Best WordPress plugins - August 2009

IntenseDebate Comments

IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers' experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog.

Skype Online Status

The plugin Skype Online Status allows you to add one or multiple, highly customizable and accessible (!) Skype buttons to your blog. You can pick any of the available Skype button themes that will show your online status and place them in your pages and posts content (with a neat little Skype quicktag button in the WYSIWYG editor), in your sidebar via widgets (unlimited number) or anywhere in your theme template files.

Instant Highlighter

Upon clicking the highlighter button: visitor's mouse cursor changes to a pen and s/he can highlight any part of your web-page - in color. Mouse over any highlight and post it to any Social Network or Social Bookmark site.

WordTwit

WordTwit keeps track of when you publish new posts, and automatically informs all followers by pushing out a Twitter tweet. All links are automatically converted to tiny URLs to save space. Most users see a substantial increase in blog traffic after tweeting their posts on a frequent basis.

Role Scoper

Role Scoper is a comprehensive access control solution, giving you CMS-like control of reading and editing permissions. Assign restrictions and roles to specific pages, posts or categories.

Easy Retweet

Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin, which let’s you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count.

Sitemap Index

Automaticly generates virtual sitemaps and sitemap index in the XML format. It uses sitemap.org protocol.

Activity Sparks

Activity Sparks is a highly customizable widget to display a "sparkline" style graph in your sidebar indicate post and/or comment activity. This plugin leverages Google's Chart API, so does not require the PHP GDI library. Customization options include Title, size, colour, background transparency, caching period, activity granularity and period.

OAS Sticky Posts

OAS Sticky Posts is a simple side-bar widget that is similar to the commonly used 'recent posts' widget.

Recommended Reading: Google Reader Shared

Recommended Reading: Google Reader Shared gets the shared items from your Google Reader account.

InfoLink

InfoLink adds a Button to the Editor, so you can easy link words from your post to wikipedia, imdb (supports English/German/Espanol/Francais wiki and imdb) or any site searched by google. Just select a word or sentence and click on the button or chose a service from the menu. The Word will be automatically searched and infolink will select the most meaningful result.

Tecinfor Page Rank

This plugin uses the Tecinfor PageRank check service to add a page rank widget to your blog.

Welcome To Your Data

The WelcomeToYourData plugin makes it easy to track all of your statistics data from Google Analytics, Google Reader, Feedburner, and WP SlimStats in 1 easy to use plugin. View all of your statistics inside your WordPress admin panel. Find correlations between data in Google Analytics, Fedburner, SlimStats, and Google Reader.

Seo Watcher

Seo Watcher checks your daily Google rankings directly inside of Wordpress.

WDP AJAX Comments

This plugin will integrate AJAX commenting feature into your WordPress Blog. It uses the powerful JavaScript Framework jQuery to handle AJAX requests and jQuery Validation plugin by bassitance.de to validate comment form on the client side.

RSSPhoto

RSSPhoto is a Wordpress widget to display photos from RSS and Atom feeds. It is very easy to configure. The images load with an animated slide down (if jQuery is available).

Popupper

Popupper is a plugin for Wordpress versions 2.5 and greater that allows a blogger to insert links that when the reader mouses over the links it shows a popup.

Social Media Page

The Social Media Page Wordpress plugin will add a list of links to your social media profiles on a page or post of your choice through the use of a simple tag. A widget is also added so that you can display this list of links in the side menu of the site.

Gliffy for WordPress

The Gliffy plugin for WordPress works with your Gliffy Online account. The plugin allows you to create diagrams and insert them into your posts or pages. Create all kinds of diagrams: basic drawings, flowcharts, floorplans, UML, ERD, UI mockups, etc.

HITS- IE6 PNGFix

Upon installation and activation, this plugin will add the necessary code to your pages to take advantage of the approaches to getting the IE6 PNG Transparency issue solved.

Aphorismus

The plug-in allows to deduce the random text block (aphorism) on pages, posts or sidebar.

Tweet This

Adds a "Tweet This Post" link to every post and page. Shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us (19 characters). Also included: Plurk, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Ping.fm, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Includes the post's title after the link (can be customized). If your titles are really long, they get cut off at 136 characters with "...". Customize under Settings > Tweet This. Includes your choice of twelve buttons.

FAVIROLL

The plugin converts the favicon.ico from the blogroll links in PNG Image format and save the converted image locally. The conversion process works just on the admin-page, visitors don't have to waste time to wait for favicons from remote websites. If a blogroll entry was added or modified this single Link will be updated.

WP Custom Fields Search

This is a search plugin for wordpress, designed to filter posts in a more structured way than the default wordpress search. Specifically it allows multiple form inputs to be configured to search different aspects of a post, i.e. one term could search the post content, one the post title and one could search a custom field associated with the post.

Fidgetr

Fidgetr is a WordPress widget that displays the latest photos from your Flickr photostream in an attractive manner. It features support for its own themes along with very simple setup and compatibility with most WordPress themes.

Alkivia Open Community

A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.

Advanced Blogroll

Advanced Blogroll Widget displays your bookmarks as you want. You can customize your blogroll. You can add how many widgets you want. You can select the category of your links so that you can seperate your bookmarks in different categories.

Advanced YouTube Widget

A widget that will enable visitors to add youtube account or return search results, with a custom number of maximum results per account/search. It's easy to use , flexible, enables customization of picture sizes and has multiple displays by two(so far) types of content. More will be added in future versions..

Better Tag Cloud Widget

The default tag cloud widget that comes with wordpress is very simple. This widget makes the options for wptagcloud() available to the tag cloud widget. This means that you can choose things like font sizes, HTML markup and ordering. Additionally, it is possible to sort tags by count and alphabetically at the same time. It is also possible to add a counter to the tags, so that your visitors can see how many posts are associated with each tag. I wrote this plugin because the default widget's HTML markup doesn't play nicely with my CSS.

wp-greet

wp-greet is a plugin for the famous wordpress blogging package, giving your users the ability to send greeting cards from your blog.

Comments

Nice collection of plugins, some nice jquery effects

Nice list, I love IntenseDebate :)

Thanks for providing with useful info about Wordpress Plugins. Nice site.

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Nice roundup! thanks...
For comment, I am using disqus instead intensedebate.
Love the wp-greet and advanced blogroll

The usability and sheer number of plugins to fit any type of blog is probably the number one reason why I love Wordpress more than any other blogger platform out there.

Thanks for the list of best wordpress plugins

Nice tips thanks for sharing
You were prescient with adding video to WP back in 06-07. I’ve come late to the party but things are still evolving and many people are still waiting to jump in. Plus there are so many more hosting platforms to use now.

Thank you for sharing.. I will be downloading this cool plug in.. sure it will be usefull for my sites..

It was a great script sir. I learn a new function here, that is trigger_error() function. This script would help me much if i forgot which wordpress function i’ve ever modified using add_filter().

Thank you so much sir..

thanks for your sharing

Great plugin! Been looking for something like this for ages.

A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.

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Yeaar, super plugin! Thanks a LOT!
thx for this plugin

Thanks for the list - really useful :)

I will have a try, thanks!

VERY good ,i like it, i user it

Not sure if my comment went through... I forgot to check the "human" lol! I have been searching for a good comments plugin... I don't want to use discus b/c I don't want my comments on another server. I'm going to try intensedebate. Thanks!

It’s a very interesting post! thanks for your informations. thank you !

widget that comes with wordpress is very simple. This widget makes the options for wptagcloud() available to the tag cloud widget. This means that you can choose things like font sizes, HTML markup and ordering. Additionally, it is possible to sort tags by count and alphabetically

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