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New Plugins

LibDig

Adds a Lib Dig box to WordPress posts and pages

scrnshotsRSS

This plugin for WordPress allows you to show Scrnshots.com captures on your sites

eFiles Backup

This plugin for Wordpress allows you to download backups of your Uploads, Themes and Plugin directories. It also allows you to download the entire wp-content directory. Not suitable for WPMU without alteration, or for large sites.

WP-UDIF-Entrecard

This plugin enables a simple method of displaying an Entrecard Widget on your Blog and will also display a “U Drop I follow” Image below it for members of the U Drop I Follow Moment

Updated Plugins

AVH Amazon

The avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget which will display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry.

Related Posts by Category

Display related posts based on their category. (Page in German)

DasboardZone

Displays statistics about your posts and post frequency on the WordPress Dashboard

Event Calendar 3

Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.

Alt Link Text

Alt Link Text adds “Alternative Link Text” and “Alternative Title Attribute” fields to the Write Page and Manage Page screens.

Pods

Pods is a Wordpress plugin that adds CMS abilities to blog posts.

Drain Hole

Drain Hole is a centralized download manager with full monitoring, statistics, versioning, SVN support, and proper SEO download URLs

ZdMultilang

ZdMultilang is a Multilingual plugin for Wordpress allowing you to blog in more than one language. You can define multiple languages and translate posts/tags/categories using the interface that will be added to your blog’s administration panel.

Gravatar Recent Comment

Gravatar recent comments is a plugin allowing you to display recent comments using Gravatar instead of just the name of the user.

Ovulation Predictor

This plugin displays functional ovulation and due date predictor. It can be used from women to check their future fertile time and due date.

Better Howdy

Remove ‘Howdy’ and restructure the ‘Howdy’ line.

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

Post Revision Display

Display the list of revisions for a post, without having to go through the admin interface

nkthemeswitch

This plugin was written do allow usage of different themes for logged in users. It is intended for theme developers who want to test their themes on live sites without breaking things for visitors.

Wp2BB

Wp2BB integrates your WordPress blog and your phpBB forum. It automatically creates new topics in the forum for every new post in your blog.

Comment Toolbar

This plug-in adds up to six buttons at the end (or the top) of every comments to automatically insert Comments Navigation, Reply and Quote functions

Zina

Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer.

One of the things I’ve noticed since using WordPress is that after you install a number of plugins, it becomes clear that there is no standard for where to place the plugin configuration link. Sometimes, the configuration link for a plugin shows up in the dashboard while other times, the link appears within the Manage panel. To top things off, many of the plugins provide links to their specific settings in the Settings panel. How much time do you think you have wasted so far by always searching for a particular plugins settings page?

Over the weekend, I happened to come across a post written by Andrew Rickmann which showcased an idea to create a configure link next next to the usual Activate/Deactivate Edit links found within the Plugin Management panel.

Andrew’s point of view is that, instead of adding top level menu items to the WordPress administration panels, it would be far easier to click on a configure link that would open up a sliding panel which would present anywhere from 1-5 configurable settings. Not only does this idea make configuring plugins faster, but it makes browsing the WordPress administration panel much easier as the top level navigation system is not filled with links. On top of that, the configure link makes complete sense to be located next to the Deactivate/Edit links. In doing so, configuration options are in a predictable location.

In my opinion, here are a couple of reasons why we are not seeing something like this already being used. Number one, WordPress is open source meaning anytime you try to implement anything close to a standard, it probably won’t work. People will come up with their own solutions to the problem which is one of the beauties of Open Source but can also be a contributing problem. Secondly, this was brought up over two years ago. You can see the initial forum thread here and the post on the WP-Hackers Mailing List from Owen here. Considering we have gone two years without any move towards a solution such as the one Andrew suggested, perhaps we will always be at the mercy as to where plugin authors place their configuration links.

Plugin authors can bring up the fact that they provide directions within their readme files that indicate where to find the configuration page. While they may help in the short term, that doesn’t solve the root of the overall problem. Andrew’s idea is something that can be implemented by plugin authors right now. In terms of something like this being added to the core, according to Andrew, the process is so simple, it probably doesn’t need to be added.

Where do you stand on this issue? Would you like to see more plugin authors implement Andrew’s idea into their own plugin or is there a better alternative?

Raven’s Antispam

Raven’s antispam is a WordPress plugin, powerful and invisible fighter against comment spam.

Cronjob Control

This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the “Site Admin” area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s)

FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin

This plugin adds a fourth way to save the database backup files of the WP Database Backup plugin. With the standard WP Database Backup plugin you can save the database tables of your weblog a file. This backup file can stored on the server of your weblog, send to an email account or saved (manually) to your local hard disk.

Update URLs

When you move WordPress to a new domain or directory, the permalinks are not updated. This plugin updates all permalinks. In addition, it also gives the user the option to update any links within posts and pages.

FV Community News

Allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar or anywhere else. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.

Caption Disabler

Caption Disabler is a WordPress plugin that removes and disables captions feature in WordPress so that all caption shortcode is not been parsed or translated, and no and HTML entities are automatically added while editing or writing.

jQuery Reply to Comment

Add “reply” and “quote” features on each comment list.

Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.

WP Double Opt-In List Management

This WordPress email list management plugin allows the visitors of your blog subscribe to your mailing list using a double opt-in method. The signup form (Email, Name and other fields) is placed on the WordPress blog sidebar. After a user fills in the form and clicks “Subscribe”, WP double opt-in plugin sends an email with the subscription confirmation link to the user.

Business Directory for WordPress

Business Directory for Wordpress is an easy way to host a free directory page for your readers, affiliates, advertisers, community or club members. Invite them to submit a simple advertisement listing for themselves on your blog

Wordpress Multibox Plugin

This plugin brings the great Multibox from phatfusion to your blog images.

WP-RecentComments

Display recent comments in your blog sidebar.

Woopra Analytics Plugin

This plugin adds Woopra’s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Activate the plugin and configure your site ID in the Woopra settings.

Collapsing Categories

This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapsable the set of posts for each category.

Lazyest Gallery

Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation

Adminimize

Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen.

CommentLuv

Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post on their comment giving back some luv to the people that join your discussion.

HeadSpace2

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks.

WP Blurb

Limit posts, pages, categories or your custom text. Limit the number of characters to what you like. You are calling the plugin function from your theme.

Ajax Twitter

This plugin is using the Twitter API to get and post the updates.

WordPress MU Sitewide Tags

This plugin creates a central blog where all the most recent posts on a WordPress MU site can be found. The number of posts is configurable and defaults to 5,000 posts. (Only for WordPress MU)

WP Dockbar

Wp Dockbar is a plugin developed for users of WordPress who are not very familiar with the use of javascript code, html and CSS. With Wp Dockbar will not be necessary edit html code, even for the inclusion of new buttons in dockbar.

TDW Combobox Links

Display links in a combobox.

bbPress Live

bbPress Live allows you to pull data from a bbPress 1.0 forum using the new XML-RPC publishing API in bbPress.

Xavin’s Review Ratings

Xavin’s Review Ratings is a Wordpress plugin that adds a shortcode tag [xrr rating="4/5"] that displays a rating in one of several formats. It is intended for sites doing reviews.

Praized Tools

The Praized Tools plugin will enable new editorial tools within your WordPress install for you to blog about places and tie everything back to your or a 3rd party’s Praized community. It will also help you create your Praized sidebar widget.

Simpler iPaper

The Simpler iPaper plugin was created out of the need for a simpler way of embedding Scribd iPaper documents in blog posts.

G4B Photo Gallery

G4B Photo Gallery is a free, flexible plugin for WordPress. It provides a simple and effective way to include a complete gallery anywhere on your site, just by typing in a keyword.

Avatars for Comment Feeds

It will allow you to add avatars or gravatars of comment-authors to the comment-feeds of your WordPress-blog.

WP Mollom

This is a plugin that brings the anti-spam power of Mollom to WordPress. WP-Mollom protects your website against comment and trackback spam. The difference with other spam services is that Mollom takes care of everything. The idea is to relieve you, the administrator, editor, maintainer,… of whatever moderation or clean up tasks you would normally need to perform in order to keep your blog spamfree.

DashboardZone

This plugin will help you and your readers to keep you on track for reaching your targets. We created this wordpress plugin that monitors the various blog goals and in an effort tries to engage your readers more effectively.

WordPress Menu Creator

The Brokers Edge developed this free plugin to provide website owners with true easy to manage easy to configure menu solution for WordPress or WordPress CMS sites.

WordPress Help Desk

WordPress Help Desk is a comprehensive integrated help desk and trouble ticketing system that helps site admin to support there users and resolve issues quickly. Users and support personnel can interact in real time to report, diagnose and resolve issues quickly and with as little pain as possible. [EDIT] This plugin is ONLY compatible with WordPress MU

Terms of Use

Instead of making the user agree to the Terms of Use when they join the site this plugin makes them agree to the terms and conditions the first time they login.

Yet another AJAX paged comments

When the user navigate through the comments via page selector,only the comments area will be send to the client,not the full page.This actually save your server load and bandwidth thus making your blog faster and more responsive.

Javascript Pull Quotes

The JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin is an add-on for WordPress that allows you to easily insert pull-quotes into your posts and pages.

WordPress Amazon Widget Shortcodes

This plugin is made for you if you use Amazon Affiliate links (aka Amazon Associates, Amazon Partenaires etc.).

comment2tweet

comment2tweet is a WordPress plugin which will automatically post new comments from a WordPress blog to a twitter account. The comment posted to twitter will be an excerpt 140 characters long, and includes a short url link back to the comment.

wpAFFI

Simple and rapid technique to hide your affiliate links.

Smart 404

Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were
after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested
URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the
404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.

Snooth Widget

Grabs Snooth.com Wine Ratings and adds them to a sidebar on your WordPress Blog using the Widget engine.

Possibly Related Recent Posts

Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post.

Easy Disable Visual Editor

Easily disables the visual editor globally.

WordPress S3

This WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.

PhotoQ

PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality.

Admin Drop Down Menus

Admin Drop Down Menus rearranges the existing default Dashboard/Admin menus into javascript driven dropdowns, making navigation around your Wordpress Admin quicker, easier and considerably more efficient.

Viper’s Video Quicktags

Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box.

Tabbed Widgets

Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered. This plugin allows you to create them.

Hatena Star

Hatena Star is a recommendation service for webpages, popular in Japan.

Blinko Broadcaster for WordPress

The Blinko Broadcaster Plugin gives any WordPress user the opportunity to create their own broadcasting page, by signing up to an evaluation account to Blinko just by filling in an email address, all through a user-friendly interface in the Admin Panel.

WP MarkitUp

WP MarkItUp! is the Wordpress plugin that replaces the old “quicktags†toolbar with MarkItUp!, a jQuery plugin written by Jay Salvat that allows to turn any textarea into an highly customizable markup editor.

Find and Replacer

Find and replacer is a powerful search plugin for replacing tags and text throughout your blog installation.

WP Easy Digg

The plugin will add a digg button to every post, so your readers could digg the post if they really like it.

Score Render

This plugin renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations

C4F Textarea Toolbar

C4F Textarea Toolbar is a plugin for WordPress aimed at providing a simple yet very useful and precise tool to insert emoticons and markup in the comments’ textarea.

BlogWell’s Simple Image Link Widget

Simple Image Link lets you easily add images to your sidebar, be they advertisements, buttons of support or buttons of protest without the need for any HTML.

WP More Feeds

Generate RSS feeds for category and tag archive pages.

Disable Password Protection

Disable the ability for users to password protect certain posts.

wpNamed Users

Intranet / Extranet plugin for Wordpress that allows users to specify which users can access specific posts or pages.

MTR Podcast Recorder

MTR Podcast Recorder offers real-time recording that is saved on the same server where WordPress is installed. All recordings will be saved into the MP3 format using LAME encoder.

Feed Pauser

Feed Pauser is a plugin I wrote to address a issue I have been facing for a long time, the option to delay publishing a post to a feed. Feed pauser, pauses a post from being made available through RSS.

Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks

Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts. Now you can keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open.

Servage Referral Widget

The web host Servage allows it’s users through a link to their website/coupon code to refer it’s users to their services.

Notifixious

This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!

WP Google Apps

This plugin allows you to manage WordPress users via Google Apps accounts. The Authentication use Google Apps Gmail.

World Clock Widget

The world clock widget is a javascript clock. It can be easily set to display date and time of different timezone.

Facebook Sharer

Adds a little javascript and css to the header, and then a “Send to Facebook†link at the bottom of the blog post.

List Pages Plus

Alter the output of the wp_list_pages() function’s HTML.  Add in your own classes, insert text into link title, add additional tags surrounding title.  Parents and Children are set seperately for greater flexibility.

Email Spam Protection

Obfuscates your email. You need to enter the shortcode in your post.

wpSEO

The wpSEO plugin helps you optimize your blog for SEO purposes by eliminating issues with duplicate content and specifying meta tags and page titles for the different pages of your blog. Page in German

WineX

WineX is a lightweight script that will import the listing contents of your CellarTracker wine cellar into your WordPress website.

WP Calendar

Calendar is an events calendar for WordPress that allows you to publish a monthly breakdown of your appointments and important dates for your blog readers to view.

Filter Email Notifications

Filter Email Notifications is a simple plugin that stops WordPress from sending email notifications for comments that have been manually approved.

Flash Photo Carousel

This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard

Thank you for your patience. The judges have been corralled for their results, the results have been tallied, public votes have been added in and tallied and we are finally ready to announce the winners of the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5

May we have a drum roll please?

Thank you prizes:

$250 prize from WPMU

Consolation Prize Winner is Prelovac

Third Prize Winner is WP Easy Uploader

Second Prize Winner is Manageable

The Grand Prize Winner is WP Comment Remix

Thank you to all the participants and congratulations to the winners! Please use the contact form above or send an email to wpplugincomp [at] wltc [dot] net with your Paypal email address.

AVH Amazon

Gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random item(s) from your Amazon wishlist, baby registry and/or wedding registry.

WP125

The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts.

WordPress Bookmark Generator

This little plugin will output a bookmarks.html file with your entire WordPress Dashboard in folders, just as they appear on your panel.

Inline Google Docs

This plugin allows the user to embed Google Document/Spreadsheet content in posts and pages using shortcode.

Dynamic Content Gallery

This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured posts. Using JonDesign’s excellent SmoothGallery script, this plugin makes the gallery truly dynamic so that it automatically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured posts.

WP-Universe

WP-Universe creates a blog universe based on categories of a WordPress blog.

WP Smiley Switcher

With this plugin you can choose a smiley pack from the settings / options in admin or simply choose your own smiley pack directory.

CSS Cache Buster

Always deliver the latest version of your CSS stylesheet to browsers. All caching problems solved.