GraffitiCMS Widgets,Plug-ins,Extensions, and Themes

by Jef on 2008/02/08

Since I am using Graffiti CMS for this site, which supports extending the site via Widgets and Plug-ins, I thought I post what I am finding out in the community.

Widgets can be thought of modules which add/modify ways to display content on your site.  Think of them like adding a Flickr photo gallery, or a Tag Cloud.

Plug-ins can be thought of adding back end functionality to the site.  Some of them include things like auto-generating a Sitemap as you add content, or pinging blog publishing services.

Extensions are additions that can be enabled through Chalk code to display additional information on your site.

Themes are designs which you can upload to alter the visual look of your site.

I use some of these, but I don’t endorse their quality or usefulness.  I am just trying to add a place to catalog what I find. The GCMS Marketplace is now operational, but I do not think they have started adding alot of the existing modules to be availiable on there yet.

Community Code Projects

ProjectNotes
CodePlex Graffiti ExtrasA collection of Widgets, Themes, and Extensions
CodePlex Chalk ExtensionsA collection of Chalk extensions to enhance your site

Widgets

NameTypeNotes
msFlickrPhotosuses the API key to display your flickr photos. Includes Sourcecode project
FlickrPhotosUses tags to display your Flickr photos
ArchivesPostsDisplays post count by month
Picasa AlbumPhotosDisplay Photos from Picasa Web Album

Plugins

NameTypeNotes
Sitemap GeneratorSEOAuto generates a Sitemap of your site for use by search engine discovery
Mobile Theme SelectorTheme ManagementAllows you to specify a seperate theme for mobile users
PingomaticBlog notifyPings popular blog services when you add a new post
RSS ExtenderFeedsAdds more fields to your RSS feed data
301 RedirectorFileRedirect CS links to Graffiti pages for migration
Skinny WebnetworkCompresses data over HTTP to speed up web site display
Silverlight PluginMediaDisplay streaming Silverlight videos in posts
Blog ExtensionsBloggingAdds pingback/trackback support, GeoRSS support, Auto Ping on update, and seperate Comments RSS feed for GCMS sites
Related Posts in RSSRSSAdds a list of Related Posts to your RSS feed for posts
Notify Twitter on New PostTwitterWhen you add a new post, it will notify your followers on Twitter

Extensions

NameTypeNotes
Community ReactionstrackbackAdds a list of discovered sites which link to the post automatically.
Post NavigationNavigationAdds navigation options to posts
Search RelevancySearchShows other posts which may match the search terms from search engines
Technorati TrackbackstrackbackDisplay trackbacks from Technorati with the post

Themes

Graffiti Extras Themes

Rich Mercer’s Themes

Dave Stokes’ Themes and his Theme Files

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Great work dude, u gave nice post to us. Thanks for spending the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learn I was very pleased to find this site. I wanted to thank you for this great read!! This is a very informative post,

Article is very nicely written and I am happy to find so many useful information here in the post, thanks for sharing it here. I hope you will adding more.

I've also posted some free themes on crazeegeekchick.com:
crazeegeekchick.com/.../free-themes

I've also posted some free themes on crazeegeekchick.com:
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Rob,
Have you had a chance to read the info on the Dev site for creating Widgets?
dev.graffiticms.com/.../writing-your-ow
I've created some before, and after you copy the dll to the bin directory it should reload on the next page access and be availiable to add in the control panel.
Jef

Rob,
Have you had a chance to read the info on the Dev site for creating Widgets?
<a target="_blank" href="http://dev.graffiticms.com/developer/widgets/writing-your-own-widget/" rel="nofollow">dev.graffiticms.com/.../writing-your-ow
I've created some before, and after you copy the dll to the bin directory it should reload on the next page access and be availiable to add in the control panel.
Jef

I have created a new widget, but adding it to the bin directory does not make it available in the widgets list. How do you make a new widget available for use?

Great looking site, Jef!
Keep up the Graffiti work! Looking forward to seeing what you are able to build. :)
Take care,
-Jason
CTO, Telligent

Great looking site, Jef!
Keep up the Graffiti work! Looking forward to seeing what you are able to build. :)
Take care,
-Jason
CTO, Telligent

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