Plugins provide a way to modify or add functions to a WordPress site, like additional menu items or options, or new sidebar widgets. We strongly recommend activating only the plugins you know you’ll need, and disabling them if you decide not to use them after all.
Duke WordPress users have access to the standard set of plugins listed below; we do not accept requests for additional plugins to be added to individual sites. However, we go through a review process each semester to determine what additional functionality to consider for our service. If you have a plugin you would like us to consider adding for next semester, please complete our feedback form.
Plugins currently available on Sites@Duke:
| Plugin | Description |
| AddToAny | Allows your readers share, bookmark and e-mail your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and Digg. |
| Admin Commenters Comments Count | Displays a count of each commenter’s comments (linked to those comments) next to his or her name on an admin page. |
| Categories to Tags Converter Importer | Converts existing categories to tags or tags to categories, selectively. |
| Category Posts Widget | Adds a widget that can display posts from a single category. |
| Commentpress | Allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. You can use it to annotate, gloss, workshop, debate and more. (Works only with the Commentpress theme.) |
| Custom Post Order | Enables users to customize the order in which posts are being displayed anywhere on their pages: by date ascending or descending, by title, etc. Please note: once the order has been set, the post display order will be the same anywhere in the blog; the current version does not support different display orders for different categories/pages within the blog. |
| Duke Chat | Embeds a Duke Chat window on each page. |
| Duke Sympa Mail List Plugin | Allows you to create a Sympa mailing list that includes all members of the WordPress site. |
| Facebook Like | Add the new Facebook “Like” button and Facebook “Recommendations” widget to the blog. |
| FeedWordPress | Brings content from multiple outside sources into your blog. (May cause your site to be slower than normal.) |
| Flexi Pages Widget | A highly configurable sidebar widget to list pages and sub-pages. User-friendly widget control comes with various options. |
| Flickrpress | Displays Flickr items in the sidebar, or within pages and posts. Supports Flickr RSS, photostream, multiple photosets, favorites, filtering by tag and displaying random photos. |
| flickrRSS | Allows you to integrate the photos from a Flickr rss feed into the site. |
| Lightbox Gallery | Changes to the lightbox view in galleries. |
| Lightbox Plus | Implements ColorBox as a lightbox-image-overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox, created by Jack Moore of Color Powered, is licensed under the MIT License. |
| List Category Posts | List Category Posts allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using a shortcode. This shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. For more info, refer to the List Category plugin instructions written by the plugin creator. |
| OpenID | Allows the use of OpenID for account registration, authentication and commenting. Also includes an OpenID provider, which can turn WordPress author URLs into OpenIDs. |
| podPress | Gives you everything you need to use WordPress for Podcasting. |
| ShareThis | Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. |
| Simple Tags | Extended tagging for WordPress 3.0: suggested tags, mass edit tags, autocompletion, tag-cloud widgets, related posts, related tags, etc |
| Smart Youtube | Allows you to insert YouTube videos in posts, comments and RSS feeds with ease and full customization. (Use for extra customization if the default isn’t enough for you!) |
| Smooth Slider | Adds a smooth content and image slideshow with customizable background and slide intervals to any location of your blog. |
| Table of Contents Creator | Automatically generates a dynamic site-wide table of contents that is always up-to-date. Can be configured to display static pages, blog entries and comments. Allows for anchor tags on any page marked with a special class. This feature allows links to articles, downloads or even other sites to appear within the table of contents as if they are part of your site’s navigation. (To generate a table of contents, simply include the <!– toc-creator –> tag on any page, or use the handy page creation feature located on the plugin admin page.) |
| TinyMCE Advanced | Enables additional buttons and features in the visual editor. |
| Tweet Blender | Provides several Twitter widgets: show your own tweets, show tweets relevant to post’s tags, show tweets for Twitter lists, show tweets for hashtags, show tweets for keyword searches, show favorite tweets. Multiple widgets on the same page are supported. Can combine sources and blend all of them into a single stream. |
| Twitter Tools | A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Show your tweets in your sidebar, and post tweets from your WordPress admin. (Requires a Twitter authentication key to post tweets.) |
| Twitter Tracker | Tracks the results of a Twitter search in a sidebar widget. |
| Unfiltered MU | Allows Administrators and Editors to post Embeds, Iframes, etc. Note: If for any reason your embeds stop working, simply deactivate, and then reactivate this plugin. |
| WordPress.com Stats | Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. (Requires a wordpress.com account code.) |
| WordPress Admin Bar | Creates an admin bar inspired by the one at WordPress.com. |
| WordPress Importer | Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags from a WordPress export file. |
| WP-Polls | Adds a poll system to your WordPress blog in order to easily include polls in your posts and pages. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers. |
| WP-Stats-Dashboard | Displays the WordPress.com stats graph, your traffic and social metrics monitoring on your dashboard. (Requires a wordpress.com account code.) |
| wpLicense | Allows selection of a Creative Commons license for your blog content. |
| WPtouch | Formats your site with a mobile theme for visitors on Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones. |