New plugins Urtak allows you to gather your users’ opinions by enabling them to ask and answer questions about your content. Watu allows you to create exams with unlimited questions and answers, and define grades based on collected points. Widgets in Columns allows you to show your widgets in desired columns and rows. Updated plugins BuddyPress lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. It’s a social network in a box. Viper’s Video Quicktags allows you to simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed and much more.

New plugins Custom Field Suite allows you to create and manage groups of custom fields. Q2W3 Post Order lets you manipulate the order in which posts are displayed. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Gravatar Signup Encouragement encourages users without a Gravatar to make one. Slick Social Share Buttons allows you to add Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, Digg, Google Buzz, Linkedin, and Stumbledupon social media buttons in a floating or slide out tab.

New plugins Ad Logger allows you to log clicks on iframe adverts and other social network buttons. ImageFX allows you to add filters to your WordPress images uploaded through the normal media uploader. WP-Tweetbox gives you a widget to show a fully customizable Twitter-searchbox in your sidebar. wpsc Support Tickets is an open source help desk and support ticket system that allows you add support ticket capabilities to any WordPress site. Updated plugins UI Labs offers experimental WordPress admin UI features with the aim of building upon and enhancing the default WordPress User Interface. These are unofficial core UI experiments – who knows what could happen?