Useful Plugins for Educational WordpressMU
At the conference, I presented the blogging project that has been active at my school for the last year. I talked about some the plugins we found very useful, but this post meant to gather them in one place.
These are the plugins we found most useful for our WordpressMU installation:
- Anarchy Media Player - Plays mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, avi, asf and wmv hypertext links directly on your webpage. Adds buttons to the post editor for embedding swf movies including Google Video etc. By An-archos.
- Search Everything - Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments and custom fields (metadata). By Dan Cameron.
- Yet another threaded Comments plugin - his comment allows to have newly created comments relate to existing comments, so you can comment on a comment. This information allows to display the Comments in a hierarchical fashion (e.g. a Tree). By Joachim Praetorius.
- Event Calendar - Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar. You can subscribe to the calendar from iCal (OSX) or Sunbird. By Alex Tingle.
- PJW Mime Config - Allows you to extend the list of mime-types supported by the built-in uploader. By Peter Westwood
- LDAP Authentication Plug-in - Gives WordPress MU the ability to authenticate against a LDAP server (Users are automatically created).
- Alistair Young - Original LDAP Plug-in
- Patrick Cavit - WordPress 1.5.1 Modifcation of LDAP Plug-in
- Hugo Salgado - WordPress 2.0.3 Patch of WordPress 1.5.1 Modifcation of LDAP Plug-in
- Alex Barker - WordPress MU 1.0 Modifcation of LDAP Plug-in (Windows Support With Contribution From Dexter Arver)
- Privacy Options - Adds a couple more privacy options to the options-privacy page. Just drop in mu-plugins, no core edits needed. By D Sader
- WP Latex Math - Modified based Anders Dahnielson, Use $latex your-math-code$ tags to embed LaTeX math in posts. By Patrick Chia
Without all of these incredible plugins our blogs would not be possible!