Comments on: Essential Admin Plugins for WordPress

By: Charity

Charity — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:42:15 +0000

@ Valerie and Andrew – thanks I’m glad you found some use in it! Finding the right collection of plugins (that work together) seems like half the battle sometimes. ;)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:18:59 +0000

Hey Charity,

Real helpful post. Seeing as how there are umpteen million plugins available at WordPress’ site alone, picking out the best of the pack is much appreciated!

And I’m glad you wrote that note about the contact form plugin, Paul. I was going to install it myself too, when I saw that fairly obnoxious disclaimer on it.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:28:12 +0000

Great list! I’m new and just getting my site setup and these were all excellent suggestions. Thanks!

By: Charity

Charity — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:23:36 +0000

Tara – the DB backup doesn’t support that functionality unfortunately, but if your host allows you to run cron jobs, I think you could schedule backups that way.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:39:12 +0000

Charity – great list, I am going to take a look at the database back up sounds a lot easier than what I do now. Can you set it up t make scheduled back ups?

By: Charity

Charity — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:37:22 +0000

Can’t wait to see it Paul! :)

By: Paul Enderson

Paul Enderson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:33:35 +0000

My testing (which included disabling all plugins and then putting them back on one by one) pointed to it being an incompatibility between the theme I was using (a heavily-modified version of K3) and WP 2.2.

When I changed to a default theme it worked fine, so that was the only conclusion I could draw!

I’ve been working on a CSS reboot for the last month or so, which is based on a totally different theme – so it won’t be an issue for that much longer! That’s an exclusive for you by the way – I haven’t mentioned it anywhere else! ;)

By: Charity

Charity — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:46:17 +0000

Maybe some conflict with another plugin? That’s frustrating when you can’t find the cause so there’s no chance of finding a solution. Thanks for the link. :)

By: Paul Enderson

Paul Enderson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:38:56 +0000

I was originally running ‘Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form’ by green-beast. It’s undoubtedly the most secure and most flexible that there is – but it didn’t like something about my 2.2 upgrade… It worked fine on everyone elses upgrade, just not mine!

By: Charity

Charity — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:11:58 +0000

Wow I never caught that before, and I agree – that’s NOT how open source works. Hm… let me know if you find a good alternative! I’m curious, which one were you using before?

I read somewhere recently that WordPress is planning to incorporate a notification feature for whenever plugin developers make updates, but I have no idea when. Won’t it be great though. :)