New Plugins No More Frames Many web sites try to load your content into their own frame, to help sell ads on their sites. This simple plugin ensure your site is protect from this using a simple piece of code in your document header. Category Checklist Expander Shows all the categories in the checklist on the Add New Post screen Fancybox Gallery Integrate the FancyBox jQuery plugin with WordPress galleries. FancyBox is a “lightbox” plugin for displaying images in a nice overlay. Populist PopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg. When PopuList is activated, a page is added to your dashboard giving the number of times a page has been saved or upvoted. WP-iGoogle Create a dynamic Google gadget for your WordPress blog. Allow People to add your gadget to iGoogle. WP DropDown Metas WP Dropdown Metas allows […]

New Plugins AP Style Dates and Times This plugin changes the format of the dates and times of your posts and comments to match Associated Press Style. This is perfect for news and magazine sites running WordPress and for those blog writers with a penchant for style consistency. Archive Widgets The archives widgets plugin for WordPress replaces its default, single archive widget with multiple archive widgets. HeyZap Games Put more than 6000+ of the Internet’s most addictive, fun games on your blog. Addmarx Addmarx allows your visitors to Share, Bookmark, Email and Link to your posts and pages WP Optimize WP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks. Additionally you can rename any username to another username too. PhotoSmash Galleries PhotoSmash Galleries […]

One lesser known skills of our very own Mark Ghosh is his strong coding abilities and his occasional WordPress Plugins that he makes available to all our readers. Two such plugins were the Moderation Notify Author and Contextual Related Posts, written long long ago. With the arrival of WordPress 2.7, we felt it time to update the plugins and so here we are! Moderation Notify Author The problem on multiple-author blogs running WordPress is that it doesn’t automatically notify the author of a post about waiting comments. Instead all comment moderation requests go to the admin. This plugin will notify the author of the post in addition to the admin and thus allow the author to share the responsibility of moderating comments on his posts. The plugin is smart enough to ensure that the admin does not get a duplicate email. Running a multi-author blog? Read more and download Moderation […]

New Plugins Emo Vote Emo Vote let’s you encourage your users be letting them express their feelings by “emoting” rather then voting. Emoting is a fairly simple activity, just press the button that describes your feeling towards the post you just read. Use External Permalink This plugin allows you to change the permalink of any post by adding a custom field to containing the external URL to the post. Thread Twitter Thread Twitter will fetch your tweets and display them in thread from. Financial Freedom Graph Create multiple graphs in your sidebar with this plugin. Track personal and financial goals. WP-Click-Trick Scans posts and extracts all the hrefs, rewrites them to include an onclick event which handles the tracking. Includes an extensive reporting area, the addition of tracking on links created in the Links area of the admin, incompatibility checking for Google Analytics plugin and an upgrade notification nag. TrollGuard […]

New Plugins No Update Got a version of a plugin that you want to stick with? Don’t want to upgrade? Want to kill that upgrade nag on the plugins page? “No Update” is for you. wpNSC (Not Short Code) Allows shortcodes to be escaped. Very useful for plugin authors who need to write documentation for their plugin on their blog. o-x Badge Help your readers to reduce your posts links sizes. It’s like TinyUrl with stats. AWeber Integration This plugin provides a simple way to add one or more AWeber to your sidebar and optionally enable AWeber email web analytics for your website. Page SEO Display Google Pagerank of each page of your blog in one page. Limit Login Attempts Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP. Stack Overflow “GamerTag” Style Reputation Widget XBox Live “GameTag” style widget for displaying your Stack Overflow rep. […]

New Plugins WP-Admin Quick Links WP Admin Quicklinks is a very simple little WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, unobtrusive little admin panel to the top-right of all your site’s pages and posts giving you shortcuts to the most commonly used WP Admin sections. Mailto-staff For multi-author blogs. Plugin generates mailto links on the dashboard referring to all user groups of the blog. Quite handy way of internal staff communication. WordPress PageRank Widget Plugin Allows you to display a PageRank badge as a widget. It is much more convenient than having modify your templates to include such a badge. It can be used either at a page/post level, or a top site level. Is Child Of This plugin implements a function called ‘is_child_of’, which can check if a page is a descendant page of another page, regardless of how many levels there are in between them. Tweet Stats Tweet Stats […]

New Plugins WordPress Backup Performs regular backups of your upload (images) and current theme directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. Don’t get caught without a recent backup of your theme or images. Automatic Blog Stats This plugin makes available a number of statistics about your blog, including pagerank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, Feedburner RSS count and more which you can use as shortcodes in your posts. Automatically updates all statistics daily. Plain Gtalk Status Sync This plugin will automatically show your GTalk status on your WordPress blog. You can set a max-shown number and the cache interval to make it works more smoothly. Add a Separator Simple Plugin to add a separator between the intro and the (more…) content. This plugin adds a separator between the intro text and the extended (more…) text of the content of a post. It simply replaces […]