WordPress Plugin Competition Blog

So it is time to go to burn on the beach.

Last release for those who stay or come back to work …

The last release of MailPress ver 1.7. is available on your favorite website (wordpress.org)

With 4 add-on included (treat them like wordpress plugins) … i am a bit proud of the very last : the management of mailing lists … taxonomy, did you say taxonomy !!!

Major changes are that you can keep your drafts or templates, add on such as synchronize with wordpress users, mailing lists management etc …

Enjoy !

Listed here are the entries to the WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5.

Please help us choose the winners by visiting each of the plugins below and rating them on the linked page.

• Adminimize
• AnyVar
• Attachment Extender
• Automatic Timezone
• Broken links Remover
• Click
• ComicPress Manager
• Dk Obama Gallery
• DoDo
• Editor Extender
• Flaresmith
• Flickr Gallery
• Fun with in-context comments
• Great Real Estate
• Idealien Category Enhancements
• Image Browser Extender
• Invite friends
• Live Blogroll
• MailPress
• Manageable
• Maxref Widgets
• Media in response
• MultiSiteManager
• Nonce! Please
• PhotoJAR: Base
• Picture Increment Cron System
• Post Groups
• Post Tabs
• Repost
• Role Scoper
• SEO Smart Links
• Sermon Management
• Show Me Options
• Sidebars
• Simple Flash Video
• SlideShare Presentation List
• Snazzy Archives
• Paypal API Subscriptions
• Tabbed Widgets
• tWPtter
• Vent
• Vote2Publish
• WP125
• WP Comment Remix
• WP Easy Uploader
• WP Sentry
• WP Wall
• Yank Widget
• ZdMultiLang

Remember to test the plugin properly before giving your vote.

First of all i would like to thank all of you for your support, with a
special credit to Daniel.

So here it is, MailPress 1.6 is released and available for download at
wordpress.org.

You can also download two other WordPress plugins related to MailPress
at MailPress google group. (right click on the
link!)

first plugin : mailpress_bulk_import (file is mailpress_bulk_import.
1.0.rar) is a ‘bulk add’ form above MailPress users list if you want
to import several mails in one shot (Thanks Daniel).

second plugin : mailpress_filter_img (file is mailpress_filter_img.
1.0.rar) is an add-on to MailPress to filter ALL html img tags before
mailing or preview.
Remember that some emailers such as Gmail, Hotmail … discard css
stylesheets so with this filter, we try to put the maximum of the css
styles INLINE for img tags.
The filter processes EACH image in the mail (even images from the
header and footer of your MailPress theme),

But you will find more on each readme.txt files that are attached to
each plugin.

Hope this new release will bring you more pleasure to use MailPress.

Enjoy !

ps : do not forget to rate MailPress here . Thanks !

PICS (Picture Increment Cron System) is a WordPress Plugin designed to allow you to automatically post pictures to your WordPress blog at a administrator determined timed interval.

Have a bunch of photos that you want to show on your blog one at a time but you don’t want to go through all the hassle of making a separate post for each picture? Then this is the WordPress Plugin you have been waiting for.

Requirements:

• WordPress 2.5+ (Could work on lower versions, but we will only support the WordPress 2.5+.)
• MySQL 5+ (Could work on 4.1.1 but we haven’t tested it on that.)

Current Version: 1.0 (June 16, 2008)

Download: PICS v 1.0

WordPress Compatibility: Tested on WordPress 2.5.1

History:

One of us runs a website where they post a new photo every day from a very large collection. However, that same one person is pretty lazy when it comes to creating a new post for each photo. So this WordPress Plugin was the solution for that one persons laziness.

Features / Benefits:

• User defined timed posting of images from a single directory.
• Optional incremented title (ex. Vacation Photo # 1, Vacation Photo #2, Vacation Photo #1,345, etc…)
• Increment starting number can be set to any numeric value.
• Posts can be added to the categories of your choice.
• Posts can have the tags of your choice.
• Images can have the ALT tag of your choice.
• Image directory can be set by user.
• Images are chosen at random.
• No image will be repeated. (Unless you have the same photo under different names.)

Installation Instructions:

1. Upload
2. Activate
3. Go to Settings/PICS to set options
4. That’s it.

“Nonce! Please” is a simple plugin that prevents brute-force comments and trackbacks from spammer.

Description

Akismet is a great plugin to block spam comments/trackbacks. It detects spams completely. But, Akismet allows to accept unsolicited feedbacks, and to store them in the database. It is weaker act to fight with spams. A better way is to reject them.

Also, the architecture of WordPress is vulnerable for spammer. Because the comment API is fixed URL like: “wp-comments-post.php”, “wp-trackback.php, or “http://blog.example.com/archives/99/trackback/”. Therefore, spammers can easily post bulk comments/trackbacks to WordPress weblogs.

“Nonce! Please” add a nonce (random strings) to the comment hidden field and/or the trackback URL. A valid comment and/or trackback should have a nonce string. Bulk feedbacks will not have nonce.
This plugins also verifies that a new comment/trackbacks has the valid nonce. If there is no nonce or an invalid one, the feedback is rejected.

Adding and detecting nonce is automatic, users are not do anything!

Installation

“Nonce! Please” can be installed in 2 steps:

1. Unzip “nonce_pleaseNNN.zip” archive and put only the nonce_please.php file into your “plugins” directory (wp-content/plugins/) of the server.
2. Activate the plugin.

Licence

The licence of this plugin is GPL v2.

Restrictions

If you are using cacheing plugins (such as WP-Cache, WP Super Cache), make sure that caching time less than 12 hours. Because WordPress nonce string will change in 12 hours cycle and valid for 24 hours. If caching longer than 12 hours, invalid nonce will be survived at your site.

Download

MaxRef Widgets enables you to display multiple sidebar widgets to maximize how your visitors reference your posts, links, categories and comments. We will maintain and upgrade it here, and take your suggestions and comments below. Your donations will be appreciated to offset the continuing development expense.

Concepted by Scott Frangos, Managing Partner for WebFadds.com *, and programmed by Antonie Potgieter of Tribulant Software, the plugin is a powerful way to add unlimited widgets on your sidebars to display posts only from a certain category, the links from a particular link category, posts, comments and more. Choose how many items appear, to display an RSS feed for categories, and how to sort the links presented. It uses the latest Wordpress methods and functions and of course adapts the style of the WP 2.5 administration panel.

Installation…

1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
3. Go to your widgets area, and add a MaxRef Widget (as many as you want)
4. Click on Edit to configure your new widget to display Posts by Category, Pages, Links by Category, or Comments, and then select sorting method and other options.

Download

There were a total of 51 entries into the Plugin Competition this year. A list of all the entries with their respective voting and download pages will soon be published. The entries are being sent to the judges as we speak. In the meantime, here is the list of prizes for the participants and the winners of the plugin competition.
Thank you prizes:

• $10 to every participant as a thank you for their hard work and dedication

$250 prize:

• For the best WPMU compatible plugin from Incsub

Consolation Prize:

• 12 month blogclub subscription from Blogalized
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Third Prize:

• $200
• Country codes of the world poster
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Second Prize:

• $700
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas for the PC and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Grand Prize:

• $2000
• Production of a professionally recorded song for the winner.
• Dedicated server for one year from iWeb (Intel Core 2 Duo, HD 160GB Sata2, 1GB of RAM and 1500GB of bandwidth per month)
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Good luck to all the participants!

Broken links Remover wordpress plugin helps you fix bad/broken links, both text links(anchor tags) and image links (img tags).It blocks the display of such links on your wordpress post/page, until you fix them. These links would not be visible to search engine robots as well as the human readers, until you correct them. 
 

Links are very commonly used in posts/pages. Quite often, these links may get broken when a page, that the link represents, is deleted or when a site to which you have linked has moved to a different domain or when a subdirectory is forgotten or for any other reasons including a typo. 
 

Broken links, on your site, are bad for your readers as well as the search engine crawlers.
How is Broken links remover different from several broken link checker tools available on the web? 

• Broken links remover does not scan through all your posts/pages in the background.It works as and when the requestor (human reader or search engine robot) requests a post/page on your wordpress site.However, once a link has been detected as bad/broken, Broken links remover plugin does not check the link’s status again, until you fix it.
• Broken links remover plugin not only alerts you of bad/broken links through dashboards but it also removes(hides) those links from the requestor’s view

 
Broken links remover can either use CURL or PHP’s native socket functionalities (FSOCKOPEN) to detect link’s status, as some hosts disable the use of FSOCKOPEN or CURL. 
 

While Platinum SEO Plugin helps you automate the onsite SEO (search engine optimization) process, Broken links Remover Wordpress Plugin complements it by automatically removing/hiding all bad/broken links on your website, until you fix them. 
 

This plugin helps in making the web cleaner.This plugin also helps you link to the final destination, in case the website to whom you have linked to uses a 301 (permanent) redirection.Eventually you are helping him out, by linking to the page to which he has moved the content.Find out why broken links are bad for both your readers and search engines at my site.

Dodo is a Wordpress plugin that helps you personalize your blog homepage.

Dodo system tracks user actions on your blog (post reading, searches, comments) and gives a widget-based view to your users, proposing related posts, giving you -the blogger- an overview of what’s hot in your blog. Blogger and users are able to select what actions will be tracked and which widgets (and in what order) will be shown in the personalized view, having the option to switch off the whole view, in one click.

Blogger has also the ability to know every time he/she writes a story, which are the “hot” tags and the most interesting category on his blog, based on the records from post/search tracking, in order to come up with more interesting stories.

Dodo admin interface gives blogger the possibility to watch in real time, how tracking goes, edit widget css and track the 5 hottest tags / categories / searches.

You can read more about Dodo in this explanatory pdf and you can download it from here. All about Dodo in http://www.getdodo.com

What I will gain as a blogger?

• Overview of most interesting tags, categories and search terms of your blog
• Live view of user actions
• Story suggestion
• The ability to offer to your readers a more personal view of your blog, increasing the time

What I will gain as a user?

• Find the answers to your comments easily
• Find posts you may be interested in via recommendation algorithm
• Find latest posts on your favorite tag or category
• Watch your tagcloud change based on your interests

Some screenshots of Dodo

[note: If you rate this plugin 3 stars or less, please also take time to leave a comment explaining why. I want to further document or clarify the interface where needed. If it won't activate or you get php errors, maybe there is a plugin or theme conflict that your feedback could help me resolve. Let's be a mutually supportive community.]

Role Scoper is a comprehensive drop-in enrichment for WordPress content permissions. Broaden or narrow reading, editing or administrative access to selected users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis.

Existing WordPress roles and anonymous reading capabilities are honored by default, but with Role Scoper can be:

• supplemented with content-specific role assignment
• disregarded if a section (category) or object (page/post) is marked exclusive

Scoped role requirements and assignments are reflected in every aspect of the WordPress interface, from front end content and navigation to administrative post and comment totals. Content administrators control who can view/edit/administer specified content, and what content anonymous users see.

Section and object roles can be set to propagate to child sections/objects. Create User Groups and assign roles to them. Choose whether unqualified front-end content is hidden or replaced with a customizable teaser. The object role assignment UI (a new tab in the Post/Page edit form) indicates where users have a role implicitly applied through another blog, section or object role assignment.

RSS output and XML-RPC editing also follow your scoped role assignments and requirements. Template functions are available to allow themes to format exclusive content and teasers distinctively. An extensive plugin API allows other plugins to define their own data sources, sections, capabilities and roles.

Role Scoper had its first public release on May 15th and has recently passed 1100 downloads. In these 2 months, the plugin has benefited greatly from an enthusiastic early core of users whose feedback has allowed me to flush out lots of bugs through 18 beta revisions. Role Scoper is not an easily documented set of useful new features, but a new layer underlying all your content editing and delivery. Some have found all the new knobs a little overwhelming. But if you really want to push for sophisticated access control or collaborative editing, there are some early success stories that might persuade you to take the plunge.

More screenshots, description, support forum and download on agapetry.net

note: Plugin WAS e-mailed to official address on 11:53 PM ET July 10th. - 11th hour debugging; sacrificing my sanity for yours

The very last release of MailPress is available here.

Several add-ons are also available … from synchronize with your wordpress users to the management of mailing lists. And new, now you can keep your templates as drafts.

This plugin will allow you to customize, with a dedicated theme, all your mails send from WordPress.

• A simple subscription form for your subscribers :
  • 
• This is my blog
  • 
• and here is one mail
  • 

Other example :

As easy as building your own wordpress theme !!!

and plenty of options to discover :

the plugin page is here

Enjoy !

Snazzy archives simply lets you express yourself and your blog in a unique visual way. You can select different layouts and special effects, Snazzy archives will make sure your blog and your content stand out.

Main features

• Unique visual presentation of blog posts
• Will work out of the box with all features
• Posts are scanned for images and youtube videos and shown together with number of comments
• Different editable layouts (HTML and CSS)
• Special effects using jQuery
• Small, only loads external libraries on archive page and does not clutter your blog

Demo

• Layout 1 - All posts are evenly spread in blocks
• Layout 2 - Try clicking date and month headers!
• Special Fx 1 - for saving space, a carousel

Snazzy Archives Home Page

Snazzy Archives Download

How many times have you activated a plugin and the searched hopelessly for it’s options page? With new plugins it is like a trend to hide them better.

Show Me Options is a plugin designed to give you a link to the options page when you need it and where you want it.

Show me Options Home Page

Show me Options Download

Does it seem strange to you that pages have a nice, intuitive way to apply various themes to them and categories don’t? Would you like to have a way for posts to be styled based on their category? I did on more than a couple of occasions. So for my entry into this contest I decided to make a plugin that would solve these two problems. All plugin details are available at the Idealien Category Enhancements (ICE) home page.

The first place I tried the plugin out was to create a set of AJAX-based category / post views for a client project (blacksmith artist photo gallery). The code for that is not yet “clean enough” that I feel comfortable sharing it, but looking at that site might give you a hint of the potential that this plugin offers. As I was creating that fast loading photo gallery, I realized that I may have unlocked another small piece of the ‘Can Wordpress become a fully-featured CMS?’. This plugin could allow one installation of Wordpress to be any / all of the following:

• An event calendar and each category is a different calendar type.
  Each post takes you to a detailed view of the date with event details.
• Photo Gallery
• Multi-level / genre portfolio with extensive use of custom fields.
• Contact list
• Product database
• etc

Looking at some of the other plugins that are part of the contest, at first glance my plugin might not seem that incredible. But I’d ask that the judges consider what a theme designer with bold vision could design as a result of using this plugin which could not be done as easily without. By integrating the template into the manage > categories menu, it brings consistency to the template process of categories, posts and pages.

WordPress Image Browser Extender is a plugin that will your to easily browse your images that are already uploaded to your website, select all the ones you want to add to your post or page, the structure you would like to use and then it inserts all appropriate syntax.

More details can be found here and downloading can be found here.

This plugin is pretty simple, it addes more functionality to the rich text editor for WordPress.  Just upload the plugin, activate it, select the features you want and you are on your way.

Need more information?  Check out the blog post with more details and pretty pictures and/or download it here.

Ever needed to update a file, a photo and the best way to update that file was to delete it and re-upload it.  Well, the Attachment Extender plugin will fix that for you.  It adds the ability to reupload what ever file you want.

Feel free to check out the blog post and download it.

Update: Tabbed Widgets have become much smarter now. If a user clicks on a link inside one of the tabbed widgets, the same widget will be opened by default on the landing page. This is an extremely useful feature if tabbed interface is used for category and archive navigation. You can try this feature on my blog.

With Tabbed Widgets plugin you can easily create tab and accordion style widgets without writing a single line of code or editing the theme files. Place any of the existing widgets inside a tabbed interface, set random start tab on each page reload and even automatically rotate the widget content in a set time interval.

If your blog’s sidebar suffers from a widget overdose then Tabbed Widgets is the solution for clearing up the clutter and getting it all organized.

Download & Demo

• Download the Tabbed Widgets plugin from WordPress Extend.
• See it in action on my blog Konstruktors Notes.
• View the demonstration screencast.

Accordion and Classic Horizontal Tabs

There are two tab style to choose from: tabs and accordion. If you enable tab rotation, accordion style tabs will automatically pause the rotation when the reader hovers the widget and will resume rotation when mouse leaves the tabbed widget block. Such behavior makes the rotation feature user friendly and unobtrusive, while giving the tabbed content maximum exposure.

Tabbed Widget Configuration

These are the configuration options for each of the tabbed widgets. Simply select an existing widget from a drop-down menu and specify the tab title. Automatic rotation and random start tab settings can be set individually for each of the tabbed widgets.

Comments and Feedback

If you experience any problems please post them in the comments and provide the URL of the website.

Keep in mind that the way tabs are rendered and look depends on the theme you are using, its CSS identifiers and sidebar widget settings. However the solution is usually a few extra lines of CSS that you have to add to style.css file.

If you’ve given up the low-paying and slightly obtrusive ad networks used by many new bloggers, in favor of selling ads directly, you may have been frustrated with the excessive time involved managing your ads. Not only do you have to find advertisers to sponsor your blog, you have to manually edit your template to put the ad in, and then head over to your favorite calendar app to set an alert to remind you when to take the ad down.

Time consuming practices like those are a thing of the past. The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads.

Features include:

• One or two column ad display, and support through template tags to implement your own unconventional design.
• Show as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order
• Keep track of how many times an ad is clicked
• When creating a new ad, you don’t have to calculate the end date yourself. Just input how many days you wish the ad to run for, and the correct date will be applied. The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.
• When an ad run is over, the record is archived on the Inactive ads screen, so you can check on the final click count, or revive the ad for another run.

Read more and download the plugin.

MultiSiteManager is a plugin which will handle both backups and upgrades, and it will do this for any number of WordPress blogs. After the initial release some days ago, a slightly revised version of MultiSiteManager has been released.

Read more and download MultiSiteManager

So here is the final release candidate for the competition. I really appreciate the time some users have taken to provide feedback on bugs and errors. Thank you very much!

So onto the cool bits!

Download Page for SFV-1.5Beta 2

SFV-Plugin Home Page

Features:

• Tested with Wordpres 2.6.1 Beta 3
• Includes Latest JW 4.0 Player
• Simple Stats Has been integrated giving you detailed stats of videos played on your wordpress admin page
• Supports FLV, h264 (.mp4 .mov etc.), mp3, jpg, png, gif
• Includes 6 Skins!
• All Options work in post level and a majority of options are configurable in the config page
• All code generated by the Plugin on public pages now validates via W3C
• Shadowbox has replaced Thickbox for a better look
• Plugin now will create a proper feed link for your feeds for media files. FLV files generate a link to the post for users to be able to watch
• Includes a Demo player on config page to reflect settings
• Includes PHP for pseudo streaming as well as config setting for lighttpd and none(progressive download)

Screenshots

The Vent events system allows you to use the standard WordPress scheduled posts functionality to enter, list and manage future events.

The administrator can setup the criteria that the Vent system uses to identify an Event. This enables you to continue to enter scheduled posts into WordPress (and more importantly, for them to function exactly as before) whilst still using the new Event functionality.

The simplest of criteria is to mark any events with a distinct category or tag, alternatively you can use any combination of the settings shown above, including looking for a string at the start of a post title (such as “Event:”).

Viewing Events

There are two widgets included with the plugin. One to show the next event and one to list the upcoming events (up to 15), in addition the plugin can add the next event to the top of your home page.

Event Lists

The plugin adds a number of URL permalinks to your system that will allow you and your users to view events taking place over a certain period of time (such as next week or next month). These can be set up within the options of the plugin.

Download and Support

For more details (and support) for this plugin please visit:

http://blog.clearskys.net/plugins/vent-events-system/

To download it click here.

Yank Widget is my meager entry for the competition this year and is available from WordPress Extend: Yank Widget.

Yank Widget allows the placement of page content in sidebar widgets for different pages or posts. It uses WordPress pages for the content and Yank Widgets are set when editing a specific post or page. Yank Widget also allows you to hide these pages so that content used in a Yank Widget will not be shown in your website menus or page lists.

Features

• Use multiple Yank Widgets to add secondary static content for individual posts and pages.
• Hide pages used as Yank Widget content from menus and page lists.
• Hide or change Yank Widget title, or use selected page title.
• Uses separate database table for easy Yank Widget plugin deinstallation.

I started working on Yank Widget because of constant requests from users and clients for “static yet dynamic” sidebar content. Usually this required customized themes, but that isn’t very flexible. I was very surprised that I could not find a WordPress plugin with similar functionality, so feel free to correct me!

You will actually find an example of a Yank Widget on the Yank Widget Project page and the Using Yank Widget Page.

Ironically this is an election year in the United States, but similarities to geographically centric derogatory slang is pure coincidence.