I have the basic template migrated across my little mini blog network. I still need to tweak the CSS to get the colors distinct on each blog but I’m going to ignore that for a few days and work on getting my plugins back in check.
Since each of the blogs was created at a different time, I have a lot of shared plugins but sometimes different versions. And I have never cleaned out the plugins that I know longer use.
First step is to identify what I am using. These are the plugins that I am using on at least one of the blogs that I intend to make sure each blog ends up using. Please note that the link is what I pulled from the Plugin page of my WordPress admin screen. Newer versions of the plugins might use different links. As I grab the newest versions over the next few days, I will update any links that are no longer the right one.
WordPress Plugins
I also have installed WP-Cache to handle the few times when my sites got bogged down. I don’t regularly use it though because I seem to get a lot of 500 errors when it is activated and I haven’t had a chance to try and figure out why.
Those are my plugins. Over the next few days, I am going to find the most recent version of each, migrate that up to each blog, and then remove all of the other programs from the plugins directory.
Any other plugins that you think I should look into? Make a case and I will check it out.
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That full text feed problem is only an issue if you use the More tag to display excerpts on your front page. Then WordPress forces the feed to do the same. I rarely ever use it, except to protect spoiler information in some of my reviews, but I’ve noticed no problems with the full text of my typical entries coming through the feed.
A nice list of plugins here, most of which I already use.
Yes, Jim. You are right. It has been long enough since I installed it that I forgot about the more tag part. That’s for the correction.
This is an impressive listing of widgets/whatevers. At first I thought, “This is why so many people are wild about WordPress!”, but then I realized that some of these functions are built into Blogger, some happen for me because I host my blog on my own server and the rest are services or widgets I’ve installed from various sources. Hmm.
I would imagine most of the blog platforms are getting a lot of similar tools by this point. I don’t think I use anything too fancy or obscure. I’ve tried a few different platforms and used similar plugins for them. In the end WordPress just made more sense than the others for me. I can tweak it easier than the others for some reason.