Wordpress Plugins That Should Be Features
The latest version of Wordpress is great, but 2.5 could still use a few extra features. The plugins are doing well, but let’s make these ones a part of the installation.
I begin with this because it’s the least important, but just makes sense to include. If I type crrrg.com why shouldn’t it automatically create a hyperlink to the site? When required you can overwrite this automation by adding a link as you would normally.
This plugin by the very switched on Anirudh Sanjeev is the first plugin I upload to every Wordpress installation I create. OneClick has improved with each version and works flawlessly and allows for plugin and theme installation with only the path URL.
Wordpress allows designers to create different templates for each category archive with the category.php file. For instance, my Twitter category archive is different to the Brief archive. That’s because they use category-ID.php template that matches their category IDs. Why can’t we do that with Wordpress’ single.php template? This plugin allows you to do that very simply.
Upgrading Wordpress is a pretty simple task. Want to make it simpler? WPAU makes it dead simple; plus it also creates automatic backups with it’s one-click upgrades.
Although tagging plugins became fairly redundant when Wordpress introduced it’s own tagging system, they did forget one great feature that has been a part of almost all of the tag-related plugins since the Ultimate Tag Warrior. How did they manage to forget to allow Related Posts!?1This plugin has what I think is the best related posts feature.
- I will admit that you could probably call post titles and links using the existing tag tags like you would for categories; but there is no standard ‘get related’ option like they’ve made for tag clouds etc. [↩]
