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My broadband is back, yay! So here are 30 + more top wordpress plugins to enhance your blog design and functionality following on from 30-free-top-wordpress-plugins-for-new-blogger-to-wordpress-converters, think they all are compatible to WordPress 2.8.4

 

 

. Please share your favorites that are compatible to mine of 2.8.4. Will be sharing more wordpress fun soon. 

 

 

Print Friendly

Authors: printfriendly, vamsee

Add the Print Friendly button to your WordPress blog and help people save paper and ink when they print. Print friendly cleans and optimizes your pages. Cool features include get PDF, and the ability to remove images and elements before printing. It also lets you email. 

Learn more, and take PrintFriendly for a test drive. Check out PrintFriendly.com

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/printfriendly/ 

Instead of: WP-Print 2.50 Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog's post/page. Could never quite get it to work being the novice that I am coding. http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/ 

 

WordPress Global Translator Plugin

Global Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in 48 different languages:

Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Albanian, Estonian, Galician, Maltese, Thai, Turkish, Hungarian, Belarus,Irish, Icelandic, Macedonian, Malay, Persian.

The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use.
The most powerful features which Global Translator provides are:

• Four different Translation Engines: it has the ability to provide the translations by using Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations.com
• Search Engine Optimized: it uses the permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URI. For example the english version on www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost will be automatically transformed in www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost
• Global Translator will automatically provide the translated urls to the "Google XML Sitemaps Generator for WordPress" plugin.
• Fast Caching System: new fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of the risk of temporarily ban from translation engines.

...and more. It is ridiculously easy to use, its just a widget, not sure if it is possible to place it the rss but works like a charm as they say in IE 5 I think i'm on browser. 

http://www.nothing2hide.net/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/ 

Download
Latest version (28th of Dec, 2009): global-translator.1.2.7.zip

 

FeedBurnerCount

The best way to retrieve your readers count, that you can print out in plain text.

http://devthought.com/projects/wordpress/feedburnercount/ 

 

Twounter

Retrieve the number of followers for a twitter profile and returns it in plain text format.

http://themesphere.com/twitter-counter-wordpress-plugin.html 

 

jQuery Image Lazy Load WP

Save bandwidth and speed up your blog with this amazing plugin.
To see a live demo just scroll my homepage staring at the bottom and grey box should change as the image loads.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-image-lazy-loading/ 

 

SexyBookmarks

Love this plugin. Sexybookmarks is an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites. 

I saw this a while ago on a blog before I was familiar with plugins and wordpress and behold, I saw it again recently over at francesco mugnai's brilliant (unbelievably regular top quality posts) blog. Linked at bottom btw. 

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks/ 

 

Typekit plugin for WordPress

Author: Amila Sampath

This is a convenient way for WordPress users to use the Typekit font service in WordPress web sites. This will enable users to change the fonts of their sites with least amount of time using the Typekit service. Further this plugin will give the ability to control where the typekit will be used in their site (whether in the front page, static pages .etc).

 

We've worked hard to make Typekit easy to use. Add and use fonts the way you want to. Try it for free

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/typekit/

I was originally going to use this WP-Cufon http://www.tobias-battenberg.de/wp-cufon/ but a farce having to use this http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ to convert the font files. 

 

wp-Typography 

Improve your web typography with:

• Hyphenation — over 40 languages supported

• Space control, including:

  • widow protection
  • gluing values to units
  • forced internal wrapping of long URLs & email addresses

• Intelligent character replacement, including smart handling of:

  • quote marks
  • dashes
  • ellipses
  • trademarks, copyright & service marks
  • math symbols
  • fractions
  • ordinal suffixes

• CSS hooks for styling:

  • ampersands,
  • uppercase words,
  • numbers,
  • initial quotes & guillemets.

Has some specific requirements to check but sounds very good and will give it ago. 2.7 wordpress up I think. 

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-typography/ 

 

WP Tuner

What’s causing the slowdown? Is it a plugin? Is it your host?
Use this plugin to understand why your blog is slow.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptuner/ 

 

WP Security Scan

Even when you update to the latest version all the time, there's still this slight chance of you getting hacked. WP Security Scan helps you minimize this chance by pointing you right at all the vulnerabilities in your blog.

Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.

-passwords
-file permissions
-database security
-version hiding
-WordPress admin protection/security

Download: WP Security Scan

http://semperfiwebdesign.com/custom-applications/wp-security-scan/

 

Blog Icons

Great plugin to change easily your:

• favicon (use Irfan View to make one)
• iPod Touch / iPhone icon
• iPod / iPhone boot image
• feed image

Concentrate on those little bits of design that help finish off your blog, polish it. 

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blog-icons/ 

 

Add a Separator

Author: Tobias Battenberg

This plugin adds a separator between the intro text and the extended (more...) text of the content of a post. It simply replaces the span id more tag with the separator that is set in the plugins php file.

Some separator samples are given there. Compatible up to: 2.7

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-a-separator/ 

http://www.tobias-battenberg.de/add-a-separator-wordpress-plugin/  (german)

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tobias-battenberg.de%2Fadd-a-separator-wordpress-plugin%2F 

cant quite get this to workm but i'm a novice. 

works alongside this excerpt plugin: 

wp-utf8-excerpt

Show shortened posts on your splash page to your blog, with a ‘Read more of this post…’ link at the bottom. Lets users browse through your content a little quicker rather than seeing all of one post until they can see the next. This is the only one I have seen that will include html and images. Needs a little manual coding of: Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-utf8-excerpt/

more excerpt's here too: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/wordpress-plugins-for-blog-layout-formating-and-css-designs/ 

 

Search Excerpt

WordPress Search by default sucks. Fixing it takes a bit of work, but the heavy lifting is done by this plugin. If you want to know what I've done with this blogs search pages, read my post on improving the WordPress search function. The results are very cool, as you can see in this search, for instance.

Search Exceprt plugin displays text snippets around found keywords, with matches highlighted, in a WordPress search.

http://scott.yang.id.au/code/search-excerpt/ 

Download: Search Excerpt 1.2 (PHP, 9.8kb, 2006-07-24)

Download: Search Excerpt 1.2 (ZIP, 3.3kb, 2006-07-24)

 

Search Everything

Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search, options included:

• Search Highlighting
• Search Every Page
• Search Every Tag
• Search Every Category
• Search non-password protected pages only
• Search Every Comment
• Search only approved comments
• Search Every Draft
• Search Every Excerpt
• Search Every Attachment (post type)
• Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
• Exclude Posts from search
• Exclude Categories from search

plus multiple translations.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/ 

 

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. This last feature makes it unique amongst search plugins. For example, you may have a plugin that uses shortcodes to insert data:

[product 1]

The standard search will just see the shortcode. Search Unleashed will see the actual data inserted into your post.

Search phrases are highlighted, as are incoming searches from Google, Yahoo, and most other search engines. This makes it very easy to see exactly what phrase matched and why the post is being shown.

Searches can be restricted to specific categories, tags, or meta-data. For example, you can search for 'persian' in the 'cats' category.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-unleashed/ 

or use

Search Hilite

When someone is referred from a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or WordPress' own, the terms they search for are highlighted with this plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-highlight/

 

Search Engine query in WordPress

The widget aim is trying to reduce the bounce rate of your blog and provide the visitor a better navigation experience.

When a visitor lands on your site from a search engine result page, he is in need of a certain information / service your page might satisfy. It often happens the visitor go away just after reading that page, for various reasons. Why not to try suggesting him more posts on the topic he is interested in at that moment, so that he might visit more pages?

The Search Engine Query in WordPress widget grabs the query the visitor used on the search engine, executes it in the blog search and displays results, suggesting the visitor further reading about what he is actually looking for.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-engine-query-in-wordpress-related-contents/ 

 

Kau-Boy's AutoCompleter

Integrates a google suggest like search to your blog. Kau-Boy's AutoCompleter uses the Ajax.Autocompleter function of script.aculo.us or the jQuery suggest function to search for post within the title and the content.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kau-boys-autocompleter/ 

 

when searching saw this but didnt work, ajax also. 

Search-light

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-light/

 

not quite what I was after.

WordPress Plugin für Google Suggest Suchen

found here: http://wp-optimieren.de/wordpress-plugin-google-suggested-search/ 

http://www.kabel-deutschland-partner.de/google-suggest-plugin.html 

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kabel-deutschland-partner.de%2Fgoogle-suggest-plugin.html 

plugin: http://www.kabel-deutschland-partner.de/fileadmin/user_upload/google-suggest.zip 

 

cant get this to work.

Search Suggest

This plugin makes it possible to mimic search engine's search behavior, by showing related searches and spelling suggestions.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-suggest/ 

more from the same author: http://yoast.com/wordpress/ 

 

Sphider for WordPress

Sphider is a popular open-source web spider and search engine. It includes an automated crawler, which can follow links found on a site, and an indexer which builds an index of all the search terms found in the pages. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as its back end database (requires version 4 or above for both).

Features

WordPress Integration - Only available from Sphider for WordPress

• Automatic Page Reindex: After Adding, Updating, or Deleting a Page / Post, Sphider will now reindex that page or remove it from the index
• Unified administration: Sphider can now be accessed through Tools >> Sphider
• Unified login: Sphider admin interface now requires you to be logged in as a WordPress administrator
• Unified database: Sphider now uses the WordPress database to store the index and settings instead of a separate database
• Organized tables: Sphider uses the WordPress table prefix to keep the tables cleanly organized and easy to navigate
• Installation and Upgrades: Updates have been streamlined to keep your Sphider installation up to date

Spidering and Indexing

• Performs full text indexing.
• Can index both static and dynamic pages.
• Finds links in href, frame, area and meta tags, and can also follow links given in javascript as strings via window.location and window.open.
• Respects robots.txt protocol, and nofollow and noindex tags.
• Follows server side redirections.
• Allows spidering to be limited by depth (ie maximum number of clicks from the starting page), by (sub)domain or by directory.
• Allows spidering only the urls matching (or not matching) certain keywords or regular expressions.
• Supports indexing of pdf and doc files (using external binaries for file conversion).
• Allows resuming paused spidering.
• Possbility to exclude common words from being indexed.

Searching

• Supports AND, OR and phrase searches
• Supports excluding words (by putting a '-' in front of a word, any page including the word will be omitted from the results).
• Option to add and group sites into categories
• Possibility to limit searching to a given category and its subcategories.
• Possibility of searcing in a specified domain only.
• "Did you mean" search suggestion on mistyped queries.
• Context-sensitive auto-completion on search terms (a la Google Suggest)
• Word stemming for english (searching for "run" finds "running", "runs" etc)

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sphider/ 

 

font-resizer

This plugin allows you to give the visitors of your site the option to change the font size. The plugin acts over jQuery and saves the settings in a cookie. So the visitor see the same font size if they revisit your site. Which content is going resized, the resize steps and other options you can set on the admin page called "font-resizer".  Just a sidebar widget, easy. This is a neat idea to increase the usability and accessibility of your WordPress blog text. currently it disables the ability to drag widgets across to the sidebar when activated. please someone help fix this or tell me what i can do, really want this functionality to be user friendly. 

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/font-resizer/ 

plugin link found here that I couldnt get to work:

http://bueltge.de/wp-schift-veraendern-fontsize-und-font-plugin/140/ 

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbueltge.de%2Fwp-schift-veraendern-fontsize-und-font-plugin%2F140%2F&sl=de&tl=en 

Update

I found some inline html/javascript that I display using http://bloggerstop.net/2009/01/embed-text-resizing-widget-to-increase.html 

Change Text Size
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:body.style.fontSize='.5em'"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Small</span></a>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:body.style.fontSize='1em'"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Medium</span></a>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:body.style.fontSize='1.5em'"><span style="font-size: small;">Large</span></a>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:body.style.fontSize='2em'"><span style="font-size: large;">Larger</span></a>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:body.style.fontSize='2.5em'"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Largest</span></a>

tweak to do the background colour change also. PLEASE help adapt to make it override the CSS active hyperlinks display still as pink, I want to change their colour with an onclick like below. was reading up but couldnt make work [ getElementId] to function. 

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:body.style.backgroundColor='yellow'"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-color: black;">Read This Text Easier?</span>

 

SEO Friendly Images

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-friendly-images 

 

HeadSpace2

'Anyone who has been following me for a while knows I'm a huge fan of John Godley's plugins especially HeadSpace2 and Redirection. HeadSpace2 takes care of all my meta tags and inserts my Mint code. If you don't need fancy things you can use it for Google Analytics and other trackers too!' yoast

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

Because the configuration of meta-data can be a complicated and tiresome process HeadSpace provides several shortcuts to reduce your effort:

• Meta-data nesting - data is collected not only from the page itself, but nested parent pages
• Dynamic data extracted - why repeat yourself when you can extract data from the post itself?
• Full GUI interface - data is entered alongside post content, and with a full auto-suggested AJAX interface for tags and keywords
• Mass-editing - now you can edit meta-data for all pages and posts at one go!

http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/ 

Download HeadSpace 3.6.32

578.97 KB - WP 2.3+ - 78,197 times

 

Amazon Auto Affiliate Linker

By request of Michael Gray, I coded this plugin to Auto Affiliate Linker, which automatically adds your Amazon Affiliate ID to the back of all the links to Amazon you use in your blog!

go to settings and paste in your id.

http://yoast.com/wordpress/amazon-auto-link/ 

download: http://netdna.yoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/amazon-auto-link.zip 

 

WP Auto Tagger

Author: iDope

This plugin uses the Yahoo API to suggest tags based on the post content. You have the option to automatically tags posts on save or get tag suggestions with a single click. Auto Tagger will not replace your existing tags.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-auto-tagger/ 

 

retaggr

Author: Retaggr

This plugin adds the Retaggr functionality to your blog.

** IDENTITY **

The Retaggr Profile Card is about identity - its a virtual, interactive business card which you can customize as you wish. Widgets can be added into it to show posts from your blog,music you're currently listening to, allow communication via IM, or pretty much Consolidate all your identity widgets on your blog into one, and add custom widgets from anywhere on the web. Built-in widgets include support for Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, MSN, and Disqus, to name a just a few.

People use Retaggr Profile Cards to bring traffic to their blog and express their identity. A demo can be found at retaggr.com.

Installing this plugin means :

• Your visitors can leave their retaggr card when they comment on your posts
• When referring to other people in a post, you can insert their profile card, instead of just linking to their blog.
• Your card is attached to your posts

These unintrusive enhancements add context to your posts - bringing fun and useful functionality to your site, while keeping readers from unnecessarily navigating away to find out more about the person in question.

retaggr also allows you to add site specific widgets to card on your site - explore retaggr.com for more details.

** IMAGE TAGGING **

This plugin also gives your blog powerful image tagging functionality. Your users can tag people in any image on your blog, much like you would on a social network.
Just drag around the person in the image and select the name from your address book, which is integrated with your email or Facebook. Mousing over the person then shows their retaggr Profile Card. There are full moderation and notification options.

You do not need to modify any of your template files -- just activate the plugin, and set your options on retaggr.com.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/retaggr/ 

 

WP-SocialCount

Author: Chris Cagle

WP-SocialCount is a WordPress plugin that displays the number of adds/saves from within a social network for any particular URL. Since this plugin allows you to specify the URL that you want to pull the data for, it means that you can display any social number for any URL of your choosing. We also attach no style to the data the plugin returns – so you are free to style and use the data in any way you see fit.

 

<?php echo wpsocialcount('delicious', 'count', 'http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap'); ?>

<?php wpsocialcount('delicious', 'link', get_permalink()); ?> | <?php wpsocialcount('digg', 'link', get_permalink()); ?>

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-socialcount/

Another useful delicious plugin: http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/wordpress-dynamic-delicious/ 

 

Meet your commenters

When someone comments on your blog and writes a comment with his/her URL, is leaving more information than you think. This wordpress plugin displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can add them as friends if you are in the same social network. You will be able to know the profiles of your visitors in social networks like flickr, twitter, facebook. If you want to use it what you do is just download and install the plugin Meet You Comments.

http://www.berriart.com/meet-your-commenters/ 

from: http://ntt.cc/2009/10/13/25-excellent-social-networking-plugins-for-wordpress.html 

 

Zemanta

Author: Zemanta Ltd. Compatible up to: 2.8.4

http://www.zemanta.com/ 

Zemanta recommends content while you write your post. It helps you enhance it with images, videos, links, and SEO optimized tags. It's blogging on steroids!

Zemanta brings you:

• Links: Wikipedia, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon, CrunchBase, MusicBrainz, Snooth wines, Wikinvest
• Videos: YouTube, 5min
• Images: Getty, Flickr, Wikipedia
• Widgets: Google Maps, Last.fm, Slideshare, Wikinvest
• Articles: Major news sources like BBC and CNN and over 10,000 blogs
• Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, MyBlogLog

A simple point and click interface allows you to add only recommendations that you like. Recommended content is blogger friendly with clearly marked licenses (Creative Commons or similar).

Not having to search for related content saves you time and increases the efficiency of your editorial process. You can specify your own blog(s) and Zemanta will recommend links to your related posts!

Amazon affiliate support allows you to quickly link to books, music CD's and DVD's and earn money in the process.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zemanta/ 

 

Photo Dropper

As every blogger knows, putting images in your post make them both more attractive and more likely to be read. The problem is that not ever blogger has the time, resources or knowledge to take high-quality images for their site. Fortunately though, there are many of artists and photographers willing to share their work under a Creative Commons License.

Photo Dropper makes it easy for bloggers to search for and embed CC-licensed images into their posts or pages. It works by adding a search box to the edit panel, which pulls up a list of appropriately-licensed images, and then lets you embed them into your post in a variety of sizes. Best of all, Photo Dropper adds the attribution line, making sure your use of the image is compliant with the terms of the license.

There is no easier way to get high-quality images for your WordPress blog.

http://www.photodropper.com/wordpress-plugin/

from: http://www.blogherald.com/2009/04/27/5-wordpress-plugins-i-never-blog-without/ 

 

Auto Thickbox v.2.0.1 (Jan 5th, 2010)
Requires WP 2.7. Tested up to 2.9.1.

 

 

 

More plugins where I found most of these here:

http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/ 

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2008/08/my-wordpress-plugins/

http://yoast.com/top-wordpress-plugins/ 

http://www.semiologic.com/software/ 

http://desizntech.info/2009/10/22-really-useful-online-tools-for-web-designers-and-bloggers/ 

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/10/15-must-have-wordpress-plugins-for-professionals-bloggers/ 

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/wordpress-plugins-for-blog-layout-formating-and-css-designs/ 

http://www.takeoverpageone.com/blog/web-20/ten-essential-wordpress-plugins-for-internet-marketers

http://ntt.cc/2009/10/13/25-excellent-social-networking-plugins-for-wordpress.html

nb. beginning image from: http://visualisationmagazine.com/blogvisualthinkmap/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/d223f62f1ee54dc578720cb1f84ba98e.jpg

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