WordPress plugins
WordPress has proved pretty useful as a base to build client websites with. It’s easy for the client to add custom pages, and it’s operation is well documented by WordPress. I have been working with a lightweight framework that allows easy creation of custom data entry and presentation apps, similar to Ruby on Rails or PHPCake, but integrated into WordPress as a WordPress plugin. When we get it to a releaseable point we’ll tell you.
And then last week I decided to start this blog. I am having a lot of fun.
Here are some other plugins that I’ve been using both here and at work:
WordPress-phpMyAdmin - creates an admin panel with phpMyAdmin running in an iframe. Simple and useful.
cforms - A contact form plugin. The neat thing about this is that you can define custom fields for a form, have validation on those fields, and have multiple forms. However, it doesn’t seem to have functionality to put the data into the database: which would be really, really nice. I’m using it for my contact form.
Google Sitemap Generator - This seems to work. It indexes posts & pages and lists them by permalink. It produces xml like this.
WordPress plugin uploader -this is pretty cute, it lets you add plugins through the admin interface. It includes a 250kb php script that does zipping/unzipping.
