Are you thinking about upgrading to WordPress 2.3? Make sure you stop by the WordPress Plugin Compatibility for 2.3 page. They have a list of plugins that are okay and plugins that will cause problems with WordPress 2.3.
I scanned the list and the only one that I noticed is the Popularity Contest 1.2.1 plugin. I checked to see if there was a newer version but the most recent one that I see is 1.2.1. I’ve been thinking about removing this plugin anyway and hand picking the posts that I want to highlight.
We expecting a baby in a couple weeks, so I might hold off on the upgrade until things start to settle down. Let me know if you upgrade and whether you have any issues or not.
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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
- Akismet - Bye bye spam
- Dagon Design Sitemap Generator - Nice pretty easy to implement sitemap that blends right into your template
- Democracy - For when you really care about your readers opinions
- Full Text Feed - I hate partial feeds. The WordPress 2.1.2 upgrade made partial feeds the default with no way to turn them off. This plugin fixes that and I will be a happy man when all my blogs use this.
- Google Sitemaps - Makes the sitemap that Google Webmaster Tools likes
- Next to Last - Let’s readers scroll through a lot of posts easily by click the next link at the bottom of pages
- Optimal Title - Makes it easy to switch your title from the default of Blog Name - Category - Post name to something more search engine friendly.
- Permalink Redirect - Handles the FeedBurner redirect (which I couldn’t get the FeedBurner redirect to do for some reason and also handles redirects for all your blogs URLs to make them all the same format.
- Related Posts - Adds a block of links to your own similar posts at the end of every post.
- Subscribe to Comments - Let’s readers get email updates when new comments are added to a post they want to keep track of.
- Text Link Ads v2 - Handles the Text Link Ads program. It is only on the two blogs accepted into the program at this point,.
- WordPress Database Backup - Backups are good. I need to do them more frequently.
- WP-ContactForm - Provides easy to implement contact form that blends into the design of your blog.
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.