WordPress Plugins

One of the beauties of the WordPress blogging software that powers this site is its extensibility. You name it and you can probably find a plugin to do it … and when you can’t you can write your own!

My own attempts at making WordPress plugins are listed here. Unfortunately, due to ill-health, they have not been developed or supported properly for some years. They still work with the latest versions of WordPress under many circumstances (including on this website) but may well conflict with any WordPress features added after 2008 — e.g. custom post types — if you use them.

  • Image Shadow v1.1.0

    Image Shadow automatically applies a realistic, soft drop-shadow to the jpeg images in your blog content. Can apply an optional frame too.

  • Highlight Author Comments v1.0.3

    Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files, etc. All you do is provide a snippet of CSS styling to be applied to author posts.

  • Plugin Output Cache v4.0.8

    Helps other plugins to improve their efficiency by caching their output. In particular, most of the plugins listed here automatically use the output cache whenever it is available.

  • Popular Posts v2.6.2.0

    Displays a list of the most viewed posts on the site. What gets displayed and how it is displayed is highly configurable.

  • Similar Posts v2.6.2.0

    Displays a list of posts which are related to the current post. Similarity is judged according to a post’s content and pattern of word usage as well it’s title and tags. What gets displayed and how it is displayed is highly configurable.

  • Similar Posts Feed v2.3.6

    Works alongside the Similar Posts plugin to add a list of related posts to your syndication feeds. Similar Posts must be installed for it to work. The Similar Posts plugin now includes all the functionality of Similar Posts Feed.

  • Random Posts v2.6.2.0

    Displays a list of posts chosen at random. What gets displayed and how it is displayed is highly configurable.

  • Recent Posts v2.6.2.0

    Displays a list of your most recent posts. What gets displayed and how it is displayed is highly configurable.

  • Recent Comments v2.6.2.1

    Displays a list of your most recent comments. What gets displayed and how it is displayed is highly configurable.

  • Post-Plugin Library v2.6.2.1

    This plugin provides a library of essential routines for the Post Plugins: Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments. It does nothing on its own but is required if you use the other plugins.

  • Compact Archives v1.0.6

    Displays blog archives in a choice of three compact forms, one of which fits neatly in a sidebar. Ideal if your blog has lots of posts. The output is cacheable.

116 replies on “WordPress Plugins”

  5. Alex: Are you talking about Similar Posts? If so how many posts do you have yet? The MySQL fulltext search is only reliable when you begin to get a few real posts with plenty of words in them.

    Let me know if this helps at all.

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  8. Great plugins. I’m using the “Similar Posts” plugin and I’m really impressed with the speed and the customisation – too many plugins just display things inside tags.

  12. Hi, I was searching for a plugin that displays ‘Delicious rank’, like Digg. Digg Rank plugin shows how many times a post has been digged, likewise is there a plugin for delicious, which ONLY shows how many times a post has been saved on Delicious?! in a stylish, and neat manner!?
    Thanks.

  13. Awesome plugins! I love them! When will the next version of the post plugins come? Been looking for something to snip the titles in recent posts. I can sometimes make pretty long ones.

  14. Phusion: Soon! They are basically ready (though it is hard to stop fiddling with algorithms for Similar Posts) and mainly need documenting before posting. Ill-health is slowing things down though. Apologies.

  18. Thank you for the plugins and updates. I am now a fan.

    Thank you also for your essays on spiritual direction, just wonderful. I pray that you get well soon.

    Best wishes.

  24. Rob, this post refers also to my post about false dates and URLs in the comments plugin. In my similar posts plugin>>output settings page I see the following at the top, although the page is all functional

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function ppl_display_trim_before() in /home/removed/public_html/myzerowaste.com/wp-content/plugins/similar-posts/similar-posts-admin.php on line 115

    The other thing I’ve noticed is that the faulty URLs are pointing to posts that are as yet unpublished Maybe this can help solve the problem… Thanks

  25. Richard: Do you have the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library? I notice from your bug report that you have an older version of Similar Posts. I recommend using the latest version of both plugins. I think that might solve your problem.

  26. Ok, I missed that one… I have latest versions of 2.5.0.9 of similar posts, posts plugin library and recent comments. I have now rebuilt the index (default settings) My home page similar posts block is still showing dates from 1970 in the URI, although the on hover page titeles appears to be correct now. What further actions can I take to get this right? (new bug report submitted for you to glean.) Thanks.

  46. trying to get the plugin to work, however, b4 installing, wp seems to think i am already using the default recent posts plugin, and after installing yours, it thinks i am using it already. help?

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