I’ve done a fair amount of customization on my WordPress install and I thought I might share a few of the plugins I’ve developed. All of the plugins below are intended to work with WordPress 1.5 — don’t try to cheat by using an early release since I know of at least one plugin hook that will give you grief.
You’re welcome to use any of these plugins on your sites as long as you respect the terms of the GPL license. By all means, let me know if you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvement.
In no particular order (for the moment):
- Jerome’s Keywords
Allows you to enter a series of keywords or keyphrases for each post. These keywords can be included in your header’s
<meta name="keyword">tag which will update based on the posts currently displayed. It’s also a neat “tags” implementation that lets you display your post keywords and adds them to your Atom feed for automatic inclusion in the Technorati tag cosmos. Learn more - PreFormatted Stores posts & comments in their final, formatted form rather than processing them every time a page is loaded. It provides a modest decrease in page rendering times, and adds improved formatting capabilities for LightPress. WordPress and LightPress compatible! Learn more
- Page Date
Very simple back-end plugin that updates a page’s timestamp every time is modified (you can do this manually for posts, but not pages). Useful if you’re using
the_date()on your pages and you want it updated after every edit. Download Page Date - Jerome’s Search Simple plugin that replaces the default WordPress search with a slightly improved version that searches post meta values, post excerpts and pages. Page search code based on David B. Nagle’s Search Pages routine. Download Jerome’s Search
- Jerome’s Query Diagnostics A simple plugin with an impressive-sounding name, this simply dumps the queries used by WordPress into a comment field in the page footer. There is one (easy) manual installation step required, see the plugin file for complete instructions. Download Jerome’s Query Diagnostics Plugin