May.10.2007
Popular Plugins Your Theme Should Support
- Filed under: Resource
I pointed out that multiple plugin support is a factor of a popular WordPress theme, in a previous post. Here’s a list of popular plugins your theme should support.
- Widgets - Allows you to easily rearrange sidebar blocks and turn them on or off.
- Contact Form - Self explanatory.
- Spam Karma 2 - Filter comments for spam and keeps count of how many spam comments. In most cases, this plugin will break your theme via the wp_footer() function. You need to test this plugin and style it specifically for your theme.
- Optimal Title - Place the blog title after the individual page title. Instead of Your Blog Title > About, this plugin changes it to About | Your Blog Title.
- Related Posts - Generates a list of links, possibly related, to a certain post. It’s basically an unordered list without the UL tags.
- Adsense Manager - Allows bloggers to easily integrate and manage Adsense ads.
- Ultimate Tag Warrior - A post-keyword tagging system that allows you to organize posts by keywords with or without the normal categories.
- flickrRSS - Displays photos from flickr.com to your blog.
- MyAvatars - Displays readers’ My Blog Log avatars in the comments template.
- WP-PageNavi - Allows you to brows from page to page by numbers instead of Next and Previous.
Thanks for the link!!!
No problem. MyAvatars is a nice plugin. Thanks for dropping by.
I appreciate the mention! More to come!
Hey Douglas, sorry I didn’t write a longer description for your plugin.
flickrRSS，UTW and WP-PageNavi is usefull
May I recommend cforms, Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, Global Translator, Yet Another PhotoBlog, Routes, and WordPress Database Backup?
Skarld - I chose plugins that designers could style for.
@skarld
I think “WordPress Database Backup” has nothing to do with the theme you are using?
Thank you for putting this list together. This should definitely help as I continue to create more themes.
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Hello, May I ask something in this comment?? before i drop question, i wanna thanks on the list. Really useful.
Ok, the question is how can we make our themes (if we are theme developer) compatible with any plugin above? there are wordpress version 2.0.x and wordpress version 2.1.x, and sometimes, one plugin doesn’t work in other version. Meanwhile, we make theme in one of platform?
The best choice would be to stick with a stable WordPress version and build your theme around that.
Later on, you can upgrade your theme and upgrade the plugin integrations and or remove some of them to get your theme working with the latest WordPress version.