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About Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton is a former independent filmmaker, currently working as a the Director of Technology for a Apartments.com.

This blog focuses on the areas Matt finds interesting, including photography, technology, social networking, and his dog, Scout.

Matt currently lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife, Carrie. She is usually somewhat amused by his blogging, and was instrumental in the removal of the subtitle “wallowing in my own crapulence” for this blog.

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Active Plugins

  Ad Injection 1.2.0.13
» reviewmylife (url)
Injects any advert (e.g. AdSense) into your WordPress posts or widget area. Restrict who sees the ads by post length, age, referrer or IP. Cache compatible.

  Akismet 2.5.6
» 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.

  Automatic WordPress Backup 2.0.3
» Dan Coulter (url)
Automatically upload backups of important parts of your blog to Amazon S3

  Blog Copyright (by BTE) 1.6.8
» Blog Traffic Exchange (url)
Simple plugin to inject copyright statement into blog footer. Configuration options are here.

  Blogroll Links 2.2
» Rajiv Pant (url)
Displays blogroll links on a Page or Post. Insert [blogroll-links categoryslug="blogroll"] to a Page or Post and it will display your blogroll links there.

  CloudFlare 1.2.3
» Ian Pye, Jerome Chen (CloudFlare Team) (url)
CloudFlare integrates your blog with the CloudFlare platform.

  Dean's Permalinks Migration 1.0
» Dean Lee (url)
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank.

  Digg Digg 5.2.6
» Buffer (url)
Add a floating bar with share buttons to your blog. Just like Mashable!

  Disable Admin Bar 1.1
» Ozh (url)
Disable the Admin Bar.

  Disqus Comment System 2.72
» Disqus (url)
The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus. Head over to the Comments admin page to set up your DISQUS Comment System.

  Easy Contact 0.1.2 β
» Scott Allan Wallick (url)
Easy Contact is a simple, semantic contact form that utilizes the Sandbox design patterns. Insert using [easy-contact]. A plaintxt.org experiment for WordPress.

  FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.3.1
» FeedBurner (url)
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

  Fix Rss Feeds 3.1
» flyaga li (url)
fix wordpress rss feed error “Error on line 2: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is not allowed.” while you burn wordpress rss feed from http://www.feedburner.com, also fix error “XML or text declaration not at start of entity” in firefox, and fix error “XML declaration not at beginning of document” in opera.

  Frame Buster 5.0
» Denis de Bernardy (url)
Thwarts any attempt to load your site in a frame.

  Get Snarky 1.45
» Andrew Norcross (url)
‘Inspired’ by the original Hello Dolly plugin, this just spits out random stuff I find funny. Some are a bit NSFW. Please note: The original ‘Hello Dolly’ plugin is not required (or encouraged, for that matter).

  Google Analytics for WordPress 4.2.4
» Joost de Valk (url)
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking.

  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.7
» Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

  Lijit Search 1.1
» Lijit Networks Inc. and Crowd Favorite (url)
Search Powered Web Applications for Publishers. Click here to configure the Lijit Plugin.

  No Self Pings 0.2
» Michael D. Adams (url)
Keeps WordPress from sending pings to your own site.

  Revision Control 2.1
» Dion Hulse (url)
Allows finer control over the number of Revisions stored on a global & per-type/page basis.

  RSS Cloud 0.4.1
» Joseph Scott (url)
Ping RSS Cloud servers

  Syntax Highlighter for WordPress 3.0.83.3
» wokamoto (url)
100% JavaScript syntax highlighter This plugin makes using the Syntax highlighter to highlight code snippets within WordPress simple. Supports Bash, C++, C#, CSS, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB, VB.NET, XML, and (X)HTML.

  Ultimate Category Excluder 0.8
» Michael Clark (url)
Easily exclude categories from your front page, feeds, and archives.

  W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.4
» Frederick Townes (url)
The highest rated and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress.

  WordPress Table Rename 1.2 for WP 2.x
» SEO Egghead, Inc. (url)
Renames WordPress tables to mitigate some SQL injection attacks.

  WP-DBManager 2.63
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.

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

  WP Security Scan 3.0.9
» WebsiteDefender (url)
Perform security scan of WordPress installation.

  WP Smush.it 1.5.0
» Dialect (url)
Reduce image file sizes and improve performance using the Smush.it API within WordPress.

  WPtouch Pro 2.2.4
» Dale Mugford & Duane Storey (BraveNewCode) (url)
WPtouch Pro is a plugin to re-format your website with a mobile theme tailored for Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm & Torch and other touch mobile devices.

Inactive Plugins

  All in One Adsense and YPN 2.10
» linewbie (url)
Inserts Adsense or YPN code in to your blog posts. Ad position can be random or pre-defined. To configure this plugin go to “Settings->Adsense” menu.

  Amazon S3 for WordPress 0.4
» Joe Tan (url)
Allows you to retrieves objects stored in Amazon S3 and post them in WordPress.

  Dublin Core for WordPress 0.7.2
» Tim McCormack, Salvatore Vassallo, Joan Junyent, Alex Oberhauser (url)
Inserts Dublin Core metadata (title, author, creation date, etc.) as meta tags for posts and pages. Small options screen in admin area.

  Featured Content Gallery 3.2.0
» iePlexus (url)
Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. FeaturedContentGallery.com: plugin page, instructions, gallery and support.

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

  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.

  Memory Bump 0.1
» the WordPress team (url)
If you are trying to update to WordPress 3.0 and you are frozen on “Downloading…” or seeing “Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted” errors, don’t fear! Simply activate this plugin and try again. Once you’ve installed 3.0, you can deactivate it again at any time.

  OpenID 3.3.3
» DiSo Development Team (url)
Allows the use of OpenID for account registration, authentication, and commenting. Also includes an OpenID provider which can turn WordPress author URLs into OpenIDs.

  outbrain 7.0.0.0
» outbrain (url)
A WordPress plugin to deal with the Outbrain blog posting rating system.

  Scribnia Author Ranking Widget33875 1.0
» Scribnia (url)
Showcase your Scribnia Rank!

  TweetMeme Retweet Button 2.3
» TweetMeme (url)
Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

  Use Google Libraries 1.2.1
» Jason Penney (url)
Allows your site to use common javascript libraries from Google’s AJAX Libraries CDN, rather than from Wordpress’s own copies.

  Wordpress Firewall 1.25 for WP 2.x
» SEO Egghead, Inc. (url)
Blocks suspicious-looking requests to WordPress.

  WordPress Mobile Edition 3.1
» Crowd Favorite (url)
Show your mobile visitors a site presentation designed just for them. Rich experience for iPhone, Android, etc. and clean simple formatting for less capable mobile browsers. Cache-friendly with a Carrington-based theme, and progressive enhancement for advanced mobile browsers.

  WP Greet Box 6.3.3
» Thaya Kareeson (url)
Show a different message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from. For example, you can ask Digg visitors to Digg your post, Google visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed, and more! Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins.

  WPtouch 1.9.40
» BraveNewCode Inc. (url)
A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for visitors on Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Blackberry Storm and Torch, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.