Wordpress Plugins

Plugins can and do extend the functionality of WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. I dedicate this page to all those Plugin Developers that tirelessly give their energy and time; they contribute selflessly and for little to no financial reward to make Wordpress the best Open Source CMS currently on the market. The following are currently active on this blog:

•   Block Bad Queries (Perishable Press) () by : 
•   Trupela Extras (1.0) by Robert Schilt: Activate various settings and add-ons
•   Akismet (2.2.7) by Matt Mullenweg: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.
•   AnyFont (1.0.2) by Ryan Peel: AnyFont allows you to use any truetype or opentype font for post titles, menu items or anywhere else you want to use a custom font in your theme design.
•   Broken Link Checker (0.8.1) by Janis Elsts: Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
•   Category Icons (2.1.1) by Brahim Machkouri: Easily assign icons to your categories.
•   Comment Notifier (2.2.0) by Satollo: Let blog visitors to subscribe to comment threads, receiving an email in their mailbox on new comments.
•   Contact Form 7 (2.1.2) by Takayuki Miyoshi: Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
•   CoppermineSC (0.4.6) by Brad Guilford: Include images from Coppermine Galleries in WordPress entries. Based on original script by Lennart Groetzbach that was enhanced and adapted as a plugin by Matthias Jell.
•   Wordpress Download Monitor (3.3.3.5) by Mike Jolley: Manage downloads on your site, view and show hits, and output in posts. If you are upgrading Download Monitor it is a good idea to back-up your database first just in case. You may need to re-save your permalink settings after upgrading if your downloads stop working.
•   Google XML Sitemaps (3.2.2) by Arne Brachhold: This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
•   Hybrid Tabs (0.2) by Justin Tadlock: Creates a tabbed widget for the Hybrid WordPress theme.
•   Insights (1.0.2) by Vladimir Prelovac: Insights allows you to quickly search and insert information (links, images, videos, maps, news..) into your blog posts.
•   Executable PHP widget (2.1) by Otto: Like the Text widget, but it will take PHP code as well. Heavily derived from the Text widget code in WordPress.
•   ProjectManager (2.9.4) by Kolja Schleich: This Plugin can be used to manage several different types of projects with redundant data. This could be athlet portraits, DVD database, architect projects. You can define different form field types and groups to sort your project entries.
•   SyntaxHighlighter Evolved (2.3.8) by Viper007Bond: Easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to modify the code at all. Uses Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter v2.0.320 and some code by Andrew Ozz of Automattic.
•   Thank Me Later (2.0.0.1) by Brendon Boshell: Automatically send a ‘thank you’ e-mail to those who comment on your blog. This plugin engages the visitor by reminding them to check back for responses or new blog posts. The plugin is highly configurable with multiple messages, variable delay and restrictions.
•   Twitter Goodies (1.5.0) by Arpit Shah: Twitter Goodies plugin will show your tweets under Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages. Twitter Integration option added to v1.0.1. Please add <!--wp_twitter_goodies--> to any page/post under HTML section to see awesome Twitter Goodies. Tweets will REFRESH AUTOMATICALLY. Also it has reply option inside widget. Please go to (Appearance -> Widgets -> Twitter Goodies) to add it under sidebar area. New admin panel option added under (Settings -> Twitter Goodies) to set different color combination. This widget is using Twitter Goodies APIs.
•   Widget Logic (0.47) by Alan Trewartha: Control widgets with WP’s conditional tags is_home etc
•   WP Minify (0.7.4) by Thaya Kareeson: This plugin uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.
•   WP No Category Base (0.7) by iDope: Removes ‘/category’ from your category permalinks.
•   WP-PageNavi (2.61) by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan: Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
•   Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (3.1.6) by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine): Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.