In Praise of Plugins
One of the great things about running Wordpress-based web sites is that when you want to do something different you can often find exactly what you want thanks to someone’s neat plugin. I’ve written a few myself by now, though nothing that is worth issuing publicly as they are all pretty specialized. However, I’ve also make good use of other people’s work, and it is about time I gave some public thanks, so here goes:
- All of my blogs rely on Michael Hampton’s fabulous Bad Behavior for protection from spam;
- Many of the people I interact with won’t use any form other blogging other than LiveJournal, so I am indebted to Evan Broder, whose LiveJournal Cross-poster works perfectly and does everything I want; and
- One of my sites is making liberal use of Lester Chan’s WP-Polls, and that is also doing a fine job.
Thank you, guys. You’ve been a great help.