Super WordPress

Hello guys since we were working on a lot of WordPress based websites we decided is time to convert our blog into one since is such a great CMS.

So why am i writing this post to let you know? Because I think it would be a nice thing to share with you the problems we run into and the plugins we are using right now for our blog.

We use the following plugins for our blog and I think you might think about using them too.

• Smart 404

  I modified this plugin so that it can fit our needs. The idea of it is that will search for the term you enter in the url and find the post or page that you might be looking for. But we had a very crazy url at our old blog so i had to do something about it. So here is the code i added to the plugin:

          if($search=='post.htm'){
              $search = preg_match('/year\/(.*)\/month\/(.*)\/title\/(.*)\/post.htm/', $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], $matches);
              $search = $matches[3];
          }
  

  This will just check and see if the string that the plugin came up with is ‘post.hm’ because that was the case in our url format. So what i just use is a regex and get the title and correct the great plugin by giving him a hand in that particular case. So you can try that out by clicking this link and see. Pretty cool right?

• Google Analyticator

  This one is a fancy thing. I like it because it shows stats of google analytics in your blog dashboard and it will place your analytics code in the footer without you modifying any file.

• All in One SEO Pack

  One of the most famous plugins of wordpress. It helps you blog by making it more SEO friendly and get up in the search engines.

• AntiVirus

  Antivirus is a plugin that checks posts and comments for spam injections or attacks from hackers. A very nice plugin that i think you should try. As you know if you are reading this blog for some time we had some problems with our blog.

• DB Cache

  I find this plugin better than super cache or WP cache because instead of making html files or your blog and load those up this one saves your queries and when you load a page it will load them from tose files. It’s the same idea “memcache” used by YouTube.com, Wikipedia.com etc.

• Google XML Sitemaps

  This plugin is a must in my opinion since it creates sitemaps for YAHOO, GOOGLE and BING so that your blog is indexed the right way.

• underConstruction

  If you visited our blog while we were making the transition to WP then you saw our “Coming soon” page. That was created with this plugin. Well the page was made by me but the plugin just gives you the option to make your visitors see that page and you see the blog. So if you are loged in then you see the blog. Very useful in my opinion especially when you make major changes to your blog.

• Wordpress Popular Posts

  Ion found this plugin when i told him we should place some featured posts at the top for users to see some of the most important posts. This one is better since it will let you chose the criteria of sorting the posts. You have by most viewed post, most commented or average daily views. Very nice plugin i think you should try it. PS: don’t do like me! I installed the plugin and tried to see if it works, well it didn’t since i was logged in and it only records data when you are not logged in.

Ok let’s wrap it up this is a list of the plugins we used for our blog. I will create a new post with some of the functions we created for our blog. And maybe come up with a plugin too for “imageROLL”, by the way we have that on our blog right now but is not a plugin yet. The image roll is based on vi.sualize.us.