WordPress Plugins for July 2007

Posted by Snap! on July 31st, 2007

SEO and Advertisements Plugins
WP-Backlinks will trade backlinks via a form on your side bar. It will spider other sites to check for reciprocal links, add them to your WP-Backlinks admin section and you can approve links.

Text Link Ads for WordPressMU allows WPMU users to use the TLA basic service and earn money. Also, has a TLA affiliate program.

Downloads and Stats Plugins
Simple Download Counter counts the number of times a file is being downloaded from your wordpress blog along with a display option for downloads.

WordPress Download Counter , same as Simple Download Counter, with additional features such as recording and storing the last time the file was downloaded. You can use tags to add the download URL.

WP-Slimstat tracks your blog stats.

Ultimate Progress Bar creates customizable progress meters to show the progress of your projects.

BLogscout saves the access codes for the blogscout-counter and loads the stats in an IFRAME, tracked by the German statistics tracker http://www.blogscout.de. ave

Bookmark, Feeds and Online Status Plugins
Add to Google enables users to add the “Add to Google� widget button on a WordPress blog, without editing the source code manually.

Add to Facebook adds a link to the bottom of each post and page on your blog with the text “Share on Facebook�.

TwitterPress, inspired by AlexKing’s Twitter Tools lets you display your Twitter friends on your blog, shows latest updates, and automatically sends a Tweet when you post a new entry. Preview version.

WordTwit automatically generates a twitter status update for every post published.

Jabber Status shows your status on the web from your Jabber account.

d4rss is an RSS Aggregator plugin that allows to display RSS entries from external RSS sources of your choice. RSS entries are updated once a day using Wordpress Cron API. aggr allows you to place the contents of an RSS feed into your pages or posts; an extensively modified version of the Aggregate plugin by Rob Miller.

Comments and Messages Plugins
Crossroads is a Web 2.0 Plugin that adds Flickr thumbnails and Flickr photo comments to your blog entries.

SemGeshiCodeFix presents clear, highlighted code on your blog entries as well as in comments.

WP-Bulb sends you notifications about new comments through the Jabber/XMPP protocol.

Comment Highlighter can be used to add different style classes to comments. There are already plugins/hacks/alterations that add a style to all comments written by the blog owner, add a different style to every other comment, etc. This plugin takes it a bit further.

Animated Chinese Emoticons for Comments adds a new set of emoticons for your readers to use in comments.

Restrict Authors Access to Edit Comments limits comment editing to site administrators.

Berry Personalized gives up to four personalized messages depending on the origin of the visitors of your blog.

Quickmail is a simple e-mail sender which allows Wordpress administrators to quickly send e-mails from any address to any address via the Admin Panel.

Anti-Spam Plugins
Peter’s Anti-spam Image generates random anti-spam images instead of custom anti-spam images. For best continuing anti-spam performance, change the anti-spam words and fonts once in a while.

Codes Plugins
CodeViewer pulls source code from an external file and displays it, optionally adding a link to download the code directly.

Upgrade Plugins
WordPress Automatic Upgrade automatically upgrades your WordPress installation with the latest files from wordpress.org.

User Convenience and Cool Features Plugins
MultiUploader makes it convenient to attach many files at once.

divShare allows you to integrate the file upload and storage site with your WordPress and WPMu installation.

MyDashboard is designed to replace the standard, but limited, WordPress dashboard with something a bit more useful, extendable and skinnable.

Drop-down Post List allows you to easily display drop-down boxes containing the posts for specified categories. You can use this plugin by entering the trigger text in a post or page, or by adding the function call directly to your theme files.

What’s New, What’s Fresh, What’s Happening displays a customizable set of links to posts and comments in your sidebar or on any page.

MiniMeta Widget adds a contact form to your sidebar and allows you to enable or disable links.

Easy Textbox Link inserts a text box at the end of every post containing the title of the post and a permanent link to the entry. When a user mouses over the text box or clicks the text box the contents are highlighted in their entirety; this makes copying and pasting to a web page, blog or instant message incredibly easy.

Pluginstaller is a plugin-management plugin that eliminates the need to download a plugin archive, upload it to your FTP server and unpack it manually.

Leprakhauns Word Count gives you an estimated number of words based on the tiny_MCE in Wordpress. You do not need to post anything for the word count to show up, it does it in real time using Javascript.

sHeise Ticker displays X headlines in your sidebar. The length of each hyperlink can be edited through the admin Control Panel.

Gossamer Threads Tag Cloud allows you to display tag clouds for your posts on the sidebar. Tags with more hits are displayed in a bigger font to express popularity or emphasis. Tags can also be displayed underneath the post entry.

Feed Footer allows you to add footers under all your blog posts in your RSS feed.

Fullscreen 1.0 for WP-Super-Edit is a plugin for WP Super Edit to enlarge your TinyMCE editor to fit the full screen of the browser and toggle between those two views.

Monsters Editor 1.0 for WP-Super-Edit brings the magic of Fckeditor back to TinyMCE.

GeoAddress provides a contact/address list in a Google map. The representation the Google map and/or the address form can be affected in the Admin tool by means of numerous options.

gpx2map displays your geo track data on Google maps.

wp-wishlistr allows you to view your wishlist from wishlistr.com in your WordPress installation, either on a page or in a post.

Zorpia Hot Box lets users publish articles of your website to Zorpia.com directly, vote the published articles of your website, show voted points to each article with the widget, and allow for configuration of theme & style of the widget.

Mother Approves Vote Button adds an external Vote Button on individual posts on your blog that allows readers to “approve your post” at MotherApproves.net (A Digg for Parents) right from your individual post with a user-friendly graphical vote button.

Image, Audio and Video Plugins
Thumbnail Viewer adds libs from DynamicDrive (www.dynamicdrive) to WP for displaying nice image links. It overlays images on a page, similar to Lightbox JS.

Image Control Size lets you have more control over your thumbnail customization.

ipeRSS allows you to add your images from ipernity directly to your Blog (as a site, in an article, in the sidebar, etc.). For images as a site or in an article you need something similar to Exec-PHP or runPHP.

JAlbum allows you to integrate JAlbum galleries directly into your posts.

Plastic Tunes allows your blog to display and collect information about the music you play in your media player.

Gametrailers WordPress plugin allows you to embed the high quality gametrailers.com gaming videos into your blog posts

Language Plugins
BGtoLAT converts Bulgarian Cyrillic characters in post title to Latin characters. Very useful for Bulgarian users of WordPress.

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