Packing, then off to bed. Off to National Christian Football Festival in Manchester tomorrow. Hannah & Ben not coming for obvious reasons!
Plugins Used at dougbelshaw.com

Plugins Used

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Here are the Wordpress plugins I use to customize this blog:

  • Akismet - Does a marvellous job of preventing spam appearing on your blog. You need a Wordpress.com account to get an API key for it.
  • Auto Hyperlink - Turns any links that you put in posts or visitors put in comments into hyperlinks. Saves time and effort. :-)
  • Better Plugin Page - Makes your plugins easier to organize and use!
  • Disqus - Adds an amazingly useful and versatile comments ecosystem to your blog.
  • Feed Count - Provides the raw figure of the number of people subscribed to your Feedburner-powered RSS feed. This means you can style it how you want it instead of using their ugly chicklet.
  • FlickrRSS - Allows thumbnails of recent Flickr pictures to appear on your blog. See the top of the home page for implementation on this blog.
  • Full Text Feed - Means you can use a <more> tag to allow post previews on your blog whilst providing the full text to RSS subscribers.
  • Google Analytics - Provides information about your visitors so you can optimise your blog and provide relevant content.
  • Google XML Sitemaps - Makes your blog more accessible to search engine robots (and therefore more visible generally).
  • Maintenance Mode - Presents a message to visitors to say you are updating the site when you are making updates. If you are logged in as an administrator you can still view it as usual. :D
  • PodPress - Allows easy podcasting via your blog.
  • Popularity Contest - Means you can view the most popular posts on your blog. Allows you to include lists of these for public or private consumption, or both!
  • Post Count - Outputs the total number of blog posts.
  • Post Word Count - Outputs the total number of words on your blog.
  • Random Posts - Outputs a (configurable) list of random posts from your blog.
  • Related Posts - Outputs a list of related posts to the current one (based on keywords).
  • Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form - A very configurable and secure method of creating a contact form for visitors to be able to contact you without revealing your email address.
  • SimpleTwitter - Displays the most recent ‘tweet’ from a specific Twitter account.
  • Sociable - Provides (configurable) links to popular social bookmarking sites at the bottom of your blog posts.
  • Subscribe to Comments - allows visitors to be notified via email when some adds a comment to a post they have commented upon.
  • TinyMCE Advanced - adds extra options to the Visual editor within Wordpress post/page creation areas.
  • Translator - Translates your blog posts into a range of languages.
  • What Would Seth Godin Do? - Provides a custom welcome message (based on cookies) for new visitors.
  • Wordpress Database Backup - Configure automatic backups of the contents (not the style) of your blog.
  • WP Firefox Referral - Inserts an advert for Mozilla Firefox if Internet Explorer is detected as the browser being used to access your blog. You can use Google Adsense to monetize this! ;)
  • WP UserOnline - Counts (and displays) how many people are currently reading your blog.
  • Yahoo/MSN Style Smileys - Improves the look of the smileys you use on your blog like this. :D