Posted on 9 March, 2009 By
Kim Woodbridge
34 Comments
Eating and Drinking With WordPress Plugins
I’ve decided that this week would be all about food here at (Anti) Social Development. And what better way to kick off our celebration then starting with some WordPress plugin name silliness. Fortunately for us, there are a number of plugins that will allow us to share a small WordPress style dinner.
Fine dining? Not so sure. Funny dining? Maybe so.
A WordPress Plugin Dinner
When you sit down and being to sup you can start with something to drink. Perhaps beer, coffee or rootbeer. The specials tonight are fish and you have your choice of babel or big. When dinner is over make sure you wipe the breadcrumbs from you lap (or from your beard). And hopefully you won’t end the meal with indigestion.
Plugins Mentioned
- WP Sup – This plugin integrates WordPress with Friendfeed so that you new posts appear on Friendfeed almost instantly.
- Buy Me a Beer or Rootbeer or Coffee WordPress Plugin Widget – A plugin used to encourage readers to donate to your site.
- Bigfishgames Syndicate – This plugin looks for new releases from Big Fish Games, pulls the data, and creates a new blog post.
- Babel Fish WordPress Plugin – This will add a BabelFish translator to your site as a sidebar widget.
- Yoast Breadcrumbs – This adds breadcrumb navigation to your site. Breadcrumbs look like Home > Plugins > WordPress and are links to those sections.
- Indigestion With this plugin you can create a daily digest from a number of RSS feeds. For example, you could use it to create a post of your shared items in google reader or a daily post of your delicious bookmarks.
photo credit: y_katsuuu
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March 9, 2009 at 8:16 am
I’m currently busy with the ‘ham sandwich in my lunchbox’ plugin. It doesn’t have any worthwhile functionality but it tastes pretty good.
For some reason I felt the need to share that…
Dave´s last blog post – How to login to WordPress and customize your user settings
March 9, 2009 at 10:33 am
Hi Dave – Plugins with no functionality are my faves ;-)
March 9, 2009 at 8:22 am
hahahaha
Thanks, Kim. This is an awesome post.
Hopefully after we try these food plugins you don’t get any “this isn’t good” text messages. (Sorry, inside joke)
Jim´s last blog post – Awareness Test
March 9, 2009 at 10:34 am
Hi Jim – Be careful with your inside jokes – I might feel compelled to
explain them :-P
March 9, 2009 at 10:08 am
oh God now i’m hungry. i’m off for some food :P nice post ;)
stratosg´s last blog post – Google’s dangerous monopoly
March 9, 2009 at 10:34 am
Hi Stratos – Big fish or babel?
March 10, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Big fish of course! You know me ;)
stratosg´s last blog post – Easily create paragraph sidenotes
March 9, 2009 at 1:12 pm
How is WP Sup more delicious for breakfast than syncing your blog with FriendFeed?
You had to include a mention of feeding with food, right? Good thing I just ate breakfast.
Ari Herzog´s last blog post – Enhance Your WordPress Blog with 23 Plugins
March 9, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Hi Ari – I’m not quite sure what you are saying …
But nothing is more delicious than syncing with friendfeed (even
though I’m not a big fan of it )
March 9, 2009 at 2:31 pm
‘Plugin for thought’ eh?
I had seen the ‘Buy me a beer’ thingie… Though the concept was okay, I hated that ‘suggestion underneath it’ like 7,75 per pitcher etc… That’s worse than begging :lol:
Ajith Edassery´s last blog post – Thinking away from Making Money Online (for a change)
March 9, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Hi Ajith – LOL
I would like the Buy Me a Book plugin. Personally, I’d rather just give
someone money than buy them a beer since I can’t stand the stuff.
March 9, 2009 at 3:14 pm
LOL Kim!! I didn’t want to end my dinner with “Indigestion” =))
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March 9, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Hi Raju – Nope – not a good way to end the meal :-)
March 9, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Unique approach. No doubt I’ll be back. Food always reels me in.
Have you heard whether or not the babel fish translations are close to being accurate, Kim? Not going to use it, but sounds interesting with the world shrinking and easy access to blogs.
Gennaro´s last blog post – Road Warriors: Bloggers In Motion
March 9, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Hi Gennaro – I haven’t used the plugin but I do know that I’m not
very impressed with the standard babelfish translations. Raju recently
recommended Global Translate so that may be a better translation
plugin to look into.
March 9, 2009 at 5:43 pm
WP Sup will be helpful. I’ve been more active on FriendFeed recently, and it drives me bonkers when, after a few hours, my new post hasn’t updated to their site.
~ Kristi
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March 9, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Hi Kristi – Great! I’m glad something useful came out of my joke
post::-) I have tried and tried but I just can’t get into friendfeed.
March 9, 2009 at 11:51 pm
These are funny!
It amazes me that there are so many plugins. I wonder how many are popular, and how many are there – but are not really used by anyone.
Vered – MomGrind´s last blog post – International Women’s Day: We Still Have A Long Way To Go
March 10, 2009 at 8:25 am
Hi Vered – It can be really fun to dig up what’s out there – I don’t test that
many of them though.
March 10, 2009 at 1:22 am
I love cookies for dessert! All in One SEO (Super Edible Oreos) pack.
Nummy!
George
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March 10, 2009 at 8:26 am
Hi George – LOL – that is a good one and is something we definitely
need.
March 10, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Haha Kim, very ceative post. And this image has made me hungry
Madhur Kapoor´s last blog post – Download a Website with WinHTTrack
March 10, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Hi Madhur – The food in the photo looks delicious!
March 10, 2009 at 6:49 pm
WP Sup reminds me of me wanting to find a Twitter or Facebook plugin – if it exist.
Carla´s last blog post – Eco Fashion: Do it yourself – Organic Fabric
March 10, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hi Carla – There are a quite a few plugins for twitter and a couple
for Facebook. What are you trying to do?
March 11, 2009 at 3:18 am
Hi Kim – I never thought to put plugins and meals together, but after reading the names of the ones you showcased, it makes a perfect analogy.
Barbara Swafford´s last blog post – Let’s Hear It For The Boys
March 11, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hi Barbara – I was looking for ones with feed in the title and then came
across others that sounded food related. It was a lot of fun.
March 11, 2009 at 5:10 am
I’ve used the ‘Buy Me A Beer Plugin, and I’ve actually had a few people who kindly donated some money. The thing is with plugins is that they tend to slow your blog down a bit so I am trying to cut back. You could say I am on a plugin diet.
Say Kim, I hope you like memes because you’ve just been tagged
Sire´s last blog post – The Quest For A Blogger’s Favorite Posts
March 11, 2009 at 9:28 am
Hi Sire – LOL – A plugin diet would fit perfectly in this article :-) I
commented on your site about being tagged.
March 12, 2009 at 1:39 am
No worries Kim. I’ll let you know how I go with my plugin diet later. Fortunately for me I have stratos who is a great mentor in helping me to cut down on excess plugins.
Sire´s last blog post – Punishing Those Who Do Not Adhere To The Comment Policy
March 12, 2009 at 9:30 am
LOL – Stratos is definitely against using too many plugins :-)
March 13, 2009 at 1:36 am
You must admit Kim, it makes a lot of sense to adapt your theme where possible and ditch the plugins.
Sire´s last blog post – Seven Things About Me You May Not Know
March 11, 2009 at 5:58 am
Great creative post. I mean the sentence/paragraph used. I know some of the plugins.
But didn’t know about indigestion :)
Nihar´s last blog post – How to Surf Web Anonymously – 25 Web Proxies
March 11, 2009 at 9:29 am
Hi Nihar – Thanks! I’m glad you liked it.