This site is now running on WP2.3, using the Sandbox theme (with my own CSS), with a number of excellent plugins – listed here using WP-PluginsUsed by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan…
There are 50 plugins used: 46 active plugins and 4 inactive plugins.
Active Plugins
Admin Management Xtended
» Oliver Schlöbe (url)
WordPress 2.7+ only. Extends admin functionalities by introducing: toggling post/page visibility inline, changing page order with drag’n'drop, inline category management, inline tag management, changing publication date inline, changing post slug inline, toggling comment status open/closed, hide draft posts, change media order, change media description inline, toggling link visibility, changing link categories
Ajax Newsletter
» Tiago Pocinho, Siemens Networks, S.A. (url)
Allows users to subscribe and receive a newsletter containing the blog latest posts.
Akismet
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
Automatic Timezone
» Otto (url)
Automatically sets the timezone offset for Daylight Savings Time.
Chunk Urls for WordPress
» whoo (url)
This plugin shorten urls in comments so that they won’t break your site.
Clean Archives Reloaded
» Viper007Bond (url)
A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+.
Cricket Moods
» Keith "kccricket" Constable (url)
Allows an author to add multiple mood tags and mood smilies to every post.
Custom Query String Reloaded
» Moshu (url)
Change the number of posts displayed when viewing different archive pages, including tags archives, based on WP’s own tag system. Originally by Matt Read http://www.mattread.com/ – Updated for UTW tags by Andy Beard http://andybeard.eu/.
Dashboard Widget Manager
» Viper007Bond (url)
Greatly enhances your WordPress 2.5+ dashboard by allowing widget re-ordering and storage of preferences on a per-user basis.
Duplicate Post
» Enrico Battocchi (url)
Creates a copy of a post.
Exec-PHP
» Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.
Flexi Pages Widget
» Srini G (url)
A highly configurable WordPress sidebar widget to list pages and sub-pages. User friendly widget control comes with various options.
Genki Announcement
» Genkisan - i18n patched by Masayan (url)
Display an announcement on your blog
Geo Mashup
» Dylan Kuhn (url)
Tools for adding maps to your blog, and plotting posts on a master map. Configure in Settings->Geo Mashup after the plugin is activated. Documentation is on the project site.
Get Recent Comments
» Krischan Jodies (url)
Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.
Google XML Sitemaps
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page
Guestbook Generator
» Andrew dela Serna (url)
Generates a guestbook for Wordpress blogs. Once activated, click on Options > Guestbook Generator.
iMP Download
» Hardi P (url)
Download manager for wordpress user featuring download count, force download, quicktag, members only, widgets, etc. Integrated with search engine to find your downloads easily and pagination on download list.
Inline Google Maps
» Avi Alkalay (url)
This plugin shows google maps anywhere on blogpage. Just add a permalink of google map to any text (with images) in a page, set title=”googlemap” and you’re done. Also works with complex multimarker maps and KML-based maps.
Less
» Bennett McElwee (url)
Change the (more…) link so it displays the entire post, not just the part after the “more”.
Macro Expander
» Matthijs Hollemans (url)
Replaces user-defined keywords in a blog post with the output from the corresponding user-defined PHP function.
Maintenance Mode
» Michael Wöhrer (url)
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Settings → Maintenance Mode to get started.
NextGEN Gallery
» Alex Rabe (url)
A NextGENeration Photo gallery for the Web 2.0.
No Self Pings
» Michael D. Adams (url)
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.
One Click Plugin Updater
» Janis Elsts (url)
Upgrade plugins with a single click, install new plugins or themes from an URL or by uploading a file, see which plugins have update notifications enabled, control how often WordPress checks for updates, and more.
Organize Series
» Darren Ethier (url)
This plugin adds a number of features to wordpress that enable you to easily write and organize a series of posts and display the series dynamically in your blog. You can associate “icons” or “logos” with the various series. This version of Organize Series Plugin requires at least WordPress 2.3 to work.
Pagebar2
» Lutz Schröer (url)
Adds an advanced page navigation to Wordpress.
Page Links To
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.
Ping/Track/Comment Count
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Provides unctions that return or display the number of trackbacks, pingbacks, comments or combined pings recieved by a given post. Other authors: Chris J. Davis, Scott “Skippy” Merrill
Redirection
» John Godley (url)
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
SCF2 Contact Form
» Andrew Ozz (url)
A contact form plugin that stores all messages locally, lets the blog admins to reply from the admin page and can send emails to multiple users. Uses the WordPress comments routine for filtering the spam, including Akismet and Bad Behavior (if installed).
Search Unleashed
» John Godley (url)
Advanced search engine that provides full text searching across posts, pages, comments, titles, and URLs. Searches take into account any data added by other plugins, and all search results are contextually highlighted. You can also highlight incoming searches from popular search engines.
Shutter Reloaded
» Andrew Ozz (url)
Darkens the current page and displays an image on top like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. However this script is a lot smaller and faster.
Simple Tags
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Simple Tags : Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 ! Autocompletion, Suggested Tags, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Mass edit tags !
Simple Trackback Validation
» Michael Woehrer (url)
Eliminates spam trackbacks by (1) checking if the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to and (2) by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog.
Skin Tags
» Billy Halsey (url)
Removes the non-breaking space from the wp_tag_cloud() output generated by WP 2.3+.
Subscribe To Comments
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess
Woopra
» Elie El Khoury, Shane Froebel (url)
This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Simply sign up at Woopra.com, then activate the plugin!
WordPress.com Stats
» Andy Skelton (url)
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key.
WordPress Database Backup
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.
WP-phpMyAdmin
» Roland Rust, Christopher Hwang (url)
Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin console
WP-PluginsUsed
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-RelativeDate
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’.
WP Captcha Free
» iDope (url)
Block comment spam without captcha.
WP Instructions
» Sam Burdge (url)
Adds an instructions tab to the WordPress admin. Customise your instructions by simply editing a .txt file.
WP PTViewer
» Vincent Prat (url)
A plugin that allows you to easily insert dynamic panoramic pictures inside your posts using ptviewer. You can visit the options page and the help page.
Inactive Plugins
Clean Options
» Mittineague (url)
finds orphaned options and allows for their removal from the wp_options table
Hello Dolly
» 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.
SCF Contact Message Dashboard Widget
» (url)
scf contact message dashboard widget.
WP-PageScroll
» Chema Garrido (url)
Infinite scroll with pagination and auto scroll. It is a plugin combo from Infinite Scroll, WP-PageNavi and jsScroll
One Comment
i’m surprised you’re not using the ical events plugin. i landed on your site hoping i’d find out what you meant when you said ‘Have managed to use options and tweak display to get a format I like’ over at dwc’s.
I guess you just gave up on the ical events plugin altogether.
Or have you?
I’m really curious as to how you managed to tweak it.
thx
thomas