In previous post I mentioned 10 Must Have Plugins for WordPress and this time I am going to mention couple of plugins which I think are not essential, but are making life easier for people dealing with WordPress.

 

Flickr Shortcode Importer

This awesome plugin can import Flickr links into content images at the snap of the finger and up to everything it gives proper credits for creative common licensed images.  You need to setup in your media setting to which size FSI will resize images and then just search the Flickr creative commons archive and copy paste the embed image code. During publishing your inserted images will be downloaded, saved with nice name, resized and inserted. I used this plugin on www.travelcheckpoint.com and as you can see it works like a charm.

Hotlink 2 Link

This plugin helps people to copy your site images and use on another site. Each image copied and used links back to your site or post. If you don’t sorry your bandwith in exchange for couple of extra backlinks then this plugin is perfect for you.

ImageMagick Engine

This plugin replace default image engine used by WordPress (GD Libray) with ImageMahick one. End blurred resized images once for all. Perfect plugin for photo blogs.

WordPress Popular Posts

Most popular posts widget with thumbnails.

Advanced Most Recent Posts Mod

Display most recent posts from selected categories or current category or all posts with thumbnail images (optional).

Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds a breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

Exec-PHP

This nifty plugin execute your PHP code inserted inside posts and pages.

GD Star Rating

Little bit heavy, but awesome plugin which allow your visitors to rate how much they are satisfied with your content. This is the plugin which make those Google search results rating stars on your articles.

Old Post Promoter (by BTE)

Randomly choose an old post and reset the publication date to now. The effect is to promote older posts by moving them back onto the front page and into the rss feed. This plugin should only be used with data agnostic permalinks (permalink structures not containing dates).

Redirection

Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors.

WP Frame Breaker

Adds a short javascript to your blog header to break out of any containing frames.

RSS Image Feed

Adds the first image of the post to the normal feeds of your blog. It does not matter if you use setting for full post or excerpt.

Revision Control

With the revisions feature of WordPress, it doesn’t take long for your database to get bloated and begin slowing down your site. With the Revision Control WordPress Plugin you can limit the number of post revisions that remain in storage.

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

Nicely format your code.

After working on more then a thousand WordPress web sites I found that these nine plugins are essential for every WordPress setup. All other plugins are needed per site basis and no matter how much those can be useful not every site needs them.  

I just compiled small plugin from code available online, which will disable password reset function „Lost your password“ in WordPress. This will enhance security of your WordPress site especially in case if you have lot of WordPress sites and you want to be able to change passwords only from MySQL.

On top of that it will disable error message which tells potential attacker, what he mistaked username or password while typing the name.

This plugin is in no way absolute security and it would be nice addition to a combo of Limit Login Attempts and Bulletproof security.

Do note that if you forget password you will not be able to reset it through „Lost your password?“ but only on one of the more advanced ways listed on Resetting Your Password WordPress Codex page.

You can download plugin here: Disable Password Reset WP Plugin

Već dugo vremena sve moje nove sajtove pogoni WordPress. Nekad sam bio žestok pobornik Mamba, kasnije Joomle, ali evo došao je dan kad sam zadnji bitan sajt prebacio na WordPress. Konverzija Sanovnika sa Joomle je trajala 3 sata sve sa manuelnim redirekcijama i importovanjem članaka. Kap je prelila čašu onog trenutka kad je se pojavio novi kritičan propust u Sh404 komponenti. Naime sh404 je prestao biti besplatan iako je i dalje pod GPL licencom. Problem je što svi redovni update-i se plaćaju (godišnja članarina), a čekati iste na dobru volju vlasnika nekog bloga da ih objavi je kao seksati se u Africi bez kondoma. Samo je pitanje vremena kada će neki script kiddie da ti sruši sajt. Iako je za moju verziju sh404 update na kraju ispao besplatan, problemi nisu izostali. Pojavile su se razne nekompatibilnosti sa mojom verzijom Joomle, koja iako updateovana je imala razlike u odnosu na clean install.

Nakon 3 sata, ispravka raznih grešaka koje je update donio i finalnog pokretanja, pukao sam i instalirao WordPress. Njegova One click upgrade opcija je stavno mocna stvarcica…

Generalno ovo nije bio razlog prebacivanja, nego milioni sitnica oko WordPress-a, njegova jednostavnost, fleksibilnost i manja hardverska zahtjevnost.

Naime 7000 UV posjetioca na Joomla sajtu sa uključenom cache opcijom nisu činili mog hosta site5 srećnim (iako su se snalazili nekako), čak mi je prethodni host suspendovao account zbog pretjeranog korištenja resursa. Nakon promjene na WordPress i Hyper cache-a, host je rekao da je sad sve u granicama normale.

Uglavnom Joomla no more.