New Plugins
Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, and all the big guns are using the fuzzy date/time of type “3 minutes ago”, “10 days ago” etc. Timeago plugin allows you to use the same format on your WordPress blogs.
Twitter avatar reloaded Plugin adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter usrename and stores it together with comments and using it replaces gravatar with twitter avatar when the comment is displayed.
Adding click to call (click2call) capability to your blog will enable users to call you directly from your website. Clients, buyers, or shoppers no longer need to leave your website or even their computer to initiate a phone call.
Allows you to insert a listing of related eBay products, on the single post page by using a custom field called ebay_search.
Image zoomer is jQuery zooming tool. The plugin gives any image on your page the ability to be magnified when the mouse rolls over it. The square effect uses a “magnifying glass” that appears over the image lets the user zoom in to show close-up detail of the image.
Checks if you defined the post thumbnail, and if not it sets the thumbnail to the first uploaded image for that post.
Lightbox Plus implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress
This is a simple plugin to create a widget of Bing Maps and, hopefully, insert maps into your posts
Updated Plugins
WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. Tables can contain any type of data and additional JavaScript libraries can be used to extend it with features like sorting, pagination, filtering, and more. You can include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML.
What the Author Box plugin does is it utilizes the WordPress dashboard profile section, which is a somewhat neglected area of the dashboard. It will remove the Yahoo IM field which many may find rather useless, and adds a field for the users Twitter name. This is used to create the URL to the authors Twitter page, therefore just the name is needed, without using @.
A plugin to make connecting a WordPress blog to Twitter easy.
Allows users to add favorite posts. This plugin use cookies and database for saving data.
The plugin adds a cool new blogroll that is able to display the freshness, author name and the latest post-title of your bookmarks. It enables you to sort the blogroll by the latest update of your bookmarked blogs.
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. This plugin is released under GPL. Credit is highly appreciated. When linking to this plugin, please link to this post instead of the download link.
Lets you to delete posts in bulk from selected categories or tags has been updated to version 0.8. The new version adds support for deleting private posts.
This is an updated plugin to create a tabbed menu in a post using Rico Ajax.
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
I found the Image Zoomer plugin very interesting even it’s so tiny.
These are really some interesting plug-ins. I am personally interested in WordPress Timeago, Click to Call and Easy Add Thumbnail.
I’ll use Simple Twitter Connect plugin.It’s very useful for me and easy to use.
did you guys notice that AEC has increased in price from $10 a year to $25 a year? Their blog claims there turning off people by having their prices so low. THat is a bunch of crapola, there are 900+ plugins for wordpress, and having 1 set at $25 a year, who can afford that for every single plugin? your talking about thousands of dollars a year just for plugins, if other people follow that same example.
I’m sorry, but I think them raising their rates is a BAD idea.
I think there lying about what they said on their blog about getting criticism about having their prices so low. do they not realize there are 900+ plugins out there for wordpress??? None of us can afford to pay for all of them you know!! its a bunch of burocracy if you ask me, the author of the plugin getting greedy. I think what he said on his blog is a complete lie, nobody ever said their prices are too low, nobody would ever say that. $10 a year was high enough, but $25 is just rediculous. I stopped using trillian, a whole instant messaging program when they started going paid, and my opinion still stands on plugins. I’m not against authors getting revenue for their work, but I’m against passing those stupidly high prices onto us, when not all of us can afford to pay so much for all these dang plugins.
if they pass those prices onto me, I will cease using AEC and will boycott from ever going with them again, or any other company that follows that same policy. I’d gladly pay $25 a year for wordpress, but NOT for a plugin! much of less 900 of ’em that are out there in the community, that do so much more then what AEC does in the first place! I mean common $25 a year just to edit a comment? even after I paid for it nobody on my blog ever uses it, so I gotta pay $25 a year now when the user base I have don’t use it? that rediculous!!
Isn’t that a decision of the authors?
I don’t see how AEC’s price increase is relevant to our posts out here at WLTC?
Click And Call <– This is a killer plugin for all business owners. Recently, I have been offering link building service on my blog and find it difficult to have a support panel on wordpress itself. Noticing most clients prefer to talk over the phone when it comes to SEO, this is a must plugin for all SEO blogs that offers services. Excellent sharing!