Success! Yesterdays workshop was a full house, despite the terrible weather ;(

As promised, I have converted my presentation to a pdf for download. I have also included here my “Essential Plug-ins” list from my presentation Making the most of Plug’ins at WordCamp Toronto this year.

For those who want more I am planning on running two more WP sessions in 2009, WordPress Theming – from CSS/Photoshop to WP, and WP Plug-in Development – Plug-in design and development from the ground up.

Essential Plug-in List
Ad Rotator – http://kpumuk.info/projects/wordpress-plugins/ad-rotator
Advanced Random Post – http://www.danielesalamina.it/advanced-random-post
AFD Admin Theme – http://aenonfiredesign.com/blog/afd-wordpress2-admin-theme
Akismet – http://akismet.com/
All in One SEO Pack – http://semperfiwebdesign.com
Article Templates – http://www.bin-co.com/tools/wordpress/plugins/article_templates
Audio player – http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin
Blogroll Page – http://www.byte-me.org
Different Posts Per Page – http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/dppp
Disable WordPress Core Update – http://lud.icro.us/disable-wordpress-core-update
Executable PHP widget – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget
Kimili Flash Embed – http://www.kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed
Lightbox 2 – http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox
Maintenance Mode – http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/maintenance-mode/
myStatus – http://eightface.com/code/wp-mystatus
NextGEN Gallery – http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=80
p2pConverter – http://www.briandgoad.com/blog/p2pConverter
Post2pdf – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post2pdf
PXS Mail Form – http://www.phrixus.co.uk/pxsmail
QuickTime Embed – http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/plugins/quicktime-embed
Random Featured Post – http://www.mydollarplan.com/random-featured-post-plugin
Riffly  Video/Audio Comments – http://riffly.com
Role Manager – http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager
Widget Logic – http://freakytrigger.co.uk/wordpress-setup
WordPress Database Backup – http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup
Wordpress Download Monitor – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/download-monitor
WP Cache  – http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2
WP e-commerce – http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce
WP Polls – http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php
WP SpamFree – http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
WP-Sticky – http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php
WP Shopping Cart – http://www.instinct.co.nz

Files and Resources
Download Presentation
Vector Lover CSS Theme (original) – Just for fun I am going to continue to work on this and release it as a WP theme
Notepad++ (recommended code editor)