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Plugins extend and expand the functionality of WordPress.
While there are over 4,000 regular plugins most of these don’t work on WPMU. Your Campus site comes with plugins that have been tested and customized to work on WPMU.
If you want your blog users to be able to use the plugins you need to enable plugins in Site Admin > Options – this will display the Plugin tab in their dashboard
You can choose to activates the plugin sitewide on all blogs. This means it is automatically enabled and your users have no ability to deactivate. In most cases you would let uses activate plugins themselves.
Most times you would let Users activate their own plugins using Plugins > Installed.
Here is a summary of some of the plugins available for use.
1. AddThis Social Bookmarking
The AddThis Social Bookmarking plugin allows readers to bookmark posts from blogs easily with over 45 popular services, and to share it with friends via email
2. Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen (http://akismet.com/download/ ). To enable Akismet you need to follow the instructions to obtain a WordPress.com API key.
3. Audio and Video Comments
Lets readers to leave audio and video comments.
4. Contact Form
Allows user to set up a contact form that can be embedded into a page by Douglas Karr.
5. Subscribe To Comments
The Subscribe To Comments is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments.
6. ThinkFree Viewer
The plugin allows users to view office(.doc, .xls and .ppt) documents on browsers
7. Threaded Comments
Enables threaded comments for your blog – simply activate, configure and enjoy as the comments perfectly nest.
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