The Making of GollyGolly.com

I take pride in what I have created here. I have modified Unsleepable v1.6 which is a version of k2. All the changes I have made are my own, and are reserved under copyright GollyGolly.com (c) 2006. I host this site with Dreamhost who offers some pretty amazing hosting plans. I would highly recommend them to anyone. Use the my promotion code * Golly * to receve $20 off of any hosting plan!

These are all of the amazing plugins active on this site right now. If you have any questions about how this works, or how I made something please leave a comment here and let me know.

• Add Meta Tags v0.8 by GNot — Adds all sorts of useful meta tags/descriptions to my site (great for search engines).
• Akismet v2.1.4 by Matt Mullenweg — Kicks the ass of spam.
• Click Tags v2.0.2 by Andy Staines — Produces a list of tags in the write/edit post pages - click to use
• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator v3.12 by Dagon Design — This is what creates my lovely sitemap page.
• Extended Live Archives v0.10beta-r18 by Arnaud Froment — I must credit this with the creation of my super great archives page.
• Maintenance Mode v3.2 by Michael Woehrer — Creates a wonderful “Site is down” page when I need to tweak things.
• Preserve Code Formatting v0.9 by Scott Reilly — Lets me post code, without getting it all confused.
• Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form vv.2.0WP B20061101 by Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley — This lets you contact me, while keeping the spam away.
• Sideblog Wordpress Plugin v4.5 by Kates Gasis — Lets me create the wonderful “Recent Photo” asides that I could accomplish no other way.
• StatCounter v0.1 by Luke Stevenson. — Sets up StatCounter (the best free stat tracking program) to be W3C compliant in Wordpress.
• Twitter Tools v1.1b1 by Alex King — Adds my tweets!
• UTW Theme Compatibility Thing vbeta 3 by Christine From The Internet — Use UTW template tags with wordpress 2.3
• Viper’s Drop Cap v1.0.1 by Viper007Bond — Replaces the first letter of my posts with images.
• Viper’s Plugins Used v1.12 by Viper007Bond — Creates this list of plugins used.
• Viper’s Video Quicktags v5.4.3 by Viper007Bond — Allows me to embed various video types very easily.
• WP-MostCommentedPosts v0.1 by Rafal “RAFi” Krawczyk — See that “Most Commented Entries” box in the lower left? This does that.
• WP-PageNavi v2.20 by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan — Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
• admin-menus v2.5.3 by Andy Staines — Drop Down Admin Menus for WordPress 2.5
• wp-cache v2.1.2 by Ricardo Galli Granada — Caches a few of the pages here for their functions.

One of the things I am most proud of here is my integration of Highslide JS. This is the amazing thing you see with my photos (click on any in the side bar of the main page, or the photos link up top, or occasional other images in posts). I created a tutorial about how I used this script - WordPress "How To?" Highslide JavaScript