What are your "best" Textpattern plugins and why?

olminide · 2014-10-21 08:36:51

Which plugins to be essential for a site … including seo frendly? I’m studying Textpattern for a new site and I wouldn’t use WP
ps. Sorry for my english

Bloke · 2014-10-21 09:32:14

olminide wrote #285007:

Which plugins to be essential for a site … including seo frendly?

A broad question that largely depends on the type of site. This sort of question is something I hope to address when the plugin site is eventually revamped. For now, my hit list tends to comprise:

Admin side

abl_droploader: add images to articles via drag n’ drop.
bot_write_tab_customize: tweak article creation workflows.
adi_matrix: mass management of article data with many custom fields.
rvm_maintenance: put the site in and out of maintenance (though I sometimes use a modified version called smd_at_work that operates via an admin-side preference instead of merely switching the plugin on and off).
smd_where_used: handy for finding stuff in the admin side as the site grows.

Public side

adi_gps: read and act upon values from the URL.
etc_query: swiss-army knife everything for fetching and displaying database info / manipulating the DOM.
rah_metas: SEO meta tags.
rvm_css: deliver static stylesheets without involving a database call.
smd_if: swiss-army knife conditional branching.
zem_contact_reborn: customer contact forms.

Specialised behaviour

ied_plugin_composer: create, install and manage plugins.
mem_form / mck_login / cbe_frontauth / mem_self_register / rvm_privileged: handle customer login credentials.
rah_flat: manage site template files via the filesystem instead of the database.
smd_admin_themes: install, manage and share admin side themes.
smd_bio / smd_user_manager: user biographies and group/privilege management.
smd_calendar: event display.
yab_shop: simple e-commerce.

Each site has its own challenges and design goals, and each designer has their own way of working, so it’s difficult to list a blanket set of plugins that are essential to a site’s operation. The above are my personal toolkit that I use more often than not. But I do routinely employ many others to make the job easier.

Hope that helps.

kuopassa · 2014-10-21 09:52:42

Usually I put these:

aks_header (to compress HTML)
dzd_counter_view (basic article view counter)
jmd_count (to count for example how many articles there are)
rah_metas (mostly for meta description)
rah_replace (to replace some stuff like @ to @)
rah_sitemap (XML sitemap)
rsx_page_number (for page number)
rvm_substr (easy to create excerpts and stuff)
sed_default_article_status (if lot of content, this reduces couple clicks per article)
smd_short_url (for short article URL)
tru_tags (tag clouds etc.)
wet_haystack (enhancing internal search engine)
wet_if_page (to show content based on page number)
zem_contact_lang (language file for the plugin below)
zem_contact_reborn (contact form)

colak · 2014-10-21 10:20:50

I think that all plugins are good as they offer specific functionalities missing from txp core. To say that one plugin is better than another would be very superficial as different sites have different requirements and as such, different plugins are needed on a per case basis.

Having said that the standard plugins I use for every install are:

rss_admin_db_manager (saves me visiting phpMyAdmin to repair any tables)
zem_contact_reborn (as I don’t like having any email addresses visible on the web)
zem_contact_lang (needed for zem_contact_reborn)
rvm_css (helps externalise the css from the db but I can still edit it from the admin site without having to open any other programme)
spf_js (helps externalise the js from the db but I can still edit it from the admin site without having to open any other programme)
smd_where_used (admin side search)

My sites of course use many other plugins but the ones I listed above are common to all of them

candyman · 2014-10-21 10:31:17

Look at the thread that I started in 2006, then read the Top plugins series: 2006, 2008 and 2012.

Last edited by candyman (2014-10-21 10:43:47)

uli · 2014-10-21 12:09:42

These are the ones that can be found in each of my installations:

For my own work:

adi_form_links: Links to nested forms used in pages and forms
esq_sectionsort: Sorts sections by dragging
rss_admin_db_manager: Saves the current state of work
rvm_if_privileged: Try things out before they go public, display helper links only to those accredited to the website
smd_faux_role: Quickly changes your own user privileges in order to test what your clients will see in their roles
smd_where_used: Finds text across articles, pages, forms, CSS …

For the clients’ ease of use:

bot_write_tab_customize: Minimises visual clutter, show clients only what they need right now
bot_admin_body_class: Personalises visual clutter (via personalised CSS class)
bot_admin_tooltips: A website specific manual exactly where it’s needed
glz_custom_fields: Turns TXP’s custom text input fields into checkboxes, radio buttons, select menus, calendar choosers etc.
rah_textilebar: Applies Textile “tags” to selected text
rss_admin_db_manager: One-button backup for the timid
stm_article_order: Sort articles by dragging
wet_babble: Translate/customise admin text strings to form a consistent entirety

For web content and site functionality

adi_calc: Conduct calculations with variables
adi_gps: Turns URL parameters into page variables

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