under­line), “H1,” “H2,” “H3,” etc to the post editor.

Add Sig 1.3
Add a cus­tom sig­na­ture to the bot­tom of posts with the author’s infor­ma­tion. (This is the “about the author” sec­tion you see at the end of every post.)

Adsense-​​Deluxe 0.8
Place Google AdSense ads in your Word­Press Posts. This plu­gin allows you to cre­ate blocks of texts or code (par­tic­u­larly AdSense), along with a quick­tag added to the post edi­tor for quick inser­tion. You can eas­ily click to insert com­mon blocks (such as AdSense ads) in posts.

Akismet 2.2.3
Akismet checks your com­ments against the Akismet web ser­vice to see if they look like spam or not. You need a Word​Press​.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Com­ments.” (This plu­gin is a must-​​have if you get a lot of com­ment spam.)

All in One SEO Pack 1.4.6.15
Out-​​of-​​the-​​box SEO for your Word­press blog. This is my favorite plu­gin, because it really ramped up my SEO and increased my rank­ings by re-​​formatting key meta-​​tags, header infor­ma­tion, and title tags for spe­cific (or all) pages and posts.

Anar­chy Media Player 2.0
Plays mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, avi, asf and wmv hyper­text links directly on your web­page. Adds but­tons to the post edi­tor for embed­ding swf movies includ­ing Google Video, YouTube, Quick­Time, etc.

Angsuman’s Multi-​​Page Plu­gin 0.1
Adds but­ton to post edi­tor to enable a multi-​​page post. Essen­tially, I use this for parts of my blog where I post long pages. It breaks them up into mul­ti­ple pages (which I can split based on word count), and adds a page nav­i­ga­tion bar. Great for content-​​driven sec­tions, like books, reports, and so on.

Audio player 2.0b6
Audio Player is a highly con­fig­urable but sim­ple mp3 player for all your audio needs. You can cus­tomize the player’s color scheme to match your blog theme, have it auto­mat­i­cally show track infor­ma­tion from the encoded ID3 tags and more. Per­son­ally, I use it because I love the player’s appear­ance and flex­i­bil­ity of cus­tomiza­tion. For exam­ple, I use it with the Gary Hal­nert and John Carl­ton inter­views on this blog.

Bad Behav­ior 2.0.25
Deny auto­mated spam­bots access to your PHP-​​based web­site. This plu­gin alone kills two-​​thirds of spam­bots and com­ment spam attempts on my blog.

Batch Cat­e­gories 1.4
Eas­ily man­age the mass cat­e­go­riza­tion of posts that match var­i­ous cri­te­ria. This plu­gin enables me to cull posts based on cat­e­gories, sort them, arrange them, and mass-​​edit them in one fell swoop.

Bread­crumb Nav­i­ga­tion XT 1.10.1
Adds a bread­crumb nav­i­ga­tion show­ing the visitor’s path to their cur­rent loca­tion. I use this plu­gin pri­mar­ily on archive pages, search result pages, 404 pages, and other sub-​​pages. (For exam­ple, take a look at my arti­cle archives page, where you see “brows­ing” at the top fol­lowed by the par­ent and child page links.)

Buy Me a Beer 1.4
Allow your blog vis­i­tors to buy you a beer by send­ing you money through Pay­Pal. This is the plu­gin that allows read­ers to send me a tip. In my case, it’s “Buy Me a Cof­fee.” I use it on the side­bar and at the end of every post.

Com­ment Approved Noti­fier 1.1
Send an email to your com­menters when you approve their com­ments. Since all my com­ments are held in mod­er­a­tion, it helps to bring com­men­ta­tors back to my blog, espe­cially if I responded to their com­ments or addi­tional com­ments were made.

Com­ment Time­out 2.0.1
Auto­mat­i­cally closes com­ments on blog entries after a user-​​configurable period of time. It has options that allow you to keep the dis­cus­sion open for longer on older posts with recent com­ments accepted, or to place a fixed limit on the total num­ber of com­ments in the discussion.

Dagon Design Sitemap Gen­er­a­tor 3.15
Gen­er­ates a fully cus­tomiz­able sitemap. This is not an XML sitemap (there’s another plu­gin that does this). It cre­ates a visual web-​​based sitemap for easy view­ing and retrieval, which I’ve placed on my archives page.

Do Fol­low 3.1
The Do-​​Follow plu­gin removes the nofol­low attribute that Word­Press adds in com­ments. This means that search engines crawl­ing my posts will also crawl the links of my com­men­ta­tors, too. A great way to increase participation.

Exec-​​PHP 4.8
Exe­cutes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages, and text wid­gets. This plu­gin is pretty self-​​explanatory, but I use it par­tic­u­larly with split-​​testing scripts, adding spe­cific codes, embed­ding videos and Flash play­ers, etc.

Exe­cutable PHP wid­get 1.1
Like the Text wid­get, but it will take PHP code as well. (Same idea as the pre­vi­ous plu­gin and does the same thing, but it adds extra wid­gets for con­tent in the side­bar, which is sim­ply eas­ier for me to manage.)

FAQ-​​Tastic 0.9
Cre­ate and man­age FAQs. On my blog, I’ve listed a num­ber of com­monly asked ques­tions, with my responses. Great for SEO pur­poses, too.

Feed­Burner Feed­Smith 2.3.1
Orig­i­nally authored by Steve Smith, this plu­gin detects all ways to access your orig­i­nal Word­Press feeds and redi­rects them to your Feed­Burner feed so you can track every pos­si­ble sub­scriber. The impor­tance of this plu­gin is that is stream­lines all feed types, from RSS 0.92, RSS 2.0, Atom, and others.

Feed Styler 1.07
Cre­ates inline styles for feeds. For exam­ple, I use CSS styles in order to prop­erly “float” and align my post icons (or “avatars”), as well as pic­tures, pho­tos, or media I’ve added in my posts. This plu­gin allows me to extend those styles to my RSS feed, too. It is used mostly for posi­tion­ing, as feeds don’t use or over­ride CSS for styling.

FLV Plu­gin 0.1
Pro­vides an easy way to insert videos cre­ated by “FLV Pro­ducer.” This prod­uct, by my friend Tracy Childers, offers a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent play­ers for FLV files.

Full Text Feed 1.04
Pre­vents Word­Press 2.1+ from adding a more link to your website’s feed. This way, feed sub­scribers can view the entire post in their feeds with­out hav­ing to click on the “more” link. Also, by view­ing the entire post in their feeds makes it eas­ier to search for key­words and allows for bet­ter syndication.

Fuzzy Recent Posts 4.13
A Word­Press wid­get that lists a fuzzy num­ber of recently posted entries. I use this on my side­bar. Now, while doing this can be done eas­ily with sim­ple cod­ing, the author cus­tomized it for me to have my links trun­cated at a cer­tain char­ac­ter num­ber. Makes it look bet­ter, rather than force-​​wrapping long links.

Get Recent Post 2.0
Gets the most recent post con­tent or excerpt by cat­e­gory ID. Sim­i­lar to the plu­gin above, but this one also fetches the con­tent and/​or excerpts, which are great for spe­cific cat­e­gory pages (i.e., works much like the sum­maries on the index page, but allows you to do this to any other page, even the sidebar).

Google Ana­lyt­ics for Word­Press 2.7
This plu­gin makes it sim­ple to add Google Ana­lyt­ics with extra search engines and auto­matic click­out and down­load track­ing to your Word­Press blog. Def­i­nitely a must-​​have if you’re track­ing vis­i­tor activity.

Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.1
This plu­gin will gen­er­ate a sitemaps​.org com­pat­i­ble sitemap of your Word­Press blog which is sup­ported by Ask​.com, Google, MSN Search and Yahoo! This plu­gin auto-​​generates sitemaps every night and sub­mits them to Google. But the cool thing is, you can use the same sitemap it gen­er­ates to sub­mit them via Google’s Web­mas­ter Tools, MSN’s Web­mas­ter Por­tal, and Yahoo’s Site Explorer.

In Series 3.1.0 Beta 5
Gives authors an easy way to con­nect posts together as a series. You can use this for a spe­cific series of top­i­cal arti­cles. I use this plu­gin on reprints of entire books and spe­cial reports, such as Sci­en­tific Adver­tis­ing by Claude Hopkins.

Limit Posts 1.1
Lim­its the dis­played text length on the index page entries and gen­er­ates a link to a page to read the full con­tent if its big­ger than the selected max­i­mum length. This plu­gin is in large part redun­dant if you use the <!–more–> tag to cre­ate post teasers, but it’s use­ful when you for­get to insert it.

Link Trun­ca­tor 0.5
Trun­cates long links in com­ments to pre­vent over­flows. Specif­i­cally, some com­men­ta­tors will add very long links in their com­ments. When this hap­pens, it pro­trudes across the page. This plu­gin trun­cates the link and adds an ellipse at the end. Keeps com­ments look­ing clean!

Main­te­nance Mode 3.2
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets vis­i­tors know your blog is down for main­te­nance. Logged in admin­is­tra­tors get full access to the blog includ­ing the front-​​end. (This plu­gin is use­ful par­tic­u­larly when I upgrade this blog.)

MBLA 0.42
Use avatars from ser­vices like Gra­vatar, and MyBlogLog in your posts, com­ments and ping­backs. For instance, if you check out the com­ment sec­tion of any post, some com­ments show people’s avatars or pic­tures in them. This is what this plu­gin helps to do with com­men­ta­tors who have a Gra­vatar or MyBlogLog account.

My Cat­e­gory Order 2.7
My Cat­e­gory Order allows you to set the order in which cat­e­gories will appear in the side­bar. Uses a drag and drop inter­face for order­ing. Adds a wid­get with addi­tional options for easy instal­la­tion on wid­getized themes.

My Page Order 2.7
My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop inter­face. The default method of set­ting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, espe­cially with a large num­ber of pages. (Same as the pre­vi­ous plu­gin, it lists the pages in the spe­cific order I choose.)

Notify Mem­bers 0.2.2
This will allow your mem­bers to sign up to be noti­fied of all posts or com­ments. When some­one reg­is­ters to my blog or posts a com­ment, they can be noti­fied of all new blog posts, com­ments, or both, either blog-​​wide or per cat­e­gory. (This is han­dled on a per-​​user basis in the user’s pro­file area of the admin panel.)

Notify Users of Mod­er­a­tion 1.0
Passes moderated=true back if the com­ment was mod­er­ated. Specif­i­cally, this plu­gin opens up an alert box to notify recent com­men­ta­tors that their com­ments are held in mod­er­a­tion. This helps to pre­vent frus­tra­tion or from post­ing their com­ments over and over, think­ing that the blog “lost” their com­ment somehow.

Offi­cial Com­ments 1.1
Adds func­tions to dis­tin­guish autho­rized WP user’s com­ments. In the com­ment sec­tion on my blog, for instance, com­ments by me (or the author of the blog post) shows up as yel­low, whereas the rest show up as white.

Opti­mize DB 1.2
Lets you opti­mize your Word­Press data­base tables with one click. Sim­ply, it helps to opti­mize my blog’s MySQL data­base from within the admin area.

Pop­u­lar Posts 2.6.2.0
Dis­plays a highly con­fig­urable list of the most pop­u­lar posts. Requires the lat­est ver­sion of the Post-​​Plugin Library to be installed — see the next plu­gin. (On my archives page, this plu­gin helps me to list the five most pop­u­lar posts.)

Post-​​Plugin Library 2.6.2.1
Does noth­ing by itself but sup­plies com­mon code for the Sim­i­lar Posts, Recent Posts, Ran­dom Posts, and Recent Com­ments plu­g­ins. (Works with “Pop­u­lar Posts” above.)

Posts by Author 1.6
At the bot­tom of every post, this plu­gin adds links for that author’s last “X” posts (mine is set to five). It’s a great way to increase inter­nal traf­fic within your blog.

Pre­serve Code For­mat­ting 2.0
Pre­serve for­mat­ting of code for dis­play by pre­vent­ing its mod­i­fi­ca­tion by Word­Press and other plu­g­ins while retain­ing orig­i­nal white­space and char­ac­ters. Often, I want to post code and not con­tent. This plu­gin stops Word­Press’ tex­tur­ize func­tion (i.e., the way it pub­lishes and styl­izes cer­tain char­ac­ters) to gar­ble up the code formatting.

Ran­dom File 1.5
Retrieve the name, path, or link to a ran­domly cho­sen file in a spec­i­fied direc­tory. This is my favorite plu­gin, because it’s the one that allows ads and affil­i­ate offers to be dis­played in between posts and at the end of posts. Essen­tially, I have a folder with HTML files, ban­ners, text files with affil­i­ate links, etc. This plu­gin will ran­domly retrieve them, which I can add wher­ever I want within my blog’s templates.

Redi­rec­tion 2.0.11
A redi­rec­tion man­ager, this plu­gin does a lot more than just man­ages redi­rects. It man­ages 404 errors, cre­ates a redi­rect when a post slug (i.e., the perma­link) has been mod­i­fied, lists “bad” refer­rers, and more. I also use it to cre­ate “pretty” or short­her links for redi­rects to affil­i­ate links and such.

Robots Meta 3.0.11
This plu­gin allows you to add all the appro­pri­ate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, dis­able unused archives, and nofol­low unnec­es­sary links. If you under­stand the con­cept of “silo­ing,” this plu­gin is per­fect for that. It also adds “index/​noindex” and “follow/​nofollow” options on the post edit­ing interface.

Sam­sarin PHP Wid­get 1.3.2
A text wid­get with sup­port for includ­ing PHP. Very sim­i­lar to Excec PHP, but this one works bet­ter in some cases, espe­cially if you use mul­ti­ple sidebars.

Search & Replace 2.5
A sim­ple search to find strings in your data­base and replace the string. I use this plu­gin when a cer­tain web­site or link, which is used on mul­ti­ple pages or com­ments, has changed. I can change it all in one fell swoop.

Search Regex 1.4.8
Adds search and replace func­tion­al­ity across posts, pages, com­ments, and meta-​​data, with full reg­u­lar expres­sion sup­port. (I use this one more than the pre­vi­ous, because of reg­u­lar expres­sion sup­port, which allows me to search using wild­cards and such.)

SEO Friendly Images 2.3.1
Auto­mat­i­cally adds alt and title attrib­utes to all your images. Improves traf­fic from search results and makes them W3C/​xHTML valid as well. Along with the other SEO plu­g­ins, this makes sure every image has both tags, based on cri­te­ria you set in the plu­gin options.

SEO Slugs 1.0
Removes com­mon words like “a”, “the”, “in” from post slugs to improve SEO. It’s a per­fect plu­gin for reduc­ing post links to impor­tant key­words only. For exam­ple, if you have a post with a link like /​this-​​is-​​a-​​great-​​post-​​on-​​SEO/​, it reduces it to /​great-​​post-​​SEO/​.

ShareThis 2.3
Let your vis­i­tors share a post/​page with oth­ers. Sup­ports email and post­ing to social book­mark­ing sites. You’ve prob­a­bly seen this at the top and bot­tom of my posts. It’s the link beside the small, green icons. You can click it to either book­mark it on pop­u­lar social net­work­ing sites, or send the post to a friend by email.

Sim­ple Tags 1.6.4
Sim­ple Tags extends the native Word­Press tag­ging sys­tem. It adds tag auto­com­ple­tion, tag sug­ges­tions (from pop­u­lar tag­ging net­works by “sens­ing” your con­tent), tag clouds, tag mass-​​editing, and more. In fact, it’s the plu­gin I use to list related posts at the end of each post.

Smart Link 3.12
Lets you write links as [link text->link url] (explicit link), or as [link text-​​>] (implicit link). For exam­ple, if I know the slug for a page, I don’t have to type in the entire link to the page in the post edi­tor. I sim­ply “smart link” to it using [link text->slug], such as [click here for the sitemap->sitemap], which links to michelfortin​.com/​s​i​t​e​map.

SRG Clean Archives 4.3
This plu­gin is designed to dis­play your archive list­ings in a clean, uni­form, single-​​query fash­ion that’s search-​​engine friendly on a ded­i­cated page or in your side­bar. I use it on my sitemap page. I love it because it also lists the posts in chrono­log­i­cal order and even adds the num­ber of com­ments besides each link.

Sub­scribe To Com­ments 2.1.2
Allows read­ers to receive noti­fi­ca­tions of new com­ments that are posted to an entry. It adds a check­box in the com­ment area ask­ing com­men­ta­tors if they wish to be noti­fied of new com­ments to the blog post they com­mented on.

Text Con­trol 2.0b1
Take total con­trol of how your blog for­mats text: Tex­tile 1+2, Mark­down, AutoP, nl2br, Smar­ty­Pant, and Tex­tur­ize. Blog wide, indi­vid­ual posts, and defaults for com­ments. (I use this pri­mar­ily for test­ing, since some blog con­tent uses code out­put that can be mis­tak­enly munged by the Word­Press default tex­tur­ize function.)

the_​excerpt Reloaded R1
This mod­i­fi­ca­tion of Word­Press’ tem­plate func­tion allows the_​excerpt(), which nor­mally retrieves raw text only, to be cus­tomized, includ­ing HTML with images and code, and pulling a sum­mary of the post con­tent up to a cus­tom word count.

Tidy Up 1.2
Runs an HTML Tidy on all posts and com­ments. HTML Tidy is a pop­u­lar script that allows pro­gram­mers and design­ers to check for code errors and “clean” their code for­mat­ting. But rather than using an exter­nal script, this plu­gin adds the func­tion­al­ity in the post and com­ments list­ings for quicker editing.

Twit­ter Tools 1.5.1
A com­plete inte­gra­tion between your Word­Press blog and your Twit­ter account. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twit­ter. Again, another must-​​have, espe­cially if you use Twit­ter like I do.

Word​Press​.com Stats 1.3.5
Tracks views, post/​page views, refer­rers, and clicks. Requires a Word​Press​.com API key. While Google Ana­lyt­ics offers bet­ter report­ing fea­tures, this allows me to see my stats, at a glance, on the admin dash­board when I login.

Word­Press Data­base Backup 2.2.2
On-​​demand backup of your Word­Press data­base. You can also sched­ule back­ups on a reg­u­lar basis, from daily to monthly. It’s a must-​​have if you don’t want to ever lose your con­tent should some­thing hap­pen to your blog or data­base. (I use it espe­cially before upgrad­ing my blog to a newer ver­sion, for example.)

WP-​​Ban 1.31
Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent, and ref­erer URL from vis­it­ing your WordPress’s blog. It will dis­play a cus­tom ban mes­sage when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent, or ref­erer URL tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude cer­tain IPs from being banned. There will be sta­tis­tics recordered on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wild­card match­ing, too.

WP-​​Cats 0.21
Ajax-​​y cat­e­gory con­trols added to the Man­age Posts screen. For exam­ple, it adds the names of the cat­e­gories a blog belongs to, along with “+” and “-” signs to instantly add or remove cat­e­gories in a snap.

WP-​​PageNavi 2.31
Adds a more advanced pag­ing nav­i­ga­tion to your Word­Press blog. Scroll down to the bot­tom of the front page, and you will see a list of page num­bers to nav­i­gate through. The best part is, you can style and cus­tomize the text as much as you want.

WP-​​PluginsUsed 1.40
Dis­play Word­Press plu­g­ins that you cur­rently have (both active and inac­tive) onto a post/​page. In fact, it’s the plu­gin I used to cre­ate this list!

WP Com­ment Remix 1.4.4
Adds much needed com­ment func­tion­al­ity to Word­press. Essen­tially, it adds “reply” and “quote” links in the com­ments, which allows com­men­ta­tors to respond to other com­ments in a snap. By click­ing the link, it auto­mat­i­cally pre­fills the com­ment box with a link back to the orig­i­nal com­ment, along with the commentator’s name. It also sep­a­rates pinbacks/​trackbacks from your comments.

YLSY Perma­link Redi­rect 2.0
Perma­link Redi­rect ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the perma­link. Oth­er­wise, a 301 redi­rect will be issued. Per­son­ally, I use this plu­gin because it auto­mat­i­cally redi­rects older pema­link struc­tures to the new ones, such as /%month%/%day%/%postname%/ (which is what I used to have) to /%postname%/.

MichelFortin.com’s Inac­tive Plugins

While these plu­g­ins are inac­tive, they are not nec­es­sar­ily unused. I often turn some of them on, albeit tem­porar­ily, for test­ing or tweak­ing purposes.

Action Optin 1.0.2
Dis­play optin forms that sub­mit in the back­ground. In other words, using this plu­gin, the optin box refreshes dynam­i­cally with­out hav­ing to reload the page to open a sep­a­rate “thank you” page, thus pre­vent­ing any distractions.

Ama­zon S3 for Word­Press 0.3.4
Allows you to retrieve objects stored in Ama­zon S3 and post them in Word­Press. (We’re in the process of trans­fer­ring all our in-​​house videos to Ama­zon S3. It’s the best invest­ment we’ve ever made. And it’s cheap, too!)

Cus­tomiz­able Post List­ings 1.6
Dis­play Recent Posts, Recently Com­mented Posts, Recently Mod­i­fied Posts, Ran­dom Posts, and other post list­ings using the post infor­ma­tion of your choos­ing in an eas­ily cus­tomiz­able man­ner. You can nar­row post searches by spec­i­fy­ing cat­e­gories and/​or authors, among other things.

Fea­tureMe 0.9
Fea­tureMe allows you to man­age a fea­tured entries list for your blog. For exam­ple, on the side­bar you see a list of posts I rec­om­mend. These are my sta­ple, ever­green posts. It’s a great way to show­case them to your newest visitors.

Google Web­site Opti­mizer for Word­Press 0.2
A plu­gin for inte­grat­ing Google Web­site Opti­mizer into blog posts and pages. (As a rabid tester, I often use Google Web­site Opti­mizer to split-​​test stuff. This plu­gin is a bit clumsy though, so I often hand­code my tests directly into my blog. I also use other test­ing scripts, so I don’t need this plu­gin all the time.)

Hide Dash­board 1.1
Hide Dash­board from non-​​administrators. Great for mem­ber­ship sites. I use this plu­gin when I have guest blog­gers or edi­tors access­ing my blog. (But with the new cus­tomiz­able admin inter­face with Word­Press 2.7, it’s no longer needed.)

Recently Updated Posts 0.3
Returns a list of the most recently updated posts. I used to use it, but it’s not really needed since I use Sim­ple Tags plu­gin to list related posts instead.

Sub­scribe me 4.0
Adds a wid­get with feed sub­scrip­tion but­tons. It’s no longer needed, as I use Share This plu­gin instead. Plus, I now use my own, cus­tomized code for the RSS and email optin box you see in var­i­ous loca­tions on this blog, as well as the feed and email sub­scriber count you see at the top-​​right sec­tion of my sidebar.

Where did they go from here? 1.4
Show “Read­ers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page. Much like Amazon.com’s prod­uct pages. This plu­gin is cur­rently bro­ken with Word­Press 2.7. But nor­mally, it would dis­play a list of other posts read­ers have viewed.

WP-​​GreyBox 1.1.1
Grey­Box can be used to dis­play web­sites, images, and other con­tent using AJAX — i.e., a popup box with the dark­ened back­ground. All images in each post are grouped together into a gallery auto­mat­i­cally. (I’m test­ing this with a vari­ety of features.)

MichelFortin.com’s Plu­gin Wish List

Hope­fully, this list was help­ful to you. Granted, while it does include all the plu­g­ins I use, it does not list any of the hacks, per­son­al­iza­tions, mod­i­fi­ca­tions, and codes I’m using. That would require an entire book!

How­ever, I do have a wish­list of plu­g­ins I’d like to see devel­oped. I could hire some­one to do them, but I’d pre­fer them to be open source so that oth­ers can use them, too.

Here’s one of them…

Does any­one know of a Word­Press plu­gin that would allow me to password-​​protect only a part of a post? Not the entire post. And not just “hid­ing it,” either.

The pur­pose is to password-​​protect only a sec­tion of a post, so that only email sub­scribers would get access to the “meaty” part. It’s a very cool way to boost signups, and I want to test it to see if they it does increase optins.

Some plu­g­ins do exist that offer some of this func­tion­al­ity. But the prob­lem is, they are mostly for mem­ber­ship sites and come with a ton of other fea­tures I don’t need.

For exam­ple, this mem­ber­ship site plu­gin has that one fea­ture. It password-​​protects sec­tions of a post by sur­round­ing it with [pri­vate] [/​private] tags in the post.

That’s what I’d love to have. But again, I don’t need the full mem­ber­ship site. I only need that one fea­ture. I never plan on turn­ing this into a mem­ber­ship site, anyway.

Oth­ers have sug­gested to me Pre​mi​um​Cast​.com and a few oth­ers, but again, they don’t offer this pre­cise func­tion­al­ity and are mostly for mem­ber­ship sites.

Oth­ers have sug­gested to me Pre​mi​um​Cast​.com and a few oth­ers, but again, they don’t offer this pre­cise func­tion­al­ity and are mostly for mem­ber­ship sites.

If you know of such a plu­gin, please let me know or com­ment below.

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