With WordPress 3.0 that got released only a few months back, the open source CMS platform is winning large amounts of developers over when it comes to choosing a CMS platform for their projects.
What makes WordPress so spectacular is the way the core functionality is coded, allowing for developer to create plugins and themes that can do just about anything without modifying any of the WordPress core functionality.
WordPress is steadily on the increase in South Africa, with a few local companies already primarily developing on the CMS
Here is a list of 10 WordPress plugins developed by South Africans:
AnyFont
AnyFont is a WordPress plugin by Ryan Peel that enables you to use any custom TrueType or OpenType font to replace standard fonts anywhere on your site.
Admin Custom Styles
Admin Custom Styles is a WordPress plugin by Nick Soper that allows you to customize the WordPress admin login screen to suite your own personal brand.
International SMS Subscription Manager
International SMS Subscription Manager is a plugin by myself that allows you to add SMS subscription and notifications to your WordPress blog through a sidebar widget.
Remind Me
Remind Me is a WordPress plugin by Christopher Mills that makes the task of deeplinking to other posts on your blog breeze by automatically finding posts related to your content and allowing you to deeplink on keyword with a simple click.
Mobile Press
Mobile Press is a WordPress plugin by Tyler Reed that turns your WordPress powered website into a full blown mobile friendly site with ad support when viewed from a mobile phone.
WP Section Index
WP Section Index is a WordPress plugin by Matty Cohen that enables you to create a widgetised table of contents for the current page or blog post, based on headings within the content.
Copy Compass
Copy Compass is a WordPress plugin by Nicholas Duncan that automatically analyses your posts or pages to SEO best practices and then giving you a score and recommendation on where you can improve the SEO.
Community Cloud
Comminity Cloud by Miguel dos Santos is a WordPress plugin that displays a “tag cloud” of all the people in your community who have contributed to your WordPress powered site by commenting. The more someone has commented, the bigger and bolder their link.
Please Link 2 Me
Please Link 2 Me is a WordPress plugin by James that adds a text box containing all the code necessary for visitors to easily create links back to your article from their website.
AStickyPostOrderER
AStickyPostOrderER by Andre S Clements is a WordPress plugin that lets you manipulate the order in which posts are displayed per category, per tag, or over-all on your WordPress powered site.
Maybe you have been using one of these plugins and didn’t even notice they were developed by local developers, well now you know. If you are a South African and have developed a plugin feel free to post it in the comments.
Michael Bain developed a VCS payment module for the e-Commerce plugin for WordPress.
e-Commerse plugin for WordPress:
http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/
Michael’s VCS payment module:
http://www.michaelbain.co.za/2010/07/plugin-vcs-payment-module-for-wp-e-commerce/
Wow! Proud of these guys! Thanks for the info!
@Anja, thanks for the addition.
@Khalil, yea awesome to see the local guys getting in on the action, although it was kind of a mission to find these devs at first, they must actually promote their work more.
Thanks for including my plugin
@Chris no problem man, Remind Me is one of the plugins I personally make use of.
Interestingly enough, so do I, hehe. You know how we often don’t use our own things
What do you think of it? Be blunt
Hey Gerhard,
Thanks for including WP Section Index in your list.
Cheers,
Matty.
@Chris, its a great plugin, just the odd now and then it excludes post I would like to link to. Not sure how you work out the relevant posts, but it could be that I’m not using the correct tags or category. Does it consider the post content also?
@Matty only a pleasure.
Ye, it’s very tricky and I agree, the best posts aren’t always pulled out. I need to do an update now that WP3 is rolling out big time, but I just can’t find the time at the moment
Thanks for letting me know though, appreciate it!
Cool list Gerhard.
I wrote a plugin for iVeri a little while ago :
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/iveribuynow/
Allows you to add a “Buy Now” button to a post/page via shortcode insertion which then interacts with the iVeri Lite Payment Gateway.
I can quite easily modify it to make use of other payment gateways if anyone is interested
@Gerhard – Can you think of any additions you’d like for Remind Me? I’m putting a list together
Thanks Barry
@Chris thinking just of the hand here, maybe add the post title to the link? Not sure how that impacts SEO, you are the pro
Hehe, easiest way is to highlight the text, click the [Add Link] and then click the link anchor and set up the extra bits. I get what you’re saying and it could be automated, but I think people might want to change that anyway if they’re really serious about SEO.
I’ve got about 10 changes on a list to make it a little more user friendly. I’m still amazed that it hasn’t seen tons of downloads, so simple, yet so useful you know
If I can also add Cred to this list: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cred/
Local content payment system