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Review: Acronym Replacer, Brian’s Threaded Comments, cForms II, No Self Pings

August 13th, 2007

Acronym Replacer

This is a great plugin; I just don’t use it anymore because I realized I don’t really use acronyms very much on my blog! This plugin wraps acronyms (defined in the plugin file) with the acronym tag <acronym title="by the way">btw</acronym>. Works great, IF you like editing your plugins. Customization is done through the Plugins > Edit Plugins.
Rating: ★★★★☆

Brian’s Threaded Comments

This was the only threaded comments plugin I found. If I remember correctly, it was a little difficult to install. I didn’t like it that I had to replace my comments.php file, because as you can probably tell I edited mine! Likes: Threaded comments. When deactivated, degrades nicely. Dislikes: Even if I’m logged in, I had to enter my information which got VERY TIRESOME (that’s why I quit using it).
Rating: ★★★½☆

cForms II

Comment form. In a word: Awesome. Allows multiple contact forms with as many inputs as you need. Also has sectioning, so you can have different sections of your contact form. Comes stock with a bunch of style options (stylesheets), and is easily edited if you know CSS. The only (small) complaint I have about it is it said the credit line can be edited out, but the only way to edit it out is CSS. It’s not a huge deal, though!
Rating: ★★★★★

No Self Pings

Handy, drop-and-forget-it plugin for not pinging your own blog! Good grief, why do *I* need to be informed I’m linking to one of my own pages?? Yeah. Pretty simple!
Rating: ★★★★★

3 Responses to “Review: Acronym Replacer, Brian’s Threaded Comments, cForms II, No Self Pings”

  1. BenjieP Says:

    I didn’t like the threaded comments one because it was javascript :P

  2. Anne-the-cat Says:

    That too, but that wasn’t the biggest gripe I had with it!

  3. Eric Novak Says:

    I have Cforms, but none of the others really appeal to me. I am a very picky plugin user ;)

    I’ve posted a blog with a Cform in it, check it out, it is the first link in the post.

    Eric

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