Feed readers
Written on Jul 28, 2007 // Site, Wordpress.
Wow, 19 people are subscribed to my RSS feed. I’m flattered. *sniffs* Seriously.
And how do I know this? Well, thanks to the lovely Feed Statistics plugin. The great thing about this is that it’s the first plugin I know of that gives you insight to how many people dig your feeds without having to sign up to Feed Burner.
Here’s a list of the other plugins I’m using, in case anyone is interested:
Add Meta Tags: something missing from wordpress core, and helpful for getting your posts properly indexed.
Akismet: THE anti-spam plugin.
CJD Comment Heat: Check the about page for the output of this plugin with all the gravatars of everyone who has commented here on the blog.
Exec-PHP: For using php code in posts.
Fancy Tooltips: For nice graphical images when you hover over a link, provided you’ve filled in the alt or title description, I’m a little lazy with that.
Full Text Feed: Prevents wordpress from stripping everything after the more tag in a feed.
Gravatar: For displaying gravatars, little avatars associated with your email addy.
Sociable: Adds a linkbar so people can easily add your post to social networking sites.
SRG Clean Archives: Like it says, shows a nice archive of all your posts. Check my archive for an example.
Subscribe to Comments: In my opinion an essential plugin, it allows people to sign up to get mail when people add further replies to a blog entry. Good to keep discussions going.
Time Zone: Make wordpress aware of Daylight Savings Time.
That’s it at the moment, although I’m always looking for new and interesting additions.
If you want to know more about me, my blog or the rest of the site, check out my
Raven
Jul 28 2007, 23:48Yus, my wabbit wubs j00.
Arpit Jacob
Jul 30 2007, 17:10Interesting plugin I need to try it sometime. by the way make the 20 readers ;)
XIII
Jul 30 2007, 17:24Thanks, I just added yours to my reader. :)
Saint
Aug 02 2007, 17:14so do we the peons have these plugins too? because I’m too lazy to check, and we should anyways, so I’ll give you the chance to implement it before answering yes ;)
XIII
Aug 02 2007, 20:40Ahehe… ask me again when I get back from the US. ;)
kanak
Sep 02 2007, 20:24your site is pretty interesting. subscribed. :D . Also I think I will let feedburner do its job. Since now it give stats also for free, I wont like to compromise for something less also putting a burden on my dreamhost hosting which is already troubling me.
I think you should give akismet a second thought. Many times it put legit comments into moderation. I prefer mybloglog plugin, since normally 99% bloggers have account in that, so it much easy to identify :D
XIII
Sep 02 2007, 20:29Thanks for the comment, and yeah, I always keep an eye on the Akismet spam queue, but thusfar I haven’t had too many problems with it. MyBlogLog is nice, I still have to see if I will incorporate it into the rest of the site, seeing as this blog is only 1% of the whole thing, even though it’s now picking up more and more traffic.