The WDG wishes to thank all of the developers that contributed their time and energy toward building the tools used to run HTMLHelp.com’s Weblog. The following is a complete list of themes and plugins used within the site.
Platform
HTMLHelp.blog runs on the free Wordpress semantic personal publishing platform. It claims more than a million users worldwide and has a large developer base and support infrastructure. In it’s default installation it is both secure and accessible, though users must take care not to introduce issues when installing third party themes and plugins - of which there are many. Wordpress is an excellent way for both new and experienced Web authors to publish dynamic sites.
Theme
The current theme is a highly modified version which began life as Barthelme 3.0 by Scott Allan Wallick. It is not in a condition to share, but if enough people were to request the theme we could make it available.
Plugins
- Bad Behavior - Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site. By Michael Hampton.
- Feedburner Feed Replacement - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. By Steve Smith.
- Google (XML) Sitemaps - This generator creates a sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported By Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Configuration Page By Arne Brachhold.
- Moderation Notify Author - Automatically notifys the author of a comment that it is awaiting moderation. By Mark Ghosh.
- No Ping Wait - Speeds up posting by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php. By Robert Deaton.
- No Self Pings - Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site. By Michael D. Adams.
- Polite-ifier - Cleans up commenters’ bad language. By Elliott Back.
- Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form - This contact form features accessibility and usability while providing extensive anti-spam and anti-exploit security features. By Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley.
- Sidebar Widgets - Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu By Automattic, Inc.
- Spam Karma 2 - Spam Killer for WordPress. By dr Dave.
- Spam Karma 2 Akismet Plugin - by Sebastian Herp.
- SK2-WP-Cache-Compatibility plugin - When you use Spam Karma 2 with WP-Cache, cached files are not flushed after a successfully comment approval. This fixes that issue. By Priv.
- StripTease - Strips “#more” fragments from “Read More” teaser links. By Guy M. Fisher.
- Ultimate Tag Warrior - A tagging plugin, which is useful for helping readers find similar posts. By Christine Davis.
- Wikipedia Nofollow - Searches for links to Wikipedia.org, and adds a rel=”nofollow” tag. This is in response to Wikipedia’s nofollow policy. By Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson.
- WP-Ban - Bans users by IP or host name from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP/host name trys to visit. By GaMerZ.
- WP-Cache - A very fast cache module which allows Wordpress to handle far greater load. By Ricardo Galli Granada.
- WP-Cron - Provides for periodic execution of actions By Scott Merrill.
- WP-Cron Future Pings Pings updated services for future-dated posts. Requires WP-Cron. By Scott Merrill.
- WP-DBManager - Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize, backup, restore, delete backup, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. By GaMerZ.
- WP Admin Bar Reloaded - Adds a small admin bar to the top of every page. By John Pozadzides.
- WordPress Recent Comments Plugin / Widget - Used to display recent comments in the sidebar.
If you are aware of security or accessibility issues with any of the plugins in use on this site we would appreciate the tip. Additionally, if you think there is a better alternative (or just something that would add value to HTMLHelp.blog) to a plugin in use that we should check out please let us know as well.