I’ve decided that this week would be all about food here at (Anti) Social Development. And what better way to kick off our celebration then starting with some WordPress plugin name silliness. Fortunately for us, there are a number of plugins that will allow us to share a small WordPress style dinner.
Fine dining? Not so sure. Funny dining? Maybe so.
A WordPress Plugin Dinner
When you sit down and being to sup you can start with something to drink. Perhaps beer, coffee or rootbeer. The specials tonight are fish and you have your choice of babel or big. When dinner is over make sure you wipe the breadcrumbs from you lap (or from your beard). And hopefully you won’t end the meal with indigestion.
Plugins Mentioned
- WP Sup – This plugin integrates WordPress with Friendfeed so that you new posts appear on Friendfeed almost instantly.
- Buy Me a Beer or Rootbeer or Coffee WordPress Plugin Widget – A plugin used to encourage readers to donate to your site.
- Bigfishgames Syndicate – This plugin looks for new releases from Big Fish Games, pulls the data, and creates a new blog post.
- Babel Fish WordPress Plugin – This will add a BabelFish translator to your site as a sidebar widget.
- Yoast Breadcrumbs – This adds breadcrumb navigation to your site. Breadcrumbs look like Home > Plugins > WordPress and are links to those sections.
- Indigestion With this plugin you can create a daily digest from a number of RSS feeds. For example, you could use it to create a post of your shared items in google reader or a daily post of your delicious bookmarks.
photo credit: y_katsuuu
I’m currently busy with the ‘ham sandwich in my lunchbox’ plugin. It doesn’t have any worthwhile functionality but it tastes pretty good.
For some reason I felt the need to share that…
Dave´s last blog post – How to login to WordPress and customize your user settings
Hi Dave – Plugins with no functionality are my faves ;-)
hahahaha
Thanks, Kim. This is an awesome post.
Hopefully after we try these food plugins you don’t get any “this isn’t good” text messages. (Sorry, inside joke)
Jim´s last blog post – Awareness Test
Hi Jim – Be careful with your inside jokes – I might feel compelled to
explain them :-P
oh God now i’m hungry. i’m off for some food :P nice post ;)
stratosg´s last blog post – Google’s dangerous monopoly
Hi Stratos – Big fish or babel?
Big fish of course! You know me ;)
stratosg´s last blog post – Easily create paragraph sidenotes
How is WP Sup more delicious for breakfast than syncing your blog with FriendFeed?
You had to include a mention of feeding with food, right? Good thing I just ate breakfast.
Ari Herzog´s last blog post – Enhance Your WordPress Blog with 23 Plugins
Hi Ari – I’m not quite sure what you are saying …
But nothing is more delicious than syncing with friendfeed (even
though I’m not a big fan of it )
‘Plugin for thought’ eh?
I had seen the ‘Buy me a beer’ thingie… Though the concept was okay, I hated that ‘suggestion underneath it’ like 7,75 per pitcher etc… That’s worse than begging :lol:
Ajith Edassery´s last blog post – Thinking away from Making Money Online (for a change)
Hi Ajith – LOL
I would like the Buy Me a Book plugin. Personally, I’d rather just give
someone money than buy them a beer since I can’t stand the stuff.
LOL Kim!! I didn’t want to end my dinner with “Indigestion” =))
Raju´s last blog post – A Digg Like Resource Exclusively for WordPress – WpVote
Hi Raju – Nope – not a good way to end the meal :-)
Unique approach. No doubt I’ll be back. Food always reels me in.
Have you heard whether or not the babel fish translations are close to being accurate, Kim? Not going to use it, but sounds interesting with the world shrinking and easy access to blogs.
Gennaro´s last blog post – Road Warriors: Bloggers In Motion
Hi Gennaro – I haven’t used the plugin but I do know that I’m not
very impressed with the standard babelfish translations. Raju recently
recommended Global Translate so that may be a better translation
plugin to look into.
WP Sup will be helpful. I’ve been more active on FriendFeed recently, and it drives me bonkers when, after a few hours, my new post hasn’t updated to their site.
~ Kristi
Kikolani´s last blog post – Fountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona
Hi Kristi – Great! I’m glad something useful came out of my joke
post::-) I have tried and tried but I just can’t get into friendfeed.
These are funny!
It amazes me that there are so many plugins. I wonder how many are popular, and how many are there – but are not really used by anyone.
Vered – MomGrind´s last blog post – International Women’s Day: We Still Have A Long Way To Go
Hi Vered – It can be really fun to dig up what’s out there – I don’t test that
many of them though.
I love cookies for dessert! All in One SEO (Super Edible Oreos) pack.
Nummy!
George
Tumblemoose´s last blog post – Spread your writing wings, it’s bittersweet
Hi George – LOL – that is a good one and is something we definitely
need.
Haha Kim, very ceative post. And this image has made me hungry
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Hi Madhur – The food in the photo looks delicious!
WP Sup reminds me of me wanting to find a Twitter or Facebook plugin – if it exist.
Carla´s last blog post – Eco Fashion: Do it yourself – Organic Fabric
Hi Carla – There are a quite a few plugins for twitter and a couple
for Facebook. What are you trying to do?
Hi Kim – I never thought to put plugins and meals together, but after reading the names of the ones you showcased, it makes a perfect analogy.
Barbara Swafford´s last blog post – Let’s Hear It For The Boys
Hi Barbara – I was looking for ones with feed in the title and then came
across others that sounded food related. It was a lot of fun.
I’ve used the ‘Buy Me A Beer Plugin, and I’ve actually had a few people who kindly donated some money. The thing is with plugins is that they tend to slow your blog down a bit so I am trying to cut back. You could say I am on a plugin diet.
Say Kim, I hope you like memes because you’ve just been tagged
Sire´s last blog post – The Quest For A Blogger’s Favorite Posts
Hi Sire – LOL – A plugin diet would fit perfectly in this article :-) I
commented on your site about being tagged.
No worries Kim. I’ll let you know how I go with my plugin diet later. Fortunately for me I have stratos who is a great mentor in helping me to cut down on excess plugins.
Sire´s last blog post – Punishing Those Who Do Not Adhere To The Comment Policy
LOL – Stratos is definitely against using too many plugins :-)
You must admit Kim, it makes a lot of sense to adapt your theme where possible and ditch the plugins.
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Great creative post. I mean the sentence/paragraph used. I know some of the plugins.
But didn’t know about indigestion :)
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Hi Nihar – Thanks! I’m glad you liked it.