Configuring WordPress – Templates, Plugins, Themes, Services – Part 3
February 21st, 2006 // 6:02 pm @ Amar
I have migrated most of my important posts from my DotNetJunkies blog to this one. Wanted to do something about the look and feel of this blog, and also add some good plugins. I was interested in getting a plugin to display latest posts and comments. Also something to replace Ultimate Tag Warrior as it does not seem to work here.
What I came up with was K2. This is an excellent theme for WordPress. Not excellent looking, but technically excellent, as it adds support for a lot of plugins which I was interested in and also provides a nice extensible way of customising my blog. I liked the style concent of K2, where I can override several of the CSS styles with my custom defnitions.
On the K2 site, I found a page with all features and plugins supported by K2. Best thing was that these plugins have been already inserted in K2, and hence it will spare me the effort to work on modifying my templates. This was attractive to me, as I did not want to mess around with php ( its been quite a while ), and I am also a bit new to the WordPress codebase.
The plugins I installed were :
Category : Blogging