archshrk

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.

Active Plugins

  AdRotate 2.6.1
» Arnan de Gans (url)
Make making money easy with AdRotate. Add advanced banners to your website using the simplest interface available!

  Akismet 2.4.0
» Automattic (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an 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.

  Anarchy Media Player 2.5
» An-archos (url)
AMP plays mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, avi, asf and wmv hypertext links directly on your webpage. Adds buttons to the post editor for embedding swf movies including Google Video etc. Edit all player options in Settings > AMP

  Blog Icons 0.5.1
» Joost de Valk (url)
A simple method of adding favicons and iPod Touch / iPhone icons to your blog.

  Comment Quicktags -Reloaded 2.0
» Owen Winkler (url)
Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. WP 2.2 support by Ibrahim Faour

  Enhanced WP-ContactForm 2.2.3
» Joost de Valk (url)
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 (url)
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 Analytics for WordPress 4.0.9
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking.

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.4
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  Post-Plugin Library 2.6.2.1
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
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.

  Random Redirect 1.1
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
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`.

  Robots Meta 3.3.1
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.

  RSS Footer 0.9.6
» Joost de Valk (url)
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.

  Search Excerpt 1.2 $Rev: 19 $
» Scott Yang (url)
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.

  Search Reloaded 2.11
» Denis de Bernardy (url)
Enhances WordPress’ default search engine functionality.

  Search Suggest 1.1
» Joost de Valk (url)
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.

  Similar Posts 2.6.2.0
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
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.

  SimplePie Core 1.1.1
» Ryan Parman and Geoffrey Sneddon (url)
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.

  Simple Trackback Validation 2.1
» Michael Woehrer (url)
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.

  Smart Archives Reloaded 2.0.1
» scribu (url)
An elegant and easy way to present your posts, grouped by year and month.

  StatCounter 0.1
» Luke Stevenson. (url)
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.

  Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

  Text Link Ads 3.5.1
» Text Link Ads (url)
Text Link Ads Sell Ads on your Homepage or site wide. Join the Text Link Ads marketplace.

  Use Google Libraries 1.1.0.1
» Jason Penney (url)
Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google’s AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from Wordpress’s own copies.

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP Smush.it 1.3.0
» Dialect (url)
Reduce image file sizes and improve performance using the Smush.it API within WordPress.

Inactive Plugins

  Broken Link Checker 0.9.5
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

  Clean Archives Reloaded 3.1.10
» Viper007Bond (url)
A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+.

  David’s Ultra Quicktags 1.0.33
» David Vincent Gagne (url)
Adds new buttons to the Editor window (Amazon Links, Amazon Search, etc.).

  ESV Plugin 3.5.0
» Chris Roberts (url)
Allows the user to utilize services from the ESV Web Service

  Hello Dolly 1.5.1
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.

  Lightbox 2 2.9.2
» Rupert Morris (url)
Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Now with better regular expressions, courtesy of Michael Tyson!

  LinkWithin 0.84
» LinkWithin (url)
Displays recommended stories and associated thumbnails from your blog

  Random Description 0.2
» Andrea Micheloni (url)
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.

  tagaroo 1.4.2
» Crowd Favorite and Reuters (url)
Find and suggest tags and photos (from Flickr) for your content. Integrates with the Calais service.

  Tippy 3.2.0
» Chris Roberts (url)
Simple plugin to display tooltips within your WordPress blog.

  W3 Total Cache 0.9.1.1
» Frederick Townes (url)
The fastest and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress.

  WordPress.com Stats 1.7.3
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

  WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

  WP-AutoPagerize 1.0.2.5.3
» nori (url)
Activate AutoPagerize in your WordPress

  WP-DBManager 2.50
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

  WP-Gallery-Remote 1.5.1
» Christian Bartels (url)
Allows to integrate images from any Gallery installation (http://gallery.sf.net) into your posts/pages.

  WP-phpMyAdmin 2.10.3
» Roland Rust, Christopher Hwang (url)
Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin console

  WP-Print 2.50
» Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

  WP Ajax Edit Comments 3.02
» Ajay D’Souza, Ronald Huereca (url)
The most powerful comment-editing solution for WordPress. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.

  WPG2 3.0.7
» Ozgreg and WPG2 Team (url)
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 2.7.1.2
» Michael Torbert (url)
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.

  WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.9.18
» Dale Mugford & Duane Storey (BraveNewCode) (url)
A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.

  Zemanta 0.6.6
» Zemanta Ltd. (url)
Contextual suggestions of links, pictures, related content and SEO tags that makes your blogging fun and efficient.

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