WordPress Plugin Competition Blog

WP Easy Uploader was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin, load a new theme, or to upload a text document into a specific folder for people to download.

Current Features

• Upload any type of file to either the standard Uploads directory (just as images do when you are creating posts and pages) or to a path of your choosing.
• Manual paths are automatically created if they don’t exist.
• Easily upload plugins directly to the plugins directory and theme files directly to the themes directory.
• You can select to have archives automatically extracted to their destination. This means that plugins and themes will be taken care of for you, but it also means that you can zip up a large set of files and upload them quickly into a folder on your site. Currently zip, tar, gz, tar.gz, tgz, and tar.bz2 archives are supported.
• Options for overwriting existing files, renaming the fle if a file with that name already exists (or if overwriting fails), removal of the archive after file extraction, and forcing extracted files to be contained in a folder.
• Now supports WordPress Mu.
• Support for upcoming WordPress 2.6.
• Offers translations in German, Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.

More Information

• Download at the plugin’s WordPress.org Plugin Directory page
• Visit WP Easy Uploader’s home page for more information about the development and upcoming features

With a software that is developed as fast as WordPress, you have to update those blogs quite often. Luckily, there are plugins like InstantUpgrade, which allow to upgrade a WordPress blog within less than a minute. Another necessity is to do regular backups, in case something goes wrong. Therefore, other solutions exist, for example wp-db-backup.

But many of us have not only one, but a couple of blogs. For example, a business and a private one. Or you administrate blogs of your friends, and will have to backup/upgrade them, too. So I think it will be gret to hear for many of you that with MultiManage, you can backup and upgrade all blogs you are in charge for from one panel.

There are no downloads available so far, because important features aren’t ready yet. But here are some screenshots, so you can get a taste of what it will be like:

Do you like the idea? What are features you’d love to see for this one? Let me know.

In an effort to get some life into the Wordpress tagcloud, this plugin adds an extra class to tags that are used in the post you’re viewing. It only works on a page with a single post.

After you dropped it in wp-content/plugins and activated it, you can change the style of `current tags` in your stylesheet with

li#tag_cloud a.current-tag

The same info and a download link can be found here.

One feature that I was looking for in WordPress was the ability to place my posts in their own separate pages. Thus, I would have different “sub-blogs” defined for the same WordPress site instead of the single weblog allowed by the default installation. PostGroups is a plugin that allows you to create such groups of posts, and each group can be navigated individually.

For example, you can create a group of posts called “Quotations” where you’ll place various citations from authors you like. Another group may be called “My pics”, where users may see all your travel photos, and so on.

The plugin comes with a range of options that allows you to customize the way your blog will look like. You can choose beween having the groups shown along your list of existing pages (e.g. About, Contact, so on), or just display them in a widget.

Screenshots

Download

For more info about this plugin and to download it go to the WordPress Plugin Repository

Inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Alternately, you can click the link in the new “Edit” column.

Screenshots

Download

For more info and to download it, head this way.

Annoncing the future release of the plugin called MailPress.

This plugin will allow you to send beautiful html mails through Wordpress.

Great Real Estate brings content management of real estate listings to the WordPress community.

The initial version incorporates features designed to make an agent’s website more functional and appealing… and easier to use for both agents and buyers.

Agents can manage listings, input price and common data such as number of bedrooms and baths, and not worry about formatting each page. The plugin provides starter templates to display listings, and a sidebar widget for featured listings. Agents can enhance listings with a photo gallery, video, panorama photos, downloads, and a location map. The listings information is nicely formatted with a tabbed interface.

See a demo on a real estate website.

The plugin is also fully theme ready. Template tags and queries can easily be used to generate custom displays.

The plugin also supports customized outgoing XML feeds of listings to sites such as Google Base, Trulia, and Zillow. Plus a My Yahoo! RSS Media feed that can be provided to My Yahoo! users. It also incorporates an option to hide navigation and contact information, for compliance with MLS rules.

The plugin was released June 22, and additional features are on the way for future versions.

The plugin’s home page is at the Great Real Estate website. And it can be downloaded at WordPress.org’s Plugin Directory.

postTabs allows you to easily split your post/page content into Tabs that will be shown to your visitors.

* The colors can be easily changed to match your theme
* Nice admin interface with color picker and preview
* very easy to use
* Compatible with all major browsers (tested on Ie6, Ie7, firefox 2, firefox 3, safari, konqueror and Opera)

See a beautiful example here

Plugin homepage

Download link

Screenshots

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.

This plugin is giving you the power to translate your blog, and doesn’t leave this job to tools such as Google translator or such. This is not an automatic translation plugin.

It’s compatible with Wordpress 2.5 and 2.5.1.

Full documentation is available here in english and here in french.

And finally, you can grab the plugin here.

SEO Smart Links increases the SEO value of your blog through smart interlinking of your pages and all happens completely transparent. The benefit is increased ranking and number of visitors to your blog. It also creates a better browsing expereince for your users as the keywords are automatically linked to pages on your blog.

The plugin will automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags based on the given options.

Main Features:

• Find keywords in your posts, pages and comments and link them to your other posts, pages, categories and tags
• Full control with customizable options
• Ignore list for keywords you do not want to link
• Improves your site’s interlinking

Download SEO Smart Links

WPMU Plugin commander is a Plugin management plugin for WPMU (say that 10 times ).

it adds some necessary functionality to WPMU, which is missing from the official release, such as:

1. Mark any plugin in the plugins directory to be automatically activated for new blogs.
2. Mass activate or deactivate a plugin for all existing blogs
3. Choose which plugins users can activate and deactivate through Manage->Plugins, for this to make sense you need to disable the built-in plugins menu (through Site Admin->Options->Menus)
4. Activate and deactivate plugins for specific blogs, even if the user is not allow to activate the plugin.

No WPMU site should ever be without it!
Screen shots (click for full version):

Administrator menu:

User visible menu (accessed as site admin) :

The stylesheet and the initial idea is from Eric A. Meyer and i have written a plugin with many options on the basis of differently user-right and a user-friendly range in admin-area.

1. Visually compresses the administration header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the main administrative menu because having it sit in the tip-top black bar was ticking me off and many other changes in the edit-area. The category-box and the tag-box is in the sidebar of the Write-page.
2. Adminimize is a WordPress plugin that lets you hide ‘unnecessary’ items from the WordPress administration menu, submenu and even the ‘Dashboard’, with forwarding to the Manage-page. On top of that, you can also hide post meta controls on the Write page and other areas in the admin-area and Write-page, so as to simplify the editing interface. All is received from your rights, admin (user_level 10) or not admin-rights (smaller user_level 10).

Configure all metaboxes and other areas in the write-area. Move the Tags and Category boxes to the sidebar, switch off optional metaboxes and other areas in the write-area. Scroll automatically to the Textbox, when you click the write-button. Many options for menu, submenu and all areas, metaboxes in the write-area, separated for admins (user_level 10) and other users (< user_level 10).

Compatibility with the drop-down menu plugins

• Admin Drop Down Menu for WordPress 2.5 by Ozh
• Drop Down Admin Menus for WordPress 2.5 by Andy Staines

Requirements

Compatible with WordPress 2.5 or later. Tested up to WordPress 2.6 bleeding2 and CrazyHorse.

Download, more Informations, Screenshoots

Official website: Adminimize
Info: Page is in german language; readme in the download is in english language

Geolocation seems to be quite popular at the moment, which gave me the idea for this entry to the Plugin Competition.

Content By Country (CBC) enables a blogger to target post content by a user’s IP location, using [cbc][/cbc] tags. Post text can be included or excluded from view for one or more countries at once.

eg. [cbc:+usa:+ca]Text goes here[/cbc]

The example above would only show the text to visitors from the USA or Canada

Download / get more information here

The DL-MENU is a GUI component that generates a tab menu based on the pages you’ve created in Wordpress.

It also allows you to dynamically change the colorscheme of your whole website.
For this i’ve created a tool that connects to the Adobe Kuler API and downloads a bunch of colorschemes that you can choose from.

The tab menu is customizable from font size to tab shadows and also support Video Ad’s and header images.

Hi everybody!

While I have written many, many WordPress plugins, I rarely release them in any major way, because I write them for specific one-shot purposes. I’ve always felt that simpler is better, so I write small, simple, easy to use plugins that do one thing and one thing only.

So, I figured I’d solve a minor annoyance with WordPress, and in the process, demonstrate some of the finer points of plugin integration with WordPress. Hopefully, it will demonstrate some new ideas and techniques to plugin authors.

First, let’s link to the plugin itself. The plugin is called Automatic Timezone.

I had the idea for this plugin and wrote it at just around the time that the competition itself was announced, so felt that it was appropriate. And, hey, who knows? I might even win.

So I went back, cleaned it up, and added some key features that I think all plugin authors should see. Read on if you’re a plugin author…
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This page will always be updated with the latest information on prizes for the WordPress Plugin Competition, but here are the prizes so far

Hi,

I started writing this plugin mainly to save my self time when posting videos to my wordpress blog. There are multiple plugins that use the popular JW FLV player but none that supported all variables and included use of thickbox. So that is what I set out to do. This is my first plugin so it has been a great learning experience.

Features:

• Supports ALL variables of the JW FLV Player
• FLV or MP4 videos
• Allows Videos to be played over the website content
• Variables are all set in a config.xml file but can be overdid in the post
• Built in “streaming” via PHP file
• Configure via settings page
• Clean uninstall as no settings are stored in Wordpress database

Planned

• Integration of Simple Stats for total stats tracking of on site videos
• W3C Validation

Website and Download
I am currently trying to sort out an SVN error with my wordpress.org extend until then get the latest code from my site.

I am getting some great feedback from users all ready and hope to improve my plugin.

. . . and growing! We have had a couple of really large (Thanks to Matt and Automattic for their generous contributions towards the competition) and some smaller donations towards the final set of prizes for the plugin competition with the total purse standing at over $3500 dollars. Thanks to everyone who has donated money and time towards the competition to help make it a success. The community really appreciates your involvement. We continue to look for donations and sponsors to make the pot sweeter.

This is your chance to not only showcase your work to the WordPress community but to also win fabulous cash prizes. If you are planning on releasing a plugin for the competition, head over to the plugin competition blog, register yourself and post about your plugin there. We have had a spat of registrations but the number of announcements on the blog has been much less. Please tell us about your cool new entry; our readers would love to know and help test and fine tune your plugins for you!

For those that are following the competition and looking for cool plugins to test, there already are a couple of posts on the Plugin Competition Blog to whet your appetite. Please provide your feeback for the authors. It will help them make their plugins better and your votes (on the final entries, not on the announcements) will help tremendously in the judging.

The email address to submit entries is wpplugincomp [at] wltc [dot] net Please use this email address towards the end of the competition to send in your entries into the plugin competition. You do not need to send in your entries till the last day and sending in your entries early will not give you any advantage. On the contrary, waiting till the last moment will give you more chances to tweak and modify your plugin to your benefit.

Introduction

I don’t suppose this is going to be the most popular plug-in ever released, but for the increasing number of churches using Wordpress as a CMS, this plug-in should be exactly what they need. The Sermon Browser plugin allows churches to simply upload sermons to their Wordpress website, where they can be searched, listened to, and downloaded. It is easy to use with comprehensive help and tutorials.

Features

Features include:

1. Sermons can be searched by topic, preacher, bible passage or date.
2. Full podcasting capabilities, including custom podcasts for individual users.
3. Sermons uploaded in mp3 format can be played directly on your website using the 1PixelOut Audio Player.
4. An optional sidebar widget displays sermons on all of your posts or pages.
5. Embed videos from sites such as YouTube or Google Video.
6. Other file types can also be uploaded, including PDF, Powerpoint, Word, text and RTF. Multiple files can be attached to single sermons.
7. The full Bible text of the passage being preached on can be included on each sermon page (five different versions, including ESV).
8. Files can be uploaded to your own site through the browser or via FTP. Alternatively you can use other free audio hosting sites such as Odeo.
9. Powerful templating function allows complete customisation to complement the look of your site.
10. New in version 0.3! Simple statistics show how often each sermon has been listened to.
11. Extensive help and tutorial screencasts.

Screenshots

Demo

Bethel Evangelical Church is being used as a test/demo site for this plugin. The plug-in is at a late-stage beta, with a release candidate imminent. The plug-in is available as a release candidate and has no known bugs.

What I hope the plug-in will achieve

• To help make excellent preaching even more accessible to everyone.
• To put sermon hosting and podcasting within the reach of every church.
• To make Wordpress the CMS of choice for all small-medium churches.

Who’s responsible?

• Design, testing and some coding: Mark Barnes
• Most of the coding: Tien Do Xuan

Read more:

• Main plug-in page (account not yet approved at Wordpress extend, or view at Wordpress extend)
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Template Tags
• Known bugs and version history

Hi Everybody!

First time plugin author here! I wrote this plugin cause I can’t stand Pay-Per-Click advertising, and I thought it would be nice to have an engine to link up blogs all over the place very easily. There’s lots of possibilities for expansion, and I hope to have the next version out soon with some additional functionality.

http://www.reflexblogroll.com

In order to be included in the network, you have to register - otherwise how would the plugin find you?

It’s widgetized, so you can just click “Add” and then input they key that you get when you register.

The selection of links to put on your blog is completely random, but within the category that your blog is, so the links are relevant.

In the next version I release, as part of a method to keep inconsistent bloggers (spammers) from just signing up and getting traffic for not doing anything, I’m going to have the service track posts, so that if you haven’t posted in more than, say, 2 weeks, your link doesn’t get blogrolled anymore until you start posting again!

Any feedback is TOTALLY welcome, and hopefully I’ll see other technology blogs showing up on my Blogroll soon!

The first release of my entry, Fun with In-Context Comments is now available.

You can get full details and download the plugin at wp-fun.co.uk.

I’ve you’ve ever tried to find the solution to a problem in the comments of a plugin author’s blog then you may have encountered the frustration of reading a possible solution only to find that it related to a different version of the plugin, or a different version of WordPress.

I’ve had this issue on other blogs and I am concerned that it may happen on mine, in the event that I have a plugin that generates a lot of comments.

This plugin is my solution.

What it does

In short, it provides a method for your commenters to add context to the their comment by selecting an answer from the options you set them. So if you want your commenters to tell you what version of WordPress they are using then you can pose the question.

If they select a version from the drop down list their comment will be branded with their answer.

The questions can be added centrally, and triggered for each post you want with only a checkbox, or you can create post specific questions.

There are still a few interesting features to be added but the core purpose of the plugin is to add the context, and I’ve been using it successfully on my blog for a week or so now. I would love to hear any bug reports or features you think would be good.

You can find out more details, see the demonstration video, and leave a comment with context at Fun with WordPress, or you can download it directly from WordPress Extend.

We’re one month into the plugin competition, so I thought I should write in and ask you how plugin development is going on?

Are you ready with a plugin?
If so, then it is time to create an entry on the Plugin Competition Blog. If you do not have author access then create an account and contact us to upgrade your account. Don’t forget to mention the plugin page on your site.

Are you still hunting for ideas?
Take a look at a post I made a while back.

Need some questions answered?
Ask away

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Please contact us. Donating money is easy and quick and it helps out the WordPress community.

Remember we have just another month to go before the end of the plugin competition.