[Kathleen Fitzpatrick]

As experienced WordPress users will have noticed, we’re launching with a relatively limited set of themes and plugins available for use on MLA Commons blogs. If there’s some particular theme or plugin that you would like to have made available for your blog, however, let us know. We’ll have to test it on our end to be sure that nothing blows up (you never know), but if everything looks okay, we’ll be happy to meet whatever needs you may have.

[George H. Williams]

THEMES: I’d love to be able to use the Blaskan theme http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/blaskan and the Twenty Twelve theme http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentytwelve.

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PLUGINS: A few suggestions (in no particular order, with asterisks besides the ones I’d like to be able to use):

*1. An “upcoming events” calendar plugin of some sort. I used to use http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/28663/28663 , but it hasn’t been updated in awhile.

Maybe “Events Made Easy”? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-made-easy/
See http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/promoting-talks-and-calendar-events-with-the-events-made-easy-plugin/38754

2. ScholarPress: http://scholarpress.net/courseware/

* 3. WordPress Importer: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-importer/

* 4. Google XML Sitemaps: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

5. WP to Twitter: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-to-twitter/

6. Print Friendly & PDF: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/printfriendly/

* 7. Subscribe2: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/

* 8. Twitter Blackbird Pie: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-blackbird-pie/
See http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/integrating-tweets-into-wordpress-blog-posts/32947

* 9. A plugin that integrates Tweets automatically into WP Blog Comments. Brian Croxall wrote about a plugin that does this: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/integrating-tweets-into-wordpress-blog-comments/32737 However, that particular plugin hasn’t been updated in 2 years: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/btcnew/

* 10. GoogleDoc Embedder: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-document-embedder/

11. ScholarPress COinS: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scholarpress-coins/

* 12. WP Google Maps: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-google-maps/

[MLA Commons]

Blaskan and TwentyTwelve are installed.

I’ll need to take more time on the plugins since they have more severe performance/security implications.

[George H. Williams]

Huzzah! Thanks, Chris.

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