The entire Tobin Family Website was built quickly, easily and on the cheap using the following key components:
- Free Word Press personal publishing platform
- Free Gallery2 web-based Photo Album
- $6.95/month hosting at BlueHost, including free domain name
The following 20
Plug-Ins have also been used in conjunction with WordPress to provide additional functionality to the website:
| Akismet |
2.3.0 |
Automattic |
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. |
| Counterize |
0.53 |
Anders Holte Nielsen |
Simple counter-plugin with no external libs – saves IP, timestamp, visited URl, referring URl and browserinformation in database, and can display total hits, unique hits and other statistics in WordPress webpages. Admin-interface available with detailed information… |
| Disclosure Policy Plugin |
1.0 |
Andy Beard |
An interface to manage disclosure, legal and business relationships in both Wordpress posts and RSS feeds |
| Executable PHP widget |
2.1 |
Otto |
Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Heavily derived from the Text widget code in WordPress. |
| Lijit Search |
1.04 |
Crowd Favorite and Lijit Networks Inc. |
Search Powered Web Applications for Publishers. Click here to configure the Lijit Plugin. |
| My Account |
0.1 |
Small Potato |
Adds a sidebar widget to display your account options. |
| My Tube |
1.1 |
Vaam Yob |
Plugin to integrate youtube with WordPress |
| NextGEN Gallery |
1.5.5 |
Alex Rabe |
A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0. |
| Pierre’s Wordspew |
3.6 |
Andrew Sutherland, Modified by Pierre |
A plugin that creates a live shoutbox, using AJAX as a backend. Users can chat freely from your blog without refreshing the page! It uses the Fade Anything Technique for extra glamour |
| RndImgDisplayer |
1.2 |
WauloK |
Picks a random image from the subdirectory and displays it with auto tags |
| TLA InLinks |
1.1.2 |
Text Link Ads |
Text Link Ads InLinks program sells links within your blog posts |
| Upgrade Preflight Check |
1.1 |
Doug Smith |
Looks for known problems that may prevent plugins and themes from working in WordPress 2.3. Install and run this before upgrading. |
| Viper’s Plugins Used |
1.12 |
Viper007Bond |
Allows you to display alphabetically what plugins you have enabled on your blog in either a table or unordered list. Also allows you to set custom descriptions for the plugins in the output. |
| WP Wall |
1.6 |
Vladimir Prelovac |
“Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page. |
| WP-PageNavi |
2.72 |
Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan & scribu |
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog |
| WP-UserOnline |
2.73 |
Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan & scribu |
Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress site |
| WP/GeoTrack |
2.0.2 |
Johannes Lietz |
This plugin will allow you to keep track of every visitor on your public WordPress site and display his/her geo-information. Configuration Page. |
| WPG2 |
3.0.7 |
Ozgreg and WPG2 Team |
Embeds Gallery2 within Wordpress to share photos, videos and any other Gallery2 content seamlessly into your Blog & Sidebar Content. Documentation, Support Forums, Change Logs |
| WPtouch iPhone Theme |
1.9.16 |
Dale Mugford & Duane Storey (BraveNewCode) |
A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones. |
| Wordbook |
0.16.3 |
Robert Tsai |
Cross-post your blog updates to your Facebook account. Navigate to Settings → Wordbook for configuration. |