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Shanghai Tech Writer

Technical Writing, Technology, WordPress, Blogging, Web 2.0, National Instruments, LabVIEW, Shanghai, China
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There are 44 plugins used: 41 active plugins and 3 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

Akismet 2.1.8  Akismet 2.1.8
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

All in One SEO Pack 1.4.6.14  All in One SEO Pack 1.4.6.14
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.

cforms 8.5.2  cforms 8.5.2
» Oliver Seidel (url)
cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes.

Commentluv 1.99  Commentluv 1.99
» Andy Bailey (url)
Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog in their comment. Just activate and it’s ready. Will parse a feed from most sites that have a feed location specified in its head html. See the Settings Page for styling and text output options.

Custom Query String 2.7  Custom Query String 2.7
» Matt Read (url)
Change the number of posts displayed when viewing different archive pages.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator 3.14  Dagon Design Sitemap Generator 3.14
» Dagon Design (url)
Generates a fully customizable sitemap

Daily Top 10 Posts 0.3  Daily Top 10 Posts 0.3
» Andrew dela Serna (url)
Tracks the number of pageviews per blog post for the current day and cumulatively with options to display sidebar widgets for both.

Democracy 2.0.1  Democracy 2.0.1
» Andrew Sutherland (url)
This poll plugin is easy to use, install, and manage. It uses AJAX to load data, making it quick and fun to use. Add {democracy:*id*} to your posts to include polls in your posts, where *id* corresponds to the ID of your poll.

Embedded Video with Link 3.4  Embedded Video with Link 3.4
» Stefan Heß (url)
Easy embedding of videos from various portals or local video files with corresponding link. Configure…

EmbedIt 0.1  EmbedIt 0.1
» Matteo Ionescu (url)
A simple plugin that allows you to embed any HTML code (Youtube, UStream or whatever) in a post, deciding precisely where to embed it, allowing you freedom of coding your html without being annoyed by the wysiwyg editor. USAGE: While editing a post, create a custom field with key HTML1 and paste the code you want to embed into the Value field. Then just write [HTML1] in your post where you want to embed the html code. (Just use the standard wysiwyg post content editing window, no need to switch to Code view). If you need, you can use up to nine times the trick: HTML2…HTML9 in order to embed up to nine html different snippets per post, placing each snippet in a different custom field.

Extended Live Archives 0.10beta-r18  Extended Live Archives 0.10beta-r18
» Arnaud Froment (url)
Implements a dynamic archive, inspired by Binary Bonsai and the original Super Archives by Jonas Rabbe. Visit the ELA option panel to initialize the plugin.

Ext JS Admin Menu 0.1  Ext JS Admin Menu 0.1
» W.Regenczuk (url)
Ext JS Admin Menu

FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1  FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» FeedBurner (url)
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

Get Recent Comments 2.0.2  Get Recent Comments 2.0.2
» Krischan Jodies (url)
Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.

Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.0.1  Google XML Sitemaps 3.1.0.1
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page

Inline Tag Thing 1.2  Inline Tag Thing 1.2
» Christine From The Internet (url)
A thing for editing tags inline, using AJAX magic.

Login LockDown v1.2  Login LockDown v1.2
» Michael VanDeMar (url)
Adds some extra security to WordPress by restricting the rate at which failed logins can be re-attempted from a given IP range. Distributed through Bad Neighborhood.

Manageable 1.1  Manageable 1.1
» Aaron Harp (url)
Inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Requires WordPress 2.5 or above.

Math Comment Spam Protection 2.2  Math Comment Spam Protection 2.2
» Michael Woehrer (url)
Asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot. Example of such question: What is the sum of 2 and 9?

No Self Pings 0.2  No Self Pings 0.2
» Michael D. Adams (url)
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.

OneClick Installer 0.9.8  OneClick Installer 0.9.8
» Anirudh Sanjeev (url)
Installs any plugin or theme without having to upload them manually via ftp. Can also delete theme and plugin folders.

Organize Series 2.0.7  Organize Series 2.0.7
» Darren Ethier (url)
This plugin adds a number of features to wordpress that enable you to easily write and organize a series of posts and display the series dynamically in your blog. You can associate “icons” or “logos” with the various series. This version of Organize Series Plugin requires at least WordPress 2.3 to work.

Page View 1.4.4  Page View 1.4.4
» John Godley (url)
Allows the insertion of code to display an external webpage within an iframe, along with a title and description. The tag to insert the code is: [pageview url "title" description]

PXS Mail Form 2.6  PXS Mail Form 2.6
» Shane Marriott (url)
Creates a mail form with multi part verification, various messages and an auto redirect on successful send. Originally based on the contact form by Ryan Duff. Enter {mailform} where you want the form. Recent updates include referrer checks, exploit management and the ability to run with the Markdown plugin. New feature for this release allows the sender to CC themselves.

Sociable 2.9.1  Sociable 2.9.1
» Joost de Valk (url)
Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Go to Options -> Sociable for setup.

Star Rating for Reviews 0.4  Star Rating for Reviews 0.4
» Yaosan Yeo (url)
Insert inline rating stars within your posts based on the score you assign, supports outputting list of reviews sorted by date, score or post title.

Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2  Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
» Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

Tag Managing Thing 1.0.2  Tag Managing Thing 1.0.2
» Christine From The Internet (url)
A thing for managing your tags. Things like renaming and deletions.

Twitter Tools 1.1b1  Twitter Tools 1.1b1
» Alex King (url)
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Configure your settings here.

Ultimate Google Analytics 1.6.0  Ultimate Google Analytics 1.6.0
» Wilfred van der Deijl (url)
Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site. Check http://www.oratransplant.nl/uga/#versions for version updates

Viper's Video Quicktags 5.4.4  Viper's Video Quicktags 5.4.4
» Viper007Bond (url)
Allows you to embed various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video as well as videos you host yourself, into WordPress. Credits: Owen Winkler for ButtonSnap and An-archos for help with WP 2.1+ button code.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.1  Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.1
» Keith Dsouza (url)
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions. Go to Wordpress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade your installation Thanks to Ronald Huereca for making the plugin run in automatic mode.

WordPress Database Backup 2.1.5  WordPress Database Backup 2.1.5
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Manage → Backup to get started.

Wordpress Download Monitor 2.1.5  Wordpress Download Monitor 2.1.5
» Mike Jolley (url)
Manage downloads on your site, view and show hits, and output in posts. Downloads page found at “Manage>Downloads”.

WordPress Related Posts 0.9  WordPress Related Posts 0.9
» Denis (url)
Generate a related posts list via tags of WordPress

WP-PageNavi 2.31  WP-PageNavi 2.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.

WP-PluginsUsed 1.31  WP-PluginsUsed 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-Polls 2.30  WP-Polls 2.30
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.

WP-PostRatings 1.31  WP-PostRatings 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

WP-TabsAndSlides 1.0  WP-TabsAndSlides 1.0
» Abdul Ibad (url)
WP-TabsAndSlides is plugin based on “joomlaworks Tabs & Slides Mambots” for Mambo/Joomla. TabsSlides (in content items) Plugin gives you the ability to easily add content tabs and/or content slides. The tabs emulate a multi-page structure, while the slides emulate an accordion-like structure, inside a single page! Usage Instructions

WP Grins 1.5  WP Grins 1.5
» Alex King (url)
A Clickable Smilies hack for WordPress.

Inactive Plugins

Broken Link Checker 0.4.8  Broken Link Checker 0.4.8
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

WP-Polls Widget 2.30  WP-Polls Widget 2.30
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a Poll Widget to display single or multiple polls from WP-Polls Plugin. You will need to activate WP-Polls first.

WP-PostRatings Widget 1.31  WP-PostRatings Widget 1.31
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Adds a PostRatings Widget to display most rated and/or highest rated posts and/or pages on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-PostRatings first.

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