Snazzy Archives plugin revisited

For those who are using Snazzy Archives plugin by Vladimir Prelovac, you might be interested to know that that there is hardly any difference between version 1.5.2 (latest version) and version 1.4.1 which we replaced.

Here is a screenshot of the resulting page of this site using Snazzy Archives version 1.4.1.

The “snazzy” archives of this site using version 1.5.2 (which is updated progressively) is on this page.

Classified Ads Plugins

Two of the WordPress plugins available at WordPress.org which we have tested so far are wp-classified by Mohammad Forgani and Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin (AWCP) by A Lewis and D Rodenbaugh.

We must give credit to the developers for their work. wp-classified allows you to add a simple classified page in your WP blog. AWCP on the other hand can provide your blog a full-blown classified ads section with search capabilities, admin control over HTML use in ads, option between paid or free ads, and other features.

You can see AWCP in action at one of our clients’ sites The Filipino Australian Ads which was opened recently.

You can download the plugins straight from your Plugins admin panel or at the WordPress.org Extend site:

wp-classified > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-classified/ AWCP > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/another-wordpress-classifieds-plugin/

WordPress Plugins

Here are some WordPress plugins which we started testing as from WordPress 2.7. We need to re-test if the plugins are working with WordPress 2.9.2

Active plugins working alright. Or, so it seems anyway. Snazzy Archives plugin output would require a wide sidebar-less layout for “best viewing” of course. [13 March 2010]

There are 33 plugins used: 10 active plugins and 23 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

Akismet 2.5.6  Akismet 2.5.6
» Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

Genesis Footer 0.1.1  Genesis Footer 0.1.1
» WPChildThemes (url)
This plugin allows you to modify Genesis-powered-website footer via Genesis theme settings.

Google News 2.5.1  Google News 2.5.1
» Olav Kolbu (url)
Displays a selectable Google News RSS feed, inline, widget or in theme.

Snazzy Archives 1.6.3  Snazzy Archives 1.6.3
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates completely unique archive pages.

Themedy Visual Designer 1.1.3  Themedy Visual Designer 1.1.3
» Themedy (url)
Allows you to easily add various shortcodes to your site. Once activated look for the “T” on the visual editor toolbar in the page/post editor. This plugin has no settings.

Theme Test Drive 2.8.2  Theme Test Drive 2.8.2
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.

Viper's Video Quicktags 6.3.4  Viper's Video Quicktags 6.3.4
» Viper007Bond (url)
Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts.

WP-PluginsUsed 1.50  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.2  WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.2
» WP-SpamFree (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

WP125 1.4.2  WP125 1.4.2
» Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp) (url)
Easily manage 125×125 ads within your WordPress Dashboard.

Inactive Plugins

Autopaginate 1.0  Autopaginate 1.0
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provide the ability to automatically paginate your posts by scattering the <--!nextpage--> quicktag throughout.

Contact Form 7 1.9  Contact Form 7 1.9
» Takayuki Miyoshi (url)
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.

Contextual Related Posts 1.6.3  Contextual Related Posts 1.6.3
» Ajay D'Souza (url)
Show user defined number of contextually related posts. Based on the plugin by Mark Ghosh. Configure…

Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.4  Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.4
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.8  Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.8
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

Featured Content Gallery 2.0  Featured Content Gallery 2.0
» Jason Schuller (url)
Used to create a fully automated featured content gallery anywhere within your wordpress theme.

Featured Content Gallery 3.2.0  Featured Content Gallery 3.2.0
» iePlexus (url)
Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. FeaturedContentGallery.com: plugin page, instructions, gallery and support.

FeedWordPress 2010.0127  FeedWordPress 2010.0127
» Charles Johnson (url)
simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress

FlickRss 1.0.1  FlickRss 1.0.1
» João Pedro Barros (url)
Widget that display your latest Flickr photos in your sidebar.

FV Community News 2.0.3  FV Community News 2.0.3
» Frank Verhoeven (url)
Give the visitors of your site the ability to submit their news to you, and list it in a nice news feed.

Hello Dolly 1.6  Hello Dolly 1.6
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.

Live Blogroll 0.5.1  Live Blogroll 0.5.1
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Shows a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.

Microkid's Related Posts 3.0.1  Microkid's Related Posts 3.0.1
» Microkid (url)
Display a set of manually selected related items with your posts

PicApp 1.3  PicApp 1.3
» Watershed Studio, LLC (url)
PicApp WordPress plugin.

Picturesurf Gallery 1.2  Picturesurf Gallery 1.2
» AlanEdge, dzenkovich (url)
Picturesurf Gallery plugin allows you to create, insert and manage picturesurf.org Galleries in your blog posts!

Popularity Contest 2.0b2  Popularity Contest 2.0b2
» Crowd Favorite (url)
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Widgets and Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.

Thank Me Later 1.4.1  Thank Me Later 1.4.1
» Brendon Boshell (url)
Sends a customizable “thank you” message after (a few hours, few days, weeks) a comment has been posted. This acts a reminder of your blog and can bring “one-time” readers back

Theme Switcher 1.0  Theme Switcher 1.0
» Ryan Boren (url)
Allow your readers to switch themes.

Thumbnail For Excerpts 2.1  Thumbnail For Excerpts 2.1
» Radu Capan (url)
Thumbnail For Excerpts allow easily, without any further work, to add thumbnails wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…).

User Photo 0.9.4  User Photo 0.9.4
» Weston Ruter (url)
Allows users to associate photos with their accounts by accessing their “Your Profile” page. Uploaded images are resized to fit the dimensions specified on the options page; a thumbnail image is also generated. New template tags introduced are: userphoto_the_author_photo, userphoto_the_author_thumbnail, userphoto_comment_author_photo, and userphoto_comment_author_thumbnail. Uploaded images may be moderated by administrators. This plugin is developed at Shepherd Interactive for the benefit of the community.

WordPress Related Posts 1.2  WordPress Related Posts 1.2
» Denis (url)
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress

WP-PageNavi 2.40  WP-PageNavi 2.40
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 3.1.9  Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 3.1.9
» mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) (url)
Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.

Experimenting with WordPress.com blogs

Since about 9 nine months or so, we have ventured into testing WordPress-specific themes and plugins. Most of our testings have been focused on self-hosted WordPress installs.

Some of our friends with blogs hosted by WordPress.com have requested if we can extend the same tests to their sites. Because we are very nice, ehem, :-) , we created blogs at WordPress.com and here are some of them:

Working and WordPress-ing – Tutorials and other goodies

When on the road – Quick and dirty notes from a mobile phone

WORKPAPERS – Focused on accounting and business

WordPress Plugins

There are 33 plugins used: 10 active plugins and 23 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

Akismet 2.5.6  Akismet 2.5.6
» Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

Genesis Footer 0.1.1  Genesis Footer 0.1.1
» WPChildThemes (url)
This plugin allows you to modify Genesis-powered-website footer via Genesis theme settings.

Google News 2.5.1  Google News 2.5.1
» Olav Kolbu (url)
Displays a selectable Google News RSS feed, inline, widget or in theme.

Snazzy Archives 1.6.3  Snazzy Archives 1.6.3
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates completely unique archive pages.

Themedy Visual Designer 1.1.3  Themedy Visual Designer 1.1.3
» Themedy (url)
Allows you to easily add various shortcodes to your site. Once activated look for the “T” on the visual editor toolbar in the page/post editor. This plugin has no settings.

Theme Test Drive 2.8.2  Theme Test Drive 2.8.2
» Vladimir Prelovac (url)
Safely test drive any theme while visitors are using the default one. Includes instant theme preview via thumbnail.

Viper's Video Quicktags 6.3.4  Viper's Video Quicktags 6.3.4
» Viper007Bond (url)
Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts.

WP-PluginsUsed 1.50  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.2  WP-SpamFree 2.1.1.2
» WP-SpamFree (url)
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

WP125 1.4.2  WP125 1.4.2
» Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp) (url)
Easily manage 125×125 ads within your WordPress Dashboard.

Testing another picture gallery

Testing picturesurf gallery plugin.

Got an Internal Server Error below Picture Surf Gallery create page. Let us check what’s happening. Check documentation.

13 March 2010: Tested with WP 2.9.2.

Visual Archives

This is a demo of a plugin called Snazzy Archives.

2010
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Classified Ads Plugins
“Two of the WordPress plugins available at WordPress.org which we have tested so far are ...”
Mar
08
WordPress Plugins
“Here are some WordPress plugins which we started testing as from WordPress 2.7. We need ...”
2009
Oct
08
Experimenting with WordPress.com blogs
“Since about 9 nine months or so, we have ventured into testing WordPress-specific themes and ...”
Mar
12
WordPress Plugins
“ Active Plugins ”
Jan
21
Testing another picture gallery
“Testing picturesurf gallery plugin. Got an Internal Server Error below Picture Surf Gallery create page. Let ...”
2008
“We have just begun. So far so good!”
Dec
26
Visual Archives
“This is a demo of a plugin called Snazzy Archives. ”