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WordPress Plugins
September 1st, 2009
Business Directory Plugin

The Business Directory plugin for WordPress is an easy way to host a free directory page for your readers, affiliates, advertisers, community or club members. Invite them to submit a simple advertisement listing for themselves on your blog.
Shopping Cart Plugin

Shopping Cart software is software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online.
The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase, described metaphorically as “placing items in the shopping cart”. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes, as applicable.
BBPress Forum Integration

BBPress Integration should work with most recent version of WordPress.
Database: bbPress can share user data with an existing WordPress installation.All you need to do is specify the location of that database on installation or afterwards in the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin.
Cookies: Integrating cookies allows your users to log in to either your WordPress blog or your bbPress forums and be effectively logged in to both. This feature requires your WordPress and bbPress installations to exist in the same domain name, or at least in sub-domains of the same domain name.
Exec-PHP Plugin

The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.
All in One SEO Pack Plugin

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for WordPress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.
FormBuilder Plugin

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.
Contact Form 7 Plugin

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. Note: Contact Form 7′s CAPTCHA module has been separated as Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin. Now you need to install it if you use CAPTCHA. If you don’t, you can use as in the past.
Sitemap Generator Plugin

This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.
Sociable Plugin

Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
GD Star Rating Plugin

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings.
Sideblog WordPress Plugin

Sideblog is a plugin for WordPress Blog Platform. It is one way of implementing “Asides” – a series of “short” posts, 1-2 sentences in length. This plugin allows you highlight a post category to always be in the sidebar (for example, Tweets via Twitter Tools if you do not want to use Twitter Tool’s widget).
WordPress Wiki Plugin

Tired of using Media Wiki? Sick of fighting with WordPress to get your own documentation project happening?

If so then WordPress Wiki Plugin is the answer for you. The new WordPress Wiki plugin made by the guys at Instinct (who brought you the famous WordPress e-Commerce Plugin) have developed a new plugin that adds Wiki functionality to your WordPress powered website.
Advertising Manager Plugin

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
WordPress Related Posts Plugin

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.
WP Google Analytics Plugin

This plugin allows you to use the powerful Google Analytics to track your WordPress stats.
Broken Links Remover Plugin

Automatically remove the bad and broken links from the view of human visitors and search engine robots.
Popularity Contest Plugin

Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.

The values assigned to each view and feedback type are editable and can be changed at any time. When you change any of these values, the ‘popularity score’ for all posts are updated immediately to reflect the new values.
Article Directory Plugin

Article Directory Plugin for WordPress allows contributors to add articles to your WordPress blog. You have the control to allow or reject the article and publish it on your web site. Add customizable content to your WordPress blog in the shortest period of time. From user-friendly customization options to easy content creation process, Your Articles Directory prides itself in content authoring for your users… regardless of technical limitations. Our unique Article Directory System allows you to backfill your WordPress Blog with targeted content.
WP Hive Plugin

WP Hive is a WordPress Plugin that allows multiple WordPress Blogs to use the same core files, plugins, and themes.
Great Real Estate Plugin

Great Real Estate was developed to enable real estate agents, brokers, and REALTORS to display and manage information about their listings in WordPress pages.
The property information and listing templates allow for consistent display of the property listings across the site. Authors do not need to format the content, they simply enter it into a form.
Widgets and custom page templates permit display of only available homes, only sold homes, a random “featured” home, and a detailed property page for a listing.
WP-PageNavi Plugin

Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.
Events Calendar Plugin

Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events. The plugin has an easy to use admin section that displays a big readable calendar and lets you add and delete events. The plugin is widget ready so you can easily add a small calendar to the main sidebar with the ability to roll over the highlighted event day to see a brief description of the event or click the day to get a full description of the event without ever leaving your current page. If you are not using a widget ready theme, you can still have the calendar on your sidebar. Simply place “” in the sidebar file. The widget can also show a specified number of events as a list. You will find these options under the widget option.
Event Registration Plugin

Allows you to register people online for events. Very flexible. Provides the ability to setup event list and accept online registrations for events and administer them via WordPress. Supports paypal and international currency via paypal. Provides the ability to upload events via CSV format. Provides the ability to have a single event or multiple events.
Register Plus Plugin

Enhance your Registration Page.Custom Logo Tired of that WordPress logo getting all the attention? Upload your own custom logo image and get your brand in the spotlight..
Facebook Connect Plugin

The “Community Facebook Connect Plugin” is a WordPress plugin that gives immediate Facebook Connect functionality to your blog. It was written by Jesse Stay, and released under the GPL. It requires you to set up your own app for your blog under the Facebook Developers site (just set your callback URL to your own website’s URL), and..
Next Gen Gallery Plugin

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all photo and picture plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple photos, galleries and albums.
WP DB Backup Plugin

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.
Translator Plugin

it adds little flags to your sidebar, which will take you to a translation of the current blog page. It uses Google Translate, but removes the frame, so it looks quite nice! Once you’re in one language, you can browse around the blog, and everything stays translated. You can just click on the English flag to get back to the original language. You should see it on my sidebar now, and you can give it a trial run.