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WPCandy packs a ton of features and content into its single-installation site. Naturally, we’ve had to rely on a large set of plugins to give the site its fluid functionality. Here’s what’s currently helping to power our site.
cforms II
cforms powers the forms on our site on both the Submit and Contact pages. We also use its awesome tracking feature to let any admin see the latest submissions from the WordPress admin.
Batch Categories
We used this plugin heavily while re-organizing the posts on our site. Instead of editing each post’s category manually we were to move multiple posts at a time quite easily. We still had to do all the .htaccess rewriting ourselves, though.
Category Selector Back to the Sidebar
This simple plugin puts the category selector back under the Save and Publish buttons when writing a post.
Content Extract Plugin
This plugin helps us manage the HTML formatting of the excerpts in the “Featured” boxes on both the home page and the Plugins pages.
Lighter Menus
This one is for the admin. It moves the navigation to the top and lists the subpages in dropdown menus, making for much easier navigation.
Maintenance Mode
It may not be as secure and advanced as Apple’s tactics, but the Maintenance Mode plugin helped keep the new site under wraps throughout the two months of development on two different servers.
Sociable
Lets us and our readers share the site with the rest of the world’s nerd community.
Top Level Category
Simply hides the ‘/category/’ from the URLs. We needed this because the posts are organized into parent categories for the different sections of the site and it makes our URLs look pretty. Because Dan pushed for this, we also manually rewrote some 150 URLs in the .htaccess file and are anticipating on finding a plugin that could have automated the process very, very soon.
WPads
Manages the banner ads on our website.
WP-PageNavi
Adds the pagination bar to the bottom of the archives.
