WordPress Plugin Picks - Google Drive


1	Name	Description	{Ann Z}	{Sallie}	{Anca}	{Michael}	{Karla}	{Diana}	{notes}

2	Akismet	Akismet is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.	X	X	X	X	x	X
3	Add to Any	Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg and many more.	X			X		X
4	Bad Behavior	Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it.		X
5	Code Markup	Code Markup is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to include program code samples in your posts.	X				x		An SEO plugin (see separate tab)
6	Debug Queries	List query-actions only for admins; for debug purposes. See all queries on the forntend of the blog and find the slowest part.				X
7	Display Widgets	Simply hide widgets on specified pages. Adds checkboxes to each widget to either show or hide it on every site page.	X				X
8	Google Analyticator	Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics. Includes widgets for Analytics data display. Requires a Google account of some sort.	X		I LOVE This (XXX)		X
9	Google XML Sitemaps	This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.		X		X	X	X
10	Search Everything	Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search, options included:		X
11	Sociable	Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.		X
12	Text Expander	a shortcode creates a collapsible text area, very basic, developer needs to edit the plugin code to add a class for styling of the dropdown bar					X
13	Thesis Openhook	This plugin allows you to insert arbitrary content into the many hooks that the Thesis Theme Framework provides. Never again edit a file!	X
14	WordPress Mobile Pack*	The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site. It has a mobile switcher, themes, widgets, and mobile admin pane		X
15	WP-DB-Backup	WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. Does not automatically work w/ MultiSite	X	X				X
16	WPTouch iPhone Theme*	WPtouch: A simple, powerful and elegant mobile theme for your website. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone applicatio		X
17	WP Minify	Combines and compresses JS and CSS files to improve page load time						X
18	Front End Editor	Front-end Editor is a plugin that lets you make changes to your content directly from your site. No need to load the admin backend just to correct a typo.					X
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20									* Choose one, or use a custom mobile theme


1		Description	URL	How does it work?	Does it use the wp_posts table?	Anca's comments
2	RSVPMaker.com	You can have people rsvp and or pay for events on your website
3	Event Espresso	Free and premium version that allows for event registration, etc.	http://eventespresso.com/
4	Gigpress	GigPress is a powerful WordPress plugin designed for musicians and other performers. Manage all of your upcoming and past performances right from within the WordPress admin, and display them on your site using simple shortcodes, PHP template tags, or the GigPress widget on your WordPress-powered website.	http://gigpress.com/
5	Stout Google Calendar	The Stout Google Calendar plugin allows you to easily add and customize embedded Google Calendars to your WordPress site. You can even change color settings that are not normally modifiable, allowing you to seamlessly integrate Google Calendars into the look of your site. No more ugly Google Calendars!	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stout-google-calendar/
6	Google Calendar Events	Parses Google Calendar feeds and displays the events as a calendar grid or list on a page, post or widget.	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-calendar-events/
7	Booking Calendar	This WordPress plugin will enable online booking services for your site. Visitors to your site will be able to check availability of apartments, houses, hotel rooms, or services you offer. They can also make reservations and appointments with the ability to choose from multi-day, single day, or by the hour booking. Your clients can even view and register for upcoming events. With integrated Paypal support your clients can pay online!	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/booking/
8	WordTour	Useful for when you go out on tour - you can add venues, shows, tracks, etc. WordTour is a comprehensive WordPress plug-in for performing artists and their agents. WordTour offers you a no-fuss time-saving solution to events management and a whole lot more! Utilize WordPress to instantaneously update an event in your social media networks status, autocomplete all boring and nagging details, let WordTour automatically generate web pages for all your events, artists and tour, allow to RSVP, comment and associate photo galleries and videos for each event, easily access and control your database information and more.	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordtour/


1	Plugin Name	Description	Lou Anne	Sallie	Anca	Diana	Karla	Debug Notices?
2	Contact Form 7			X		X	X
3	Custom Field Template	Lets you add Custom Fields to Posts/Pages through administrative UI.			I use this - but it triggers several debug notices, so it needs to be cleaned up for use in a real development environment			Y
4	Custom Post Type UI		X				X
5	Dagon Design Sitemap Generator			X
6	Display Widgets	Lets you choose which pages your widgets appear on.		X			X
7	Dynamic Widgets	Lets you customize your widget display even more than Display Widgets		X (via Stefan)
8	SidePosts
9	Simply Exclude	Excludes categories, tags, authors, etc from your main blog index page. Helpful if you are using categories to create pages and don't want the content duplicated		X
10	Sub Pages Widget			X


1	{label}	{Description}	{Ann Z}	{Sallie}	{Anca}	{Michael}	{Karla}	{Diana}	{notes}
2	datapress	displays data stored in published google spreadsheets or json documents. Different formats and sorting options are available. Graphs, maps, tables, lists.					X


1		Description	Anca	Lou Anne	Sallie	Diana	Michael
2	Comment Notifier				X
3	CommentLuv				X
4	Comments Policy				X
5	Disqus Comment System		X			X	X
6	Intense Debate		X			X
7	Sexy Bookmarks				X
8	Snazzy Archives				X
9	Surveys			X
10	WP-Polls				X
11	Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)		I like this! Very lightweight, easy to use (XX)		X


1		Description	Elliott Goodwin	Sallie	Judith James	Anca	Michael	Diana	Karla

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3	(a)slideshow	simple, plain, shortcode, uses img urls to build slideshow, configuration options for fade, autostart, picture size, controller visibility							X
4	Dynamic Content Gallery	This allows you to display a slideshow of the latest posts on your homepage. It's used by StudioPress themes to create the lovely content sliders they display on their homepage.				X
5	d13 Slideshow		X
6	Insights	This plugin will search for CC-Licensed images that you can use for a particular post.		X
7	Lightbox2			X				X
8	Showtime Slideshow				X	Latest version is from Dec 2009
9	SlickrFlickr	Display a slideshow of your Flickr images, by tag.				X		X
10	SlidePress*				X
11	Slideshow Gallery	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshow-gallery-2/ . This is a perfectly adequate plugin for displaying a slideshow inside your posts. It supports images in the media gallery, as well as a single slideshow with URL's off the web. Has a "pro" component.			X	This is broken w/ 3.1.x
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13	PhotoSmash Galleries						X
14	Awesome Flickr Gallery							X
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16					*Paid component: Slideshow Pro
17						(? -M)


1		Sallie	Diana
2	Blubrry PowerPress	X
3	HTML 5 Audio & Video Player	X
4	VideoPress*	X
5	Audio Player		X
6	FV Wordpress Flowplayer		X
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8	* Requires WordPress.com account with VideoPress upgrade


1		Lou Anne	Sallie	Diana
2	Automatic SEO Links
3	Google XML Sitemaps	x	X	X
4	Headspace 2 SEO
5	MaxBlogPress ping optimizer
6	Robots Meta	X
7	Search Meter	x	X
8	SEO Friendly Images	X
9	SEO Smart Links	X
10	Woopra Analytics	X	X
11	All in One SEO Pack			X
12	SEO Ultimate	x
13	WP SEO by Yoast	x
14	Genesis Themes	x


1		Description	Sallie	JD Lasica	Lists Online	Michael	Anca	Lou Anne	Diana
2	©Feed		X
3	Broken Link Checker			X				x
4	Allow Multiple Accounts		X
5	BackupBuddy by PluginBuddy*		X					!
6	Core Control					X
7	Enable Multi-Site				X
8	Find & Replace		X					x
9	No Self Pings		X
10	Redirection		X
11	Registered Users Only	Like Members Only, this plugin can help you restrict content on your blog to registered users only.					Testing this for the first time, since I found out that Members Only doesn't seem to work w/ 3.0.1
12	Revision Diet		X
13	Secure WordPress		X
14	Simply Show IDs		X
15	WordPress File Monitor		X
16	WP Security Scan		X					x
17	Graceful Email Obfuscation								X
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19	* Commercial Plugin


1		Sallie	Diana	Anca
2	Cute Profiles	X
3	Postalicious	X
4	Tweetmeme Button	X
5	Twitter Tools	X		X
6	Twitter for Wordpress		X


1		Lou Anne	Sallie	Karla
2	Advanced Blogroll		X
3	Advanced Text Widget		X
4	Advertising Manager		X
5	Display Widgets		X	x
6	Dynamic Widgets		X (via Stefan)
7	Folding Category Widget	X
8	Query Posts		X	X
9	WP-Cumulus		X


1	Plugin Name		Version	Description