My WordPress plugins

Oh, it’s blogging meme time! After the default apps one, and still through Tracy, I found that people are sharing their WordPress plugin list.

• ActivityPub allows people to follow the blog from Mastodon. I don’t think anyone does this. I’m not sure this is really useful in any way. But the fundamental values that lead to downloading this plugin are great, so here we go.
• Akismet for anti-spam. Still don’t understand why this is a plugin and not a core feature.
• Classic Editor. I hate it. I love the block editor and dammit, it’s been 10 years, this is pointless. But Post Kinds still doesn’t work with the normal editor, so here I am, suffering through this.
• Cool Tag Cloud is the plugin that gives you the really old-timey tag cloud in the sidebar of the blog. I wish I could do way more with tags, including tag pages (so that I could have some kind of tag hierarchy / bidirectional linking and even maybe a little intro text) and tag aliases (so that tagging something « book review » or « avis de lecture » would lead to the same place, instead of tagging French book reviews under the « book review » tag and adding the « fr » tag). Ah well.
• Easy Table of Contents is really useful for longer blog posts.
• GNU Terry Pratchett is a sweet gimmick plugin where you pay your respects to Terry Pratchett and to any other people. In my customization, I’ve added Lara van Ruijven, who was one of my nicest skating rivals and was taken from us too soon.
• Imagify allows for resizing images and making them lighter.
• Independent Analytics fulfills my need for external validation without stealing people’s data, by telling me which blog posts people read and (broadly) what other website brought them here.
• IndieAuth allows me to participate in the IndieWeb wiki.
• IndieWeb told me what plugins to install and I’m not sure it does anything else but I was too lazy to check and uninstall it.
• Post Kinds allows for, well, post kinds: read, like, reply, article, note, photo, check-in… I use it a lot. I wish it supported the block editor.
• Simple Local Avatars works fine. I don’t know why WordPress doesn’t support that; they want me to set up a Gravatar thingy with my email address, but I don’t want to use the same avatar everywhere.
• Syndication Links helps me display identical version of my posts. It’s useful when I repost something to a social media silo (eg. LinkedIn, Lemmy, The Storygraph) or when I’m sharing a post originally published elsewhere (eg. Un genre à soi, SmashAdvice).
• UpdraftPlus has saved Réussir Mes Études a couple of times. I install it and forget about it until something goes horribly wrong (every 5 years or so).
• Webmention is probably great and I have no idea whether it does anything differently from the ping option in the regular WP settings.
• WP Fastest Cache makes the website slightly faster.
• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is funny because you can discover new related posts, but they’re actually usually completely random and it makes me smile. I’m a simple person.