plugins: list my wordpress plugins exists

Posted on May 1, 2007
Filed Under plugins, wishlist |

Excellent news folks, my wish for a plugin to list all plugins used on a WordPress blog has come true.

Vipers plugins used provides just this, a plugin to list on our public blog details of the plugins we use in a blog. Widespread use of this plugin would have two great benefits to the WP community.

Developer recognition
Firstly, it rewards successful plugin developers with much needed link love, making them easier to find, and helping them to buy the odd Google Ads funded beer as reward.

Blogger convenience
Secondly, the links make it easier for me to see which plugin a blog I admire uses, helping me to raise the standard of my own blog. This is the ultimate convenience for bloggers looking for new functionality.

Both of these factors should drive more extensive use of good plugins, and drive development of successful plugins. Raising the issue of link-love rears the spectre of sponsored links perhaps, but valid link-love makes the web go round, so I’m comfortable with it.

The developer has stated an intention to make the installation of the plugin more straightforward, which it will need to be to gain mass adoption - at the moment it requires a pretty detailed installation guide.

Quick installation
I’ve simplified the install somewhat, for one specific use, which works for me. Simply upload to your plugins folder as usual, activate, and add the following line to your sidebar to add an unordered list of your plugins used:

<?php $viperspluginsused = new viperspluginsused(); $viperspluginsused->output_list(); ?>

This doesn’t bring all the power of the plugin out, but it gets the core into your blog quickly and painlessly. My list:

You can see the live plugin generated list for this blog on the About page. I found the plugin via Marco Luthe.

Comments

4 Responses to “plugins: list my wordpress plugins exists”

  1. Marco Luthe Online! » Blog Archive » Wordpress Plugin “Popularity Contest” on May 2nd, 2007 11:21 am

    [...] first came across this plugin via Steve (author of wordpressguy.com) who was so friendly to put a link back to my [...]

  2. Marco Luthe on May 2nd, 2007 11:27 am

    Hi Steve,

    thanks for putting that link back to my website here!

  3. Paul Enderson on May 3rd, 2007 7:45 am

    Nice one Steve! There’s a couple of on there that I hadn’t heard of before - so expect top commentators to appear on my main blog at the least! ;)

  4. llamasonic on May 4th, 2007 11:21 am

    Great find and cool list. Off to check out some of them now.

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