Rethinking My Plugin Stash

No offense to the devel­op­ers behind these plu­g­ins. Great work. In fact, if asked, I’d rec­om­mend all of these plu­g­ins… I’m just not going to be using them any­more because they don’t meet my cur­rent needs.

I think I’m going to have to cre­ate one plu­gin to rule them all (well, almost all of them). It’d essen­tially take some of the func­tion­al­ity added by the fol­low­ing plu­g­ins and stream­line my setup so that all of the changes hap­pen in one place and my code isn’t violated.

  • WP Greet Box: Loads an extra CSS file. I don’t really need the func­tion­al­ity this plu­gin pro­vides, any­way… I just got plu­gin happy one day and thought it’d be cool to have. If I really feel like I need it, I can do some­thing sim­i­lar with a small amount of work.
  • All in One SEO Pack: I feel like I can han­dle a lot of this on my own, really. Good plu­gin if you don’t feel like putting in the work, though.
  • Ulti­mate Google Ana­lyt­ics: see my pre­vi­ous post about this.
  • Twit­ter Tools: Not so hot on inte­grat­ing Twit­ter here out­side of automag­i­cally tweet­ing when a post has been pub­lished. Results thus far have been less than agree­able. Adds a JavaScript file, too.
  • Con­tact Form 7: This is a big offender. Makes a redun­dant call to load another ver­sion of jQuery, also loads the jQuery Form Plu­gin, and adds on another JavaScript file for the val­i­da­tion and other mis­cel­lany. I’ll have to fig­ure out how to do post a form within a Word­Press page myself.

4 Responses to “Rethinking My Plugin Stash”

  1. Allison says:
    October 7, 2009 at 8:00 AM

    Just wanted to say HI. I was con­fused by the above but maybe that’s cause I’m not a techy like you! Con­grats on your site — it’s about time!!!

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