Jessibird

jessiHi! I’m Jessi Hance. I work for Cruzio Internet, a mom-and-pop provider of Internet service and a community portal.

I live a very quiet life, partly due to health issues. Living in the small town of Santa Cruz, California suits me well. No car needed! Have bike, will travel—though I spend a lot of time resting at home with my MacBook and my stereo.

I believe the true purpose of the Internet is to stream music over it.

If you’d like to know a little of my backstory, you can read my earliest blog posts:

 

About Jessibird.net

I publish this blog for fun, and to learn more about web technology.

What makes it tick? Cruzio Web hosting, WordPress, and the WordPress plugins listed below.

Advanced Excerpt 4.1.1  Advanced Excerpt 4.1.1
Bas van Doren (url)
Several improvements over WP’s default excerpt. The size of the excerpt can be limited using character or word count, and HTML markup is not removed.

Akismet 2.5.5  Akismet 2.5.5
Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

Audio player 2.0.4.1  Audio player 2.0.4.1
Martin Laine (url)
Audio Player is a highly configurable but simple mp3 player for all your audio needs. You can customise the player’s colour scheme to match your blog theme, have it automatically show track information from the encoded ID3 tags and more. Go to your Settings page to start configuring it.

Clean-Contact 1.6  Clean-Contact 1.6
Jason Morehouse (url)
No hassle contact form plugin with advanced Spam protection that doesn’t require Captcha.

Custom Post Limits 3.6  Custom Post Limits 3.6
Scott Reilly (url)
Independently control the number of posts listed on the front page, author/category/tag archives, search results, etc.

Exec-PHP 4.9  Exec-PHP 4.9
Sören Weber (url)
Executes <?php ?> code in your posts, pages and text widgets.

Get Recent Comments 2.0.6  Get Recent Comments 2.0.6
Krischan Jodies (url)
Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar. Visit Options/Recent Comments after activation of the plugin.

Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.6  Google XML Sitemaps 3.2.6
Arne Brachhold (url)
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

Hotfix 0.8  Hotfix 0.8
Mark Jaquith (url)
Provides “hotfixes” for selected WordPress bugs, so you don’t have to wait for the next WordPress core release. Keep the plugin updated!

Reliable Twitter 2.2.1  Reliable Twitter 2.2.1
David Hollander (url)
Adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates and uses the more-reliable Google AJAX API.

Search Everything 6.9.3.1  Search Everything 6.9.3.1
Dan Cameron of Sprout Venture (url)
Adds search functionality without modifying any template pages: Activate, Configure and Search. Options Include: search highlight, search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata). Also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. Does not search password-protected content.

SimplePie Core 1.1.1  SimplePie Core 1.1.1
Ryan Parman and Geoffrey Sneddon (url)
Does little else but load the core SimplePie API library for any extension that wants to utilize it. Go to Options→SimplePie Core for more details.

Subscribe2 8.2  Subscribe2 8.2
Matthew Robinson (url)
Notifies an email list when new entries are posted.

Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2  Subscribe To Comments 2.1.2
Mark Jaquith (url)
Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from Scriptygoddess

WP-PluginsUsed 1.50  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

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