Three Abandoned WordPress Plugins

Posted by Sharon Hurley Hall on February 23rd, 2009

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This post has been submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online.com.

The day I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.7 was both a happy day and a sad one. It was happy because I was getting a reorganized dashboard that I really loved. It was sad because I was saying good bye to some of my favorite WordPress plugins. Here are some of the plugins I no longer need now that I have upgraded.

WordPress Automatic Upgrade

I have been using WordPress Automatic Upgrade for years. It was the only way to make sure I could get a quick and painless upgrade every time a new version of WordPress came out - and they were frequent. The plugin followed the steps set out by Wordpress.org and worked like a dream. This functionality is now built into WordPress 2.7 and it works well too. However, although I have abandoned this plugin on two of my blogs, I’ll be keeping it for the third, where hosting issues get in the way of WP’s native functionality.

Better Comments Manager

Better Comments Manager was a lifesaver once my blog started getting some real traffic. I was able to handle all comment functions from within a single interface and that was tremendously useful. You can now do exactly the same things in the latest version of WordPress. In fact, you can manage the last five comments from your dashboard, which is fabulous.

Theme Test Drive

Before Theme Test Drive if you wanted to see how a new theme would look on your blog, you had to enable it. Then you had to disable it if it didn’t look right, then re-enable it, and so on till you got the look and functionality you wanted. Theme Test Drive let you try a theme while leaving site visitors’ experience unchanged. It wasn’t perfect, but it was useful. In the latest version of WordPress, when you enable a theme, you get a navigable preview so you can make sure everything is working before you confirm that you want to enable it.

Which WordPress plugins have you abandoned as you have upgraded? Which ones do you wish you could abandon?

Sharon Hurley Hall
Get Paid To Write Online.com

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One Response to “Three Abandoned WordPress Plugins”

Christopher Ross Says:
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
Thanks Sharon, I’m always looking for new plugins to either adopt and maintain or write from scratch, I appreciate your pointing to these.