| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | All in One SEO Pack |
Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Support | Change Log | FAQ| Translations Some features:
If upgrading, please back up your database first! Be sure to check out: WP Security Scan and SMS Text Message Follow me on Twitter to keep up with the latest updates Michael Torbert |
1.6.10 | hallsofmontezuma | |
| 2 | WP Super Cache |
This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user's details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. Static files are served to:
99% of your visitors will be served static html files. Those users who don't see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won't be as busy as before. This plugin will help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site. If for some reason "supercaching" doesn't work on your server then don't worry. Caching will still be performed, but every request will require loading the PHP engine. In normal circumstances this isn't bad at all. Visitors to your site will notice no slowdown or difference. Supercache really comes into it's own if your server is underpowered, or you're experiencing heavy traffic. Super Cached html files will be served more quickly than PHP generated cached files but in every day use, the difference isn't noticeable. See the WP Super Cache homepage for further information. The changelog is a good place to start if you want to know what has changed since you last downloaded the plugin. |
0.9.8 | Donncha O Caoimh | |
| 3 | WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam |
An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well. A Powerful Weapon Against Comment SpamComment spam has been a huge problem for bloggers since the inception of blogs, and it just doesn't seem to go away. The worst kind, and most prolific, is automated spam that comes from bots. Well, finally there is an anti-spam plugin for WordPress that provides an effective solution, without CAPTCHA's, challenge questions, or other inconvenience to site visitors. WP-SpamFree eliminates automated blog comment spam from bots, including trackback and pingback spam. New Features
Key Features
BackgroundBefore I developed this plugin, our team and clients experienced the same frustration you do with comment spam on your WordPress blog. Every blog we manage had comment moderation enabled and various other anti-spam plugins installed, but we still had a ton of comments tagged as spam in the spam queue that we had to sort through. This wasted a lot of valuable time, and we all know, time is money. We needed a solution. Comment spam stems from an older problem - automated spamming of email contact forms on web sites. I developed a successful fix for this a while ago, and later applied it to our WordPress blogs. It was so effective, that I decided to add a few modifications and turn it into a WordPress plugin to be freely distributed. Blogs we manage used to get an excessive number of spam comments show up on the spam queue each day - now the daily average is zero spam comments. To further the development of this anti-spam plugin, I now study thousands and thousands of potential spam comments from many test blogs and contributors. I use a special diagnostic version of the plugin, which provides much more information on each of these spam comments than what is shown in WordPress. By analyzing patterns and behaviors consistent with spam, I can continually improve the plugin and ensure future accuracy. How It WorksMost of the spam hitting your blog originates from bots. Few bots can process JavaScript (JS). Few bots can process cookies. Fewer still, can handle both. In a nutshell, this plugin uses a dynamic combo of JavaScript and cookies to weed out the humans from spambots, preventing 99%+ of automated spam from ever getting to your site. Almost 100% of web site visitors will have these turned on by default, so this type of solution works silently in the background, with no inconveniences. There may be a few users (less than 2%) that have JavaScript and/or cookies turned off by default, but they will be prompted to simply turn those back on to post their comment. Overall, the few might be inconvenienced because they have JS and cookies turned off will be far fewer than the 100% who would be annoyed by CAPTCHA's, challenge questions, and other validation methods. Some would argue that using JS and cookies is too simplistic an approach. Traditionally, programmers prefer using some type of basic AI to fight bots by trying to figure out if a comment is spam. While that isn't a bad idea, when used alone this method falls short because no machine AI can ever accurately judge whether a comment is spam - many spam comments get through that could easily have been stopped, and there are many false positives where non-spam comments get flagged as spam. Others may argue that some spammers have programmed their bots to read JavaScript, etc. In reality, the percentage of bots with these capabilities is still extremely low - less than 1%. It's simply a numbers game. Statistics tell us that an effective solution would involve using a technology that few bots can handle, therefore eliminating their ability to spam your site. The important thing in fighting spam is that we create a solution that can reduce spam noticeably and improve the user experience, and a 99%+ reduction in spam would definitely make a difference for most bloggers and site visitors. Even so, it's important to know that the particular JS and cookies solution used in the WP-SpamFree anti-spam plugin has evolved quite a bit, and is no longer simple at all. There are now two layers of protection, a JavaScript/Cookies Layer, and an Algorithmic Layer. Even if bot authors could engineer a way to break through the JavaScript/Cookies Layer, the Algorithmic Layer would still stop 95% of the spam that the JavaScript Layer blocks. (I'm working to make this 100% for fully redundant protection.) This JavaScript Layer utilizes randomly generated keys, and is algorithmically enhanced to ensure that spambots won't beat it. The powerful Algorithmic Layer is what eliminates trackback/pingback spam, and much human spam as well. And, it does all that without hindering legitimate comments and trackbacks. The bottom line, is that this plugin just plain works, and is a powerful weapon against spam. WordPress Blogging Without SpamHow does it feel to blog without being bombarded by comment spam? If you're happy with the WP-SpamFree WordPress anti-spam plugin, please let others know by giving it a good rating! |
2.1.1.1 | WP-SpamFree, WebGeek | |
| 4 | Google XML Sitemaps |
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content. Upgrade to the PRO version to get extra features and professional support Related Links: This release is compatible with all WordPress versions since 2.1. If you are still using an older one, use version 2.7.1 instead. |
3.2.2 | Arne Brachhold |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | WP-CopyProtect |
Protect your posts
Protect your blog content from getting copied. A simple plug-in developed to stop the Copy cats This plug-in will
So that no one can simply copy and paste the content of your blog in there blog or site. Please note
** Latest release 1.9.1 : VALID XHTML (Validation errors removed) + Compatable with WP-2.9 ** By Chetan Gole. |
1.9.1 | Chetan Gole | |
| 2 | Search Everything |
Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included:
Translations:
Updates: * 6.3.1 - Major bug fix. Necessary upgrade for 6.3. * 6.3 - 2.8 issue for terms and categories. Highlight fixes. Language Updates: Romanian, Japan, Arabic * 6.2.5 - Bug fixed specifically for WordPress 2.8. More Translations. * 6.2.2 - Post Exclusion fix. More translations. |
6.3.1 | dancameron, sproutventure, ericlebail | |
| 3 | Theme test drive |
Theme Test Drive Wordpress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one. It happens completely transparent and they will not even notice you run a different theme for yourself. Best part is you can even set the testing theme options (if it has them) in the Admin panel while you are testing the theme. You can also preview any theme by adding "?theme=xxx" to your blog URL. For example http://www.myblog.com/?theme=Default Plugin by Vladimir Prelovac. Need a WordPress Consultant? |
2.7.4 | Vladimir Prelovac | |
| 4 | WordPress Related Posts |
WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed. Please search and submit your transaltion here: http://fairyfish.net/2008/06/06/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-translation/ |
1.1.1 | Denis | |
| 5 | WP-PostRatings |
All the information (general, changelog, installation, upgrade, usage) you need about this plugin can be found here: WP-PostRatings Readme. It is the exact same readme.html is included in the zip package. |
1.50 | Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | SexyBookmarks |
Though the name may be a little "edgy" for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. Our sole aim was to stray away from the "in the box" thinking behind most social bookmarking plugins, and add a little flair that would entice your readers, rather than deterring them with microscopic icons that get lost in pages heavy laden with content. Recent Updates / Fixes
Recently Added Sites
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2.6.1.3 | eight7teen, jamiecarter7, gautam2011, normanyung | |
| 2 | TweetMeme Button |
The TweetMeme retweet button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter. Features
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1.7.5 | TweetMeme | |
| 3 | Sociable |
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites! WordPress 2.6 or above is required, if you use an older version, please download this version, please keep in mind that version is not maintained. More info:
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3.5.2 | sociable |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | Tiny Contact Form |
Use '[TINY-CONTACT-FORM]' within any post or page. Add the widget to your sidebar. |
0.5.1 | Tom Braider | |
| 2 | Contact Form 7 |
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. Translators
If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send gettext PO and MO files to me so that I can bundle it into Contact Form 7. You can download the latest POT file from here. |
2.1.1 | Takayuki Miyoshi |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | Ozh Admin Drop Down Menu |
The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on "Manage" then "Pages" to edit pages, go to any admin page from any admin page. For documentation, examples, screenshot and a live demo, please refer to the official plugin page for Admin Drop Down Menu. There is also an API for plugin coders (give your plugin its own special icon!). Current version is for WordPress 2.7+ only. For WordPress 2.6.5 and older, see the plugin's page. |
3.3.6 | Ozh | |
| 2 | Admin Management Xtended |
Version 2.0 and above is WP2.7+ only! As a whole, the new WordPress Admin panel is organized fairly well, however when it comes to editing posts or pages quickly without having to open each post or page in a new tab or window, it isn't a very efficient process. For those who are using WordPress as a CMS, it's important to be able to manage contents easily and quickly. That's what this plugin helps to do. It adds some icons to the posts/pages management panel with AJAX-driven CMS-known functions like toggling post/page visibility, changing publication date and title without having to open the edit screens or reload the page, plus changing page order with drag'n'drop, inline category management and inline tag management, plus much more. There's a little screencast available introducing what the plugin does! Features:
Included languages:
Want update feeds, code documentation and more? Visit extend.schloebe.de |
2.1.1 | Oliver Schlöbe |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | Woopra |
Woopra is the world's most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. Features include:
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1.4.3.2 | eliekhoury, markjaquith, ShaneF | |
| 2 | Google Analyticator |
Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog. FeaturesGoogle Analyticator Has the Following Features:
For more information, visit the Google Analyticator plugin page. |
6.0.2 | Ronald Heft | |
| 3 | WordPress.com Stats |
There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn't really highlight what's most interesting to me as a writer. That's why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface. Installing this stats plugin is much like installing Akismet, all you need is to put in your API Key and the rest is automatic. Once it's running it'll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It'll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more. Finally, because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn't cause any additional load on your hosting account. In fact, it's one of the fastest stats system, hosted or not hosted, that you can use. |
1.6.1 | skeltoac, mdawaffe, automattic |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | 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. Want to show off how much spam Akismet has caught for you? Just put See also: WP Stats plugin. PS: You'll need a WordPress.com API key to use it. |
2.2.7 | matt, ryan, andy, mdawaffe, tellyworth, automattic |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | Twitter tools |
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. |
2.2.1 | alexkingorg. crowdfavorite | |
| 2 | Twitter for Wordpress |
Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog. Features
Usage If you use WordPress widgets, just drag the widget into your sidebar and configure. If widgets are not your thing, use the following code to display your public Twitter messages:
For more info (options, customization, etc.) visit the plugin homepage. Customization The plug in provides the following CSS classes:
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1.9.7 | Ricardo González |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | NextGEN Gallery |
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all photo and picture plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple photos, galleries and albums. Important Links: Features
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1.4.3 | Alex Rabe |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | NextGEN-ImageFlow |
Finn Rudolphs picture gallery for NextGEN Gallery. Digital animation for thumbing through a physical image stack. Go to the our forum for support and more information. Check NextGEN FlashViewer for another add-on for your NextGEN Gallery. |
1.2 | ShabuShabu Webdesign |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | Thesis OpenHook |
Thesis OpenHook takes the process of modifying Thesis and simplifies it! Where once users would be required to open and modify their Not only can arbitrary HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and even PHP be inserted into any of Thesis' hooks, you can also easily remove any of the hooked default elements within Thesis with the click of a button! If you don't use Thesis, there's probably no reason you need to get this plugin, except to learn from (or port to another theme). Thesis OpenHook is based heavily upon <a href="K2 Hook Up. |
2.2.5 | Rick Beckman |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | Daily Top 10 Posts |
Tracks the number of pageviews per blog post for the current day and cumulatively with options to display sidebar widgets for both. |
0.7 | Andrew dela Serna | |
| 2 | WP Security Scan |
Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. -passwords Future Releases |
2.7.1.2 | Michael Torbert | |
| 3 | WP Polls |
WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers. All the information (general, changelog, installation, upgrade, usage) you need about this plugin can be found here: WP-Polls Readme. It is the exact same readme.html is included in the zip package. |
2.50 | Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan | |
| 4 | Quotes Collection |
Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect, manage and display your favourite quotations on your WordPress blog. All quotes or a set of quotes can also be displayed on a page using a Main features and notes:
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1.3.6 | Srini G | |
| 5 | Section Widget |
Grand Prize winner of WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Ever wanted to display a widget only on the front page? Subpages of certain pages? Posts with a certain tag? We've got you covered. With an extremely easy to use interface, you can create your section-specific widget in no time - without going through the frustration of writing PHP code (ala Widget Logic). In addition to plain text and HTML, we have added shortcodes support into the mix. This means you can easily turn your crazy widget ideas into reality. Need a RSS widget for the posts in the "Movies" category? Yep, there is a shortcode for that. Show your AdSense ads only on the front page? There is a shortcode for that too - not to mention tag clouds, Paypal, Amazon... you name it. Or throw more CMS hotness into your sidebar with our conditional custom fields shortcodes. Checkout the screenshots for more inspirations. But before you hit the download button, we have saved a surprise for you. In order to help you fit all those insane ideas into your already crowded sidebar, we have decided to add tabs to the equation. With an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, creating your own tabbed widget is completely effortless - even for your grandparents. (See the screenshots for details.) To bring this to the next level, we have bundled 25 (!) switchable themes (powered by the jQuery UI project) with the plugin - and we even included a live preview in the settings page! And of course, you can always roll your own theme to suit the design of your site. (A lite version with the 2 basic themes is also available here.) With all those awesome features, you should definitely download it and try it out. If you still cannot find a need for this, you're probably using WordPress the wrong way ;) Let us know what you think, drop us a line at the forums - we would love to hear about your creative ways of using this plugin! Built-in ConditionalsIn this version, you can freely mix and match these predefined rules which gives you control of where the widget should be displayed:
Please note: JavaScript is required for the widget interface to display correctly. This plugin will only run on Wordpress 2.8+. |
3.0.4 | oltdev, godfreykfc | |
| 6 | Page Flip Image Gallery |
Do you need to show your photos to the best advantage and post them in a speedy manner, don't you? You need to make a bright and memorable presentation, portfolio or image gallery? Try FlippingBook Wordpress Gallery plugin - image gallery with page flip effect. Live Demo 0.5.9.6
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0.5.9.6 | FlippingBook WP Team | |
| 7 | WPtouch iPhone Theme |
With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device. The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini mobile, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm visitors without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme. The theme also includes the ability for your visitors to easily switch between the WPtouch view and your site's regular theme. |
1.9.7.7 | BraveNewCode, duanestorey, dalemugford | |
| 8 | WP re-CAPTCHA |
What is reCAPTCHA?reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. Instead of randomly generating useless characters which users grow tired of continuosly typing in, risking the possibility that spammers will eventually write sophisticated spam bots which use OCR libraries to read the characters, reCAPTCHA uses a different approach. While the world is in the process of digitizing books, sometimes certain words cannot be read. reCAPTCHA uses a combination of these words, further distorts them, and then constructs a CAPTCHA image. After a ceratin percentage of users solve the 'uknown' word the same way it is assumed that it is the correct spelling of the word. This helps digitize books, giving users a reason to solve reCAPTCHA forms. Because the industry level scanners and OCR software which are used to digitize the books can't read the words with which the CAPTCHAs are constructed, it is safe to assume that in-house spam-bot OCR techniques will not be able to bypass the CAPTCHA either. reCAPTCHA has earned a very prestigious reputation among the various CAPTCHA systems available and is used by such sites as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and a few U.S. Government Websites such as the TV Converter Box Coupon Program Website. This plugin is WordPress MU compatible. For more information please view the plugin page.. |
2.9.6 | Jorge Peña | |
| 9 | WP-PageNavi |
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site. Example:
Credits
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2.61 | GamerZ, scribu | |
| 10 | Mollom |
Mollom protects your website against comment and trackback spam. Mollom differs from other spam deterring services because it takes care of everything. The idea is to relieve you, the administrator, editor, maintainer,... of any moderation or clean up tasks you would normally need to perform in order to keep your blog spamfree. Mollom combines the power of intelligent text analysis to automatically filter spam with the efficiency of a safe CAPTCHA test. If Mollom is unsure if a comment is spam or not, it will present the visitor with a CAPTCHA test. Unless the test was completed succesfully, the comment will never be stored on your blog. Fallback on an automated CAPTCHA test allows Mollom to block up to 99,7% of all spam messages. Developed by Colada. |
0.7.5 | Matthias Vandermaesen | |
| 11 | Audio player |
Audio Player is a highly configurable but simple mp3 player for all your audio needs. Features include:
Related links: |
2.0.4.1 | Martin Laine |
| # | name | description | version | Author | Download |
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| 1 | Simple CAPTCHA |
A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples. It's simple and yet secure. |
1.5.1b | Zorex | |
| 2 | Simple |
Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect tool to manage perfeclty your WP 2.8 and 2.9 tags It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of new functions
And more... |
1.7.4.4 | Amaury BALMER | |
| 3 | ShareThis |
The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more. To check out the ShareThis plugin for WordPress, visit: http://sharethis.com/wordpress You can customize the ShareThis widget on your site as well as register for a dashboard that will track share events and provide reporting. |
3.2 | ShareThis | |
| 4 | Similar Posts |
Similar Posts displays a list of posts that are similar or related to the current posts. The list can be customised in many ways. Similarity is judged according to a post's title, content, and tags and you can adjust the balance of factors to fit your own blog. This plugin requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library: download it now. |
2.6.2.0 | Rob Marsh, SJ | |
| 5 | WP-Gravatar |
This plugin lets you use Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or Favico.ico files with your comments. But thats not all, scroll down to see what else this plugin does for your site. The plugin has been tested on version 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3 and 2.5. Should work on all versions from 2.1 and upwards. It will also detect the Prologue theme from Automattic. This plugin does:
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2.7.1 | Rune_Gulbrandsoy | |
| 6 | WP Auto Tagger |
This plugin uses the Yahoo API to suggest tags based on the post content. You have the option to automatically tags posts on save or get tag suggestions with a single click. Auto Tagger will not replace your existing tags. This version has been updated to support Wordpress 2.5. For older versions of Wordpress please download version 1.2. |
1.3.2 | iDope | |
| 7 | WP Post Thumbnail |
WP Post Thumbnail plugin adds an image upload, crop and save panel in 'Write Post' screen. It allows you to easily upload a .jpg image file. Once the image file is uploaded, you can crop it before saving it as your thumbnail. That's it. Spend less time messing around with Photoshop everytime you need to make a thumbnail (or two) for your post. Also, saves you time and trouble from manually copy-and-pasting uploaded image URLs into custom key value fields. For theme developers, particularly magazine-style WordPress theme developers, you can configure up to 3 different thumbnails to be used in each post. For instance,
Dimensions as varied as your theme requires can be easily configured in an XML file. Save the file as 'wppt.xml' and put it in your theme's folder (ideally, the main folder but any folder will do). WP Post Thumbnail will scan your theme folders, look for your theme's 'wppt.xml' file and read your theme's thumbnail(s) configuration. |
0.1.8 | Stanley Yeoh | |
| 8 | WP Widget Cache |
A high-performance caching plugin for WordPress, and a plus for WP-Cache or WP Super Cache! Why we need this WP Widget Cache? WP Widget Cache can cache the output of your blog widgets. Usually it will significantly reduce the SQL queries to your database and speed up your site. I think you’ve heard of WP-Cache or WP Super Cache, they are both top plugins for WordPress, which make your site much faster and responsive. Here is how cache works: "caching WordPress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and the building the page from the database". If your site get a very high traffic, or your blog are hosted on a shared server, or Google crawl your site frequently, you do need cache. If you use widgets, you do need WP Widget Cache. Why WP-Cache or WP Super Cache is not enough? WP-Cache or WP Super Cache cache ‘pages’, and WP Widget Cache cache ‘widgets’ or your sidebar, that’s the difference. Let me explain this more clearly: If some of your page is very popular, and people keep visit this page, then the page cache will be very helpful. But what if the user click some link and visit another page of your blog, or Google is crawling your site? Cache another whole page? Actually that’s not necessary for most time. As we all know, WordPress share the same widgets, they’re all the same, maybe on all the pages of your site. For example, the Categories widget, this maybe never change, the Archives widget, maybe changes once a month. So it’s really really not that necessary to query the database again, especially when you use a lot of widgets. WP Widget Cache is not to replace the WP-Cache or WP Super Cache, it’s a plus for them, as it reducing the cost for caching a new page. you can set the cache time for each widget individually, seconds to years, whatever you like. For Categories widget, days maybe fine, for Recent Comments widget, seconds maybe fine. How effective it is? That depends on how many and what widgets you use, for http://www.mashget.com, the queries for home page reduce from from 69 to 19, that's means 70% improvement. Notice There're some widgets that should not be cached!! For more information, please visit the Other Notes. Thanks I want to say thanks to Alan Trewartha (the author of Widget Logic plugin) and Dragan Bosnjak (the author of Cache Class), their codes are very helpful for me to finish this plugin. |
0.25.2 | WP Widget Cache | |
| 9 | Twitter Stream |
NOTE: In the next version (1.9) support for parameters will be discontinued. So you will no longer be able to use twitter_stream('username', '10') etc. It will be changing to traditional array or query string methods (to match WordPress. Please note when version 1.9 is released and you upgrade you will need to change this or Twitter Stream will not work. This is to allow development to continue. Sorry for any incovenience caused. Look here for more details. Twitter Stream is a simple plugin designed to simply show a users Twitter timeline. It includes file caching to stop overuse of Twitter's API, and three different connection types (CURL, fopen, socket). You can also choose how many updates to return (maximum of 200). It also includes autolinking for URL's found within the timeline. Also includes a date ago feature, showing the time the tweet was posted in xx ago format. Also has a permalink pointing to the tweet. A widget is included, but you must have WordPress version 2.8 or higher for it to work, however standard useage should work down to version 2.5 although it has not been tested. Twitter Stream requires PHP5 due to the use of SimpleXML. If you do not have PHP5 installed you will not be able to use this plugin. Twitter Stream is also designed to be very lightweight & use the smallest amount of resources possible, ideal for shared or low memory servers. Here is a quick run down of the features available in Twitter Stream.
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1.8 | Paul Robinson |
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