The Cheezy Blog

Since the list of Wordpress plugins in use on this site is ever growing, I thought I’d put up a little post of what I’m using.

First comes the built in Akismet plugin. This is a great anti-spam plugin that doesn’t require any action on the part of the user. There are no annoying CAPTCHA images to try and decipher and no registration required. It works by sending a comment off to the Akismet web service, which returns a yes or no as to whether it considers the comment spam or not.

Next is a single line plugin that disables the new Wordpress Widget system, the reason I have this is because the site uses the excellent K2 theme, which uses a rival system for the sidebar.

After that I use the Page Links To plugin, which lets Wordpress pages become redirects to non wordpress pages. I use this for some of the links at the top, such as the Gallery and the Code Dump.

Next comes the Share This plugin, which adds the little share this icon at the end of each post, letting you, my dear readers, post articles to various news networking sites such as Digg.

Following that I have a plugin called SyntHihol which adds syntax highlighting for various programming languages using the GeSHi class for PHP.

Next is a neat little plugin called XSD-Snapr. This is the plugin that adds a little popup to external links, showing a thumbnail of the site the link points to.

Lastly comes the excellent ZenPress plugin. This integrates Wordpress with ZenPhoto, which is the software that my gallery uses. It lets me seamlessly link images from my gallery into blog posts and pages.