Site
Relationship to WordPress Asylum
The Author-izer is Sallie’s other business.
Theme
Authorizer2 by Sallie Goetsch, created with Artisteer
Active Plugins
November 12, 2009
- ©Feed
- Advanced Blogroll
- Advanced Category Excluder
- Advanced Text Widget
- Akismet
- Amazon Showcase
- Bad Behavior
- Collapsible Archive Widget
- Collapsing Pages
- Comment Notifier
- Comments Policy
- Customizable Search Widget
- Dagon Design Sitemap Creator
- Extended Category Widget
- Google Analyticator
- Google XML Sitemaps
- LinkedIn Resume
- pageMash
- Podcasting
- Postalicious
- Query Posts
- Search Everything
- Search Meter
- SEO Smart Links
- SEO Ultimate
- SimplePie Core
- Simply Show IDs
- Sociable
- Woopra
- WordPress Backup (by BTE)
- WordPress Database Backup
- WordPress Mobile Pack
- WP Render Blogroll Links
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Notes
The plugin that deserves honorable mention here is Redirection, because I installed it on my old authorizer.fileslinger.com site to redirect the original Author-izer blog to the new author-izer.com location. Depending on the kind of 404 messages I start to get from SEO Ultimate (I just switched from All in One SEO Pack), I may install it here, as well.
I did more than move the Author-izer site from a subdomain, however. I expanded the static pages from three to 26 (at last count). That makes a plugin for organizing pages absolutely critical. PageMash works wonderfully. It makes the back end of WordPress look a lot more like the mind map I used for my site redesign.
Another great tool for a large site is Dagon Design Sitemap Creator. Where Google XML Sitemap Creator builds sitemaps for search engines, Dagon Design builds them for humans. You insert one short code phrase into the HTML editor of your sitemap page, and it does all the rest.
I used Podcasting rather than PowerPress mostly because I had never tried it before. As a podcasting consultant, I thought I ought to know how the plugin worked, even though PowerPress is now the podcasting plugin of choice. It works, but I won’t be switching any of my other sites over to it.
Query Posts lets me show recent posts without including the posts that are just collections of Delicious bookmarks inserted by Postalicious. (It lets you do other things, too, but it’s very handy for excluding certain post categories.) While I think it’s useful to have those links collected in my blog, I don’t think they’re the items of most interest to visitors.
I may be taking the Collapsible Archive Widget out, not because there’s anything wrong with it, but just because the current thinking seems to be that including your archives takes up space you could use for something more interesting to your readers. (Also, a colleague told me that all those links to archive pages can slow down your page loading.) Expect to see some updates in the plugin list.