Here it is. The presentation I’m giving right now (yes this very second people are watching me advance slides on a projector telling them how to have the best wordpress blog plugin experience). These 13 plugins help optimize the back end administration, empower users and just plain make your blog better. Space at WordcampPDX was limited so for those of you not in Portland or unable to attend here’s my presentation in it’s entirety. Well the slides anyway. I’ll get an audio enabled version as well as some demo video up as soon as I can.
For those of you checking this out for the links I promised during the presentation, let me know if you found any other great plugins I may have missed or if you have any questions about how to configure these plugins and I’ll see if I can help :D
After the slides are the links to all of the plugins.
The top 13 plugins featured in my presentation
- Disqus
- Twitter Tools
- WP-OpenID
- Clean Archives Reloaded
- WP 2.5 Gallery Lightbox
- WP Super Cache
- WP-Contact Form
- Mint: A Fresh Look at your Site
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
- iPhone Webclip Manager
- WP-DB Manager
- WordPress Automatic Upgrade
- Sociable
There you have. Keep checking back for my ongoing series of posts on the best new plugins and ways to better your blog as well as other hints, tips and tricks to help make your blog stand out.
*UPDATE*
Here’s the much requested “honorable mention” plugins list:
- WP Calais Autotagger
- WP Calais Archive Tagger
- Fluency Admin Dashboard theme (will be deprecated with the release of WordPress 2.7)
- iWphone (theme for iphones)
- Treasurelicious (widget)
Thanks to Dale Chumbley for recording this. While I shudder a bit at some of the bad jokes I made to ease my own palpable tension it’s nice to see that it came out ok.
Before I get to the video I want to thank everyone of the presenters, the attendees and Aaron Hockley for giving me one of the greatest experiences with the Portland Tech community. Reading the responses on twitter to my presentation as well as the experts panel really made my day. Additionally getting to finally meet Viper007Bond who’s written some great plugins (some of which should be core, but more on that at a later date) & Marshall Kirkpatrick as well as a few other people was awesome.
Without further ado here’s the video (I’d recommend headphones for this).
Also keep checking the WordcampPDX site for information on the next wordcamp here as well as a possible November 10th upgrade party to version 2.7!
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September 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Thanks for the presentation. You gave some that will rid me of some clunky plug-ins and make my life easier. DISQUS will probably be the best for me.
September 27th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I would also recommend FriendFeed comments plugin. It puts those comments made ok FF at the end of your WP post
September 27th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Would it be possible for you to post links to the honorable mentions too?
Thanks
September 27th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Absolutely. I'll get the additonal links up shortly.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Not a problem. Let me know if there are any other plugins that you consider clunky that you'd like to get rid of. I'll see if I can find an alternative for you.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Great news. I'm going to be making regular posts going more in depth with each of these plugins and many many more.
September 27th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Chris,
Wonderful meeting you today. Thank you for sharing with us all. You were very helpful and informative. The recorded Ustream feed is at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/744527 (headphones work best for volume).
September 27th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
[...] best part was that I started loading them in while Chris talked about them. I love my laptop. The wifi was slow because too many of us were jamming it. [...]
September 30th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Those are pretty darn cool! Now if only I had WordPress…. LOL!
Had to come say hi after hearing you taught your 21 month old the fist bump. There is nothing cuter than a toddler fist bumping. Except maybe Michelle and Barack Obama fist bumping. (-;
September 30th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I totally agree with the fist bumping cuteness.
As to your lack of using wordpress, as a blogger I'd highly recommend the switch over. typepad is cool and all but wordpress is pure joy for writing, administrating, customizing, I could go on but then that just makes me seem like I've got a wordpress koolaid moustache ;)
September 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Chris,
Thanks for posting the can't miss plugins. I couldn't attend your session, but was glad to see I had a half dozen of them running already. (It's nice to get confirmation that you're pointed in the right direction.)
October 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
less wordpress blabber, more baby pictures!
October 14th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Thank you for the interesting tipps.
I use Headspace2 for the title- and the description-tag, to make them different for every posting.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
That's a good idea. Any chance of a link to the plugin?
October 15th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Yes, HeadSpace2
February 24th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
HeadSpace is cool, i use it also
June 26th, 2009 at 1:35 am
nice idea, thanks for sharing.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:35 am
nice idea, thanks for sharing.
July 7th, 2009 at 2:13 am
These 13 plugins are helpful. Thank you.
March 10th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Great post, thank you for sharing. Keep up posting.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:16 am
This is really nice blog, I am very impressed.