Plugins

  • Akismet: spam protection
  • Category Posts Widget: Displays posts from a single category, takes params such as # of posts to display, and whether to use thumbnail
  • Custom Post Type UI: Admin panel for creation of custom post types & new taxonomies for both regular posts and custom posts
  • Fast Secure Contact Form: Contact Us page
  • Get Custom Field Values: use widgets, shortcode or template tags to display custom field values (custom fields: capacity, website – see single-hydroprojects.php)
  • Horizontal Motion Gallery: bottom slider on homepage
  • Links Page: add code to post or page to display links list
  • Pronamic Google Maps: add longitude & latitude to post/pg for inclusion of a google map. To get long/lat find the dam on a google map & paste the weird url into address field (look up the url)
  • Search Tags: make sure tags are searchable
  • Taxonomy Picker: Adds widget so you can search within a single category or taxonomy.
  • Theme My Login: Allows login, profile, logout, lost pw etc to have site wrapper. Adds user widget too.
  • WP-Table Reloaded: nice table setup, can save table layouts and reuse.
  • WP-Ecommerce: store
  • WP Random Header: displays random header, uses header_image().