This is the fourth (one, two, three) in an occasional series of articles that explain which plug-ins I use here, in case others who run WordPress blogs might be interested…and it also helps me document why I use certain plug-ins, so it's a double-purpose post.
Since the last installment two years ago, I've retired Dashboard Commander and ELI's Related Posts Footer Links and Widget, and added seven new plug-ins. Here's what each of those does:
- Ajaxy Live Search: Provides as-you-type search results.
- Calculated Fields Form: This plug-ink lets you do math in forms, as used in my hybrid vehicle payback calculator.
- Contextual Related Posts: This is what I used to replace ELI's Related Posts plug-in; I find it seems to find more-related posts than did the prior plug-in.
- Featuring CountComments: This simple plug-in just displays a comment count for logged-in users.
- iframe: I added this plug-in so that I could embed a Google Docs spreadsheet in my hybrid SUVs post.
- TwentyTwenty: This plug-in creates sliding before-and-after images, as seen in Revisiting ripping Blu-ray discs.
- WP Original Media Path: At some point, WordPress removed the original media path field from the media library screen; this plug-in just adds it back.
- WP Post Styling: Instead of editing your CSS file every time you want to do some semi-custom formatting, this plug-in lets you create post-only styles you can apply as needed. In my case, I need it with the TwentyTwenty plug-in to handle the CSS they use to manage the image swapping.
- YOP Poll: Embed a poll in a post, as I did when asking how many iDevices you owned. Currently this plug-in is being "rebooted," so it's not available. Going forward, I'll probably just use Twitter polls (i.e. Apple Mail: Classic or modern layout?).
Adding nine and removing two means I'm up to 26 plug-ins, which seems like a lot. But each of them has a role to play, even if it's not a huge role. Here's the full list:
- Ajaxy Live Search
- Akismet
- Calculated Fields Form
- Contextual Related Posts
- Crayon Syntax Highlighter
- Custom Meta Widget
- Cyclone Slider 2
- Date/Time Now Button
- EZP Maintenance Mode
- Featuring CountComments
- Gallery Shortcode Style to Head
- Get Recent Comments
- iframe
- Jetpack by WordPress.com
- prettyPhoto Media
- Recently Registered
- Redirection
- Remove More Jump
- Sabre
- Thin Out Revisions
- TwentyTwenty
- Twitter Widget Pro
- WP Hide Post
- WP Original Media Path
- WP Post Styling
- YOP Poll