Acknowledgements

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To build a resource such as this takes a lot of time. Much of what you see visually, outside of the content that is, has been provided by others in our global community and shared with their blessing. As a way of saying thank you and recommending their work, each has been listed below.

This site is powered by WordPress which is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

The look and feel of Quantum Gardener is based on Fusion by digitalnature.

WordPress plug-ins

Each WordPress plug-in extends the functionality of the site. Many hours have gone into coding each plug-in which allows this site to focus on content rather than feature development.

Quantum Gardener currently uses and recommends:

  Akismet 2.2.7
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

  Amazon Machine Tags 3.0.2
» Martin Kliehm (url)
The plugin checks for machine tags with ISBN or ASIN numbers, gets the product data from Amazon, and displays it in the sidebar or in a blog article. Set options where you need to enter your AWS Access Key Identifiers.

  Clean Archives Reloaded 3.1.10
» Viper007Bond (url)
A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+.

  Comment Redirect 0.1
» Joost de Valk (url)
Redirect commenters who just made their first comment to a page of your choice.

  Delete-Revision 1.3.1
» gohsy (url)
Delete revision post from Database,let us now to drop Redundancy, lose weight !

  Estimated Reading Time 2.0
» Eric Olson (url)
This plugin estimates the time it would take for a slightly below average reader to a slightly above average reader to read your post. It then applies the estimated reading time to the top of the post.

  Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.51
» Simon Wheatley (url)
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.2
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  HeadSpace2 3.6.32
» John Godley (url)
Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many many other goodies.

  Hello Dolly 1.5.1
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.

  Image Widget 3.1.5
» Shane and Peter, Inc. (url)
Simple image widget that uses native Wordpress upload thickbox to add image widgets to your site.

  My Category Order 2.8.7
» Andrew Charlton (url)
My Category Order allows you to set the order in which categories will appear in the sidebar. Uses a drag and drop interface for ordering. Adds a widget with additional options for easy installation on widgetized themes.

  Popular Posts 2.6.2.0
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Displays a highly configurable list of the most popular posts. Instructions and help online. Requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library to be installed.

  Post-Plugin Library 2.6.2.1
» Rob Marsh, SJ (url)
Does nothing by itself but supplies common code for the Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments plugins. Make sure you have the latest version of this plugin.

  Redirection 2.1.25
» John Godley (url)
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors

  Robots Meta 3.2.5
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.

  SEO Slugs 1.0
» Andrei Mikrukov (url)
Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.

  Simple Tags 1.7.4.4
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Extended Tagging for WordPress 2.8 and 2.9 ! Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!

  Sociable 3.5.2
» Blogplay (url)
Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.

  TweetMeme Retweet Button 1.8.2
» TweetMeme (url)
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

  Twitter Comments - Twitoaster 1.3.5
» Twitoaster (url)
Twitter Comments system. Automatically retrieve Twitter Replies and/or Twitter Retweets to your Blog’s Posts using WP built-in comment system. Also bring Twitter Statistics.

  WordPress Database Backup 2.2.2
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

  WordPress Exploit Scanner 0.95
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Scans your WordPress site for possible exploits.

  WordPress SEO Pager 1.97 for WP 2.5+
» SEO Egghead, Inc. (url)
An SEO-enhanced pagination control for WordPress.

  WP-CMS Post Control 1.2.1
» Jonnya (url)
Post Control hides unwanted items on the write page and write post pages, and other post related controls. Updated to include WP2.7 and above.

  WP-DBManager 2.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP-Table Reloaded 1.6
» Tobias Bäthge (url)
This plugin allows you to create and easily manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. A comfortable backend allows an easy manipulation of table data. You can then include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML.

  WP Greet Box 5.6.2
» Thaya Kareeson (url)
Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins.

  WP Security Scan 2.7.1.2
» Michael Torbert (url)
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.

  WP Super Cache 0.9.9
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

  WP_LinkTools 5.0.2
» DCoda Ltd (url)
A collection of link based tools.

Other resources

• AODdesign! has provided the Glossy WordPress Logo Icons.