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I wrote an article about extending the functionality of the basic WordPress install. Rather than trying to keep that list up to date, another plugin is used to display plugins installed, both active and inactive - dynamically.

There are 61 plugins used: 46 active plugins and 15 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

Add From Server 3.2.0.3  Add From Server 3.2.0.3
» Dion Hulse (url)
Plugin to allow the Media Manager to add files from the webservers filesystem. Note: All files are copied to the uploads directory.

AddQuicktag 2.2.2  AddQuicktag 2.2.2
» Frank Bültge (url)
Allows you to easily add custom Quicktags to the html- and visual-editor.

AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild 1.08  AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild 1.08
» junkcoder (url)
Rebuild all thumbnails

Akismet 2.5.7  Akismet 2.5.7
» Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

Angsuman's Multi-Page Plugin 0.1  Angsuman's Multi-Page Plugin 0.1
» Angsuman Chakraborty, Taragana (url)
Adds button to UI to enable multi-page post.

BlogStats PCC 2.3.0a  BlogStats PCC 2.3.0a
» Perishable @ Monzilla Media [monzilla.biz] (url)
BlogStats PCC spits out a customizable set of blog statistics.

CodeHighlighter 1.9  CodeHighlighter 1.9
» Ben Lobaugh (url)
Syntax highlighter for source code using GeSHi. Originally developed by Wongoo Lee of http://ideathinking.com/

Code Snippets 1.7.1.2  Code Snippets 1.7.1.2
» Shea Bunge (url)
An easy, clean and simple way to add code snippets to your site. No need to edit to your theme’s functions.php file again!

Custom Post Limits 3.6  Custom Post Limits 3.6
» Scott Reilly (url)
Independently control the number of posts listed on the front page, author/category/tag archives, search results, etc.

Dean's Permalinks Migration 1.0  Dean's Permalinks Migration 1.0
» Dean Lee (url)
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank.

Excerpt Editor 1.4  Excerpt Editor 1.4
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Add or edit excerpts for Posts and Pages.

FD Feedburner Plugin 1.46  FD Feedburner Plugin 1.46
» John Watson (url)
Redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed

Featured Image Column 0.1.9  Featured Image Column 0.1.9
» Austin Passy (url)
Adds a column to the edit screen with the featured image if it exists.

Future Calendar 1.6.2  Future Calendar 1.6.2
» Aaron Harun (url)
A simple plugin that utilizes a modified get_calendar function that shows what dates have a future post scheduled in a calendar format, and makes it easy to change the current timestamp. Includes a widget to display posts on your website.

GeoPress 2.4.3  GeoPress 2.4.3
» Andrew Turner & Mikel Maron (url)
GeoPress adds geographic tagging of your posts and blog. You can enter an address, points on a map, upload a GPX log, or enter latitude & longitude. You can then embed Maps, location tags, and ground tracks in your site and your blog entries. Makes your feeds GeoRSS compatible and adds KML output. (http://georss.org/geopress )

Google Analytics for WordPress 4.3.3  Google Analytics for WordPress 4.3.3
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking.

Hikari Category Permalink 1.00.08  Hikari Category Permalink 1.00.08
» Hikari (url)
You can choose which category will be used in posts permalinks, instead of Wordpress default one!

InfiniteWP - Client 1.1.10  InfiniteWP - Client 1.1.10
» Revmakx (url)
This is the client plugin of InfiniteWP that communicates with the InfiniteWP Admin panel.

Jetpack by WordPress.com 2.2.5  Jetpack by WordPress.com 2.2.5
» Automattic (url)
Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.

Live Comment Preview 2.0.2  Live Comment Preview 2.0.2
» Brad Touesnard (url)
Displays a preview of the user’s comment as they type it.

Media Tools 1.1  Media Tools 1.1
» Chris Olbekson (url)
Tools for working with the WordPress media library and converting images to attachments and featured images

Modified Tag Cloud 1.0  Modified Tag Cloud 1.0
» Mike Hudson (url)
A customizable tag-cloud plugin for Wordpress to allow the changing of style options from the Admin control panel. Based on the widget version by Keith Solomon.

Most Commented Widget 2.2  Most Commented Widget 2.2
» Nick Momrik (url)
Widget to display posts/pages with the most comments.

Nofollow Links 1.0.4  Nofollow Links 1.0.4
» Andrew Shell (url)
Select which links in your blogroll you want to nofollow.

Ozh' Better Feed 2.2  Ozh' Better Feed 2.2
» Ozh (url)
Your feeds, on steroids. Add a feed footer with a copyright, “Add to delicious”, the number of comments… Add anything to your feed. For WordPress 2.8+

P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) 1.4.1  P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) 1.4.1
» GoDaddy.com (url)
See which plugins are slowing down your site. Create a profile of your WordPress site’s plugins’ performance by measuring their impact on your site’s load time.

Permalink Trailing Slash Fixer 1.0.1  Permalink Trailing Slash Fixer 1.0.1
» Mehdi Kabab (url)
Quickly add a trailing slash in the URLs if it’s missing in the permalink structure. Note: Single posts permalink are skipped.

Relevanssi 3.1.6  Relevanssi 3.1.6
» Mikko Saari (url)
This plugin replaces WordPress search with a relevance-sorting search.

Simple Page Ordering 2.1  Simple Page Ordering 2.1
» Jake Goldman, 10up (url)
Order your pages and hierarchical post types using drag and drop on the built in page list. For further instructions, open the “Help” tab on the Pages screen.

Smart 404 0.5  Smart 404 0.5
» Michael Tyson (url)
Rescue your viewers from site errors! When content cannot be found, Smart 404 will use the current URL to attempt to find matching content, and redirect to it automatically. Smart 404 also supplies template tags which provide a list of suggestions, for use on a 404.php template page if matching content can’t be immediately discovered.

Theme-Check 20121211.1  Theme-Check 20121211.1
» Pross (url)
A simple and easy way to test your theme for all the latest WordPress standards and practices. A great theme development tool!

Ubernyms 2.6  Ubernyms 2.6
» Joel Bennett (url)
Wraps up the functionality of the Acronym Replacer, AutoLinker, and then some. Can replace anything with anything, and includes (optional) domTT powered tooltips.

Unattach and Re-attach Media Attachments 1.1  Unattach and Re-attach Media Attachments 1.1
» davidn.de (url)
Allows to unattach and reattach images and other attachments from within the media library page.

W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.11  W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.11
» Frederick Townes (url)
The highest rated and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress.

WordPress Heat Map 2.3  WordPress Heat Map 2.3
» Christoph Wimmer (url)
Template tags for a heat map of category links and archive links.

WordPress SEO 1.4.7  WordPress SEO 1.4.7
» Joost de Valk (url)
The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.

WP-Footnotes 4.2.2  WP-Footnotes 4.2.2
» Simon Elvery (url)
Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post.

WP-Optimize 0.9.4  WP-Optimize 0.9.4
» Ruhani Rabin (url)
This plugin helps you to keep your database clean by removing post revisions and spams in a blaze. allows you to rename your admin name also. Additionally it allows you to run optimize command on your wordpress core tables (use with caution).

WP-PageNavi 2.83  WP-PageNavi 2.83
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan & scribu (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog

WP-Piwik 0.9.9.5  WP-Piwik 0.9.9.5
» André Bräkling (url)
Adds Piwik stats to your dashboard menu and Piwik code to your wordpress header.

WP-PluginsUsed 1.50  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-RelativeDate 1.50  WP-RelativeDate 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ’2 Days Ago’, ’2 Weeks Ago’, ’2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ’2 Minutes Ago’, ’2 Hours Ago’.

wp-Table 1.52  wp-Table 1.52
» Alex Rabe (url)
This plugin is a simple table manager. I didn’t find anything in the web which creates the same result, for my purpose.

WP No Category Base 1.1.1  WP No Category Base 1.1.1
» iDope (url)
Removes ‘/category’ from your category permalinks.

WP to Twitter 2.6.5  WP to Twitter 2.6.5
» Joseph Dolson (url)
Posts a Tweet when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using your URL shortening service. Rich in features for customizing and promoting your Tweets.

Yet Another PhotoBlog 1.10.10  Yet Another PhotoBlog 1.10.10
» J.P.Jarolim (url)
Convert your WordPress Blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. More informations may be found on the plugin pages.

Inactive Plugins

61 Designs Drawer Plugin 1.0  61 Designs Drawer Plugin 1.0
» 61 Designs (url)
Adds a fully customizeable widget area and sliding drawer to the top of your theme

BackWPup 3.0.12  BackWPup 3.0.12
» Inpsyde GmbH (url)
WordPress Backup and more…

Better WP Security 3.5.2  Better WP Security 3.5.2
» Bit51 (url)
Helps protect your Wordpress installation from attackers. Hardens standard Wordpress security by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files via htaccess, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting attack attempts, and more.

Clean Options 1.3.2  Clean Options 1.3.2
» Mittineague (url)
finds orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_options table

Debug Bar 0.8.1  Debug Bar 0.8.1
» wordpressdotorg (url)
Adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information.

Debug Bar Extender 0.5  Debug Bar Extender 0.5
» Thorsten Ott, Automattic (url)
A minimalistic profiler / debugging class that hooks into the debug bar and can be implemented easily

Infinite Scroll 2.6.2  Infinite Scroll 2.6.2
» Beaver6813, dirkhaim, Paul Irish, benbalter, Glenn Nelson (url)
Automatically loads the next page of posts into the bottom of the initial page.

Organize Series 2.4.5  Organize Series 2.4.5
» Darren Ethier (url)
This plugin adds a number of features to wordpress that enable you to easily write and organize a series of posts and display the series dynamically in your blog. You can associate “icons” or “logos” with the various series. This version of Organize Series Plugin requires at least WordPress 3.4+ and PHP 5.2+ to work.

Pingdom Real User Monitoring 1.0  Pingdom Real User Monitoring 1.0
» Pingdom AB (url)
A very simple and easy plugin that adds your Pingdom Real User Monitoring JavaScript code to the tag of your WordPress blog. When activated you must enter your Pingdom Real User Monitoring site ID under the Plugins menu for it to work. If you don’t already have an account, get one at pingdom.com.

Plugins Garbage Collector 0.9.12  Plugins Garbage Collector 0.9.12
» Vladimir Garagulya (url)
It scans your WordPress database and shows what various things old plugins which were deactivated, uninstalled) left in it. The list of additional database tables used by plugins with quant of records, size, and plugin name is shown.

Previous and Next Post in Same Taxonomy 1.0  Previous and Next Post in Same Taxonomy 1.0
» Bill Erickson (url)
Extends the prev/next links to let you limit to same taxonomy. Used for testing WP Core patch, and can be disabled if patch is committed to core.

Search & Replace 2.6.5  Search & Replace 2.6.5
» Frank Bültge (url)
A simple search for find strings in your database and replace the string.

Slim Jetpack 2.2.2.4  Slim Jetpack 2.2.2.4
» WingerSpeed (url)
Plug-n-pay Slim Jetpack totally unlinked with WordPress.Com API with less obtrusive admin page.

What The File 1.3.1  What The File 1.3.1
» Barry Kooij (url)
What The File adds an option to your toolbar showing what file and template parts are used to display the page you’re currently viewing. You can click the file name to directly edit it through the theme editor. Supports BuddyPress and Roots Theme. More information can be found at the WordPress plugin page.

WP Show IDs 110709  WP Show IDs 110709
» PriMoThemes.com / WebSharks, Inc. (url)
Simple, yet elegant. Shows IDs for Posts, Pages, Media, Links, Categories, Tags, and Users in the admin tables for easy access. Very lightweight. Also supports Custom Post Types / Taxonomies.

I have left comments open on this, so if you feel the need to ask why or how a plugin is used then fire away.

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  1. gravatar Gina 4 years, 2 months ago

    This is a great list to save as a reference. I need to hang on, to see about incorporating some of these plugins on some of my own WP sites…

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