21 Brand New and Incredibly Useful WordPress Plugins

20+ Brand New and Incredibly Useful WordPress Plugins

Nov 23rd, 2009 in Web Roundups by Ivor Padilla

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level.

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Author: Ivor Padilla

I'm a Web Designer from Venezuela, I love Photoshop, and enjoy making website templates for ThemeForest.

1. Drag To Share

"Drag to share is the newest trend in social sharing. Just drag an image and drop it into any social website to share the whole page in real time. Most notably, this effect is being used by Mashable. The plugin was developed with the source files created by Dan Wellman. Read more here "

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2. Paginator

"Paginator is a pagination technique based on the idea of scrolling."

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3. TypeKit Plugin for WordPress

"This is a convenient way for WordPress users to use the Typekit font service in WordPress web sites. This will enable users to quickly change the fonts on their sites. Further this plugin provides the ability to designate where TypeKit will be used in their site."

Want to learn more about TypeKit? Watch our screencast.

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4. Custom Coming Soon Page

The "Custom Coming Soon Pages" WordPress plugin allows you to display a "Coming Soon" or "Under Construction" page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress site, while the site administrators continue to see the fully functional website.

This will enable you to perform upgrades, fix nasty bugs or preview jazzy enhancements to your design live on your WordPress based website or blog without letting your users and normal visitors see crappy error messages or changes to the design until you really want them to."

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5. Custom Class Selector

"The Custom Class Selector plugin allows users to style their post content using custom classes made available by the active theme. Theme developers can make custom style classes available within the visual editor by adding a simple function to the functions.php file included with their theme."

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6. PHP-Widgetify

"Like a normal text widget, this allows you to easily post text and HTML, but now you can execute PHP too! This makes merging with other themes easier."

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7. Pretty Comments

"Add some formatting capabilities to the comments textareas."

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8. Custom Login Page

"With the Custom Login Page, you can change the background image of your login page, the background image/colo of your login form div, the main logo image of your login page, and add custom CSS - all through a simple interface. Remember to view the Help tab at the top of the settings page for the plugin."

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9. eCSStender for WordPress

"This plugin uses the eCSStender javascript Library. This library is a parser that takes your CSS after the browser.

The library re-interprets the css using the plugins and adds new abilities to the browsers. You can for example add CSS3 Selectors support to IE6.

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10. Freebie Images: Free Stock Images Plugin

"Spice up your blog with high quality free stock photos & images created by professional photographers and illustrators: Easy to use search interface with advanced filtering and Drag & Drop functionality."

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11. SecurePress Website Security Analyzer

"SecurePress is a "Live" patent pending security system for WordPress. With the introduction of SecurePress, WordPress owners now have a clear choice in website protection. No more piece-meal security patches and plugins. The SecurePress widget installs enough free features to get you started towards securing your site. The ability to see and record your attacks is an excellent starting point. The free reports and statistics available within the dashboard help you to better understand the level and magnitude of these attacks. The free price tag is another excellent reason to download! When you're ready, and after familiarizing yourself with the dashboard, you may want to upgrade to the full version to enable the vast blocking capabilities of SecurePress Pro and turn this application into a monster security shield."

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12. Prev-Next Keyboard Navigation

"Prev-Next Keyboard Navigation adds JavaScript to allow moving through postings on index and archive pages using the J/K keys to skip to the next or previous post."

Features

  1. Scrolls the current post to the top
  2. View next post with "J", previous post with "K"
  3. After the last post on a page, continues to the next page
Photo by John Khan

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13. oEmbed Provider

"The oEmbed provider plugin makes WordPress an oEmbed provider, compliant with the XML and JSON specification at http://www.oembed.com.

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly."

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14. My WordPress Secure

"This plugin is very simple: it removes the WP-Version from the head of the document - thus, avoiding bad-intentioned people from knowing what version of WordPress you're currently running. "

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15. Private Messages For WordPress

"This plugin allows users of your blog to send private messages (PM) to each other. The number of PMs can be controlled via the plugin's option page."

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16. Simple WordPress Framework for Plugins Development

"Simple WordPress Framework is a Plugin to help you create new Plugins. Even though this is the first version (Beta), it is fully functional. It was designed using the standards and requirements specified in the WordPress Plugin API Manual and follows the correct programming structure, functions and procedures that are required to build a plugin in WordPress. In every PHP file, you will find notes and urls referring to the WordPress API articles that are relevant."

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17. No IE6

"You can install this plugin to inform your users that they are running an old browser.

This is using the jReject jQuery plugin. The WordPress plugin simply uses hooks to insert the jQuery plugin into your theme."

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18. S3Vault

"S3Vault is a WordPress Plugin to protect your Amazon S3 files by generating expiration links. You can post your S3 files for download, or play videos inline without worrying about others sharing your S3 file links."

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19. Envato Marketplace Items

"The Envato Marketplace Items plugin retrieves items from an Envato Marketplace and API set of your choice, then caches and shows the results as a gallery of 80px square thumbnails."

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20. WordPress Admin Bar Improved

"This Plugin replicates all of the menu links in your normal admin area at the top of your main site for logged in users (i.e. you). You can go right to the "Write Post" or manage options pages in one click from anywhere on your blog. No more having to go to your dashboard first. You can even have it replace your admin area menus if you want."

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21. Excerpt Tools

"If you require a specific excerpt length for each post, this is the right plugin for you. It adds an excerpt box to pages and shows a customizable jQuery character counter with the ability to limit the amount of characters."

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    uid_0 November 23rd

    Who uses WordPress? Drupal better …
    But nice tutorial:)

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      Ash Smith November 23rd

      I see more wordpress blogs than I see of any other system… what makes it better? I’m curious cause I haven’t used it before! Worth dabbling into it?

      Thanks in advanced!

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      Damon November 23rd

      Umm… 4+ million people use it :)

      Good article. Looks like some promising plugins here.

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      Steve November 23rd

      It was voted the best open source CMS for 2009

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        Ian November 24th

        I don’t understand how Wordpress is voted the number one CMS. To me it feels so tailored to blogging. I’m tempted to start an open source CMS because I can’t seem to find any CMS that is visually appealing and user friendly like Wordpress yet a true CMS… not some blogging framework that you can kinda hack to be a CMS.

        I’d love to hear your guys thoughts on this?

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        uid_0 November 24th

        Drupal – is better, faster, safer.
        WordPress – has more users, has better support.
        Which better? A matter of taste

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        Damon November 24th

        @Ian

        I don’t feel like you have to “kinda hack” WP to make it like a CMS. If you don’t want the blog feel, you disable comments and go on creating a normal page. I’d say removing the blog features from WP is easier than adding them to Drupal (and making that blog a nice as a default WP blog).

        There’s an argument for both sides, but since this article is about WP, I’d say it would have to win this time ;)

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        brian November 24th

        Look into Silverstripe (www.silverstripe.org) its free, open source and EXTREMELY easy to use.. the way a CMS should be.

        The themeing is even easier, plenty of built in page controls etc. take a look.

        and no, I’m not associated with silverstripe at all… its just that good.

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      Eric Hamby November 23rd

      LMAO: No sorry kid, WP is far better. Wordpress has been kicking Drupals butt for years now. I agree that its your fair opinion to think that Drupal is better, just has i think Wordpress is better. What you cant deny is the few million users WP has over Drupal.

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        Vlasnn November 25th

        Following that you can say then that windows is better than Linux just because more people use it. I would say people with better documentation and with better knowledge prefer use Drupal. The fact that be more popular doesn’t turns it in a better application.

        For me WP is a nice blog and if the person have the knowledge can turn it in a nice CMS, but Drupal is a CMS with a blog incorporated plus other things. The big issue for Drupal is the lack in documentation. Sadly is not as big as WP.

        Normally this kind of debates doesn’t have any good end, some people believe that a Photoshop is better than illustrator, or Dreamweaver is better than coda, etc. I would say for me the best tool is one that I know how to use it and make it do what I need.

        but that is my opinion.

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      Giles Van Gruisen November 23rd

      1. WordPress has more users than Drupal.
      2. This is no a tutorial.

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        Tom VI November 24th

        Let’s just say Wordpress is suitable for blogs and Drupal for everything else :)

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      w1sh November 24th

      “Drupal better” – No one ever states why.

      I’ve used every CMS from here to Timbuktu. Drupal has few really nice modules (plugins) like CCK and I’m sure there’s 1 more, but in general WordPress is better in every aspect of the word.

      WordPress starts off as just a blogging platform, but you can pick from a ton of nice plugins (albeit heavily styled) to make it do exactly what you want.

      The only reason I’d use Drupal is if I were making a big website for someone who heard the buzzword in a sentence that goes like, “WhiteHouse.gov uses Drupal!”

      I can’t believe WP still catches flak from the “It’s not a real CMS”-crowd. Wtf is a CMS if not a means to organize content?!
      *cough Posts, Pages, and Categories cough cough*

      …WP isn’t a CMS in the respect that it’s core doesn’t come packed with a million useless plugins (Drupal’s color chooser) that make it hard to work with – for designers and developers.

      I mean, Christ! Have you seen how many classes are applied to every piece of Drupal’s code?! Why not combine all the CSS classes into 1 class that defined all those properties? I’ll tell you why, because Drupal ‘inserts’ those classes via hooks as it builds the page.
      It’s easy enough to theme for out of the box but try designing for something that overwrites your CSS 4 or 5 times during it’s creation.

      Bah. If you’re going to spend that much time and effort on a site and the client isn’t demanding Drupal, you should use something like Plone. Otherwise every small to medium site should be happily done in WP quickly, efficiently, and beautifully.

      Btw, when are we going to get a “How to Draw an iPhone” tut on NetTuts?!

      I’m mad now!

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        Xcobar November 24th

        Great reply! ; )

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        Joey Parshley November 24th

        Drupal is way too complicated front end maintenance of a site. Because there is so much “hooking-in” its can take too long to find where the styles are being applied.

        I woudl suspect the difference would be in how they scale??

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        Michio November 24th

        Right on, w1sh. I have also used and created websites using Joomla, Mambo, and Plone. However I’ll keep it focused to Drupal and WP and add a couple more differences between the two.

        If you create a website for a client who would like to update their own content and make additions, my clients (who are not web savvy) have found it easier to use the WP interface versus the Drupal interface. They commented that the Drupal interface is overwhelming. With that said, you can always tweak the interface to make it more user friendly but why waste time doing that for a client when you are not getting paid to do it?

        The CSS classes are overwhelmingly annoying in Drupal but when you want to control every element in the design, this is where those css classes come in handy. However, it is a very time consuming thing to configure every css class and id.

        When it comes to custom content generation, hands down I side with Drupal. But when a client who wants a simple website or blog and I am on a tight budget, WP wins hands down.

        I recommend learning both systems inside and out. They both have their specific strengths and weaknesses and if you are developing websites for clients, you know which weapon to choose.

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        Vlasnn November 25th

        One Teacher told me in a chat about Drupal and WP:

        With Wp you have a house where you can turn it in what you need, but with Drupal I’m giving you the bricks to build what you want.

        The knowledge and time depends on you, in both if you work more on them the time that you are going to spend making projects is going to be shorter than if you just starting to use it.

        In both the learning curve is exponential.

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        Dustin November 26th

        A teacher told me once that if I want something done, exactly to my standards, to build it from scratch myself.

        Drupal doesnt give you bricks, it gives you a cardboard box, crayons and a knife and tells you to cut some holes and draw some curtains, yea you can take it apart, but its gonna take tape and glue to put back together.

        Wordpress gives you a cake, some icing, and says here, make this cake look nice, also check out the 7000+ recipes to make your cake look, smell and taste better.

        PHP, CSS, JS, HTML, ASP etc… are the bricks and mortar, you know how to use them and it doesnt matter what CMS you use.

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        Matthew Hunt December 4th

        Wordpress vs Drupal is subjective and it depends on the project at hand. These two systems are probably the two best ones in the open source community. There’s no sense in saying which one is better. It’s usually about which one is better for the job. Wordpress is not a CMS only because it isnt marketed as one. But yes, it is whatever you want to make it. In fact it has been used for everyone from buddypress installs to project management portals to invoicing systems. Drupal is very powerful and scalable, highly configurable, but sucks as a blog ( unless you put tons of effort) and lacks very good usability out of the box. Not to mention its very steep learning curve. It’s just going to take a lot longer to fully understand how to use Drupal efficiently. For those who say Wordpress is better, there is a strong chance they never worked with Drupal past the brick wall that everyone hits when they start, whereas with Wordpress you’re on a rocket up and running in no time. Sad to say this, but it is ignorance for the most part. These two systems should not be judged in the same category. I work with both systems everyday and It has taken me more than a year to feel really good about working in drupal. That’s pretty much how front-end coders and designers are going to feel. That’s why designers choose wordpress, that’s why more programmers may choose Drupal. Drupal hasn’t been good to designers until recently. Lastly, drupal can accommodate big-budget projects with heavy functionality requirements. Whereas Wordpress will be more appropriate for smaller businesses, blogs of any size and low-budget projects. At least people are comparing these two and not joomla or silverstripe. Sure they are great, but I personally do not like them..

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      Moe web November 25th

      I look at it a a flavour selection, i partially agree with Vlasnn.

      for your kind information, wordpress won the best CMS award 2009 :-)

      good post!

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      Semut Design January 26th

      I do and I love it. But Drupal… I use it too. So what?

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    Rilwis November 23rd

    Thank you for listing my plugin (Private Messages For WordPress) :)

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      iPad November 23rd

      Awesome plugin by the way. :)

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      Dasani November 23rd

      oh yah! good job man!

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    Simon November 23rd

    What about the Elastic plugin?

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    Franco November 23rd

    Some awesome plugins here!!!. Thanks for the post!

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    Tomas November 23rd

    A lot of useful plugins, thanks.

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    Enk. November 23rd

    Awesome List, wow thanks..
    Some very new and great plugins I’ve seen ! :)

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    Dany November 23rd

    Thanks, very useful!

    @dyvantity
    (http://twitter.com/dyvantity)

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    Alex Hughes November 23rd

    Great List :)
    Thanks allot!

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    Ash Smith November 23rd

    Niice list, I’ve been dying to find this drag to share plugin!

    The idea to block IE6 users actually made me laugh (out loud)! Brilliant stuff.

    Thanks, great work!

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    Nick November 23rd

    Thanks for the post! Didn’t know about a few of those.

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    Ouchh.com November 23rd

    Wonderfull plugins. Thank you very much for sharing.

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    Adit Gupta November 23rd

    nice collection!! :)

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    Teodoro Lopez November 23rd

    this is an awesome article, love the plugin for typekit and the custome login page!!

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    keefers November 23rd

    Word Press is the truth! Alway good to see up to date plugins. Maybe nettuts can design a WP Framework of its own in the future? I would buy it in an instance.

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    jodu38 November 23rd

    Who posts this kind of comment ? Better when a useful one …
    But nice troll:)

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    Brad Grier November 23rd

    How cool, new plugins for me to try, except for the Typekit plugin — which rocks! Clean, designy, efficient too!.

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    Muhammad Adnan November 23rd

    good share, I will use drag share in my blog ;)

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    esranull November 23rd

    very usefull collection thanks

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    kathy November 23rd

    will def have to implement a few of those! love the noIE6 idea. come on people that was so 2006.

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    Shane November 23rd

    Most of these were new to me. Thanks for sharing!

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    Rob McGuire November 23rd

    It’s amazing how fast and how often new plugins for Wordpress come out. Most would probably get lost in the shuffle if it weren’t for posts like this.

    The private message plugin looks like it could become quite useful on a few of the blogs I have, might have to give it a go.

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    Eugen R. November 23rd

    Nice post, some really useful plugins are those.

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    Fábio Antunes November 23rd

    Just great. I’m looking forward to write a Worldpress blog. And this are what i been looking for. And I’m really intrigued by this one: “PHP-Widgetify” i will see how it works.

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    Poodle Breeders November 23rd

    Great plugins. Thanks for sharing

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    Soner Gönül November 23rd

    Great..!

    Thanks..!

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    Design Informer November 23rd

    This is awesome!

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    lolo November 23rd

    Thanks, very usefull

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    Tim November 23rd

    superb. will employ a few of these in the ongoing work of spreading WordPress website goodness! particularly like the custom css selector – will give a number of these a good test!

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    srilatha November 23rd

    Thanks a lot. Good plugins.

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    Mimik November 23rd

    sweet and fresh list of plugins! ty

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    JakeHardy November 23rd

    cool collection… thanks!

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    philip November 23rd

    The S3Vault plugin will come in handy as I just started implementing Amazon’s S3 service into my websites.

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    Greg K November 23rd

    Great Round Of Plugs. Doin’ the CMS just got easier

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    Romain November 23rd

    Yçu should use the extended version of drag to share plugin : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dragtoshare-extended/

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    Justin L November 23rd

    This is proper linkbaiting ;)

    Actually, it’s a great article and these are some damn nice looking plugins. (I’ve also never seen most of these before)

    Great work!

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    Brandon Grainger November 23rd

    Thanks for making this great collection of wordpress plugins. Thanks.

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    amonle November 23rd

    sweet

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    designfollow November 23rd

    great

    thank you

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    Veronica November 23rd

    I’m not sure if it’s just me, but the Prev-Next Keyboard Navigation plugin link doesn’t lead anywhere?

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    z0r November 23rd

    Number #17 is Number #1.
    No more IE6

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    Benje November 23rd

    Some great plugins, thanks for the informative post!

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    LiliekS November 23rd

    Wow great article, thanks. I’ll definitely try it!

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    Yohan Perera November 23rd

    Superb list… Thanks for the intro going to download Free Stock Images Plugin and SecurePress Website Security Analyzer

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    Scott Ring November 23rd

    Thanks! I added drag to share and custom style. Should be helpful.

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    hiro protagonist November 23rd

    the ‘theme my login’ plugin is more professional imho for a login page than the custom login plugin – it styles your login page appropriate for the theme that you are using, which is important if you are looking to make your site consistent (eg for a client).

    admin bar doesn’t play nice with other css in wordpress, and completely broke the layout of my site when it was enabled (pushed other content out of the way). nice idea, but needs to be done in a less intrusive manner.

    the custom css one is useful, as wordpress tries to pretend like behind the scenes formatting like css doesn’t exist (which is good for clients that just want an easy to use cms for their sites), but it’s nice to have options ;}

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    Cody Rapol November 23rd

    I’ll have to try the drag to share one, looks interesting :)

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    Dharmveer Motyar November 23rd

    usefull…

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    Raja November 23rd

    Great collection..Thank You

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    Brian Temecula November 24th

    Gotta love the No IE6 plugin. Best of the bunch.

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    Phelan Riessen November 24th

    Awesome post! I like shiny new toys for WordPress.

    Number 12 Prev-Next Keyboard Navigation is an incorrect link. Here’s the correct one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/prev-next-keyboard-navigation/

    And an alternative to the Paginator plugin:
    WP-Paginate http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/

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    K Richardson November 24th

    Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for, especially the Wordpress admin bar. There is one plugin that I’d still like to add. I’d like users to be able to login using a Twitter, Facebook, Openid, Google, etc credentials to post comments, but I haven’t been able to find one I like yet. Does anyone have suggestions for the best plugin for this purpose?

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    Lamin Barrow November 24th

    Cool post. You have just made me install the CJ Coming soon plugin over at jqueryshowcase.com. Thanx :)

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      CSSJockey November 25th

      Thanks for using Custom Coming Soon Plugin.

      If you need any help or have some suggestions please let us know via our official support forums http://support.cssjockey.com.

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    Stephen Webb November 24th

    There appears to be some great Plug ins here, covering all manner of functions and uses! It’s clear from these and the overwhelming amount of plug ins available that WordPress is now the leading CMS platform.

    It’s nice to see Internet Explorer 6 being addressed again here, this certainly looks a useful plug in to get users to make a much overdue update. Typekit also appears to be a very good plug in to allow greater flexibility in design, and I think is a sign of the next stage of development in web design as more advanced design capabilities become a reality.

    Thanks for this useful list, I will be bookmarking it and referring to it in the near future!

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    Roy Ho November 24th

    Nice to see a new set of WP plugins!! Thanks!

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    Darragh November 24th

    Good post, a useful list of plugins. I particularly like the IE6 one!

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    Chakib November 24th

    Its the greates yet useful set of plug-ins i ever seen !!
    i’m already useing 5 of them !!

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    Adrian Apan November 24th

    Thanks for including my plugin! And for the users of DragToShare, soon a new version will be released so follow your WP admin panel for any updates.

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  58. Hi,

    Thank you for listing our plugin (Custom Coming Soon Pages) – We feel so honored to have our WordPress plugin featured on Tuts Plus network.. I am really glad that you liked our plugin, found it useful and worth mentioning here. Thanks again !


    Regards,
    Abhinav Sood,
    Lead Developer, Designer and Social Media Expert
    CSSJockey.com

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    iPad November 24th

    I’m glad you like the round-up guys / gals :)

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    DemoGeek November 24th

    I’m sure you might be tempted to try all these fantastic plugins but make sure to DELETE the unused plugins once you deactivate it. Your blog will perform better without those deactivated plugins under the plugins folder. Just a reminder.

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    w1sh November 24th

    How much time was spent making this list anyway?
    Here is a much better list for people who want to be cool.

    Fluency Admin Skin: Hotkey navigation – http://deanjrobinson.com/projects/fluency-admin/

    Sniplets: let you put any script – PHP included – anywhere (Pages, Posts, Widgets, etc) – http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/sniplets/

    WP Paginate: A lightweight alternative to Paginator (who has 1000 pages of posts to skim through anyway?) – http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/wp-paginate/

    My Page Order: Drag and drop organization of pages (there are ones for Categories and Links) – http://geekyweekly.com/mypageorder

    Anyone else find some plugins recently they’d swear by.

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    Vin Thoams November 24th

    Great article. Do you know of any plugins that can allow for custom sidebars for each page? I don’t like creating tons of page templates. It would be nice to select which widgets you want to be active for each page within the page dialogue itself.

    Thanks!

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    Paul November 24th

    Nice Post Ivor! Some incredible plugins out there I had no idea they existed.
    Paul

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    Patrick November 24th

    Thank you for sharing these great plugins. Wordpress is a great blogging platform and the users on make it better!

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    Izulien November 24th

    Very nice list of plugins. I’ll have to try some of them out for sure.

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    Soner Gönül November 24th

    Really Good..!

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    Narley Fabricio November 24th

    Very Good…!!!

    Thanks……

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    Uma November 24th

    Great collection…. thankyou….

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    Mark Dijkstra November 25th

    nice list Ivor!

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      iPad November 25th

      Thanks Mark :)

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    Ben November 25th

    Ah, was wondering about the drag and drop when I noticed it on abduzeedo and another blog I visit, will be sure to have a mess around with it, see how it can be customized!

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    Designerfoo November 25th

    Neat collection of plugins!!!! Do check mine out too :) Eventify – designerfoo.com/custom-wordpress-development

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    Stéphane Goetz November 25th

    Thanks for adding my plugin :D (eCSStender for WordPress)

    I’m honoured to appear once on this website.
    It’s a great source for me since years

    By the way. thanks for the plugins. I already see where I can use some of them.

    And the other question, the debate Drupal / Wordpress for me the two are very good. But it really depends on what we want to do with the website.

    For a website managed by dozens of people and generating massive datas, i’d rather use drupal.

    And for middle sized websites with a blog and other things. I would clearly use Wordpress.

    But in the end, it’s all a matter of taste

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      Martin Marinov November 28th

      Man, I don`t know.. It doesn`t work for me…

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    CSSJockey November 25th

    Thank you for listing our Custom Coming Soon Pages Plugin here.

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    Kelly Watson November 25th

    Great list … but this would be even more helpful if youl linked to pages where you could see these plug-ins in action.

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      Mark November 26th

      I guess this is why you have ScreenShots sections and other info on WordpressOrg – it is up to the authors to put it.

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    The Blog Builder Guy November 25th

    I am going to add this list to my arsenal of plugins. I’ve got some clients who are going to love a couple of them.
    Thanks for posting them!

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    Walt Ribeiro November 25th

    This list is awesome. I’ve been using wordpress for my orchestral music, and it’s a fantastic option! These plugins are all very handy, and I’m excited to see the next wave of plugins from developers. Great post!

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    Ranjit November 26th

    Awesome plugins..Thanks for share it…

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    Fontie November 27th

    I think wordpress is the best CMS.. Thanks for sharing about this plugin. I like Custom Coming Soon Page. This is great plugin !

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      Lillan November 28th

      “I like Custom Coming Soon Page. This is great plugin !”

      It’s perfect, I can’t agree more :D

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        Fontie November 29th

        :D yeah i agree with you. this is perfect.. :)

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    Lillan November 28th

    Awsome list, but there is an alternate way to get rid of the WP current version without any plug in, just put this in your functions.php (i found it somewhere but i can’t remember where…sorry for that).

    remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

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      iPad December 2nd

      I’m glad you like it :)

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    Lillan November 28th

    By the way – Wordpress is best! ;)

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      Fontie November 29th

      yeah, i agree with you again.. :)

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    GBloggt November 29th

    Bookmarked this page.
    Thanks putting these list together.

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    Ron Ratliff November 29th

    Interesting debate — but, at the end of the day, the reason why WP is so popular is because klutzes like me can use it and create something relatively professional looking without spending huge amounts of cash on an outside developer.

    As a small business owner (and advisor), cash is king and social media is a cornerstone of my marketing.

    Thank you for the update on plug-ins. Some of them are beyond my current level of technical expertise, but some address issues that I’ve been wanting to “fix” (i.e. fonts).

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    Chris November 29th

    Thanks for the list! As a new subscriber, I’ve found tuts to be a much valued resource.

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  84. Great list of new plugins. Thanks for the links. The one plugin to remove your WordPress version number though seems a little silly. It’s just as easy to paste in one line of code into your functions.php file to remove your version number as it is to find, install, and activate a plugin.

    But I suppose for newbies plugins might seem easier.

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    Jermaine Young November 30th

    This could possibly be THE BEST LIST EVER!!!!

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    Kian Ann November 30th

    I like the drag to share thing!

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    Sase Antic November 30th

    Noticed few interesting plugins.
    Thanks!

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  88. Great post. These will be very useful. What do you think of the latest “Drag n’ Drop” SM sharing trend? Do you think this is really that useful?

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    Tom December 1st

    Plugins for WP has really been picking up in quality and creativity

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    SoftwareTribes December 1st

    Wow, I will use the security plugins .Thanks for the article

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    Adam Hermsdorfer December 6th

    I tried out drag to share this morning, but it only works with 3 social sites. Its a tremendous idea and I think it will become mainstream when more social sites are available. IE6 is a mess…I’m either going to add the IE6 plugin to future sites or stop support for that browser.

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  92. Quite an extensive and interesting list. Thanks for sharing these, there really are some very usefull new plugins in there, that I will download and try right now!

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    SmartnCreative December 10th

    Thanks! I found (and intalled) a few very different and useful plugins I found here, that I didn’t know about before. Great list!

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    aboange December 12th

    Thanks! I found

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    bedava film izle December 15th

    THanks you Betafully

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    Steven December 16th

    I love your comments section…. is this a plug-in?

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      Hannah Jones December 28th

      I’d love to know how you created your comments section too.
      It is lovely and clean with a simple modern twist.

      Hannah

      p.s. I’m a ‘WordPress Groupie’ and proud of it

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    Martinlut December 28th

    Toys products in our discount stores. Mega Sale, global discounts every week. Best prices, many gifts.

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    youtube December 30th

    Thanks for sharing this information. I found it very informative as I have been researching a lot lately on practical matters such as you talk about it..

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    Casino Roulette January 2nd

    Hey, ok, I get it, I guess – but does this really work?

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    Bloggerzbible January 19th

    ultimate collection

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    SoccerFan January 22nd

    Pretty Comments is my Favorite. Thanks!

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