{"id":74,"date":"2005-09-03T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T06:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=74"},"modified":"2005-09-04T00:38:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T14:38:44","slug":"plugging-plugins-is-chic-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/09\/03\/plugging-plugins-is-chic-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugging plugins is chic geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526376--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got OddThinking up-to-date and spick-and-span ready for the new arrival of EmailShroud. I&#8217;ve updated all my WordPress plugins to their latest version.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But which plugins do you recommend, Julian?&#8221; I hear you cry!<\/p>\n<p>Well, OddThinking uses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelf.com\/projects\/php-markdown\/\">PHP Markdown<\/a> for a more natural text mark-up than HTML.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jalenack.com\/archives\/democracy\/\">Democracy<\/a> for polling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wordpress\/spam-karma\/\">Spam Karma<\/a>  to reduce Comment Spam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptomatic.net\/wp\/2005\/02\/15\/1309\/bastats-pre-release\/\">BAStats<\/a> for usage tracking.\n<ul>\n<li>This includes the 255.255.255.255 unsigned column fix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skippy.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/17\/subscribe2\/\">Subscribe2<\/a> to provide email equivalent of RSS to the feed-impaired.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ftwr.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-version-check\/\">WordPress Version Check<\/a> to ensure that I am on the latest version.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/wp-plugins\/\">WordPress Plugin Manager<\/a>, helps keep track of many of the above plugins.\n<ul>\n<li>I was lucky enough to install before the author removed it from his site, but it doesn&#8217;t get much use these days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My other blogs also use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semiologic.com\/projects\/static-front\/\">Static Front Page<\/a> &#8211; with another minor hack to treat the static front pages as a page, not a post.<\/p>\n<p>I never did get around to following up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/06\/05\/judging-the-initial-wordpress-google-sitemap-plugins\/\">search for a quality Google SiteMaps WordPress plugins<\/a>, although I am sure they exist by now.<\/p>\n<p>OddThinking uses the hand-made SomethinkOdd template. This is in spite its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/07\/19\/colourful-opinions\/\">lukewarm reception<\/a> from the colour-police!  Trying a different color-scheme remains a future project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/emailshroud\">EmailShroud<\/a> 1.0.1 went public today, so, of course,  OddThinking now uses it to prevent the harvesting of email addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am just sitting back and waiting for the Internet to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.au\/search?q=emailshroud+%2Dsite%3Asomethinkodd%2Ecom\">prove how much it loves me<\/a>. At the time of writing, the answer was still not at all, although, according to my logs, 13 suitors have already come to flirt. <\/p>\n<p>So, am I the only webmaster who thinks we should call them &#8220;page hugs&#8221; instead of &#8220;page hits&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell others about the underlying blog technology? Why, it&#8217;s all the fashion amongst the blogging crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,34,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-oddthinking","category-geek","category-software-development","category-tribal-affiliation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}