Best WordPress plugins - December 2009

WP Chameleon

WP Chameleon varies or morphs the content of your pages, posts or text widgets based on special markup in the text that you publish. You can use it to test the effectiveness of different ad copy or to create self-rewriting articles that can be copied and pasted from your web pages to publish in article directories.

WP Carousel

WP Carousel is a plugin that create a carousel with a posts, category's posts or pages, and you can put it anywhere on the blog. In the plugin's options page you can add items to each carousel and there you can set up some options and the theme used in each carousel.

Fotobook

Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account(s) and import all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress installation. It uses the Facebook's API so importing your photos is a breeze.

Floatbox Plus

Floatbox Plus is used to create overlay display images/videos (only youtube/vimeo) on the webpage and to automatically add the correct overlay links to images. Floatbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images/videos without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slideshows. Floatbox Plus captures the image title for display in the overlay.

Slideshow Gallery

Feature content in a JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcase on your WordPress website.

Post videos and photo galleries

Cincopa Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable image gallery, slideshows, video and music playlists anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your videos, images and music and display skin, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a rotating thumbnail belts.

Image Formatr

Image Formatr goes through all the images on a page and gives them a standardized format. You can override this format for each image but otherwise all images will be shown as thumbnails and have a caption underneath. Images will also be linked so that when you click on them, they popup in a larger size.

Default Post thumbnail

Wordpress 2.9 added support for post thumbnails but you have to set the thumbnail for each post you want to have a thumbnail. If your site already has hundreds of posts adding a thumbnail image for each post will be a lot of work even if you only want the same image for each old post.

Image Widget

Simple image widget that uses native Wordpress upload thickbox to add image widgets to your site.

Manage Tags Capability

This plugin is perfect for blogs with multiple contributing users that need to limit lower-level writers, like authors or contributors, to tags set by administrators or editors.

WP-Walla

Gowalla is a "Here am i" service that allows you to check in to various places so your friends can see what you are up to.

Folding Category List (FoCaL)

As your blog gets more and more posts, inevitably you will create more categories to cope. Eventually your categories will take up more room on your screen, and scroll across many pages. This plug-in provides a Folding Category List (FoCaL) for Wordpress version 2.3 and above which allows categories to be expanded and collapsed to save room on your sidebar.

Login-Logout

The WordPress "Meta" widget uses a lot of screen space and presents more information than some site designers would like. The Login/Logout plugin provides web designers with a compact alternative.

List Sub Categories

This plugin adds a sidebar wigdet which displays sub categories of selected category in customizable manner. You can add as many widgets as you want.

Formidable

Quickly and easily build forms with a simple drag-and-drop interface.

podPress

podPress adds tons of features designed to make WordPress the ideal platform for hosting a podcast.

Top Commentators Widget

The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. Adapted from Show Top Commentators plugin at Personal Financial Advice, this widget is easier to manage via the control form (no need to edit the PHP file); additional options are also available to make it more flexible. Read the FAQ section on how to customize the widget, and take a look at the screen shot to see the control form for customizing the Top Commentators Widget.

Headup

Gives your audience immediate access to dynamic, contextual and social content complementing your own. Enrich your blog with Tweets, Facebook connectivity & cool content from top online sources.

Google Analytics Visits

This wordpress plugin uses Google Analytics API to fetch data from your analytics account and displays user visits from each country in the widget with Country Flags. You will have to enter your analytics account details in the options page "Google Analytics Visits".

BNS Support

Simple display of useful support information in the sidebar. Easy to copy and paste details, such as: the blog name; blog URL; WordPress version; current active theme installed; and, a list of active plugins. Help for those that help. The information is only viewable by logged-in readers; and, by optional default, the blog administrator(s) only.

Feed Link Widget

This Widget shows links (you can set this up) to your RSS2 and ATOM in your sidebar.

Shailan Dropdown Menu Widget

Dropdown Menu widget adds a beautiful, CSS only dropdown menu, listing pages OR categories of your blog. It allows you to chose vertical or horizontal. It supports multiple instances. You can select a theme for your widget from the Dropdown Menu Settings page. If you don't like ready-made templates you can create your own theme for the menus using CSS.

7feeds ticker

7feeds News Ticker is a flash-based tool that allows you to add vertical scrolling news, events, announces, press releases, and other content from any RSS feed to sidebar of your blog. 7feeds ticker is a highly configurable tool: supports themes, customizeble colors, titles, dimentions and advanced scrolling settings. Loads immediately and works smoothly.

Socialize This

Socialize This is a WordPress plugin that allows the user to easily generate Social Widgets (Icons) and spread to word about their blog posts. It works out-of-the-box with little to no configuration required.

Entries on page x

Generates a link back to the archive page the current entry is on. Makes it easier for users to retrieve the chronology of a blog.

TwitterPad

TwitterPad is an automatic RSS-to-page/post plugin designed to integrate with twitter. This plugin allows the user to add a number of custom search strings from search.twitter.com specifying which page (or a new post) new tweets should be added to.

Fixed Social Buttons

This plugin will add fixed social buttons on right side : twitter, facebook, myspace, reddit, delicious, technorati and rss feed buttons.

Light Social

This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs.

WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

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Comments

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That's very nice plugin! I agree!

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You can use simple HTML-formatting tags(like <b>, <ul>, <code> and others)

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