December 14th, 2010

New plugins

Bloggers Circle is similar to a traditional writers circle, but with a work-flow optimized for bloggers. Bloggers can earn points by reviewing other bloggers’ drafts, and spend those points asking other bloggers to review theirs.

Floating Widgets makes it easy to add a widgetized area right above or beside your main content regardless of which theme you are using. You can have full control of where and how your widgets are displayed without having to edit your theme at all.

Updated plugins

Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.

Movies allows you to use simple functions in your theme to display videos you have attached to Posts/Pages/Custom Post Types in your Media Library. The video player uses the MediaElement (by default, or VideoJS – you pick!) library and your browser’s native HTML5 capabilities when available with a fallback to Flash when necessary.

WP Mobile Detector automatically detects if the visitor is using a standard mobile phone or a smart phone and loads a compatible WordPress mobile theme for each. With advanced mobile statistics, image resizing, automatically formatted content, and detection of 5,000+ mobile phones, the WP Mobile Detector gives your mobile visitors the experience they desire.

WP-Stats-Dashboard displays your blog’s stats graph plus your blog traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your dashboard. See how you’re ranking on Alexa, check out your Technorati authority, monitor your ranking across multiple sites and much more.

XML Sitemap and Google News Feeds dynamically creates feeds that comply with the XML Sitemap and the Google News Sitemap protocol. There are no options to be set nor file or directory access rights to be tampered with and the feeds become instantly available.