This list of favourite wordpress plugins is worth checking out. I’ve been only using a few so far, and am very happy with: akismet (anti-spam), Ultimate tag warrior (tagclouds) and some of the links in this post will be created by sh-autolink. I’m also still very happy with wordpress itself 
plugins from the list that look attractive:
- Sidebar Widgets – reorganize the sidebar without modifying the template
- openid plugin – an open way for guests to keep their account data (such as e-mail addresses) in one place
- wordpress Admin Drop Down Menu
this list of related entry plugins contains a snippet for ultimate tag warrior that lists related posts based on their tags. Seems worth checking out.
Some plugins by Alex King that seem worth checking out :
- Articles – make a list of articles that you select outside the chronology
- Link Harvest – This plugin will go through all of your posts and pages and compile a list of all external links.
- Popularity contest – This plugin will help you see which of your posts are most popular
I’m a WP newbie with a server installation: WP 2.1.1 (latest).
Am trying to get Sidebar Widgets going. I went to:
http://automattic.com/code/widgets/use/
and downloaded the latest widgets.zip but its missing all the *.js files, which are needed.
Would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Brooks
Hi Brooks,
By ‘look attractive’ I meant – haven’t installed them yet, and would like to try
. So I haven’t installed sidebar widgets yet.
I’ve just (a couple of minutes ago) upgraded this one to WP latest – that was easy. I’ll try the sidebar widgets right now, and see how that goes.
The .js files come from a separate project script.aculo.us – it’s a popular javascript library that makes it easy to add drag-and-drop and visual effects to an application.
You can find it at the scriptaculous download page : http://script.aculo.us/downloads
after you extract the archive, you have to place it in the widgets directory.
Here’s what I did:
wget http://script.aculo.us/dist/scriptaculous-js-1.7.0.tar.bz2
bunzip2 scriptaculous-js-1.7.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvf scriptaculous-js-1.7.0.tar
mv scriptaculous-js-1.7.0 widgets/scriptaculous
hope that helps. Now I’ll see about getting it running in this site….
Got it working now – the sidebar here is replaced with ‘widget’s. Getting the tag cloud back was a bit of work. You need a widget for this as well. I ended up using
http://anthologyoi.com/wordpress/widget/ultimate-tag-warrior-widget.html/trackback