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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Annoncing the future release of the plugin called MailPress. This plugin will allow you to send beautiful html mails through WordPress.

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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: Mark any plugin in the plugins directory to be automatically activated for new blogs. Mass activate or deactivate a plugin for all existing blogs [...]

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. Visually compresses the administration header so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the main administrative menu [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This page will always be updated with the latest information on prizes for the WordPress Plugin Competition, but here are the prizes so far Weblog Tools Collection $1000 (p) Automattic $1000 Matt Mullenweg $1000 James and Andrew from Incsub have offered up $250 for a plugin that is WPMU compatible. They add that WPMU plugins [...]

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 [...]

. . . 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]