Favorite Plugins
…just another list of WordPress Plugins…
The difference is this is my list 
These are the plugins that I’ve come to love and use on this site and/or one of my other sites.
I have to comment though that I don’t think I’ve used one of these without some sort of code modification, tweaking and customizing. Not to say they wouldn’t work - I just always want something a tiny bit different than what I find.
In no particular order…
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Adsense-Deluxe: Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. By Acme Technologies.
note: no tweaking required -
Exec-PHP: Executes code in your posts, pages and text widgets. By Sören Weber.
note: no tweaking required - NextGEN Gallery: Photo gallery. By NextGEN DEV-Team
- Now Reading: Allows you to display the books you’re reading, have read recently and plan to read, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon. By Rob Miller.
- Popularity Contest: This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. By Alex King.
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator: Generates a fully customizable sitemap By Dagon Design
- Quotes Collection: Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect and display your favorite quotes. By Srini G.
- Random Image Selector: Selects a random image from a specified folder, and provides By Keith Murray. note: if you are not using NexGEN - this is a perfect, simple random photo generator.
- Event Calendar: Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar. You can subscribe to the calendar from iCal (OSX) or Sunbird. By Alex Tingle.
- Sobek`s Posts in Category: Displays a list of the posts in one or more categories in virtually any way you want. Lukasz Sobek.
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My Category Order: A Wordpress plugin to finally let you set the explicit order of post categories By froman118.
note: In the versions I originally played with, “My Category Order” and “Fold Category List” did not play nice together without serious modification. Unless updates have changed this - I recommend one or the other -
Fold Category List: Provides PHP functions to display a folding category tree By Rob Schumann.
note: In the versions I originally played with, “My Category Order” and “Fold Category List” did not play nice together without serious modification. Unless updates have changed this - I recommend one or the other
My philosophy on donations for plugins….
I will donate based on few things:
- Did it accomplish what I wanted and now running on one or more sites?
- Does the author have a history of keeping the plugin updated to the latest WP version and addressing bugs in a timely manner?
- Is the documentation provided by the author sufficient and valuable?
If the answer to these questions is “yes” and there is a donate button - I happily give a little.
How much?
Well that too depends.
Depending on the value of the plugin to me and the amount of trouble (if any) I had customizing it, anywhere from $5-20USD
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