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#1 2006-11-21 11:18:20

alexandra

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2004-04-02

Posts: 1,370

Top Plugins 2006

As the end of the year emerges and so many new plugins were released this year again, i like to know which are your favourite 4.0.4 compatible ones?

#2 2006-11-21 12:54:15

wet

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From: Schoerfling, Austria

Registered: 2005-06-06

Posts: 3,330

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Re: Top Plugins 2006

My nominees are…

• Best Stunt Action: Sencer’s asy_wondertag
• Best Director: Graeme Porteous’ gbp_permanent_links
• Best Zombie Movie: Ruud’s revived zem_contact, which was a desparately needed contribution.
• Life time achievement award: Mary’s upm_img_popper, upm_image

Last edited by wet (2006-11-21 12:56:22)

#3 2006-11-21 15:27:52

soulship

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From: Always Sunny Charleston

Registered: 2004-04-30

Posts: 669

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Re: Top Plugins 2006

Don’t be shy Robert :)

• wet_for_each_image
• hak_article_image
• rss_unlimited_categories
• ebl_batchupload

And I second and third the asy_wondertag, it’s quickly becoming my miracle worker hack saw, I love it.

Last edited by soulship (2006-11-21 15:29:20)

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#4 2006-11-21 16:13:51

marios

Archived Plugin Author

Registered: 2005-03-12

Posts: 1,253

Re: Top Plugins 2006

For the time beeing these are my favorites

upm_category_image Mary 0.4.7 Display image for category.

djw_section_articles David Woodward, Robert Wetzlmayr 0.6.3 Displays a list of all articles in a section
ied_plugin_composer Yura Linnyk 0.1.2 Write and produce your own plugin via admin interface

zem_contact_reborn TXP Community 4.0.3.17 Form mailer for Textpattern

zem_nth zem 0.1 Display content every n-th step

wet_article_thumb Robert Wetzlmayr 0.2 Displays the thumbnail for an article’s image with an optional link to the article.
chh_if_data Coke Harrington 0.10 Show a block of text only if enclosed TXP tags produce some output.

kgr_safe_excerpt Kurt Raschke 1.0 Generates an excerpt based on the body text with tags removed, or the excerpt, if it exists.
etz_pg Nikolaos Genimakis 0.7.1 Paginated articles
rss_admin_db_manager Rob Sable 4.1 Database management system.

glx_hl_current Johan Nilsson 0.3 Assigns a class to the current selected article or section
asy_jpcache Sencer Yurdaguel 0.9.8 JPCache Integration. (This Admin-Plugin is only responsible for cleaning the cache. Click help, to see Installation Instructions.)
mcw_ma_gnolia Mike West 0.4 Ma.gnolia Linkroll

ied_editable_select Yura Linnyk 0.1.1 Editable select for TXP article custom fields test
mcw_templates Mike West 0.2 File Based Templates
cng_acronym Chess Griffin 0.2 Wraps common acronyms with HTML acronym tags
alt_Email_Obfuscator Geert Van Aken 1.1.1 This plugin obfuscates an emailaddress. It is an alternative to the tag txp:email

anc_hide Andy Chase 1.0 Allows you to comment out areas of a page or form opaquely; using the anc_comment tag instead of HTML comments around a block of code will hide it from the rendered output.

bit_rss Bit Santos 0.2.3 A modified version of tcm_rss that uses the friendlier and lighter SimplePie to parse feeds.

rsx_plugins_table Ramanan Sivaranjan 1.1 Display a list of plugins currently installed.

upm_textile Mary 0.2 Parse any text with Textile

zem_article_info Threshold State 0.2 Word count and article link for article edit pages

asy_wondertag Sencer Yurdagül 0.5 allows to use tags as attributes (kind of)

sac_link_in_excerpt Michael Schlierbach 0.1.1 Places the permlink at the end of the last paragraph in an excerpt

regards, marios

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#5 2006-11-21 16:22:04

mrdale

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From: Walla Walla

Registered: 2004-11-19

Posts: 2,215

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Re: Top Plugins 2006

Postmaster Hands down

#6 2006-11-25 08:40:52

gdtroiano

Archived Plugin Author

From: Highland Park, NJ

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 59

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Re: Top Plugins 2006

• ied_plugin_composer
• rss_unlimited_categories
• Postmaster

#7 2006-12-07 09:51:31

alexandra

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2004-04-02

Posts: 1,370

Re: Top Plugins 2006

Hi folks, please feel free to add your favourite plugin/s .. a nice list of current great plugins would be very helpful for newbies and for promoting txp :)

#8 2006-12-07 10:36:03

kemie

Plugin Author

From: mexico<-->sweden

Registered: 2004-05-20

Posts: 495

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Re: Top Plugins 2006

• gbp_permanent_links (second nomination :) )
• mcw_templates

those 2 alone made my textpattern exponentially easier

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#9 2006-12-07 11:12:07

Algaris

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From: England

Registered: 2006-01-27

Posts: 553

Re: Top Plugins 2006

Essential Plug-ins, installed on all my TXP projects

1. rss_admin_db_manager – Database management system.
2. hak_tinymce – A TinyMCE based WYSIWYG editor.
3. ebl_BatchUpload – Adds Multiple Upload Capability to Textpattern.

Life Saving Plug-ins, that helped fix specific project issues

1. rss_unlimited_categories – Enable unlimited categories (tags) per article.
2. ign_password_protect – Password protect articles or sections.

Useful Plug-ins

1. bas_lightbox – Brings the Lightbox JS v2.0 to textpattern.
2. ajw_if_comment_owner – Allows checking one or multiple comment field values to “verify” an indentity.
3. mem_self_register – User self registration.
4. ob1_title – An enhancement for txp:page_title with more features.
5. Postmaster – Simple email-on-post/newsletter manager for Textpattern.
6. upm_quicktags – Quicktags for articles, forms and pages.

#10 2006-12-07 11:34:12

alexandra

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2004-04-02

Posts: 1,370

Re: Top Plugins 2006

kemie schrieb:

• gbp_permanent_links (second nomination :) )
• mcw_templates
  those 2 alone made my textpattern exponentially easier

Kemie, would you mind wasting 2, 3 sentences on how these plugins work/make your life easier? :)

#11 2006-12-11 08:39:02

kemie

Plugin Author

From: mexico<-->sweden

Registered: 2004-05-20

Posts: 495

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Re: Top Plugins 2006

sure :)
gpb_permanent_links made it finally not only possible but EASY to have clean urls configured exactly like i want. I can use section/category/title, which is my most used scheme, and I can define different url schemes for different sections. And all this in a simple interface, that any non-programmer can understand.

mcw_templates allows me to use, modify, and export complete “themes” (stylesheets, pages and forms). With it I can simply edit my files in my favorite editor (with advantages like code highlighting and undo’s) upload, and tell textpattern to import. That makes it so much easier to manage the look of my sites, even switching complete themes with the switch of the button.

These 2 are the plugins i would most wish were integrated with txp’s core, as I feel that they’re not just extras, they’re really improving upon the main functionality.

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#12 2006-12-11 14:37:26

hakjoon

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From: Arlington, VA

Registered: 2004-07-29

Posts: 1,634

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Re: Top Plugins 2006

Definitely gbp_permanent_links. It opens up all sorts of possibilities. It’s a tour de force.

asy_wondertag has the potential to make numerous small plugins unecessary.

mcw_templates brings themeing much closer to reality.

These should be installed in everyone’s TXP sites.

Oh and wet_for_each_image, it’s almost <txp:article /> for images

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