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icon wordpresssandbox The Click to visit this external linkWordpress team for a powerful engine: “A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” Thanks to Click to visit this external linkstock.xchng and the photographers for loads of great images. And of course, thanks to Click to visit this external linkplaintxt.org for the great Sandbox theme upon which base this site is designed.


pluginsPlugin Authors for all the goodies.
Plugins marked with a pink dot image (icon pdot) have been customized (some lightly, some heavily) by Elle for use on this site.

Click to visit this external link@Reply \w comment preview
icon pdot Preview comments linked by @Reply.

Click to visit this external linkAdSense Manager
AdSense Manager has now been superseded by Advertising Manager and is a recommended upgrade if you are on WP2.5 or later. Please visit the Wordpress Extend site to download ASAP!

Click to visit this external linkAkismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

Click to visit this external linkAZIndex
icon pdot A highly customizable and user friendly plugin to create one or more alphabetical indexes of selected posts in your Wordpress blog.

Click to visit this external linkBookmarkify
icon pdot The Social Media Marketing Plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. Help your readers promote your blog!

Click to visit this external linkcforms
icon pdot cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see the VERSION HISTORY for what’s new and current bugfixes.

ElleDoesIt! Admin Notes
Custom script for my “notes to self”, etc.

Click to visit this external linkExcerpt Editor
Add or edit excerpts for Posts and Pages.

Click to visit this external linkExternal Links
icon pdot Adds to all outbound links, with various effects that are configurable under Options / External Links. Use <a class="no_icon" …> to disable the icon on individual links.

Click to visit this external linkFeedBurner FeedSmith
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

Click to visit this external linkGoogle Analytics for WordPress
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.

Click to visit this external linkGoogle XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

Click to visit this external linkOrganize Series
This plugin adds a number of features to wordpress that enable you to easily write and organize a series of posts and display the series dynamically in your blog. You can associate “icons” or “logos” with the various series. This version of Organize Series Plugin requires at least WordPress 2.8 to work.

Click to visit this external linkOzh' Admin Drop Down Menu
All admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Saves lots of screen real estate! For WordPress 2.8+

Click to visit this external linkPage Management Dropdown
Adds a link to edit each individual page to the Pages admin menu.

Click to visit this external linkpageMash
Manage your multitude of pages with pageMash’s slick drag-and-drop style, ajax interface. Allows quick sorting, hiding and organising of parenting.

Click to visit this external linkPost-Plugin Library
icon pdot Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.

Click to visit this external linkRandom Posts
Displays a highly configurable list of randomly selected posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

Click to visit this external linkRB Internal Links
Use wiki style tags to link to internal posts and pages within your blog without hardcoding them.

Click to visit this external linkRecent Posts
Displays a highly configurable list of the most recent posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

Click to visit this external linkSEO Friendly Images
Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well.

Click to visit this external linkShadowbox JS
icon pdot A javascript media viewer similar to Lightbox and Thickbox. Supports all types of media, not just images.

Click to visit this external linkStatPress Reloaded
Improved real time stats for your blog

Click to visit this external linkSyntaxHighlighter
icon pdot An advanced upload-and-activate WordPress implementation of Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript code highlighting package. See WordPress.com’s “How do I post source code?” for details.

Click to visit this external linkTwitter Tools
icon pdot A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter.

Click to visit this external linkWordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

Click to visit this external linkWordPress Heat Map
icon pdot Template tags for a heat map of categories, tags and archives.

Click to visit this external linkWP-DownloadManager
Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog.

Click to visit this external linkWP-phpMyAdmin
Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin console

Click to visit this external linkWP-PluginsUsed
icon pdot Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

Click to visit this external linkWP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

Click to visit this external linkWP Security Scan
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.

Click to visit this external linkWP Super Cache
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

Click to visit this external linkYet Another Related Posts Plugin
Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.