External Files

External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What’s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).

RSS Shortcode

Allows you to embed an RSS feed in your blog post by using WordPress shortcodes.

BuddyPress Contents

BuddyPress content aggregation and organization.

Real-Time Find and Replace

Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user’s browser.

Supr by StumbleUpon

Su.pr is the only URL shortener that gets you more traffic and save time posting to Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon.

Updated Plugins

Shorten2Ping

Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once if you have a Ping.fm account.

Meebo Me

meebo me lets you chat with your site visitors using your Meebo account. Visitors on your blog can hit a simple button and chat with you when you are logged into meebo. This is an easy and free way to interact with your visitors.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.

WordPress Console

An interactive console for WordPress developers

Flickr + Highslide

This plugin displays flickr photos using highslide.

Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense manages all aspects of Google AdSense for your blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/03

AVH Themed By Browser

The AVH Themed By Browser plugin gives you the ability to set a correlation between browser and theme. The theme of your blog can change dynamically based on the browser the visitor is using.

Follow My Links

Follow My Links is a very simple plugin that prevents WordPress from automaticaly adding a “rel=nofollow” attribute to links in the post authors URL and comments.

YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter

This plugin is the bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account.

Sliding Panel

It is a panel that can be opened and closed with a click of a mouse that will allow you to house additional content on your site without it getting in the way.

Injection attack protector

Protects a list of web pages and files that are likely to be targeted by injection attack by restoring files from local backup whenever they are modified.

Single Post Template

Single Post Template gives you the ability to create and use “Post Templates” in much the same way you create and use “Page Templates” in WordPress.

GeoSmart

GeoSmart is a plugin for WordPress which allows you to determine where in the world the people who comment on your posts are located based on their IP addresses.

Updated Plugins

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, edit meta data, and insert “link rel canonical” tags. Version 0.4 adds a 404 logger.

GD Press Tools

GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information.

Related Websites

Related Websites is a cloud based traffic exchange. Readers interested in additional reading are presented related posts from other blogs. Your posts are presented on other blogs when related. Balancing the exchange is traffic based.

Twitter Hash Tag Widget

A widget for displaying the most recent twitter status updates for a particular hash tag.

Transpose Email

Transpose Email plugin allows you to use JavaScript to create an encoded link. Clicking that link will trigger the user’s email client to open and create an email.

Shadowbox JS

Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/30

External Files

External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What’s more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url).

WordPress Console

It provides an in-browser interactive console for the WordPress environment.

SEO Blogger

Whether you blog about business, politics or the hot topic of the moment, SEO Blogger allows you to find the most sought-after keywords for your subject without ever leaving your blog editing screen.

SearchTerms Tagging 2

The function of this plugin is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.

Clickcha

Clickcha is a unique CAPTCHA system that more secure than traditional text based CAPTCHAs yet easier to use. Clickcha will replace the Wordpress post comment button with an image based CAPTCHA that requires a single click to solve and post the comment.

WP Theme Showcase

WP Theme Showcase ext and i18n (Showcase ext for short) displays uploaded themes with information extracted from the style.css of each theme as well as links to readme files. Showcase ext supports internationalization, CSS-styling, and is highly configurable with user-defined screenshots etc.

Amazon Niche Store

Allows you to automatically display Amazon products on your blog. You just add a simple tag to a post or page, along with your Amazon Tracking ID, and the relevant keywords for the products to be displayed.

Updated Plugins

WP-Simpleviewer

WP-Simpleviewer enables you to easily add SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings, it is now compatible with WP 2.8.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.

WP SimpleMail

WP SimpleMail allows you to access your email directly from wordpress.

Possibly Related Recent Posts

Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post using a filter on the_content. List generated on the fly by recency and the categories the current post is in. Does NOT use tags.

ImageShack Offloader

Saves you bandwidth by offloading your images to ImageShack.

Store Locator

Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers & web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable. Uses Google Maps.

GD Simple Widgets

This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.

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WordPress Plugin Releases on 06/24

• Tweetable: Another Twitter integration plugin for WordPress (we really need to consolidate these, but there is feature differentiation)
• Live Blogging Plugin: Setup a live blog within minutes, needs Meteor
• ImageShack Offloader: Move your image hosting to ImageShack
• Max Image Size Control: Finer granular control of image sizes in WordPress
• WP Devel: Add a whole bunch of debug options to your WordPress blog
• WP Update Message: Tweak and refine the update messages in your WordPress admin panel

In addition to these plugins, I know of at least 10 others that are being developed for the competition and I am hoping for many more. A couple of links and stats of interest:

• There is now a page for the Rules and Regulations for the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009
• Sponsors and well wishers have donated almost $3000 as prize money for the competition. They include: WPMU/WPMUDEV, BuySellAds, White Shadow, WPWebHost and Ozh
• Use the WLTC Community Plugin Groups page to post ideas for new plugins and offer to create new ones
• Send us tips and ideas through Twitter @weblogtooltips
• The Plugin Compeition Blog is checked by hundreds of visitors every day for new entries and to download the old ones

So if you are a plugin author and would like to get your name out or would like to win the prize purse for the best plugin, be sure to throw your hat into the competition and show us what you are made of. If you are a corporate sponsor and would like to help us reward the plugin development community, please drop us a line.

You don’t need to be shy. Come on in, the water is just fine.

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What is going on with WordPress Plugin Competition 2009?

Taking cue from that I quickly wrote a plugin that will do what Avaz suggested, it will send out updates via email to administrators whenever there are new plugin updates available to install.

You can setup the updates to go out daily, weekly or monthly and also choose to receive intimations for deactivated plugins.

The plugin requires you to setup the options before it actually works, you will see a message in the admin header to setup the option if you haven’t done that at-least once.

For for information and downloading visit the Plugin Updates Email Notifier homepage.

We keep a hawk eye on our twitter account, so don’t forget to send us your tips, questions and more to @weblogtooltips on twitter.

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Plugin Updates Email Notifier Plugin

Searchterms Tagging 2

The function of this plugins is to displays some of the last unique keywords (default is 30, adjustable from plugin admin page) that visitors used to find the blog post from search engine. Each keyword will be changed into a link to that page. The goal is to get more traffic to the blog post by adding related search terms below the blog post.

Updated Plugins

WP Greet Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags, noindex archives, and edit meta data (with many more features coming soon). Version 0.3 fixes bugs and adds support for “link rel canonical” tags.

Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slide shows. The use of the dark or light background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to highlight the image being viewed. Lightbox Plus captures the image title for display in the overlay.

Facelift Image Replacment for WordPress

Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (h1, h2) to span elements and everything in between!

Widget Context

Display widgets in context.

Absolute Privacy

Turns your blog into the ultimate private blog: user moderation, blog lock-down, users can chose their own password and must enter their name when registering.

Front-end Editor

Enables “edit in place” functionality on your site. Version 1.0 allows editing of individual paragraphs of a post.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/17

Anti-spam WordPress Plugins

Akismet – One of the best plugins to protect your WordPress blogs against spam comments, this plugin has worked like a charm for many users, saving then time and effort while moderating and managing comments.

WP-SpamFree Anti-Spam - An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

WP-Hashcash - WP Hashcash is an antispam plugin that eradicates comment spam on WordPress blogs. It works because your visitors must use obfuscated JavaScript to submit a proof-of-work that indicates they opened your website in a web browser, not a robot.

WP reCAPTCHA - reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. Instead of randomly generating characters, reCAPTCHA uses a combination of these words from digitalized books and  further distorts them to construct a CAPTCHA image.

Math Comment Spam Protection – Probably the most simplest way to thwart spammers robots from posting comments on your blog, it adds a new field to the comment form asking users to enter a sum of two numbers, you will have to edit your contact template to include the comment spam field to it.

Security Related WordPress Plugins

WP Security Scan - Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. It allows you to generate strong passwords, check improper file permissions, database security, version hiding, admin panel protection and more.

WordPress Exploit Scanner - This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.

AskApache Password Protect - You can set up Password Protection for your blog using HTTP Basic Authentication, or you can choose to use the more secure HTTP Digest Authentication.

TTC WordPress Security Tool – This plugin blocks cross-site script attempts, ip numbers of ill behaved people and bots and bans bad user agents.

Secure WordPress - Little help to secure your WordPress installation: Remove Error information on login page; adds index.html to plugin directory; removes the wp-version, except in admin area.

WordPress Firewall - This WordPress plugin investigates web requests with simple WordPress-specific heuristics to identify and stop most obvious attacks.

Did I miss anything out? Do you use any plugins for optimizing security and protecting against spam comments? Do share them with others by commenting here.

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Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress

However, when I logged in to my admin panel and saw that 6 plugins had upgrades after a very short time frame since I had last checked I suspected one author might have updated their stuff.  My suspicion was right.

The prolific WordPress plugin programmer Lester Chan had updated all of his WordPress plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.8. If your unfamiliar with Lester’s work than you are missing out on some of the best plugins for WordPress and I highly recommend you check them out.

So how popular is Lester’s work? Check out his Top 10 Downloaded Plugins (borrowed from his website as of this posting):

WP-Polls - 241,750 downloads

WP-PageNavi - 232,786 downloads

WP-PostRatings - 155,396 downloads

WP-PostViews - 102,572 downloads

WP-UserOnline - 99,047 downloads

WP-Print - 98,069 downloads

WP-DBManager - 97,533 downloads

WP-EMail - 87,049 downloads

WP-Sticky - 80,091 downloads

WP-Stats - 51,005 downloads

I say that makes them a good investment of your time to help improve your own WordPress website.

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Lester Chan aka GaMerZ Updates his Plugins for WordPress 2.8

These are not in any specific categories like previous “Five” posts but just a sampling of those already showing compatibility with WordPress 2.8.  A complete list of compatible plugins is available here for your review as well.

Socialize This - Socialize This is a WordPress plugin that allows the user to easily generate Social Icons and spread to word about their blog posts. It works essentially out-of-the-box with little to no configuration required.

WP-Twitter - WP-Twitter is a plugin that creates a integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account that allows you to post a tweet from the WordPress Admin Screens, including option to reduce the URL before sending as well as a Widget for displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.

WP-Content Protector - Protects your blog content from getting copied by disabling right click on your blog and also disabling selection of text so that no one can simply copy and paste the content of your blog in there blog or site.

Theme Options - This plugin manages theme customization. Everything is managed in the WordPress Backend. Code snippets can be activated, copied, created, deactivated, deleted, edited, and uploaded.

Smart Archives Reloaded - Smart Archives Reloaded is an enhanced version of the Smart Archives plugin by Justin Blanton.  This plugin has an easy setup – no code editing required and it has better caching – no waiting after a post is published for it to be in your archives.

So which of your favorite plugins have already been updated for WordPress 2.8 Baker compatibility?

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Five WordPress Plugins Already Updated for Version 2.8

Antivirus for WordPress is a useful plugin that will scan your templates and also can monitor it on a daily basis for malicious injections in the themes.

You can also setup the Antivirus plugin to run a check daily and send you a email if it finds anything wrong in your templates, definitely another good tool to keep your blog safe and secure. Thanks Sid.

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Antivirus Plugin For WordPress

Logout Password Protected Posts

This plugin provides a template tag which creates a link for visitors to log out of password protected posts.

Series

Series allows you to string together posts by using the built-in taxonomy system in WordPress. I’ve packaged several extra goodies with this plugin such as widgets, shortcodes, and template tags to allow you to easily control how display data on your blog. This plugin will only work with WordPress 2.8+.

WordPress download counter

Now you too can show the WordPress download counter on your website! This plugin adds a widget to your blog that shows the current download count and even refreshes the count every 15 seconds automatically.

Updated Plugins

Better Search

Improve your visitors search experience with Better Search. Better Search will provide contextually search your WordPress blogs and then list the results based on relevance. By using a template file you can completely control the look and feel of the search results page.

WP Table Reloaded

This plugin enables you to create and manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. You can then show them in your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode.

GD Simple Widgets

This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.

Feed Reading Blogroll

The plugin improves your blogroll by displaying the freshness and the latest post-title of your bookmarks.

GD Press Tools

GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information. Plugin can also track posts and pages views for various popularity lists.

Simply Show IDs

Simply shows the ID of Posts, Pages, Media, Links, Categories, Tags and Users in the admin tables for easy access. Very lightweight.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.

Shadowbox JS

Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.

Custom Field Images

Allows you to easily associate an image to a post and display it anywhere.

Smart Archives Reloaded

Provides an elegant and easy way to present your archives on a single page on your site.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/13

Mobile Statistics

We use MoFuse on this blog and I must add it is somewhat successful. The mobile pages are decent, the pages load relatively fast and the statistics are nice. But the admin pages are painfully slow and MoFuse injects their own ads to the browsed pages. To offload the hassle of course, is priceless. The following list is a short rundown of the most popular ways to build a mobile version of your blog on WordPress. Please add yours in the comments if I have forgotten one or if you have an opinion about any of these.

• WordPress Mobile Edition is a fantastic plugin from Alex King’s Crowd Favorite that builds a mobile version of your blog and even adds a commenting interface. Their mobile demo on the Carrington theme is quite attractive indeed. Smaller screens do not display this as well as the iPhone does.
• WordPressMobile.mobi (I just noticed the WordPress in the domain name) A WordPress mobile plugin by Andy Moore that provides a mobile version of your WordPress blog. The site does not provide any screenshots or details, just a forum. Looks like a very popular plugin with lots of installs.
• WordPress Mobile Pack by James Pearce is a well liked set of plugins that creates a mobile environment for your WordPress blog including the admin panel. Screenshots are included on the extend pages.
• Mobilize is another plugin that renders your WordPress blog via Mippin and even allows the user to insert their own ads. The plugin touts to be configuration free. Clean and tidy.
• WordPress PDA and iPhone is a simple, straightforward plugin that renders a simple version of your blog on a PDA. Output screenshots on the plugin page.
• MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers. Nice site, good screenshots, simple install.
• WPTouch is a mobile plugin and theme combination for WordPress that adds a sleek WordPress theme for iPhone visitors.

There are various other plugins on the WordPress Extend that extends the mobile functionality to your WordPress blog. Choose one that fits your needs and wants and just let it run. You have nothing to lose but a lot of new readers to gain.

What mobile plugins have I missed? Do you read blogs over your mobile phone?

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Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?

iTunes Affiliate Link Maker

The plugin adds an iTunes button to the visual editor which when clicked brings forward a dialog containing a search for the iTunes store link maker.

ImHuman

ImHuman provides more humane, fun, easy, secure and mostly user friendly captcha (are you really a human?) detection for posting comments.

Photo Lightbox

Photo Lightbox is a lightbox styled image gallery written in JavaScript. It does not use JavaScript libraries, and therefore it is compact in size and loads fast.

System Information

Show stats about your server harddrive and software on your blog.

Subscription Options

It adds 3 subscription options for readers with related feed icons: a RSS feed URL; a FeedBurner Email URL and a Twitter feed URL. It’s totally user-defined,  looks cool and it’s very simple.

Updated Plugins

Post to FriendFeed

Post to FriendFeed is a WordPress Plugin which will allow you to post excerpts from your blog posts as a message in FriendFeed with images, to any room. By default FriendFeed posts them without images and this Plugin overcomes this issue.

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags and noindex archives (with many more features coming soon). Version 0.1.1 is a bugfix release.

AVH First Defense Against Spam

The AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served. Spammers are identified by checking if the visitors IP exists in a database served by stopforumspam.com or by a local blacklist.

WordPress Mobile Edition

WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile browsers are automatically detected, the list of mobile browsers can be customized on the settings page.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/08

I have seen lot of people delaying upgrading to a newer version because of this reason, the WordPress Codex does maintain a list of plugins that are compatible with different versions of WordPress, WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker is a informational service which indexes plugins and provides compatibility checks.

This tool does provide with a way to check whether a plugin follows different things to determine compatibility, however use it only for informational purposes rather than using it as a tool to base your decision on upgrading WordPress, the WordPress codex for plugin compatibility document is definitely the best way to go.

The plugin compatibility checker currently indexes more than 7500 plugins, out of which 5040 plugins are fully compatible with WordPress 2.8.

There are several criteria’s used while determining if a plugin is compatible or not, some of which include minimum and maximum WordPress versions, whether the plugin is using hardcoded values of wp-content, whether the plugin is compatible with PHP4, whether it is directly connecting to the database without making use of the DB object provided by WordPress among other things.

If you are a plugin developer, you can use this tool to see if there are any problems with the plugin.

This tool will definitely come in handy whenever you want to make a decision to upgrade to a newer version of WordPress. The compatibility results provided by this tool may not be exactly accurate, it should only be used for informational purposes, the plugin compatibility list provided by WordPress Codex is the best way to determine if a plugin will work with WordPress 2.8 or not. Thanks Alex

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WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker

So our “Five” for this post is blogroll related plugins for your website.

Feed Reading Blogroll – This plugin uses Googles index of feeds to grab the latest post date and title and display it on your blogroll.  There are several configuration options and it can organize the presentation of the blogroll links in order of the freshness of the latest post.  You will need a free Google API key to use this plugin.

Nofollow Blogroll SEO – This simple plugin puts rel="nofollow" on non-homepage Blogroll Links. It allows you to share links with your favorite sites but not take a hit in your SEO for having sitewide links. This is a fairly new plugin in the development cycle but due to its simplicity is not likely to require a lot of development down the road.

Better Blogroll – Collecting a lot of links in your blogroll to the point they take up an entire sidebar?  Well this plugin is the solution to that problem.  It allows you to specify a specific number of blogroll links to display in your sidebar and then it randomly fills that from your entire collection of blogroll links.  So it keeps things fresh and shares the link love! This has several other features that just give added benefits to the plugin such as image links, displaying the links category and setting links to no follow. This is one of the more popular ones with almost 9,400 downloads to date.

Advanced Blogroll – This plugin allows you to display your blogroll links by category; order them by name, link ID or randomly; display with text links only, graphics only or both; select how many links to show and also opt to add the no follow attribute to the links.

Google Reader Blogroll Widget – This one lets you grab your Google Reader subscription and display it in your sidebar as a blogroll – you can even use the custom Google color schemes in your sidebar display for it.

I look forward to seeing what you use for blogrolls in the comments. Thanks and stay safe out there on the net!

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Five Blogroll Plugins for your WordPress Site

scbFramework

A set of useful classes for faster plugin development.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is an excellent plugin for posting notifications of new blog posts to Twitter. However Twitter Tools just sends the URL to the new post normally which is then shortened by Twitter itself to a bit.ly short link.

FriendFeed API Core

This Plugin loads the core FriendFeed API PHP wrapper library so that all other plugins that utilize this library can share the same up-to-date version. It also helps minimize potential conflicts between FriendFeed powered Plugins.

After the Deadline

An advanced spell checker plugin for WordPress. In addition to the standard spell check and suggestions features, it also includes style and grammar checking.

Updated Plugins

Shorten2Ping

Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly or Tr.im for the permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once if you have a Ping.fm account.

WP Favorite Posts

This plugin allows visitors to mark a post as favorite. There is no register requirement because this plugin saves data to cookies. Visitor can see his/her favorite posts list from “Favorites” page which you created.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.

WP SimpleMail

WP SimpleMail integrates an IMAP email client into WordPress.

GD Press Tools

GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, change some aspects of WordPress, see detailed server settings and information.

WP Wiki

The new WordPress Wiki plugin have developed a new plugin that adds Wiki functionality to your WordPress powered website.

TDO Mini Forms

This plugin allows you to add highly customizable forms that work with your WordPress Theme to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (also configurable) to submit and edit posts and pages.

SlideZoom

SlideZoom is a lightweight plugin allow bulk upload images or zip upload to generate a HighSlide JS gallery.

GD Simple Widgets

This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 06/02

Once you have done the work to build your site, create the content and get the visitors streaming in it may then be time to monetize your site and maybe create a little income stream.  Now I am not talking get rich schemes here – just simple and easy ways to place ads in and around your site.  They may never make you a ton of money but they might create just enough of an income stream to make you a few bucks in the process.  I have a day job for paying the bills so the trickle I get from my site is mad money for tech stuff. How do you spend yours?

So on to the “five”.

WP125 – This is a great plugin that can be used in two manners.  One is for selling your own ad space for 125 x 125 graphic ads or you can use it as I do and link to affiliate sites you are a member of. I use it to link to my Amazon.com Associates account and my Xbox360 Game Exchange website (using 125 x 125 ads as well).  The other slot tends to get used in ad exchanges with other sites. This comes with a Ads Widget that you can include in your sidebar or you can place code into your template tag wherever you want to place the ads. IT is highly configurable and can be set up in one or two column displays, show as many ads as you want, keep track of clicks and automatically removing the ad from circulation when its end date comes up. 25,468 downloads to date.

Advertising Manager – This is the plugin previously known Adsense Manager.  This one will manage and rotate ads from Google Adsense as well as Adbrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN and Widgetbucks.  It will even accept the code for unsupported ad networks.  Some of its key features is that it imports ad codes automatically, is compatible with widgets and sidebars, and it automatically limits the display of ads on a page to meet the ad networks rules (such as Google Adsense only allowing 3 ads per page). 24,476 downloads to date.

Smart Ads – This simple plugin inserts advertisements at the beginning and end of your blog entries based on how many words the post is, when it was written and its category.  You can also insert your ads anywhere in a post or page by using the Smart Ads shortcode.  This plugin even cleans itself out of your mySQL database if your using WordPress version 2.7 or higher. The development of this plugin is quite fresh - in fact it was just updated today and has been downloaded 8,652 times.

WP Tag Ads – This is a unique plugin that uses the tags on your blog entries to display eBay products based on those keywords on your post.  Where Google Adsense scans your page and the words on it to get contextual ads this one just scans the tags.  Ads are then displayed either within your page template or in a sidebar widget that comes with the plugin.  You must have a Campain ID from eBay and they are free to get through the eBay Partner Network. Only 3,153 downloads to date but that makes sense this is a niche area for only eBay program users.

All in One Adsense and YPN – This is an open source plugin and it automatically inserts either Google Adsense of Yahoo Publisher Network ads into your posts. It has settings to be able to customize the ads position, colors and how it looks when displayed.  If your handy with CSS and HTML you can customize things even further. This one appears to be quite popular as it has been downloaded 54,863 times to date. 

Looking forward to hearing from you all on what you might use to manage your ads and what methods you have found successful for displaying them.

If you have ideas for “five” posts please feel free to send me a quick note at @WinObs on Twitter – thanks!

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Five Ad Manager Plugins for WordPress

Grooveshark for WordPress

Made to make music easy to add to any post, Grooveshark for Wordpress takes the trouble out of mixing music with your blog. Just install, then enjoy instant access to literally millions of tunes you can use to make your blog posts even cooler. Create playlists of one song — or hundreds — and add them to any part of your Wordpress blog as a Grooveshark Widget.

Linkubaitor

Search engines determine a website or blogs popularity according to the amount and quality of backlinks pointing to a website. The Linkubaitor Wordpress Plugin displays HTML code for website visitors to copy and paste to their site.

Updated Plugins

Easy Adsenser

Easy AdSenser manages all aspects of Google AdSense for a blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box. Easy and complete! It is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Belarusian, Indonesian, Turkish and French.

Delink Comment Author

This plugin gives you the ability to remove the link a commenter left as their URL without removing the entire comment. A link to do this is added to your new comment e-mail notifications and to the comments list in your admin area.

GD Simple Widgets

This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.

GD Press Tools

GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration and security related tools that can help with everyday blog tasks.

GD Broken Report

Add report broken post to preset email address using templates.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/29

BookLinker

A WordPress plug-in that converts existing affiliate links into a list of book resources: Amazon, Powells, and IndieBound affiliate links, WorldCat library searches, and LibraryThing book pages.

Link Harvest

This plugin will go through all of your posts and pages and compile a list of all external links. Then it will create a linkroll for you based on your actual linking activity.

Best Post Page

Best Post Page is a WordPress plugin, that utilizes optimization algorithms to chose the best posts based on criteria such as views and comments. This plugin automatically generates a page called ‘Best of Posts’ that displays the top 10 posts from your blog. The list of the best posts is automatically recalculated. All you have to do is download and activate the plugin.

Google Analytics Stats Deluxe Link removed due to it being paid

A big step up from the Standard Version of Google Analytics Stats. Google Analytics Stats Deluxe includes all the features of Google Analytics Stats and more

Shorten2Ping

Sends status updates to Ping.fm every time you publish a post. Using Bit.ly for the permalinks (Ping.fm and Bit.ly accounts required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once if you have a Ping.fm account.

Updated Plugins

Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers

Allows users to notify unconfirmed email subscribers in their Feedburner account

Ajax Login Pro Link removed due to it being paid

iRedlof Ajax Login Pro adds a beautiful Javascript loaded Top Panel on your wordpress blog to let your site users :

Google Analytics Stats

A dashboard plugin with an admin interface to configure the 3 parameters that are required

GD Press Tools

GD Press Tools is a collection of various additional administration tools. This tools can be integrated into the various WordPress admin panels, can perform maintenance operations, chanage some aspects of WordPress. Bellow you can find the detailed list of features and plugin version when the feature is added.

Shortcut Macros

Shortcut Macros allows you to define letter combinations that will expand to longer words, URLs, phrases, etc.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/27

Mass Custom Fields Manager

Mass Custom Fields Manager (MCFM) is a plugin for people who use WordPress to manage their post’s custom fields with ease.

Simple Video Embedder

Easily embed video within your posts. Adds a widget to the posting screen that enables you to post videos by simply providing the URL to the video hosted on common video sharing websites.

Simple Post Thumbnails

This plugin adds a widget to the posting screen that allows you to add a post thumbnail by uploading an image from your computer or via a URL. The thumbnail is scaled and cropped to the correct size automatically.

GD Simple Widgets

This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.

Google Analytics Stats

It displays a graph on the dashboard with three metrics from Google Analytics. The metrics are: Page Views, Visits, New Visits.

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin can rewrite title tags and noindex archives (with many more features coming soon).

Updated Plugins

email2friend

email2friend plugin is the easiest way ever to add send to friend functionality to your WordPress blog.

WP Table Reloaded

WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data.

Store Locator

Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers & web site owners who need to show any set of important locations on a website. Locations are easily searchable by zip code or address. Uses Google Maps.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.

Broken Link Checker

A plugin for WordPress that will check your posts (and pages), looking for broken links, and let you know if any are found.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 05/23