With WordPress being used in all kinds of ways nowadays, there are plenty of sites that call for some sort of post rating system, whether it be for products, resources, or sites in a gallery. What better way to rate these posts than the classic 5-star rating system? Here are five post rating plugins that do an excellent job at storing, displaying, and sorting rated posts. Read more…
wpSLEEP allows you to create posts in advance have them automatically publish when you’d like. You can then set when different parts of a post are viewable.
WP Blogsecurify 1.0 is a security plugin for WordPress designed to integrate several simple but important security patches for the popular blogging platform.
WP Easy Uploader was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin or to upload a text document for people to download.
Landing Sites display a list of related posts specifically from the search keywords used when visitors are referred to your site from a search engine.
Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.
PHPInclusion is a plugin that allows you (the admin only) to insert the content of a PHP file into your post/page with include(), require() , require_once() and include_once() functions.
iLast.Fm provides a complete integration between your blog and your Last.fm account. It allows you to show what music you are listening to, your top albums, top artists, loved tracks, etc. on your blog.
WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories, even or both using a Flash movie, rotating them in a 3D configuration. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually appealing. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page.
Actionable allows the creation of a categorized list of action items for users to check off and track. It was originally developed for Share 350.0 - a plan for regional sustainability to help people track their actions and efforts to create a sustainable community.
Allows you to create a link to domain.com/?random which will redirect users to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can also specific in the URL random_post_type or random_cat_id. Created by Matt Mullenweg, himself.
This plugin automatically takes your oldest post, and updates its time stamp so that it appears as the latest post on your WordPress site. It does this by utilizing the cron feature built into WordPress 2.1 (and newer). It can rotate all the posts on your site, or just ones in a specific category. You can currently schedule it by setting the number of hours between shifts. For example, set it to 24 hours and it will shift the oldest post every day, at the time that you enabled it.
FLIR is similar to sIFR, but it uses images instead of Flash. Sure enough, someone has created a plugin to use FLIR with WordPress.
Do you have any cool plugins that you’d like to share? Let us know in the comments.
As a freelance web developer and owner of WPCustomization, I’ve used WordPress with many clients - and they love it. WordPress is easy to learn and its back-end is easy enough to customize for certain situations. Not many visitors ever see the back-end of a WordPress-powered site, but it’s always nice to brand the admin a bit - whether it’s a structural overhaul or simple color changes. With that said, we’ve decided to collect six plugins that are quite useful when branding the WordPress administrator area. Check it out. Read more…
For an open-source blogging CMS, WordPress’s admin interface is pretty dang good. With the release of version 2.5, the revamped administrator area has been re-organized and cleaned up to make it easier for users to write and edit posts, change settings, manage site content, and more. However, some sites require a bit more functionality than others. In this case, WordPress plugins come to the rescue. Here are ten plugins that expand the functionality of the admin area. Read more…
WPCandy packs a ton of features and content into its single-installation site. Naturally, we’ve had to rely on a large set of plugins to give the site its fluid functionality. Here’s what’s currently helping to power our site. Read more…
Social Networking and Bookmarking have become huge a huge part of the internet and it’s important to stay on top with these trends. Thankfully, WordPress has plugins that help us accomplish this without putting forth too much effort. We even have a Social Bookmarking plugin installed right here on WPCandy!
