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April 17th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, WordPress 20 Comments »
You can see all the plugins I’m using on my Plugins page. I used Viper’s Plugins Used plugin to automatically show the plugins I’m using in a table grid on their own page.
I’ve edited most of the plugin descriptions to be more clear and concise. I’ve also added little screenshots beside many plugins to show the plugin in action. I’d like to hear if you’re using any cool plugins that I don’t have listed here.
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That All In One SEO plugin is awesome! It always really bothered me that the page titles started with the blog name.
On a darker note, advertising your plugins is a security risk. Few things give me more pride than sharing my knowledge of free software, but advertising the specifics of your server is a best-practises no-no. If an exploit is found in any of those plugins it’s a simple matter of Googling that plugin’s name, finding your blog, and unleashing the hounds.
If this issue is important to you, and in all fairness it might not be, I would suggest at least removing the version numbers from your list.
Brian, thanks for letting me know about the security risk. But I’m not sure where I’m advertising the specifics of my server? I hope I haven’t exposed my login information anywhere. I looked at the page source of the plugins used page, but didn’t see any server information. If you can add any more details, please do. Thanks,
Tom
WordPress is a server, and plugins are a potential backdoor into that server. WordPress communicates with several other servers to operate, including the web server and MySQL database. It’s possible, albeit unlikely, that unintentionally careless code may allow a plugin to be a vector for all kinds of attacks on any of these servers.
For instance, those who are familiar with Unix are aware of “back-quoting” – a way of executing operating system commands through an intermediary input bridge like a web form by preceding it with a back-quote character (a tilde without a shift ` ). Thus, unless this “feature” is disabled, it is possible to add or delete files from the operating system by issuing a command such as “`rm /home/tjohnson/*.html”
This is just an old example which has been all but eradicated these days, but the little hacker in me starts smirking when he sees an exhaustive list of plugins replete with links to their source code.
Don’t take me overly seriously – my caution is valid but the chances of foul play are slim. I earned a network security specialization in college so I’m particularly enamoured of “hackers” (those in the know call them “crackers”). Thus, my pessimism overshadows my desire to reward the generous individuals whose code makes my blog that much better.
On this matter I aim to inform, not to advise, so act as you see fit.
And to clarify, a server is something offering a service. A server is not necessarily a physical entity like a machine; it is also an individual service provider like a piece of software. This true definition of a server is also known as a daemon. Even your home PC runs many server services. People colloquially refer to the big boxy computer as a server, though it is technically incorrect (or at least lazy).
I’m unable to find the Related Posts plugin. The link doesn’t work. Any idea whether that’s a temporary thing?
Tom,
Thanks for your (off-blog) help with Related Posts. Thought you might like the current URL, which I found. I initially was concerned it might not be legitimate, but it appears to be. It’s http://wasabi.pbwiki.com/Related%20Entries.
Thanks Janet. I actually knew that site was there — because that’s how I downloaded and installed the plugin. By the way, the password to edit the wiki is wasabi, but the plugin has a defect: it shows pages in the related entries. However, someone helped me fix the plugin to avoid showing page entries.
However, I’ve found a better plugin. Mark Ghosh’s Contextual Related Entries is much simpler to install and works either as well as or better than the Wasabi related entries plugin.
There was one little bug in the Ghosh plugin that he just fixed. It was duplicated a post in the related entries that it was supposed to exclude. I don’t know if he updated that in the original.
Anyway, download this Contextual Related Posts. Unzip and install in your plugins directory; then activate.
Then in your single post file in your theme editor, add this php call where you want them to appear.
< ?php related(5); ? >
Remove the space between the < and > signs — I only added them here to avoid running the actual code in this comment.
[...] My post is here. Posted 8 minutes ago # [...]
Thanks, Tom. Duly downloaded. I’d noticed that you were running both “related posts” options on your own pages as a test. The comments on the plugins table kind of put me off Contextual Related Posts, but I’ll take your word that it’s easy. Still, I think I’ll wait till tomorrow to try!
My other plugin news, if you’re interested, is that I’m using All-in-One SEO to good effect, I think. Akismet is up and running, too. The math spam-avoidance plug-in didn’t work right; it kept producing the “go back and add up the numbers” error message even when filled in appropriately. Right now I seem to be doing OK without it, so I’m not going to worry.
I read elsewhere of another one called Spam Karma that evidently works well. Another arrow for the quiver.
I removed the math plugin because it wasn’t working either. Then Lorelle left a comment on my blog suggesting I combine Akismet with Bad Behavior and Spam Karma. I did. It’s only been a day or so, but I haven’t gotten any spam since then.
Thanks, Tom. I have two “answers” and a question regarding Contextually Related Links.
The answers (for anyone else trying): Be sure to add .php to the plugin file name. And, no, the download provided here doesn’t include the fix to exclude pages.
The question: Does this plugin work only on single posts? I tried putting the call on my index page, too (in the same spot where I’d added the Related Posts call), but nothing shows up.
(Sorry to be a pest; I’m trying to contribute a little, anyway…)
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Tom,
you put some nice effort into building up this list. I appreciate that and was just wondering, why you are using two different doFollow plugins.
Regards,
Tobias
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