Best WordPress Plugins - June 2009

OpenID

OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account. XRDS-Simple is required for the OpenID Provider and some features of the OpenID Consumer.

Clickcha

Clickcha is a unique CAPTCHA system that more secure than traditional text based CAPTCHAs yet easier to use. Clickcha will replace the Wordpress post comment button with an image based CAPTCHA that requires a single click to solve and post the comment.

Easy Google Syntax Highlighter

This plugin is an implementation of the Google Syntax Highlighter 2.0 by Alex Gorbatchev with a front end to allow configuring all the global settings that are available, such having the plugin automatically include languages to highlight, thereby improving page loading performance.

Tweet Blender

Similar in functionality to Twitter's own widget but has support for multiple authors, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword.

Twitter Followers

Display your Twitter followers or people you are following in your sidebar

Latest Web Resources

Daily mix of handy web resources, news, freebies, and tips to make the web experience of your readers fun and easy.

wp-Typography

This plugin provides many features for improving your sitt typography.

GeoSmart

GeoSmart automatically adds city-precise location information for each comment author to comment metadata for each comment and a map showing comment author location distribution.

FormBuilder

The Form Builder Plugin for WordPress allows you to build complex forms in the WordPress administrative interface without needing to know PHP or HTML. We've tried to make it simple enough for anyone to make them, yet customisable enough to use for the most difficult job.

Pagebar

Pagebar adds a nice page bar to your blog posts, multipaged posts and paged comments.

I Reccomend

Ready to start your own trust-based marketing buzz? Use TrustedOnes to Ask for, Find and Share recommendations on products and local services. Works with your existing friends at any one of over 40 social networks. This widget displays your (and optionally friends) recommendations. Content changes on every page load, keeping your blog content fresh, and search engines happy.

SourcedFrom

This plugin allows to publish posts from feeds and authorized WordPress sites.

Podcasting - Blubrry PowerPress Podcast plugin

The Blubrry PowerPress Podcast Plugin has all of the essential features needed to provide podcasting support in a Wordpress blog.

Google News plugin

Displays N first news items from a selectable Google News RSS feed, inline or as a widget.

Blog Icons

Easily add (by URL or upload) an Apple iPod Touch / iPhone icon, an iPod / iPhone boot image, a favicon and a feed image to your blog.

Simple Ajax Shoutbox

This plugin will add a shoutbox on your sidebar. Using AJAX technology so visitor doesnt have to refresh page to view their messages. It automatically reload every few seconds so you can see other visitor messages live. It has simple design, so it will blend to your current theme whatever it is. No extra graphics, color, text. Just a simple box. Support smilies, smilies tags are instantly converted to graphics smilies.

BotProof Captcha

BotProof Captcha is a free anti-spam and anti-bot solution which uses a new and unique type of CAPTCHA. We offer a service that will change the way you think about protection from spam and bots. This is the next generation in captcha technology, Captcha 2.0. No more distorted letters that annoy your users, and no more OCR bots breaking through weak captcha implementations. BotProof captchas use dynamic information to display hidden symbols in unique ways that are harder for bots to break through, yet easier for your users to read.

Search Unleashed

Extends the standard WordPress search to include data from posts, pages, comments, and meta-data, as well as the full content of data inserted by plugins.

TinyMCEComments

This plugin turns the comment field from a primitive into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up, without the need of another separate installation. Functions that only available to writers like adding images were removed and will not show up in the toolbar.

BackType Connect Plugin

The BackType Connect Wordpress plugin finds conversations related to your content and allows you to display the associated comments inline with your own. Existing conversations about your content taking place across the web can now be displayed right on your blog for your visitors to read and respond to. It works on top of your existing Wordpress comments, both threaded and non-threaded.

MapPress Easy Google Maps

MapPress adds an interactive map to the wordpress editing screens. When editing a post or page just enter any addresses you'd like to map.

SuperSlider

This widget dynamically creates a list of posts from the active category. Displaying the first image and title. It will display the first image in your post as a thumbnail,it looks first for an attached image, then an embedded image then if it finds the image, it grabs the thumbnail version. Oh, and by the way, it's an animated vertical scroller, way cool. If the post has no image the widget uses a default image. This works best with the plugin Widget logic. Just set the widget to issingle() || iscategory() and all your single viewed posts will have a scrolling thumbnail list of other posts in this category.

LJ Multi Column Archive

LJ Multi Column Archive is a Wordpress plugin/widget that allows you to display your archive list with multiple columns. I developed this plugin as I wanted to make use of the space I had in the sidebar more effectively.

Quote Master

Adds a quote, chosed from a list of famous quotes, to the top-right corner of the Dashboard. Also features an optional widget that will display random quotes on the website. Also features a handy shortcode so you can have random quotes in any of your posts. Easy as just putting [quotemaster] in your post. Now features more than 100 quotes.

Post videos and photo galleries

One plugin handles your blog's rich media - Slideshows, videos, music, menus and much more.

KNR Author List Widget

The KNR Author List Widget plugin, by Nitin Reddy Katkam, displays a list of authors, and editors on the blog as an ordered list, unordered list, or a dropdown list. You can use the ordered list to display a list of 'top authors' on the blog.

Advanced Custom Field Widget

The Advanced Custom Field Widget is an extension of the Custom Field Widget by Scott Wallick, and displays values of custom field keys, allowing post- and page-specific meta sidebar content.

Gigya Socialize

The Gigya Socialize plug-in aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and AOL.

Feed Reading Blogroll

The plugin improves your blogroll by displaying the freshness and the latest post-title of your bookmarks.

Post 2 tabs

Simple plugin that allows you to generate a tab container widget based on Jquery UI tabs. Each tab is a category with a number of posts customizable. It will display last posts of your favorite categories just put each category ID number separated by comma.

Scissors

This plugin adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to Wordpress' image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports automatic and manual watermarking of images. Additionally, images that are resized in the post editor are automatically resampled to the requested size using bilinear filtering when a post is saved, which improves the perceived image quality while reducing the amount of data transferred at the same time.

Comments

Thanks a lot for the plug ins intro bro,
really useful.

Very nice list.
Seen most of them before, but the "post 2 tabs" was new to me. I`m gonna try that one.

Thanks!

Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.

Good article. i'll try few plugins in my blog. Thank you.

Thnx a lot for this collection. Clickcha is very interesting for me

There is nothing better than to go to your blog in the morning with a cup of coffee

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

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