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31. James
    Happiness Engineer
    Posted 6 years ago #

    My favorite plugins:

    Bad Behavior, to keep bandwidth wasting, email harvesting, and spam posting bots out of this site.
    Permalink Redirect, to ensure that redirected permalinks (those entered without a trailing slash) return a 301 permanent redirect message.
    Screw Nofollow, to disable the rel=nofollow attribute in the comments area.
    Search Hilite, to highlight search terms when visiting from any popular search engine.
    Search Pages, to allow pages to be searched as well as posts.
    Spam Nuker, to manage spam deleted by WordPress' default anti-spam tools.
    Translator, to present MacManX.com in 9 different languages (including English).
    WP-ContactForm, to provide a contact form and hide my email address from spam bots.

32. Lorelle
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    Dgold: you are a star. Thanks for bringing this up. It's really important for everyone to understand how a plugin is used so they can determine how to use it themselves.

    That was part of my goal in starting this thread so we can see how people are actually using the plugins.

    With the WordPress Plugin Contest Wiki Page coming to a close within a few days, I am thrilled with a few of the contestant's taking the time to really explain their plugin(s), but dismayed at a lot of them who just don't see to get the fact that we need to know what it does and how to use it. Don't assume.

    Here is something I saw a WordPress Plugin Developer say recently that caught my attention (which goes to show that there are some wonderful plugin authors out there who do care):

    Well, I'm not criticizing plugin and software writers per se, just noting that the passion you put to your code can go to waste if you don't make it dead-simple to understand and install.

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