New plugins
Flowplayer 5 for WordPress allows you to show videos with videos with FlowPlayer 5.
HotSpots draws a heat map of mouse clicks overlayed on your webpage allowing you to improve usability by analyzing user behaviour.
Updated plugins
CampTix Event Ticketing is an easy to use and flexible event ticketing plugin.
Facebook makes your site deeply social by integrating functionality from Facebook.
HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning.
Google XML Sitemaps will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
Intercom for WordPress provides easy integration of the Intercom CRM and messaging app.
I have a question about the XML sitemaps. This is kind of dumb, but I was told I needed to write a paragraph in each sitemap for it to work. Also, do I need to submit my sitemap to google webdeveloper tools or no?
No need to add anything to the sitemap, the plugin does everything for you there, but you do need to submit it to Google’s Webmaster Tools yourself.
I’ve started to use the XML sitemaps plugin and its works great! I did what you mentioned above and submitted to Google’s Webmaster Tools myself and all seem to be working fine.
Definitely a lot easier than making your own