I have spent countless hours over many years searching out the software toolkit which helps me be most productive and efficient and I’m often asked about what I use. This section of Quantum Gardener shares with you what I’ve learnt, yet rather than simply review a piece of software I’ll let you know how I use it and what benefits it’s providing me.
The place to start is with the WebBrain below. Click on a thought in the top panel to activate it or if you’d prefer watch this short how-to video first. Notes and links will appear in the bottom panel to match. Take a wander (or right-click and choose Wander to let the WebBrain do it for you). If you want a bigger version, access My Application Toolkit directly.
The webbrain was created using The Brain and additional information on how I use it can be found here
Quantum Gardener Site Acknowledgements
This is a list of the WordPress plugins used on this site as a way of saying thank you to those who have created them.
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:
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.
Anti-Captcha 20110129
» Fili Wiese (url)
Anti-Captcha is a transparent captcha solution which does not require any end-user interaction
Clean Archives Reloaded 3.2.0
» Viper007Bond (url)
A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator for WordPress 2.5+.
Comment Redirect by Yoast 1.1
» Joost de Valk (url)
Redirect commenters who just made their first comment to a page of your choice. On this page, you could ask them to subscribe, like you on Facebook and lots more!
Delete-Revision 1.3.1
» gohsy (url)
Delete revision post from Database,let us now to drop Redundancy, lose weight !
Exclude Pages from Navigation 1.92
» 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 Analytics for WordPress 4.2.4
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking.
Gravity Forms 1.6.3.2.1
» Rocketgenius Inc. (url)
Easily create web forms and manage form entries within the WordPress admin.
Gravity Forms MailChimp Add-On 1.6.3
» rocketgenius (url)
Integrates Gravity Forms with MailChimp allowing form submissions to be automatically sent to your MailChimp account
IFRAME Embed For YouTube 1.0
» Tejaswini, Sanjeev (url)
IFRAME Embed For YouTube will add a quicktag on WordPress Post Editor which will add the capability to embed Youtube Videos thru IFRAME, just you need to input the URL of the youtube video.
Internal Link Building 2.0
» Aaron Harun (url)
Adds that ability to automatically link keywords in posts to specified URLs
Markdown 1.0.1o
» Michel Fortin (url)
Markdown syntax allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format. Based on the original Perl version by John Gruber. More…
My Category Order 3.3.1
» 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.
Post Snippets 1.9.4
» Johan Steen (url)
Build a library with snippets of HTML, PHP code or reoccurring text that you often use in your posts. Variables to replace parts of the snippet on insert can be used. The snippets can be inserted as-is or as shortcodes.
Redirection 2.2.10
» John Godley (url)
Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
SEO Slugs 1.0
» Andrei Mikrukov (url)
Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.
Shortcode Exec PHP 1.41
» Marcel Bokhorst (url)
Execute arbitrary, reusable PHP code in posts, pages, comments, widgets and RSS feeds using shortcodes in a safe and easy way
Simple Tags 2.2
» Amaury BALMER (url)
Extended Tagging for WordPress 3.1 : Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Auto-tags, Autocompletion, Related Posts etc. NOW Compatible custom post type and custom taxonomy !
Wordbooker 2.1.8
» Steve Atty (url)
Provides integration between your blog and your Facebook account. Navigate to Settings → Wordbooker for configuration.
WordPress SEO 1.1.5
» Joost de Valk (url)
The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
WorPress Goodreads Bookshelf beta
» Sabrina Whaley (url)
Display a custom list of books from your Goodreads bookshelves. You can choose from any one of your bookshelves including your custom shelves on Goodreads. Then you can stylize the display of the list however you want using your own HTML and CSS.
WP-CMS Post Control 2.22
» Jonnya Creative WordPress Consultant (url)
Hides unwanted items within the write/edit page and post admin area for each user role. Also controls autosave, revisions and flash uploader.
WP-DBManager 2.63
» 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, optimizing and repairing 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-Syntax 0.9.12
» Steven A. Zahm (url)
Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. Wrap code blocks with <pre lang="LANGUAGE" line="1"> and </pre> where LANGUAGE is a geshi supported language syntax. The line attribute is optional.
WP-Table Reloaded 1.9.3
» 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-Table Reloaded compatible for WP Minify 1.0
» Julius Fischer (url)
Make the plugin “WP-Table Reloaded” compatible for “WP Minify”
WP Google Fonts v2.6
» Adrian3 (url)
The Wordpress Google Fonts Plugin makes it even easier to add and customize Google fonts on your site through Wordpress.
WP Minify 1.1.8
» Thaya Kareeson (url)
This plugin uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.
WP Security Scan 3.0.9
» WebsiteDefender (url)
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.
WP Super Cache 1.0
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
WPtouch 1.9.39
» BraveNewCode Inc. (url)
A plugin which 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.
XML Google Maps 1.14.0
» Patrick Matusz (url)
This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. Supports KML, KMZ, GPX, geoRSS filelinks. Supports Default, Satellite, Hybrid, Physical and Google Earth Plugin Maptypes
Other resources
- AODdesign! has provided the Glossy WordPress Logo Icons.
- FamFamFam’s Silk Icons.
