DISQUS

Daniel Erickson · 1 year ago

Starting to look like an awesome list, I think I'll subscribe just to see how this turns out!

corourke · 1 year ago

I don't know if I'll be able to do this endeavor on my own. Interested in helping or suggesting some good plugin ideas?

wpwl · 1 year ago

Great post :)

As an avid WordPress user, here are a few of my favorites:
- Google Analytics plugin
- Page Link Manager
- WP-Polls
- FAQ-Tastic
- Featured Content Gallery
- Less
- CommentActions.com (PAID)
- FAlbum
- Gravatar plugin
- Sociable
- WishListMember.com (my own - sorry couldn't help myself!)

Hopefully that list will give you a few extra days :)

Take care.

Stu

corourke · 1 year ago

Did you really think that through with linking to CommentActions? It is hands down one of the dumbest ideas for a plugin I've seen.
A paid plugin that actually alienates your readers? No one, not a single soul on earth likes automatic optin mail spam. A plugin that does that may as well just shut down your blog and empty your bank account because the lawsuits and CANSPAM violations will do it for you.

As for your list of plugins, I use some of those. I plan on writing new plugins to add features and functions that aren't yet there.

Mettadore · 1 year ago

Man, I agree about CommentActions. I mean, maybe you could script up something useful for comment submission, but that's pretty heavily sales/marketing based.

Some (many asthetic) that I use on Positively Glorious! include:

-All in one SEO pack
-Blog mechanics keyword linker
-wp-footnotes
-Dagon Sitemap Generator
-"Page links to" plugin (link to external pages)
-Ultimate Category Excluder
-wp-DBManager
-Of course, wp-cumulus which you have running.

I was going to do this same thing for blog.orblogs.org, so maybe I can link the posts over there. It's stuff like this that I thought would be good for the blog site because it's more functional.

corourke · 1 year ago

Those are some great plugins. I love the footnotes plugin. Saw it in action on your site the other day and meant to tweet you about it. :D

So if those are the plugins you like, what function would you like added to your wordpress that there isn't a plugin for?

A.J. aka linuxaid · 1 year ago

One I have been looking for is a You Tube sidebar widget that reads the data from a particular RSS feed from YouTube

corourke · 1 year ago

I totally dig on that idea. Shouldn't be too hard to do that one at all.

MizD · 1 year ago

Here's what I'm hoping to find (or create if I knew how): a plugin that would allow the manager of a restaurant site to update their food menu without dealing with formatting. It would allow for multiple pages -- eg Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Happy Hour, etc -- and multiple fields for each entry (name, price, description). The plugin settings would allow for customized CSS so the menus would match the site's overall look.

(Note: this could (or should) be easily adapted to any other formatted, categorized list -- resume, artists' gallery listings, etc.)

I looked at Bibliofly, which is a bibliography plugin, thinking that would be a good starting point. It does something similar with categories (novels, short stories, etc), but sadly it hasn't been updated for a while and doesn't work past WP 2.2.

corourke · 1 year ago

That's a cool idea. I think most of that could be done with either the ecommerce plugin (minus the buy now button) or with the custom fields when creating the site. Tying that functionality together is a great idea.

beerinator · 1 year ago

There is already a plugin that is very similar to #5 in your list. wp-greet box plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/

You can see it in action by clicking the link in this tweet:
http://twitter.com/draftmag/status/1023052493

corourke · 1 year ago

Brilliant! That's exactly how I wanted the plugin to work. Adding that one now I think :D
Also Beerinator!!!? How the heck are you man?