Credit where credit is due

I think it’s fair to say I love WordPress. If you are looking to host your own blog, get thee to wordpress.org and download the latest version. It’s free, and it’s fabulous.

One of my favorite aspects of WordPress is the ability to extend its functionality through plugins. This blog currently relies on a large number of amazing plugins written by a large variety of authors (and some modified by yours truly). I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you what they are, and how to get them for yourself, if you are so inclined.

(The descriptions of each plugin are written in the respective authors’ own words)

©Feed 4.7.4
» Frank Bueltge (url)
Extends the feed! A report of copyright, a digital fingerprint and the IP of the feed reader can be added. In addition, some search engines are scanned for the digital fingerprint in order to find possible content theft. The feed can be also be supplemented with comments and topic-relevant contributions. The complete RSS feed can be delivered even if the <--more--> tag is used in WP 2.1+. It is possible to view related post using the plugin Simple Tagging or Simple Tags.

Ad Rotator 1.0
» Angsuman Chakraborty (url)
Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file

Akismet 2.2.3
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com 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.

Brian's Threaded Comments 1.5.12
» Brian Meidell (url)
This gives you threaded comments and a “wandering” comment form. **includes a patch by franceso laurita and some of my own major modifications –LRC**

commentluv 2.6.3
» Andy Bailey (url)
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Will parse a feed from most sites that have a feed location specified in its head html. See the Settings Page for styling and text output options.

Facebook Connector 0.7
» Javier Reyes (url)
Allows the use of Facebook Connect for account registration, authentication, and commenting.

Feed Statistics 1.3.2
» Christopher Finke (url)
Compiles statistics about who is reading your blog via an RSS feed and what they’re reading.

Flickr Photo Album 1.1
» Joe Tan (url)
This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts. Configure…

flickrRSS 4.0
» Dave Kellam (url)
Allows you to integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site.

FlickrTips 1.5
» Chris Lewis (url)
Shows popup thumbnails of Flickr images on mouseover of links to Flickr

KB Advanced RSS Widget 2.1.2
» Adam R. Brown (url)
Gives user complete control over how feeds are displayed.

MySpace Crossposter 2.0a
» Roderick Russell (url)
A plugin that enables automatic crossposting from WordPress to MySpace. **Includes wording change by me - LRC

PollDaddy 2.5
» PollDaddy.com (url)
Place PollDaddy polls in your WordPress content. This plugin will only work with version of wordpress 2.5 and above.

ShareThis 2.3
» ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com) (url)
Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Configuration options are here. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README.

Sidebar Page (and other) Sections 1.0.2
» Tim Gallagher (url)
1/12/2007 Places an admin menu under the Presentation menu. Generates any number of sidebar widgets that can contain links to pages + Text Box Replacements.

Social Homes widget 2.4
» Elie Zananiri (url)
Adds a sidebar widget containing a subtle list of all your social homes as linked favicons. Current services include BlogCatalog, Blogger, BUMPzee, Dailymotion, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Last.fm, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Ma.gnolia, MyBlogLog, MySpace, Pownce, reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, Utterz, Vimeo, VIRB°, XING, YouTube, Zooomr.

Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

This Day 1.4
» Dagon Design (url)
Lists posts that were created on this day in previous years

Thumbnail For Excerpts 1.3
» Radu Capan (url)
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…).

WordPress.com Stats 1.3.5
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.

WP-PluginsUsed 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-Print 2.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.