Fascination Place

Fascination Place is powered by WordPress 2.2.1.

The theme is called Golden Gate, and it’s one I concocted myself. I haven’t yet decided whether to make it public.

Here is a list of plugins currently used by FP:

• Akismet: Ubiquitous killer of spam-comments.
• Atom 1.0: Converts the RSS feeds into Atom feeds. I tweaked the comment feed script to fix the times it generates (which always seem to have the wrong time zone without this fix), to obfuscate e-mail addresses, and to change the format of the titles for the comments.
• Filosofo Comments Preview: Highly customizable comment previewing plugin - integrating it into my theme was really easy. Also supports CAPTCHA, but I’m not using it right now.
• Fold Category List: Handy plugin which displays the category list by disclosing just the category hierarchy the user is currently viewing. It has some unfortunate quirks involving empty categories (so you can’t choose to hide empty categories in many cases), but that’s because it’s built on the standard WordPress functions wp_list_cats and list_cats which have the same deficiencies, so it’s not really the plugin’s fault.
• Fold Page List: Like Fold Category List, but for pages and without the same quirks (which don’t apply to pages anyway).
• Get Recent Comments: Highly customizable plugin to display recent comments in the sidebar.
• ImageManager: Powerful and handy plugin to upload images, insert them in your posts, and create thumbnails. WordPress has a built-in system which does this, but not nearly so well. I mainly wanted it for managing the layout of my images folder myself.
• StatCounter for WordPress, which adds support for StatCounter.
• WordPress Database Backup: Ubiquitous WP database backup. Does not back up the data outside the MySQL database (such as images and themes). I might eventually dispense with this and do backups myself, but it’s too soon to tell.