wordpress migration with must have plugins
by Mark on Mar.01, 2009, under Wordpress
zarzax blog engine moved to Wordpress::
Over the last few weeks I decided to move from Drupal to Wordpress. I’ve always liked Wordpress and is near impossible to beat as an Open Source blogging platform.
Some plugins of interest::
MobilePress
MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers. – http://mobilepress.co.za
Google XML Sitemaps
Creating custom xml sitemaps by hand is a pain. This plugin will create them dynamically and create a static xml page as well as a zipped version for lower bandwidth.
Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:
- Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes)
- Create a blog post from each of your tweets
- Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
- Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
- Post a tweet from your sidebar
- Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
- Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)
More of my favorite plugins::
- Google Analyticator – an easy way to deal with the google analytics javascript code
- Google XML Sitemaps – generate xml sitemaps with minimal effort
- LifeStream – share you life with the internet. Track all you social network activity in one place.
- MobilePress – Beautiful themes automagically applied to mobile browsers.
- Photo Dropper – Finds creative commons flickr photos to use in your posts.
- Twitter Tools – Integrates your wordpress install with twitter
- Wordpress Gravatars
- WP-Syntax – Syntax highlighting for source code snippets
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July 9th, 2009 on 12:04 am
Hey zarzax,
thanks for the list of your favorite wordpress plugins.
Let me ask, if you missed one? The one to show of that nifty eye-candy header navigation with mouse over dropdowns?
Is it a Plugin? Which one?
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Andurin
July 9th, 2009 on 8:42 am
That is cooked into the wordpress theme I am using. Its working off of categories and does the javascript dropdown with nested items. I still have to clean everything up a bit more.
July 9th, 2009 on 8:44 am
I’ll have to update this post as I now have some new favorites.
August 27th, 2009 on 9:40 pm
HI,
How did you get your database and post from drupal over to wordpress?
Thanks,DD
September 1st, 2009 on 9:16 am
I believe I grabbed all my articles via RSS. I didn’t care about comments or plugin data stored in the database at that time. Check out Wordpress.org Importing Content for more complete imports.