New Plugins
Causes WordPress to create custom sizes for your images when you call wp_get_attachment_image() and related functions
Hello in all Languages displays a “hello” word translated to the official language of the country the visitor’s IP belongs to.
This plugin integrates the java applet “Chibipaint” with WordPress. This allows the user to draw and save their drawings directly to the server. Features included are editing and mass deletion, editable preset and user-defined templates and canvas sizes.
Ndb_UserHidden hides parts of wordpress posts for unidentified end users. By surrounding private text with [hide] and [/hide] tags you can force guest users to register and login to view member-only content. This plugin is interesting for webmasters that want to expand their user base for newsletters and other purposes. For download sites it will force users to identify themselves before downloads are shown.
WordPress Tweeter is a plugin that will update your twitter account every time you make a new post on your blog. You will be able to use your own tweet template.
Updated Plugins
This plugin helps you easily integrate the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.
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.
Table of Contents Creator (TOCC) automatically generates a highly customizable dynamic site wide table of contents that is always up-to-date. All entries are navigable making your site very SEO friendly. TOCC can be configured to display static pages, blog entries and forum comments.
A photo gallery management plugin
Email and normal links are obfuscated, hiding them from spambots. It automatically encodes each link, then uses JavaScript to decode and show them. Disabled JavaScript users get access to obfuscated links too.
Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments
Hello in all Languages seems like a really fun plugin. Makes your blog really welcoming.
Is it really needed for your blog?
The email & URL obfuscator looks like a valid option for sites w/ a lot of affiliate type links and/or external links that are leaking link juice. The email masking is a no-brainer – you should never list your full email address on a website.
Potentially worth a try?
I wish there was a wordpress tweeter for facebook. My brother inlaw uses one for moveable type, so I’m sure one could be done for wordpress just as easily *shrugs*. When he makes a blog post, his facebook news feed will say
[blog] title of article
in his facebook news feed. I’ve yet to see such a plugin for wordpress taht accomplishes this same task.
Oh, you don’t need a plugin to tweet your post on facebook. You can automatically publish your post on facebook by using add rss on facebook.
erra, (this is when I wish you had ajax edit comments,
[blog] anchor to post with title of article as description of anchor
Any new plugins that add extra features to the new BuddyPress forum system are of my interest these days. f you could please write about some would be great. Thanks for this list too. a
Been looking a long time for plugin like WordPress Tweeter. Or if anyone knows a better option?
The star rating plugin looks really good and works well, it’s like a turbo charged upgrade to Lester Chan’s WP-Rating. They’ve also upgraded the plugin to have thumbs up/down rating which is pretty cool.
I tried installing WP Minify but it removes my Entrecard widget. Recently, my blogs get bandwidth limit block from hostgator. They claim that my blog uses a lot of resources and recommends me to use W3 Total Cache plugin to reduce load time and server load. It help to reduce load time as well. Plus, my Entrecard widget is appearing as normal now.