Wordpress: Plugin Lineup Changes

March 8, 2007 | Comments (2) | Filed under: Blogging

Ever since our initial install of 15 Wordpress Plugins we’ve had to make a few changes. The first change is we dropped the Gregarious plugin in exchange for two separate plugins that accomplish virtually the same goal. While Gregarious has a lot of potential, it was extremely buggy and caused our site to lag or crash quite a bit. It also didn’t show our Digg button even after our articles were submitted. So, we’ve replaced this plugin with two different plugins:

Digg It

The Digg It Plugin is about as simple as they come. Basically, it checks Digg’s website to see if your article has been submitted, and if it has, it displays the standard digg button to encourage readers to digg your post. This was the biggest functionality we were looking to get out of Gregarious but unfortunately couldn’t get it working.

Share This

The Share This Plugin provides the other functionality now missing from our site due to Gregarious’ departure. Share This allows visitors of our site to quickly submit our posts to a dozen different social bookmarking websites. It provides a convenient AJAX based menu that is now available at the bottom of every Bookmark Bliss post.

As we continue to tweak with our site layout and design, more plugins should make it in while others are forced to walk the Wordpress plank never to be seen from again. If anyone has any suggestions on other plugins we might want to try, let us know. We’re willing to try anything….once….

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