About this website

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Free indicates the software can be downloaded and used by you absolutely free.

Why do I use Wordpress and not my own system? For a long time I did write my own content management systems, and where it’s appropriate for projects, I still do. Recently the flexibility, reliability and security of free projects like Wordpress have made it more sensible to use them.
Every day thousands of Wordpress installations serve millions of pages, and with hundreds of people trying to break in, and hundreds more trying to keep them out- it’s a sensible choice for publishing on the web.

Absolutely invaluable utilities for me include Tordex’s Start Killer, whatever Stardock’s ObjectDock has been rebranded as following legal action from apple, the phenomenal Launchy- man I love that program. The most under-rated piece of software I own is Cygwin, a *nix emulator providing SSH client/server, SVN etc. functionality.

Wordpress Plugins

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Plugin Author Description
Advanced Search Alex Günsche This plugin provides a powerful and versatile site search for your WordPress installation. It uses MySQL’s advanced search functionalities. It also features search term highlighting.
Advanced Search Lite Alex Günsche The Lite version of the Advanced Search plugin. It can be integrated as sidebar widget or as a template function, and it has most of the features that Advanced Search also provides. (Note: The plugin’s CSS is optimized for the WP default theme. It might be flawed with some heavy styled themes.)
Akismet Matt Mullenweg Spam comment blocker.
All in One SEO Pack uberdose Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
Configurable Tag Cloud Keith Solomon A tag cloud plugin for Wordpress 2.3 to give you more flexibility with the styling of your tag cloud.
Extended Comment Options Mark Kenny This plugin allows you to switch comments and/or pings on or off for batches of existing posts.
FeedBurner FeedSmith FeedBurner Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
Flickr Photo Gallery Silas Partners (Joe Tan) This plugin will retrieve your Flickr photos and allow you to easily add your photos to your posts. Configure…
Hands and feet utilities Alex Howell Provides a few useful functions for use by templates and plugins
Moojax Comment Posting Alex Posts comments and validates the comment form using Ajax.,Built on the mootools framework, this plugin is designed to be usedwithMooTools empowered sites, and wont play nicely if you’re using a library like jQuery.
My Custom Widgets Janek Niefeldt Define your own widgets and include them into your theme- an excellent and highly recommended plugin.
Popularity Contest Alex King 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. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.
Viper’s Plugins Used 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-ContactForm Douglas Karr Originally developed by Ryan Duff, modified and enhanced by Doug Karr.
WP-PostViews Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. It will not count registered member views, but that can be changed easily.
wp-cache Ricardo Galli Granada Standard cache module that comes bundled with Dreamhost.