SEO Ultimate is a WordPress SEO system for your blog. It incorporates existing SEO features into one suite, improves on those features in the process, and adds new SEO features and tools.

Of course, standard SEO features are included:

• Title rewriting
• Noindex checkboxes
• Meta editing
• Canonical tags
• Post meta box

SEO Ultimate also has these additional capabilities:

• 404 monitoring
• Linkbox insertion
• Settings import/export functions

Upcoming features include robots.txt editing, 301 logging, XHTML validation status monitoring, and countless others. (Not all the features will be finished by the end of the competition, but they’ll come eventually.) If you install the plugin now, you can get these features delivered to you on a regular basis via WordPress’s semi-automatic plugin updater.

I’ve also incorporated these extra features into SEO Ultimate:

• Inline changelogs
• Readme changelog
• Admin footer branding
• WordPress 2.7+ menu integration
• Integration with WordPress’s Help system
• Inline phpDoc documentation
• “Uninstallability”

Yes, you can currently get many of these features using other plugins, but I hope you’ll see SEO Ultimate for what it is: the start of something much grander; a modular development framework that lets me rapidly churn out a major new SEO feature on an almost-weekly basis. A few months from now, SEO Ultimate’s featureset will easily eclipse that of any other free plugin available. (The time limits of the competition require me to release a more modest featureset for the time being.)

Be sure to check out the auto-installer system (at the bottom of linked post) that I invented for this plugin! You can also download the zip file. SEO Ultimate requires WordPress 2.7 or above.

Support is provided via the WordPress Support system.

Your feedback is appreciated!

Download | WordPress Extend page | Screenshots | Changelog | Support

The choice you have is:

• Point release nightlies - This contains the work that is occurring on a branch in preparation for a x.x.x point release.  This should also be fairly stable but will be available before the branch is ready for beta.
• Bleeding edge nightlies - This is the bleeding edge development code which may be unstable at times. Only use this if you really know what you are doing.

Once you enable the plugin it will by default switch your blog to the “Point release” stream and if you want to switch to the “Bleeding edge” stream then you will need to go to the Tools … Beta Testing page and configure the plugin there:

Please note: Once you have switched your blog to one of these beta versions of software it will not always be possible to downgrade as the database structure maybe updated during the development of a major release.

More information about the plugin can be found on the original announcement post and in WordPress Extend.

Screenshot:

That’s basically it. Given the fact the plugin author provides a changelog section, Changelogger takes action. In case there’s no changelog section provided, the plugin encourages the blog owner to ask the plugin author to add a changelog section. Looks like this:

Installation is as easy as pie. Download, install, activate, done. Changelogger requires at least WP 2.7.

The plugin can be downloaded here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/changelogger/ Support is given via the official plugin page or the wp.org support forums. Code documentation here.

The Plugin provides in various tabs information to:

• PHP
• Memory usage
• Operating System
• Server
• WordPress Version
• Language
• Very extensive definitions of various constants
• Cookie definitions
• File Permissions
• Separate user and usermeta tables
• FTP and SSH definitions
• Query information
• Conditional tags; value of the tag
• Theme information
• Template Information
• Cache content
• Hooks and filters
• Functions, which respond on hooks and filters
• Contents of arrays to hooks and filters
• All defined constants

The plugin can be used with my Plugin Debug Queries (WP plugin SVN) and thus the analysis and optimization of the blog can be used. Debug queries will be integrated into the frontend of Debug Objects and is only for users with appropriate rights possible.

The plugin does not filter values and should only be used for information and optimization, I don’t recommended to use it on a live blog. For developers it can rapidly deliver data, which is useful in a development environment.

There are no data in the database and there are no settings. Therefore, the installation is pretty simple: Just upload the Plugin in the Plugin directory or use the automatic installation of the backend to install and activate the Plugin. In the footer of the frontend of the blog, you can see the information.

All restriction options provided in the plugin are *optional*. If no restrictions are selected, this plugin generates the same export file as the export feature built into WP & WPMU.

Features

Export by any combination of:

• Date Range - Start & end month/year
• Author - Same as WP/WPMU built-in export
• Category - Export a specific category
• Content type - Choose either posts or pages
• Post status - Choose Draft, Published, Scheduled or Private

Screenshot

The plugin can be downloaded from the plugin repository.

Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Add a similar feature to your Wordpress blog by creating a navigation bar for all external links outside of blog. Also feature social network links such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and FriendFeed.

Features:

• Feature a “DiggBar like” to all external links
• Whitelist domains that you do not want to apply The Wordpress Bar
• Give your users up to 16 social network sharing links
• Title and Logo branding options for your The Wordpress Bar
• Multiple The Wordpress Bar color options
• Track stats for how often featured links are viewed by your users
• “As Featured In…” - This will list all of the posts that each link is featured in. Great way to introduce your readers to new articles!

Screenshots

Download

Click here to download the The Wordpress Bar Plugin

This is how a message box in admin looks like

This is how the message can be displayed on your site

Settings preview

It works with version 2.6 - 2.8, but might even work with 2.5.

The plugin and more information is available on my site jenst.se. You can download it from wordpress.org as well.

Included debug information:

• Show template file viewing
• Display page/query load times
• Display all queries executed w/ load times
• Show all phpinfo

WP-Devel also utilizes the Krumo debugging tool to easily view debug information including:

• WP_Query and WP array values
• included files
• included functions
• declared classes
• HTTP Headers
• defined constants
• current cookies
• values in $_SERVER
• values in $_ENV
• values in $_SESSION
• values in $_POST
• values in $_GET
• values in $_REQUEST

Installation:
1. Upload the wp-devel folder to the plugins directory in your WordPress or WPMU installation
2. Activate the plugin

That’s it! The WP-Devel toolbar will automatically display for all site admins allowing you to tweak what debug information is displayed quickly and easily anywhere on your website.

Visit the WP-Devel Plugin homepage or download it from WordPress.org.

Features

• Sets image sizes each category ID and post ID
• Adds original sizes in addition to Thumbnail, Medium, and Large sizes
• Available to crop every image size

Install

1. Copy the max-image-size-control directory into your wp-content/plugins directory
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
3. Edit the options in Settings > Max Image Size Control
4. That’s it!

How to use
Open `Settings > Max Image Size Control` and set image sizes each category ID and post ID. Multiple category ID and post ID need to be comma-deliminated. If you would like to crop images to exact dimensions, make Crop checked.

Download
WordPress › Max Image Size Control « WordPress Plugins

It has a friendly settings page where you can set up all the details, such as which image sizes should be offloaded and in what order.

You don’t have to modifiy your posts: Post content with images that are offloaded is filtered by the plugin, replacing image URLs automatically.

You can use the default WP interface for uploading images: You don’t need to go to the ImageShack site at all.

You have a backup of your images on your server: After offloading an image, this plugin doesn’t delete the copy from your server.

You can download it from WordPress Extend.

It provides a simple backend interface, and has multiple hooks that can be triggered when a new live blog post is made - at the moment it has a hook to push to Twitter and also to Meteor.

The plugin is most effective when used alongside Meteor. When Meteor is used, the events are automatically pushed (using Comet technology) to all of your currently connected readers where they slide in at the top of the post - this is the same technology as Twitterfall, whose creators advised in the creation of this plugin. Comments on those posts also automatically appear at the end.

Using the plugin to blog these kind of events has two obvious advantages - reducing load on your server of constant pageloads from people refreshing your blog, and also to get your entries out quicker than anyone else. Also the sliding transition is cool!

Watch the screencast

Download it from Extend

The following features are also included:

• Tweet from within WordPress. The plugin adds a dedicated Twitter page where you can browse your friends timeline and post updates. An optional quick-tweet Dashboard widget is available as well.
• Set the minimum user level to access the Twitter page in the WordPress backend.
• Automatically add a full-size or compact Tweetmeme widget to your posts.
• Track tweets based on keywords of your choice via the Twitter API.
• Several template tags relating to the aforementioned features.

Visit the Tweetable Twitter Plugin homepage, or download it from WordPress.org. The included README file included instructions for requesting direct support support, or you can use the WordPress forums.

1. Register on the Plugin Competition Blog, wait to be given author permissions (within 24 hours)
2. Make sure you check all the Plugin Competition Rules and adhere to them in order to be eligible
3. Introduce your plugin(s) or your plans for writing plugins on the Plugin Competition blog
4. Once your plugin is ready, publish it on the blog and make it available for download via WordPress Extend
5. Provide initial support for the plugins through the Competition blog, your own blog or other place of publication and through WordPress Support and Extend.
6. The last step, but the most important step, is to submit the final code for your plugin to us via email. We do not publish this email or the instructions on what to put in the email till the final few weeks of the competition. Check back with us or on the Plugin Competition blog for that email address about two weeks before the end of the competition.

Alternatively you could do the following if you need new ideas for Plugin development towards the competition. You could:

• You could post your questions and your needs on this WLTC Community Forum Topic
• You could post your question on the WordPress Forums
• You could look at the most popular WordPress Ideas and find one that has not been done in a plugin yet
• Adopt a Kvetch

May we have a drum roll please?

Thank you prizes:

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

$250 prize from WPMU

• First Prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin from Incsub goes to Vote2Publish
• Consolation prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin goes to WP Wall

Consolation Prize Winner is Prelovac

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

Third Prize Winner is WP Easy Uploader

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

Second Prize Winner is Manageable

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

The Grand Prize Winner is WP Comment Remix

• $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

Thank you to all the participants and congratulations to the winners! Please use the contact form above or send an email to wpplugincomp [at] wltc [dot] net with your Paypal email address.

• Now subscribers can manage their subscriptions to the basic
  newsletters (read below).
• By default, all active MailPress users receive the basic newsletters
  (post/daily/weekly/monthly) if you decided so (General settings thru
  admin!).
• By activating the subscription management link (if available in their
  mails), they can now unsubscribe to such or such newsletter (as for
  comments for such or such post they subscribed before.).

*** With the new (optional) add on ‘MailPress_newsletter_categories’
you can allow MailPress users to subscribe to such or such Parent
category/periodicity.
Well ! this add on is not so light and might overload your server,
**so be cautious**. However, for PHP coders, it is a good example of
how to generate your owns !

*** MailPress_filter_img
* Checkbox in settings “NO mail attachements with site images when
full url is provided”.

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 !

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.

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 !

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.

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

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

• $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!

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 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

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

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 !

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

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

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.