Geeky Technical Details

This web site is driven by WordPress and depends on numerous plugins to extend the functionality to meet the requirements to run the Swim Team.  WordPress is a powerful, customizable, database driven, publishing platform.  While the base WordPress software offers a significant amount of functionality, the ability to extend WordPress and customize it to suit the target application is extremely powerful.

In addition to the wp-SwimTeam plugin which provides the bulk of the functionality to support a swim team, the following is a list of the plugins which are in use to allow this web site to work as seamlessly as possible.

There are 37 plugins used: 23 active plugins and 14 inactive plugins.

Active Plugins

Akismet 2.5.5  Akismet 2.5.5
» Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

Calendar 1.3.1  Calendar 1.3.1
» Kieran O'Shea (url)
This plugin allows you to display a calendar of all your events and appointments as a page on your site.

Email Users 3.4.1  Email Users 3.4.1
» MarvinLabs / Vincent Prat (url)
Allows the site editors to send an e-mail to the blog users. Credits to Catalin Ionescu who gave me some ideas for the plugin and has made a similar plugin. Bug reports and corrections by Cyril Crua, Pokey and Mike Walsh.

Enhanced-Calendar 0.0.7  Enhanced-Calendar 0.0.7
» Mike Walsh (url)
This plugin enhances Kieran O’Shea’s Calendar plugin.

Executable PHP widget 2.1  Executable PHP widget 2.1
» Otto (url)
Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Heavily derived from the Text widget code in WordPress.

Flickr Gallery 1.5.2  Flickr Gallery 1.5.2
» Dan Coulter (url)
Use easy shortcodes to insert Flickr galleries and photos (and videos) in your blog.

flickrRSS 5.2  flickrRSS 5.2
» Dave Kellam (url)
Allows you to integrate the photos from a Flickr RSS feed into your site.

Maintenance Mode 5.4  Maintenance Mode 5.4
» Michael Wöhrer (url)
Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Settings → Maintenance Mode to get started.

phpHtmlLib 2.6.2.3546  phpHtmlLib 2.6.2.3546
» Mike Walsh (url)
WordPress plugin to bind the phpHtmlLib library to WordPress. The phpHtmlLib library contains a set of PHP classes and library functions to help facilitate building, debugging, and rendering of XML, HTML, XHTML, WAP/WML Documents, and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images as well as complex html Widgets. These classes, library functions and widgets can be used to build other WordPress plugins.

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam 2.7.5  SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam 2.7.5
» Mike Challis (url)
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots. WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible. Settings | Donate

Sidebar Shortcodes 0.1.1  Sidebar Shortcodes 0.1.1
» Dan Coulter (url)
Enable Shortcodes in the text widget.

SwimTeam 1.12.662  SwimTeam 1.12.662
» Mike Walsh (url)
WordPress plugin to extend Wordpress into a swim team web site. The wp-SwimTeam plug extends the WP user registration database to include registration of swim team parents, swimmers, and coaches. Wp-SwimTeam also manages the volunteer jobs to run a swim meet and provides SDIF import/export in order to interface with meet and team management software from Hy-Tek, WinSwim, and Easy Ware. The jobs and meet events are based on those used by TSA (Tarheel Swimming Association).

Twitter widget 1.5  Twitter widget 1.5
» Sarah Isaacson (url)
Sidebar widget to display your Twitter timeline. The widget allows you to choose to display your twitter username in front of your updates. You can also choose whether to display the time before or after the twitter post.

WordPress.com Stats 1.8.5  WordPress.com Stats 1.8.5
» Automattic (url)
Future upgrades to WordPress.com Stats will only be available in Jetpack.

WordPress Database Backup 2.2.3  WordPress Database Backup 2.2.3
» Austin Matzko (url)
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.

Wordpress Download Monitor 3.3.5.4  Wordpress Download Monitor 3.3.5.4
» Mike Jolley (url)
Manage downloads on your site, view and show hits, and output in posts. If you are upgrading Download Monitor it is a good idea to back-up your database first just in case. You may need to re-save your permalink settings after upgrading if your downloads stop working.

WP-Mail-SMTP 0.9.1  WP-Mail-SMTP 0.9.1
» Callum Macdonald (url)
Reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail() and creates an options page to manage the settings.

WP-Password Generator 2.3  WP-Password Generator 2.3
» Steve Grunwell (url)
Generates a random password when creating a new WP user

WP-PluginsUsed 1.50  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

WP-PostViews 1.60  WP-PostViews 1.60
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts.

WP-Print 2.50  WP-Print 2.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

WP-RelativeDate 1.50  WP-RelativeDate 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ’2 Days Ago’, ’2 Weeks Ago’, ’2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ’2 Minutes Ago’, ’2 Hours Ago’.

WP-ServerInfo 1.60  WP-ServerInfo 1.60
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display your host’s PHP, MYSQL & memcached (if installed) information on your WordPress dashboard.

Inactive Plugins

Capability Manager 1.3.2  Capability Manager 1.3.2
» Jordi Canals (url)
Manage user capabilities and roles.

Hello Dolly 1.6  Hello Dolly 1.6
» Matt Mullenweg (url)
This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.

My Page Order 3.0  My Page Order 3.0
» Andrew Charlton (url)
My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.

Simple Facebook Connect 1.2  Simple Facebook Connect 1.2
» Otto (url)
Makes it easy for your site to use Facebook Connect, in a wholly modular way.

Simple Twitter Connect - Base 0.15  Simple Twitter Connect - Base 0.15
» Otto (url)
Makes it easy for your site to use Twitter, in a wholly modular way.

STC - Comments 0.15  STC - Comments 0.15
» Otto (url)
Comments plugin for STC (for sites that allow non-logged in commenting).

STC - Follow Button Widget 0.15  STC - Follow Button Widget 0.15
» Otto (url)
Create a follow button in your sites sidebar.

STC - Followers Widget 0.15  STC - Followers Widget 0.15
» Otto (url)
Show a list of your followers in the sidebar. See plugin code for CSS styling to add to your theme.

STC - Linkify 0.15  STC - Linkify 0.15
» Otto (url)
Automatically link @usernames to twitter, anywhere on the whole site.

STC - Login 0.15  STC - Login 0.15
» Otto (url)
Integrates Twitter Login and Authentication to WordPress

STC - Publish 0.15  STC - Publish 0.15
» Otto (url)
Allows you to tweet your posts to a Twitter account. Activate this plugin, then look on the Edit Post pages for Twitter posting buttons.

STC - Tweet Button 0.15  STC - Tweet Button 0.15
» Otto (url)
Adds a Tweet button to your content.

STC - TweetMeme Button 0.15  STC - TweetMeme Button 0.15
» Otto (url)
Adds a Tweetmeme button to your content.

STC - Twitter Dashboard 0.15  STC - Twitter Dashboard 0.15
» John Bloch - Avendi Media, Inc. (url)
Allows you to tweet from the WordPress dashboard.


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