About
Just an average guy who got the bug to blog and found the community aspect far more enjoyable. I write about religion and photography and cool things I’ve found but I also love working with others to solve design issues and helping others reach their full potential. Great, now I sound like a job applicant. I’m a problem solver. It’s what I do and how I learned what I know.
I’ve customized this site pretty heavily. Mostly through plugins (listed below) along with some custom pages using third-party tools. Use the CONTACT page if you have questions getting these plugins or other tools to work on your own site.
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| Plugin | Version | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| All in One SEO Pack | 1.5.7 | Michael Torbert | Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. Options configuration panel | Donate | Support |
| Akismet | 2.2.4 | Matt Mullenweg | Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. |
| Blog Icons | 0.2.1 | Joost de Valk | A simple method of adding favicons and iPod Touch / iPhone icons to your blog. |
| BLVD Status | 2.0 | Patrick Bennett | Simply adds your BLVD Status tracking to your blog with SSL detection and support. |
| Comment Quicktags -Reloaded | 2.0 | Owen Winkler | Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. WP 2.2 support by Ibrahim Faour |
| Clean Archives Reloaded | 3.1.8 | Viper007Bond | A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+. |
| Canonical URL's | 1.0.1 | Joost de Valk | Adds rel=”canonical” links to the head of your site. |
| ESV Plugin | 3.5.0 | Chris Roberts | Allows the user to utilize services from the ESV Web Service |
| Enhanced WP-ContactForm | 2.2.2 | Joost de Valk | WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. In the message it sends to you it gives the page the user visited before the contact page, as well as the original outside referer. It can be implemented on a page or a post. |
| FeedBurner FeedSmith | 2.3.1 | FeedBurner | 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. |
| Google XML Sitemaps | 3.1.4 | Arne Brachhold | This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page |
| Google Analytics for WordPress | 2.9.3 | Joost de Valk | This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog. |
| Post-Plugin Library | 2.6.2.1 | Rob Marsh, SJ | Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin. |
| Plugins Used Plugin | 0.1.11 | Andrew Chen | This plugin will give you a function to display what plugins you are using. Thanks to Sören Weber for submitting a fix for a display problem. Now sorts by plugin name instead of plugin file name as it had. |
| RSS Footer | 0.8.2 | Joost de Valk | Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles. |
| Robots Meta | 3.0.11 | Joost de Valk | This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links. |
| Random Redirect | 1.1 | Matt Mullenweg | Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can also specific in the URL `random_post_type` or `random_cat_id`. |
| Random Description | 0.2 | Andrea Micheloni | Tired of the same, old blog description? This plugin allows you to choose more of them, and randomly shows one of them every time your blog is loaded. After activating configure from this page. |
| Smart Archives Reloaded | 1.5.0.3 | scribu | An elegant and easy way to present your archives. |
| StatCounter | 0.1 | Luke Stevenson. | Adds the required code to allow StatCounter to monitor your traffic. After enabling this plugin visit the options page and enter your StatCounter UID and enable logging. |
| Search Excerpt | 1.2 $Rev: 19 $ | Scott Yang | Modify the_exceprt() template code during search to return snippets containing the search phrase. Snippet extraction code stolen from Drupal’s search module. And patched by Jam to support Asian text. |
| SimplePie Core | 1.1.1 | Ryan Parman and Geoffrey Sneddon | Does little else but load the core SimplePie API library for any extension that wants to utilize it. Go to Options→SimplePie Core for more details. |
| Subscribe To Comments | 2.1.2 | Mark Jaquith | Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess |
| Search Suggest | 1.1 | Joost de Valk | Offers a spelling suggestion for a certain word, useful on search pages when no result was found. Include spell_suggest();, or related_searches(); for related queries. |
| Search Reloaded | 2.11 | Denis de Bernardy | Enhances WordPress’ default search engine functionality. |
| Simple Trackback Validation | 2.1 | Michael Woehrer | Eliminates spam trackbacks by (1) checking if the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to and (2) by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog. |
| Similar Posts | 2.6.2.0 | Rob Marsh, SJ | Displays a highly configurable list of related posts. Similarity can be based on any combination of word usage in the content, title, or tags. Don’t be disturbed if it takes a few moments to complete the installation — the plugin is indexing your posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed. |
| Tweetbacks | 1.5.3 | Joost de Valk | Show the tweets about your posts and pages as comments on your blog! |
| Tippy | 3.1.0 | Chris Roberts | Simple plugin to display tooltips within your WordPress blog. |
| Text Link Ads | 3.3.0 | Text Link Ads | Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use |
| Use Google Libraries | 1.0.7.1 | Jason Penney | Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google’s AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from Wordpress’s own copies. |
| WPG2 | 3.0.7 | Ozgreg and WPG2 Team | Embeds Gallery2 within Wordpress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into your Blog & Sidebar Content. Documentation, Support Forums, Change Logs |
| WP Security Scan | 2.7.1 | Michael Torbert | Perform security scan of WordPress installation. |
| WPtouch iPhone Theme | 1.8.9.1 | Dale Mugford & Duane Storey | A plugin which reformats your site with a mobile theme when viewing with an Apple iPhone, Apple iPod touch, Google Android or Blackberry Storm touch mobile device. Set options for the theme by visiting the WPtouch Options admin panel. |
| WP Ajax Edit Comments | 2.3.2.1 | Ajay D'Souza | Allows users and admin to edit their comments inline. Admin and editors can edit all comments. |
| WordPress.com Stats | 1.5 | Andy Skelton | Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. |
| WP-phpMyAdmin | 2.10.3 | Roland Rust, Christopher Hwang | Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin console |
| WP-Print | 2.50 | Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan | Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page. |
| Zemanta | 0.6.0 | Zemanta Ltd. |
Contextually relevant suggestions of links, pictures, related content and tags will make your blogging fun again. |
