Jessibird
Hi! I’m Jessi Hance.
My life used to be all about the Web. I was (and still am) fascinated with all that makes the Web tick. I have loved gathering, writing, organizing, structuring, and publishing content in myriad ways.
Now my life is about libraries and people. I’m learning what makes libraries tick. If you find out what makes people tick, please tell me ;)
I relocated in 2013 from Santa Cruz, California, to the Seattle (actually South King County) area. Some things I loved in Santa Cruz are here too: farmers’ markets, libraries, and great music.
If you’d like to know a little of my backstory, you can read my earliest blog posts:
About Jessibird.net
This site runs on hosting from a small orange, WordPress, and the WordPress plugins listed below.
The theme is developed from the starter theme Bones. Web fonts used are OpenSans for body text and Nevis for headings. The navigation is made more mobile-friendly with Responsive Nav.
WordPress Plugins
Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection 5.1
» Automattic - Anti Spam Team (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from spam. Akismet anti spam keeps your site protected even while you sleep. To get started: activate the Akismet plugin and then go to your Akismet Settings page to set up your API key.
Arconix Shortcodes 2.1.7
» Tyche Softwares (url)
A handy collection of shortcodes for your site.
Blackhole for Bad Bots 3.5
» Jeff Starr (url)
Protects your site against bad bots by trapping them in a blackhole.
Companion Auto Update 3.8.7.1
» Papin Schipper (url)
This plugin auto updates all plugins, all themes and the wordpress core.
Custom Post Limits 4.4.1
» Scott Reilly (url)
Independently control the number of posts listed on the front page, author/category/tag archives, search results, etc.
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.
Jetpack 12.1
» Automattic (url)
Security, performance, and marketing tools made by WordPress experts. Jetpack keeps your site protected so you can focus on more important things.
WP-PluginsUsed 1.50.2
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.
WP-Sweep 1.1.8
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
WP-Sweep allows you to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. It cleans up revisions, auto drafts, unapproved comments, spam comments, trashed comments, orphan post meta, orphan comment meta, orphan user meta, orphan term relationships, unused terms, duplicated post meta, duplicated comment meta, duplicated user meta and transient options. It also optimizes your database tables.
thanks for posting this list, jessi. it’s cool to see all of your plugins listed!
Easy peasy, Mike, note the Plugins Used Plugin in the list! I’m such a plugin…hound, shall I say. I actually trimmed them down recently, if you can believe it.
I was able to drop a Contact Form plugin when I noticed a theme that had a built-in contact page template. I copied from that and made one for my theme too. I prefer to load code only on the pages where it’s needed, so that was nice to figure out.