The World, Plugged In: Various WordPress Plugins from Various Nations
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- The World, Plugged In: Various WordPress Plugins from Various Nations
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Here is a list of essential WordPress plugins built by people from different countries or ethnicities. Not only you could use these plugins for your Wordpress blogs or WP-powered websites, but also to show how actively people from different parts of the world collaborate and encourage each other in global scale.
And as WordPress’ Codex would describe it:
Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 5 web site without paying anyone a license fee.
In order to make life easier, I’ve added the Download and Documentation links for each plugin –even saying Thank Yous in each country’s language. But still, don’t be reckless, please click on the plugin’s name to view official documentation by its author or if you want to check for demos and latest upgrades.
IP-to-Country, by Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo from Indonesia. This plugin is a tool to identify the commenters’ originating country tracked from its IP; the country’s name and flags will be automatically displayed within the comment lists. It’s a compulsary plugin if your blog has international traffic. The 30 year old guy got his IT degree from Gunadharma University, and loves to read Tom Clancy’s books. He also made plugins, such as IP-to-Browser (displaying the commenters’ browsers); and PHP Exec (executing PHP codes inside posts). Terimakasih!
Social Bookmarks Plugin 3.2, by Apostolos Dountsis from Greece. This plugin adds a list of XHTML-compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them to different social bookmarking sites. Apostolos Dountsis is a Computer Systems Engineer, developing web applications in PHP, using MySQL and Oracle databases. He just got back from Greece after fulfilling his nation’s duty, and in his own words.. “dropped the keyboard for a G3A3 gun as as part of the Greek military service.”. Efharisto!
Download | Documentation
CoolPlayer 9, by Xenium and andot from China. I can’t pronounce –even type– you their real name, since their website is four nines written in Chinese calligraphy. The player plugin allows you to play media files in your blog, such as YouTube or MySpace videos. The authors of this plugin also made Emotions, CoolCamera, CoolWeathers, and others. Xie xie!
Download | Installation | Usage
MyAvatars 0.2b, by Napolux from Italy. MyAvatars is a plugin that shows MyBlogLog’s avatars in your comments — even if you’re not subscribed to MyBlogLog. This is a necessary plugin for identifying your commenters’ faces down the street! And of course to recognize them on MyBlogLog community site. Francesco, the 27 year old Italian bloke, studied PHP programming and according to his not-quite-sure LinkedIn profile, he is a Business Analyst and Web Developer. Grazie!
Edited: He’s a PHP programmer. Yes, we’re quite sure about zat.
PageNavi, by Lester Chan from Singapore. This plugin is quite simple and yet so useful for quick browsing; it creates paging navigation or pagination for your WordPress blog. For example: Pages (17): [1] 2 3 4 » … Last ». The author of this plugin is a 23 year old student, and he claimed himself to be… “…an impatient person as I do things very fast and within the shortest time possible. My friends always say I eat, drink, walk and talk very fast. Well, thats me.” Yes, Lester. That explains the pagination idea. Xie xie!
Download | Installation | Usage
WP-Forum, by Fredrik Fahlstad from Sweden. Yeap, thanks to Fredrik, now you can have a built-in discussion forum in your blog; included support for different skins, 3 included by default, and changeable from the WP admin interface. The Swedish lad used to work as a programmer for embedded systems such as trip and fuel meters for cars and boats. He had a degree in computer engineering from the University of Karlstad. Plugins made by him are fGallery, Search-Highlighter, fMoblog, and many others. Takk!
Lightbox2, by Lokesh Dhakar from India. If you’re a photoblogger, travelblogger, or anything alike, you must’ve used this plugin already and referred your site as a “lightbox site”. Quite phenomenal. It’s a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page, therefore placing image on top of your page instead of reloading a new one. There have been modifications on this plugin such as Lightbox 2.0 by Safirel Alredha (Malaysia) and Lightbox 2.3 by Rupert Morris (Canada). The creator of lightbox is a 24 year old web developer, and currently living in Boston, MA, USA. Another plugin from India is Snap Shots Plugin by Ajay D’Souza. Sukria!
E.L.A, by Arnaud Froment from France. E.L.A. stands for Extended Live Archive, it makes your website more reader-friendly and easier to navigate by going through the Archives page it automotically creates. Monsieur Arnaud Forment is 28 year old, he used to work in Sillicon Valley and presently working for LSI Logic. He considered that his works will never be complete and never be finished. Other plugin from France is IP-to-Nation by Ozh, which inspired Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo to create his self-made plugin. Merci!
Download | Documentation
DoFollow, by Kimmo Suominen from Finland. The plugin will disable the automatic rel="nofollow" attributes added to external links, this way it will be easier for you to share your links AND to receive links from your readers. DoFollow –as an idea– has its own community on Bumpzee which started by Andy Beard (UK). A plugin similar to this one is Dofollow Trackbacks Plugin by Turk Hit Box from Turkey. Kimmo –as he was summoned– is a CTO and owner of Red Tail Media and GlobalMedia, and a NetBSD developer. He also made the Time Zone plugin. Kiitos!
WordPress Google XML Sitemap - Ultimate Tag Warrior - Tags Addon 2.0b Plugin, by Stewart Farquhar from UK. This plugin automatically appends all blog tags generated by Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) onto the end of the Google XML Sitemap (sitemap.xml) file as generated by the Google XML Sitemaps. Hence, search engines will be made aware of all your internal tags and index your tagged content directories; it should help your blog to achieve higher search engine rankings for your tagged pages. This plugin certainly makes the best out of two essential plugins all at once. Stewart is a Managing Director and founder of Dicontas and have 12 years experience in the business. He claimed himself as a.. “true believer in the LAMP and GPL uprising!”. He also made other WP plugins, such as the Font Resizer Tool. Thank you!
Google Sitemap Generator 3 Beta, by Arne Brachhold from Germany. Sitemaps are common to every SEO-ed site, and this plugin helps a great deal by generating an XML compliant sitemap for blogs or WordPress-powered website. This might be the most highly recommended –and reviewed– plugin there is out there. The latest BETA version also supports Popularity Contest by Alex King (USA). Arne Brachhold lives in Stuttgart, Germany and works in a Program Development industry. Another great plugin made in Deutschland is Get Recent Comments, by Krischan Jodies. Danke!
Note: SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.
Single Bookmark Category List, by Azmeen from Malaysia. Adding up one more name from Southeast Asia region, Azmeen is currently working as an Analyst Programmer in Johor and he runs HTNet. , Malaysia. Previously, he has been an Operations Manager for an education startup and also a Technology Assistant (it’s just a fancy name for Tech Support Guy, he said) with HP Singapore. Another plugin author from Malaysia is Safirul Alredha, who worked together with Michael Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Steve Lam and Ben Sherratt in developing K2 system for WordPress. Terimakasih!
Ultimate Tag Warrior 3, by Christine Davis from New Zealand. This plugin allows you to add tags either through the Write Post page in WordPress in a tag box, on posts using an AJAXy box, and in posts using special syntax from external editors (or internally). In my own words, not only people could browse through your categories, but also your tags which specifies everything to tiny bit of pieces. Great plugin since it’s recommended everywhere for SEO. Christine Davis is a computer programmer, she’s using C#, PHP, and “..doing things which sorta sit on the edge of content management and advertising.”. She also makes cheese. No, we don’t think you’re joking, Miss Davis. Thank you!
ShareThis, by Alex King from USA. It allows you and your visitors to share content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend. I assume the best part is: it integrates bookmarklets all in one window, therefore not having them cluttered and scattered all over your blog.This is is one highly-recommended plugin if you’d like to keep things reader-friendly. Alex King is living in Denver, Colorado US; he is a Sillicon Valley veteran and currently working self-employed as an independent developer. He’s also the author responsible for Popularity Contest, Link Harvest, Comment License, and more. More plugins made by fellow Americans are Google AdSense Deluxe (displaying your AdSense block wherever IN your post); WP-Translate by Scott Hough (helping visitors to translate your page into different languages); FeedBurner from Steve Smith, and of course that Akismet, by that ramen noodle-powered Matt, and gigazillions more from US. Thank you!
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And here’s WordPress map for plugin authors. I guess. Check it out.
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That’s all for now.
Of course the list doesn’t stop there; there’ll be more inventions to be made, more common goals to be shared and achieved in future time. And if you have any suggestions or corrections for this article, please leave a comment.
For more references, please go right ahead to The Codex.
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