Useful plugins if you want WP as a light-weight CMS

As many users, like me, of Wordpress uses the Pages to create static-dynamic pages. It’s great to use WP as a light-weight CMS, such as I do. All pages are created by Wordpress. Since I’ve already got the template done, all I have to do is worry about the content. The pages I’ve already published on my site: about, stats and archive. I’m already working on a links-page and who knows what may be next?

Wordpress in itself has different ways to list all pages. Like the menu you see on the left is generated by this line of code:
< ?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>

There’s one thing WP don’t have when you first install it, and that’s an easy way to order the pages-order. But we’re lucky there, because there’s already created a plugin meant to do exactly this. It’s called My Page Order and is created by Geekyweekly.com. I’ve already activated it on koew.net, and I can tell you it’s working perfectly. The first thing I did was to move archive below stats-page. So to keep the listed pages in order - get the plugin!

Another great plugin is the WP-Cache 2.0. I don’t know why everything seems to be 2.0 these days, but I can tell you that the koew.net-Island is so advanced that it’s 5.62! 2.0? Screw that! It’s just another buzzword so the companies can earn more cash. Anyways, back to the cache-plugin. I can only quote gallir, the developer:

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database.

Tired of spam? Then the great Bad Behaviour-plugin is the real thing, baby. This one might require a bit of work to get it working right, but when you’ve got it running - you won’t miss the spam for sure. Read more and get it here.

I’m still at work, and I need to get something done around here. I’ll be back later.