These are all the plugins I have installed so far.
COMMENTS & IMAGES
Akismet: An amazing spam defender. Comes standard with the WordPress Package but you have to install the key.
CommentLuv: A must-have. But when I comment on other blogs, I’ve seen that some people haven’t updated their CommentLuv plugins so it’s not that your feed or your CommentLuv plugin is wrong — the blog is just outdated.
@reply: Allows the author to reply to comments with a “@” pre-fixed to the person’s name.
Subscribe to Comments: Lets your readers subscribe to comments in the post.
Tweet Meme Button: Adds a little icon at the top to let people retweet your post.
Lightbox 2: When you click on an image, it pops up a flash application to enlarge the picture.
Blog Icons: Add favicons, iPod & iTouch compatible icons as well.
POSTS
Popular Posts: As it says. Your most popular posts widget.
Similar Posts: Other links to Related Posts to your above post.
Post-Plugin Library: Required for Popular & Similar Posts widgets.
SITE HELPERS
Blogger Redirector: Redirect or accept the permalinks, post, feeds requests forwarded from Blogger to apporiate page on WordPress. Useful for migrating the traffic from an existing Blogspot site.
Google Sitemaps Generator: Creates a Sitemap for Google so they can search for your blog easily.
Maintain Blogger Permalinks: Blogger URLs are shorter than WP URLs, this forces the old imported posts from Blogger into WordPress to have the same URLs as before.
StatPress: Your blog statistics in visual graphics.
WordPress Backup: As it says. Have it emailed, put on your server or downloaded.
WWW Redirect: Instead of going to FabulouslyBroke.com it goes to www.FabulouslyBroke.com
FEEDBURNER/FEEDS
FD Feedburner: Redirects ALL feeds to your Feedburner feed. There’s like RSS 2.0, Atom, bla bla bla.. they all just go to the one you chose.
Ozh’ Better Feed: You can add anything you want in the footer of your feed.
WP-Feedburner Plugin: Another Feedburner Plugin. Helps with the old and new feeds in Feedburner.
Yet-Another-Related-Post Plugin: This one puts related posts into your feed.
Something I still can’t get to work: Nested/Threaded Commenting
I have been recommended these two plugins to try and get my comments to be threaded or nested right under the person I am trying to reply to directly.
But they just don’t work on my theme, or I don’t know WTF I am doing wrong.
Brian’s Threaded Comments: Allows you to reply directly to the commenter right under their comment but it doesn’t bloody work.
Greg’s Threaded Comments: Ditto.
The only one that works is a Chinese plugin, but it really made my commenting section look HIDEOUS.
I am at a loss.
I now want to edit the comments.php file myself but I am just not that advanced in PHP coding to do that.
So far, all I’ve been able to do is edit my Stylesheet.css to get my comments to have a light blue background.
And the @reply plugin has helped to at least give the person’s name just before, so I know who I am replying to directly.
Commenters on the site can use it to reply to other commenters as well, I believe.
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Julie
on Oct 7th, 2009
@ 9:41 AM:
OH FB! I totally forgot to send you the WordPress theme link, I’m so sorry! Here it is: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/
I use a lot of these plugins too! Most recently the @reply and I used Highlight Author Comments to change the aspect of my comments (now the font is Century Gothic and pink) because it was easier than trying to figure out the CSS.
For the threaded comments I tried using Ajax Comment-Reply but it just messed up my comments CSS big time. Maybe it can work for you (my comments have very weird coding
).
Kisses!
WendyB
on Oct 7th, 2009
@ 10:13 AM:
Wow, this list is very helpful. Thanks!
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Ginger
on Oct 7th, 2009
@ 10:27 AM:
*sigh*
Those plugins sound most excellent…
I think I may have to make the switch soon if there are that many ways to customize available!
Gonna have to bookmark all your posts on the subject!
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FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com
on Oct 7th, 2009
@ 11:00 AM:
@Ginger Haha well if you move to wordpress under the free hosting, you won’t be able to advertise and do some other things that Blogger lets you.
@WendyB: You’re welcome!
@Juliette: Thank you
Better late than never! I tried Ajax Comment Reply but it didn’t work either… I just leave my comments as blue now. Seems to be the easiest.