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.
| Plugin | Version | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anarchy Media Player | 2.0 | An-archos | 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 Options > Anarchy |
| All in One SEO Pack | 1.4.6.15 | Michael Torbert | Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. |
| AMM - Amazon Media Management Extension | 1.5 | Denyerec and Marcel Dunn | The Amazon Media Manager for Wordpress 1.5 |
| Akismet | 2.2.3 | 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. |
| BLVD Status | 1.0 | Patrick Bennett | Simply adds BLVD Status tracking to your blog with SSL detection and support. |
| Blog Icons | 0.2 | Joost de Valk | A simple method of adding favicons and iPod Touch / iPhone icons to your blog. |
| Content with show/hide javascript for "more" | 1.4 | Jennifer - Scriptygoddess | A modified “the_content” command so that it uses the “show/hide” javascript. (Thanks to Tormod: http://journal.boblycat.org/tormodh/ and Kendra for their help) |
| Customizable Post Listings | 1.1 | Scott Reilly | Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post 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. |
| Clean Archives Reloaded | 3.1.4 | Viper007Bond | A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+. |
| Comment Quicktags -Reloaded | 2.0 | Owen Winkler | Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. WP 2.2 support by Ibrahim Faour |
| ESV Plugin | 3.5.0 | Chris Roberts | Allows the user to utilize services from the ESV Web Service |
| 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 | 3.1.0.1 | 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 |
| InstantUpgrade | 1.0-beta2 | Alex Günsche | Upgrade your WordPress installation with one simple click via the InstantUpgrade panel. Attention: This is a BETA release; if you don’t know what that means, you shouldn’t be using this software. |
| Lighter Menus | 2.7.2 | corpodibacco | Creates Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin Panels. Fast to load, adaptable to color schemes, comes with silk icons, a option page, and a design that fits within the Wordpress 2.5 interface taking the less room possible. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| RSS Footer | 0.8 | Joost de Valk | Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form | v.2.0WP B20070414 | Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley | This powerful yet easy-to-install contact form features exceptional accessibility and usability while still providing extensive anti-spam and anti-exploit security features. A marriage of communication and peace-of-mind. |
| Sociable | 2.9.5 | Joost de Valk | Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Go to Settings -> Sociable for setup. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Search Reloaded | 2.11 | Denis de Bernardy | Enhances WordPress’ default search engine functionality. |
| Tippy | 3.0.3 | Chris Roberts | Simple plugin to display tooltips within your WordPress blog. |
| Text Link Ads | 3.1.0 | Text Link Ads | Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use |
| Viper's Plugins Used | 1.12 | Viper007Bond | Allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. Also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output. |
| WPtouch iPhone Theme | 1.5 | Dale Mugford & Duane Storey | A plugin which reformats your site with a mobile theme when viewing with an iPhone / iPod touch. Set styling, page, menu, icon and more options for the theme by visiting the WPtouch Options admin panel. |
| 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 |
| WordPress.com Stats | 1.3.4 | Andy Skelton | Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. |
| WordPress Mobile Edition | 2.1 | Alex King | Show a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README. |
| WP-Print | 2.31 | Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan | Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page. |
