WordPress Plugins
Active Plugins
- array_partition
- Author Image(s)
- Auto-hyperlink URLs
- Category Image(s)
- Configure SMTP
- Custom Admin Post Listing
- Custom Fields For Anything
- Custom Post Limits
- Customizable Comment Listings
- Customizable Post Listings
- Disable Directory Listings
- Dynamic Text Replace
- Easy Post-to-Post Links
- Extra Sentence Space
- Get Custom Field Values
- Get Upcoming or Past Posts
- Get User Custom Field Values
- Hide or Cut Post Text
- HTML Special Characters Helper
- If File Exists
- Last Logins
- Linkify Post IDs
- Loop Post Navigation Links
- Never Moderate Registered Users
- No Update Nag
- Obfuscate E-mail
- Preserve Code Formatting
- Random File
- Safe Function Call
- Single Category Permalink
- Stealth Publish
- Text Hover
- Text Replace
- wpuntexturize
Inactive/defunct/deprecated Plugins
Often a plugin becomes deprecated due to its functionality being integrated into a later version of WordPress or into a superior plugin, or merely just out of lack of interest. I retain a reference to them here for posterity…
- array_partition
- Version:1.0
- Last update:20 April 2008
- Description:
Introduces function array_partition() to split an array into N number of evenly distributed partitions (useful for splitting a list into columns).
- Author Image(s)
- Version:2.0
- Last update:15 April 2008
- Description:
Display image (if present) and/or name for the author of a post, or for all authors on the blog.
- Auto-hyperlink URLs
- Version:3.0
- Last update:02 April 2008
- Description:
Automatically hyperlink text URLs and email addresses that appear in plaintext in post content and comments.
- Category Image(s)
- Version:1.5
- Last update:14 April 2008
- Description:
Display an image for each category associated with a post.
- Commenter Emails
- Version:1.0
- Last update:12 April 2008
- Description:
Extract a listing of all commenter emails.
- Configure SMTP
- Version:2.0
- Last update:13 April 2008
- Description:
Configure and activate SMTP mailing in WordPress.
- Custom Admin Post Listing
- Version:1.1
- Last update:03 April 2008
- Description:
Configure the post listing fields shown in the admin section under Manage→Posts by removing existing columns or adding columns consisting of custom field data.
- Custom Fields For Anything
- Version:1.0
- Last update:10 April 2008
- Description:
Tools to facilitate the assignment and retrieval of custom fields for anything.
- Custom Post Limits
- Version:1.0
- Last update:31 March 2008
- Description:
Control the number of posts that appear on the front page, search results, and author, category, tag, and date archives sections of your blog, independent of each other.
- Customizable Comment Listings
- Version:2.0
- Last update:07 April 2008
- Description:
Display Recent Comments, Pingbacks, and/or Trackbacks, Top Commenters, or Recent Commenters, and use the comment, commenter, and/or post information of your choosing to customize the how they are listed. You can narrow comment searches by specifying post IDs, comment types, and/or comment status, among other things.
- Customizable Post Listings
- Version:3.0.1
- Last update:03 April 2008
- Description:
Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post, page, or draft 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.
- Disable Directory Listings
- Version:1.0
- Last update:07 April 2008
- Description:
Prevent virtual directory listing services from listing the contents of directories, and/or show a page in place of a directory’s listing.
- Dynamic Text Replace
- Version:2.0
- Last update:09 April 2008
- Description:
Define your own custom dynamic text replacement pseudo-functions (i.e.
::google("search terms here")::) - Easy Post-to-Post Links
- Version:2.0
- Last update:11 April 2008
- Description:
Easily create a link to another post using a simple shortcut that references the post’s id or slug; the link text is the post’s title, unless overridden.
- Extra Sentence Space
- Version:1.0
- Last update:14 April 2008
- Description:
Force browsers to display two spaces between sentences.
- Get Custom Field Values
- Version:2.5
- Last update:01 April 2008
- Description:
Easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for posts, inside or outside “the loop”.
- Get Upcoming or Past Posts
- Version:1.0
- Last update:21 April 2008
- Description:
Display upcoming (today + future) or past (before today) posts in an easily customizable manner. A supplement to the Customizable Post Listings plugin.
- Get User Custom Field Values
- Version:1.0.1
- Last update:09 April 2008
- Description:
Easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for the currently logged in user or any specified user.
- Hide or Cut Post Text
- Version:2.0
- Last update:10 April 2008
- Description:
Hide (so no one, or only users above a certain userlevel, can see) or cut (so only viewable on post’s permalink page) portion(s) of post text. Link text for cuts can be defined per-cut or omitted, and if used, cut links are uniquely anchored.
- HTML Special Characters Helper
- Version:1.0
- Last update:08 April 2008
- Description:
Adds a tool to the Write Post page for inserting HTML encodings of special characters into the post.
- If File Exists
- Version:1.0
- Last update:02 April 2008
- Description:
Check for the existence of a file and return simple boolean state or display an HTML snippet containing information about the file.
- Last Logins
- Version:1.0
- Last update:15 April 2008
- Description:
Logs the dates and IP addresses of successful user logins and failed login attempts.
- Linkify Post IDs
- Version:1.0
- Last update:05 April 2008
- Description:
Turn a list of post IDs into a list of links to those posts.
- Loop Post Navigation Links
- Version:1.0
- Last update:21 April 2008
- Description:
Adds next_or_loop_post_link() and previous_or_loop_post_link() template tags to loop back to the beginning/end post when at the end/beginning post single page.
- Never Moderate Registered Users
- Version:1.0
- Last update:22 April 2008
- Description:
Never moderate or mark as spam comments made by registered users, regardless of the apparent spamminess of the comment.
- No Update Nag
- Version:1.0
- Last update:01 April 2008
- Description:
Removes the WordPress update nag that appears at the top of all admin pages when a new version of WordPress is released.
- Obfuscate E-mail
- Version:2.0
- Last update:03 April 2008
- Description:
Obfuscate e-mail addresses that appear as text in your blog in an effort to deter e-mail harvesting spammers while retaining the appearance and functionality of hyperlinks.
- Preserve Code Formatting
- Version:2.0
- Last update:12 April 2008
- Description:
Preserve formatting of code for display by preventing its modification by WordPress and other plugins while retaining original whitespace and characters.
- Random File
- Version:1.5
- Last update:05 April 2008
- Description:
Retrieve the name, path, or link to a randomly chosen file in a specified directory.
- Safe Function Call
- Version:1.0
- Last update:04 April 2008
- Description:
Safely call functions that may not be available (for example, from within a template, calling a function that is provided by a plugin that may be deactivated).
- Single Category Permalink
- Version:1.0
- Last update:11 April 2008
- Description:
Modify the %category% permalink structure tag to generate a category-based permalink structure that only displays the lowest category in a hierarchy, as opposed to the entire hierarchy of categories.
- Stealth Publish
- Version:1.0
- Last update:06 April 2008
- Description:
Prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds.
- Text Hover
- Version:1.0
- Last update:16 April 2008
- Description:
Add hover text to regular text in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, and acronyms mentioned in your blog.
- Text Replace
- Version:2.0
- Last update:08 April 2008
- Description:
Replace text with other text in posts, etc. Very handy to create shortcuts to commonly-typed and/or lengthy text/HTML, or for smilies.
- wpuntexturize
- Version:1.0
- Last update:04 April 2008
- Description:
Prevent WordPress from displaying single and double quotation marks as their curly alternatives.
Deprecated Plugins
These plugins had their time in the sun, but they are no longer necessary, nor are they being actively developed or supported.
- Never Moderate Admin or Post Author
- Version:0.9
- Last update:25 March 2005
- Description:
Never moderate or mark as spam comments made by the site admin, the post’s author, or optionally, any registered user above a specified user level, regardless of the apparent spamminess of the comment.Deprecated as of 06 April 2008. See Day of Deprecations.
- No Duplicate Comments
- Version:0.9.1
- Last update:03 April 2005
- Description:
Prevent visitors from leaving duplicate comments/pingbacks/trackbacks to a post.Deprecated as of 06 April 2008. See Day of Deprecations.
- Notification Disabler
- Version:0.5
- Last update:29 March 2005
- Description:
Disable notification emails about new and/or moderated comments, pingbacks, and/or trackbacks en masse or on an individual author basis.Deprecated as of 06 April 2008. See Day of Deprecations.
- Sync Draft Slug and Title
- Version:0.9
- Last update:26 March 2005
- Description:
While a post is still a draft, keep the post slug in sync with any changes to the post title.Deprecated as of 06 April 2008. See Day of Deprecations.
- Top/Recent Commenters
- Version:1.0
- Last update:24 March 2005
- Description:
Retrieve the top commenters or most recent commenters to your site (if called outside “the loop”) or for a particular post (if called inside “the loop”).Deprecated as of 13 April 2008. See more info here. Take a look at my Customizable Comment Listings plugin instead.
- wpPHPMailer
- Version:1.6
- Last update:29 July 2005
- Description:
Enable WordPress to send e-mail via SMTP instead of via PHP’s mail() function (aka sendmail).Deprecated as of 13 April 2008. See more info here. Take a look at my Configure SMTP plugin instead.