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:
Antispam Bee (2.4) by Sergej Müller: Easy and extremely productive spam-fighting plugin with many sophisticated solutions. Includes protection again trackback spam.- Broken Link Checker (1.4) by Janis Elsts: Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.
- Contact Form 7 (3.1) 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 (3.3.5.4) 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 (3.2.6) 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.
- List Recent Comments (1.0) by Robert Schilt: List recent comments as per hardcoded settings.
- Mail On Update (4.3) by Sven Kubiak, Matthias Kindler: Sends an E-Mail Notification to one or multiple E-Mail-Addresses if new versions of plugins are available.
- My Calendar (1.10.6) by Joseph C Dolson: Accessible WordPress event calendar plugin. Show events from multiple calendars on pages, in posts, or in widgets.
- Really Simple CAPTCHA (1.4) by Takayuki Miyoshi: Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.
- Redirection (2.2.10) by John Godley: Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
- Subscribe to Comments Reloaded (2.0.2) by camu: Subscribe to Comments Reloaded is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notifications. It includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts or suspend all notifications.
- W3 Total Cache (0.9.2.4) by Frederick Townes: The highest rated and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress.
- Widget Logic (0.51) by Alan Trewartha: Control widgets with WP’s conditional tags is_home etc
- WP-PageNavi (2.82) by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan & scribu: Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (3.4.3) 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.
