Blog Plugins I Recommend
The great thing about WordPress is the fact that it is open-source, which allows for greater personalization and development. There are things that I wanted to do with my page that other people may not be interested in, and vice versa.
For example, I wanted to be able to do the following:
- Easily link to my other posts
- Easily insert Links that I have created into posts
- Display formatted code examples
- Have a sitemap
- Show latest posts in a category
- Show new and updated posts
To do more advanced things like this you will need to install Plugins. Please read the [cref blog-plugins-tutorial] Post for information on how to find, install, and activate plugins.This Post will explain how I implemented the functionality I wanted into my WordPress installation.
Easily link to my other posts
I used the Cross-references Plugin. With this plugin, you manually set a reference to another post or page in posts and pages and you get all backward references automatically listed for every post and page.
Cross-reference Modifications
I had to modify the Cross-reference Plugin to work with my Blog.
- Details will be added here later
Easily insert Links
The Blogroll Autolinker Plugin turns names from your blogroll into links in your posts.
Blogroll Autolinker Modifications
I had to modify the Blogroll Autolinker Plugin to work with my Blog.
- Details will be added here later
Display formatted code examples
The Code Snippet Plugin is a syntax highlighting engine for WordPress. A large number of languages are supported and it can be easily extended.
Code Snippet Modifications
I had to modify the Code Snippet Plugin to work with my Blog.
- Details will be added here later
Have a sitemap
The Sitemap Generator Plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. Features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.
Sitemap Generator Modifications
I had to modify the Sitemap Generator Plugin to work with my Blog.
- Details will be added here later
Show latest posts in a category
The List Category Posts Plugin uses a widget to allow you to create lists of posts for individual categories. You’re supposed to be able to sort them but that functionality is not working right for me. You can use more than one.
List Category Posts Modifications
I had to modify the List Category Posts Plugin to work with my Blog.
- Details will be added here later
Show new and updated posts
The Last Updated Posts Widget Plugin creates a sidebar box with a list of posts you’ve recently updated/modified. You can choose to display the date of the update beside the page title in the format you prefer. The default WordPress “Recent Posts” widget only shows new posts, not updated ones that already existed.
Last Updated Posts Widget Modifications
I had to modify the Last Updated Posts Widget Plugin to work with my Blog.
- Details will be added here later
