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Setup

Installing WordPress

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

WordPress Trac - with bugtracker, changelog, timeline
WordPress - Git repo, synced via SVN every 15 minutes. Includes all branches, so for checking out features prerelease, not for web dev or production!

10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server - Crash tutorial on setting up WordPress on Nginx with Varnish

Nginx

https://github.com/perusio/wordpress-nginx - nginx conf for wp
https://gist.github.com/878505 - nginx conf for running wp, w3 total cache
https://gist.github.com/1534643 - nginx conf for wp, php-fpm

Multisite (MU)

http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

https://github.com/Automattic/bulk-user-management

Commandline

https://github.com/brool/wordpress-shuffle - python, save posts to files

http://wordshell.net/ - costs? says gpl2, but that is a lie?
- http://wordshell.net/support/cheat-sheet-get-going-quickly/
- http://wordshell.net/support/faqs/competitors/compared-with-wp-cli/

https://github.com/jerodsanto/wordpress-console - adds a "Console" page to the admin menu for WordPress environment cli

http://samjlevy.com/2011/12/shell-script-for-cloning-a-wordpress-installation/
https://github.com/webord/wp-migrate - migrate the System from one url to another.

https://github.com/dxw/wp-generate - ruby, generate themes and templates

https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton - skeleton repo for a WordPress sit. not wp-mu compatible
https://github.com/vidluther/Autopress - Capistrano install scripts

https://github.com/dxw/cucumber-wordpress - for cucumber development, ruby

https://github.com/shacker/wp-batch-manage - scripts for cPanel based

Vim

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3510 - post from vim

http://www.kloppmagic.ca/blog/2011/05/wordpress-vim-syntax-highlighting/

Development

https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/demo/test-data.2011-01-17.xml - test data

http://davidwinter.me/articles/2012/04/09/install-and-manage-wordpress-with-git/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-developer-assistant/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugin-test-drive/ - load plugins based on ip

https://github.com/Automattic/developer

Deployment

https://github.com/markjaquith/WP-Stack/

Plugins

http://support.wpengine.com/curated-plugins/

http://gsoc.trac.wordpress.org/browser/2011/merty/trunk/wordpress-move

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/

Admin

https://github.com/Automattic/Rewrite-Rules-Inspector

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-show-ids/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/core-control/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/worker/

Migration

http://blog.applegrew.com/2011/08/migrate-from-apache-to-nginx-the-new-guide/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/ - "Duplicate, clone, backup and transfer an entire site from one location to another in 3 easy steps." - shared hosting problems

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-migrate/ - enter database information separate from the current site/blog database, and migrate the current information over - shared hosting problems

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-move/ - gsoc - "capable of changing the domain name in use and/or migrating your installation to another server either as is or based on your choices" - ftp transfer of blog and db, requires wp and wp-move on new sevrer

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpressdeploy/ - allows multiple config files to be added through the admin system and then dynamically switched depending on the URL a user is accessing the site from.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ezmigrate/ - requires wp-config.php hack. - weiiird workflow.

http://blog.wp.weightpoint.se/2012/01/04/synchronizing-wordpress-multisite-database-from-production-to-staging-enviorment/ - bash script

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-migrate-db/ - MySQL data dump, find and replace on URLs and file paths, serialized data. no trailing slash for url.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-cloned-sites-for-wpmu-batch/ - clone site in mu install
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sfr-clone-site/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clone-spc/ - clone theme files
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-clone-template/ - creates theme .zip

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/default-blog-options/ - clone settings

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-live-server-deploy/

Backup

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/ [1] - back up your entire site including your database and all your files

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-backup-to-dropbox/ - files and a SQL dump
- http://wpb2d.com/
- dropbox oauth
- zipped and e-mail notifications cost
- doesn't work on dreamhost shared

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/
- all to various
- dropbox oauth
- e-mail notifications
- shows process steps when run manually
- make sure to exclude cache and such like

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/updraftplus/
- S3, Google Drive, FTP, and email

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pressbackup/
- S3, Dropbox account or local

Coding

http://make.wordpress.org/plugins/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

Posting

http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API

http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email

Post Extras

Another Related Posts Plugin [2]

http://birdhouse.org/software/2006/12/wp-digest/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-shkshell/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortbus/

Widgets

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-page-widget/ [3] - breaks external link output (even with a tag allowed). no support or development.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-on-widget/ - passes through images, ignores read more cut
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/2046s-widget-loops/ - no excerpt length option
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-in-widget/ - passes full page, 'show more link' no works.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-custom/ - adds an extra sidebar, not widget?!?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spectacula-page-widget - cannot alter excerpt length
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-page - cannot choose which tags to pass
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-excerpts/ - doesn't actually give excerpt field or related widget..
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-page-widget/ - really basic, only option is page id
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-and-page-excerpt-widgets/ - no length option, etc, broken plugin links

oh FFS wordpress plugin ecosystem....

Template

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/improved-include-page/ - old?

not tried

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/ - excerpt without html stripped.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-content-blocks/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-widget-area/ - no idea how this goes beyond adding a new sidebar the regular manner
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/site-layout-customizer/ - alternate layouts. using a SHORTCODE?!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wysiwyg-widgets
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/ - page specific sidebars

Countdown

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/countdown-timer/ - has been used on beltane.org. event title is not widget title, leaves extra space by default, cannot remove "in " before time.

http://www.wpmanage.com/uji-countdown/ - nice looking, html5/js, cannot disable seconds, tho you can animate them..

http://mycountdown.org/wordpress-countdown-clock-plugin/ - limited colour settings, cannot turn off theme..

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recurring-timer-widget/ - nice time setting interface but cannot change "minutes", "seconds", etc. which have no space between them and the number.