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Wordpress Plugins
The following is my full set of plugins for Wordpress MU. These have been tested with Wordpress MU 2.6.3 and will be used on the blogging platforms for TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute, TAFE NSW - Illawarra Institute and TAFE NSW - Riverina Institute.
The following plugins are included:
- Wordpress MU Plugins: Installed @ /wp-content/mu-plugins/ and add functionality to ALL blogs and podcasts on the platform
- Management Plugins: Add useful administration and management functionality
- Multimedia Plugins: Add video, audio, images and slideshow functionality
- Web 2.0 Plugins and Widgets: Add Web 2.0 and social networking functionality
- Other: Everything else! ;)
Wordpress MU Plugins
WPMU Plugin Commander
- Adds sitewide management of WP plugins - including mass activation or deactivation and default settings for new blogs.
- Download from http://firestats.cc/wiki/WPMUPluginCommander
AHP Recent Posts plugin
- Creates a listing of recent posts from the whole MU platform on the Blogs homepage.
- Designed for use on the main blog, but could also be used on Faculty level blogs
- Download @ http://wpmudev.org/project/AHP-Sitewide-Recent-Posts-for-WPMU
- Install in the /wp-content/plugins directory.
Management Plugins
Add User Widget
- Improves functionality of User Signups and adds a widget box that can be added to blog sidebars
- Makes it easier for class group sign up
- Download @ http://wpmudev.org/project/add-user-widget
Admin Message
- Allows the site admin(s) to post a message to the users in the admin panel
- Download @ http://wpmudev.org/project/AdminPanel-Message
Akismet
- Checks comments against the Akismet web service and allows users to review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
- Requires Wordpress.com API Key which users can obtain for free.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
AZIndex
- Allows users to create multiple, three-level alphabetical indexes of your posts based on any combination of post title, author, extract, or custom fields.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/azindex/
FeedWordPress
- Allows users to syndicate content from any rss feed on their wordpress blog
- This plugin is useful for mashing together content from a number of blogs - eg. a class blog that aggregates a number of student's personal spaces.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/
Firestats
- Adds firestats to each blog to track usage
- Download @ http://firestats.cc/wiki/WPMU
More Privacy Options Plugin
- Adds three extra levels of blog privacy
- Download @ http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options
- Install version 2.7 in the /wp-content/plugins directory.
pageMash > pageManagement
- Allows users to customise page order and hidden pages using a simple to use ajax menu
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagemash/
Subscribe to Comments
- Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
Subscribe 2
- Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/
TinyMCE Advanced
- Adds advanced features to the Editing toolbars in Wordpress
- Adds 15 plugins to TinyMCE: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Date and Time, IESpell, Layer, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
WP Authors
- A sidebar widget provides a list of authors, useful for multi-author blogs.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-authors/
WP-Print
- Print version of wordpress posts and pages.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-print/
WP-Recent Comments
- Show the recent comments in your WordPress sidebar. You can limit the number of comments, set the maximum length of excerpts, filter out pingbacks and/or trackbacks.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomments/
WP-SpamFree
- An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/
Multimedia Plugins
Allow Embedded Videos
- Allows users to use Embed code to include videos from sites like GoogleVideo and Flickr to be included in posts and pages
- Download @ http://wpmudev.org/project/Allow-Embedded-Videos
Audio Player
- Audio Player provides you with a simple way of inserting a stylish Flash mp3 player on your WordPress posts and pages.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/audio-player/
Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin
- Adds podcasting functionality to Wordpress blogs
- Includes ITunes config and player
- Download @ http://www.blubrry.com/powerpress/
FLV Embed
- Adds FLV Flash videos into your blog. Video sitemap generation is supported.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flv-embed/
Interactive Video Plugin (Kaltura)
- Add interactive video capabilities to your blog! This is not just another video embed tool ? it includes the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kaltura-interactive-video/
Lightbox 2
- Image Gallery and Album tool, which creates appealing image overlay effects and album navigation
- Download @ http://stimuli.ca/lightbox/
Piflasa
- Piflasa is a plugin for wordpress that makes it possible to insert a google picasa web album in your post as a flash slide show.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/piflasa/
Riffly Webcam Video Comments
- Plugin which easily plugs into your site allowing visitors to create video/audio comments.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/riffly/
Video Widget
- Add more than 25 types of video in your sidebar. Only video Id is required (no HTML code to paste).
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-widget/
Vodpod Videos Widget
- The Vodpod plugin allows you to collect videos from thousands of sites on the Net, and put them in your blog with an interactive gallery.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vodpod-videos/
WordPress Flickr Manager
- Adds Flickr Image management tools to the WP interface
- Handles uploading, modifying images on Flickr, and insertion into posts.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-flickr-manager/
Web 2.0 Plugins and Widgets
Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button
- Helps readers share, save, and bookmark your posts and pages using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, and all the rest.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/
Fotobook
- Plugin that will link to your Facebook account(s) and import all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress installation. It uses the Facebook's API so importing your photos is a breeze.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fotobook/
FriendFeed Activity Widget
- A simple WordPress widget that pulls your FriendFeed stream, pretties it up a bit and shares it with visitors to your blog.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/
Inline GoogleMaps
- Easily insert simple to complex Google Maps in your pages from a plain Google Maps URL, remote or local KML file or even making your own map manually to show multiple markers with baloons containing rich text and images.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-maps-advanced/
Lifestream
- Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/
Skype Online Status
- Allows users to add one or multiple, highly customizable and accessible Skype buttons to sidebars.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/skype-online-status/
Social Homes
- Adds a sidebar widget containing a subtle list of all your social homes as linked favicons.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-homes/
Twitter Tools
- Creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
Umapper
- A universal mapping platform that makes it a snap to create engaging maps and add them to your blog posts. Microsoft Virtual Earth, Google Maps, and OpenStreet are all supported.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/umapper/
Widget-box Plugin
- Allows users to add up to 9 widget boxes in their blog sidebars.
- Widgets powered by Widgetbox.com
- Download @ http://wpmudev.org/project/Widgetbox-Widget
Wordbook
- This plugin allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Mini-Feed. Your Facebook profile will also show your most recent blog posts.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/
WP Chiclets
- This sidebar widget provides a set of RSS chiclets for users to add your blog to their RSS reader.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-chiclets/
WP-Cumulus
- Allows you to display your site's tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/
Other
Calendar
- Adds customisable calendar to your blog.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/calendar
Contact Form 7
- Allows users to create simple contact forms
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/installation/
Global Translator
- Translates blogs to Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese'.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator/
Quizzin
- Allows users to add simple quizzes to posts or pages.
- Download @ http://www.bin-co.com/tools/wordpress/plugins/quizzin/
WP-Footnotes
- Allows users to easily add footnotes or sidenotes to any post using a simple mark-up.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-footnotes/
WP-Polls
- Allows users to embedded customisable polls in posts and pages.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls/
WP-Table
- This plugin creates and manages tables for wordpress. So you can post i.e. sport results in a fixed table format.
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-table/
WP Wall
- A widget that adds a comment wall/ guestbook in a blog's side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately (without reloading the page)
- Integrated with Wordpress so includes spam control and comment management
- Download @ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-wall/
