Saturday, 4 of September of 2010

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Over Wordpress: 200+ Tools and Tutorials for Running Your WordPress Blog

For the blogger

    WP Polls Archive

AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site, which speeds up the load times.

Alexa Rank – Display your Alexa rank with pride.

Ajax Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.

asTunes – Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.

Codebox – Creates a side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.

Crossroads – Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.

FireStats – Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages.

Google PageRank – Allows you to display your Google Page Rank on your blog.

Hardened-Trackback – Generates a single-use trackback to help fight trackback spam.

imgViewJX – Refreshes an image on your main page from a selected directory.

Live Spell Checker – Adds a spell checker to your posts in the admin area.

Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map – If you include longitude and latitude in your post, this will automatically add it to a Google Map on a separate page. Very useful for blogs writing restaurant reviews or about events.

Wordpress Mailing List – Have a mailing list? Let readers subscribe and unsubscribe from the front page of your site.

WP e-Commerce – Adds a shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.

WP-Polls – Adds fully customizable polls to your blog.

WP-Post Ratings – Allows readers to rate your posts.

Zorpia That’s Hot Box – Allows visitors to send posts they like to Zorpia.com and vote on their favorites.

For your readers

    WP-UserOnline

AJAX Comments 2.0 – Auto updates the comments page with no full reload, enabling much smoother commenting than the older full reload system.

AJAX Google Video Search – Search Google Video without leaving your favorite blog.

AJAX Shoutbox – Real time conversation with sound to alert you to new messages.

Cool Weather – Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any location they choose.

Currency Converter – Adds a real time currency converter to the page with data from Yahoo Finance.

Google AJAX Search – Allows you to setup search for your site, the web, and another site such as your Flickr account.

Google MapSearch Widget – Allows readers to search Google Maps without ever leaving the page.

Gregarious – Social bookmarking plugin that adds Digg, Reddit, Feedburner FeedFlare buttons and more.

Hottaimoijiruna – Adds a self-updating clock to the site for a timezone defined by the blogger.

Inline Ajax Comments – Hides comments until the user clicks on them.

Inline Ajax Page – Displays a snippet of a post and then allows the reader to click a button to load the full entry without going to another page.

Tagboard Widget – Adds an auto-updating tagboard to your site that displays new messages as they are posted.

Units Converter – Converts hundreds of different units of length, area, volume, weight / mass, and speed without reloading the page.

WP Movie Ratings – Combines data from IMDB with the blogger’s movie review and allows the readers to add their own ratings.

XDTalk – Allows real-time conversation between registered users.

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Fight Spam

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Akismet – Anti-spam plugin from the creators of WordPress that uses a central database of spam comments to identify spam. Requires a free API key from Wordpress.com

Spam Karma – Analyzes comments for spam based on a karma system.

Bad Behavior – Prevents spam bots from accessing your site by analyzing their HTTP requests.

Did You Pass Math? – Asks users a simple math question before their comments are posted.

Comment Timeout – Closes comments on old posts.

Encourage Commenting

BlogFollow – Shows a snippet of the user’s blog beneath their comment.

DoFollow – Removes “nofollow” attributes from links in comments so search engines can follow them.

DoFollow Trackbacks – Removes “nofollow” attributes from trackbacks.


Show Top Commentators
– Lists your most frequent commenters along with links to their blogs.

Improve Appearance

Nicer Trackbacks – Improves the appearance of trackbacks from other blogs.

WP-NoSh*t – Filters bad words from comments.

Numbered Comments Adds numbers to comments.

AuthorHighlight – Highlights comments by the blog’s author.

Comment Highlighter – Styles comments based on the author’s name, email, or URL.

wp-chunk – Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching the page.

Enable Rich Comments

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Custom Smileys – Adds clickable smiley emoticons to comments.

TinyMCEComments – Turns the comment box into a full-featured rich text editor.

Live Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before posting.

Edit Comments XT – Allows users to edit their own comments.

Enable Avatars

Gravatar – Displays user-selected avatars next to comments.

Favatars – Pulls the favicon from a commenter’s blog or website and uses it for their avatar.

MBLA – Adds user images from MyBlogLog to comments.

OpenID Comments – Lets readers comment with their OpenID identity.

Show Off Comments

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WP-Most Commented Posts – Displays the posts with the most comments in the sidebar.

Latest Comments with Avatars Reloaded – Shows the latest comments along with the MyBlogLog avatars of the commenters.

Allow Better Conversation

Simple CoComments – Tracks the conversation across blogs.

Comment Karma – Digg-style voting on comments.

Quoter – Allows users to quote a previous comment in their comment.

Whisper – Lets users “whisper” comments that are only visible to one person.

Moderate Comments Effectively

Comment Twitter SMS Notification – Notifies you of new comments via SMS through Twitter.

Bannage – Adds the ability to ban users from commenting by name, email, or IP.

CommentCentral – Allows batch opening and closing of comments on multiple posts.

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404 Notifier – Provides a log of your 404 errors.

Admin Dropdown Menus – Streamline your crowded admin panel menus by turning them into dropdown menus.

Admin Panel Comment Reply – Adds a “reply to comment” option in the comments section of the admin area.

Ajax Spell Checker – Uses a variety of dictionaries to spell check your posts.

Auto-hyperlink URLs – Provides you with several options for automatically turning URLs in to hyperlinks.

AWSOM Pixgallery – Designed to allow artists and webcomic creators to create a portfolio of their artwork.

Batch Categories – Makes it easier to add posts to another category, or to organize posts when importing from another blog.

Custom Admin Menu – Gives you the power to rename, hide, or move just about anything you want in the admin area.

Custom Write Panel – Allows you to customize the “Write” panel of WordPress by hiding things you don’t need such as “Post Password” and adding things you would like easier access to.

Dashbar – Allow your admins to have admin access while working in the frontend of the blog without having multiple windows open.

Dashboard Editor – Completely customize your admin dashboard using PHP, HTML, and widgets.

DashNote – Adds a post-it note feature to the dashboard to jot down notes to yourself.

Digital Fingerprint – Adds a digital fingerprint to your posts so you can search the web to see if your content has been scraped.

    Domain Mirror

Domain Mirror – Allows one WordPress install to be accessed from multiple domains.

Download Counter – Counts and tracks the downloads of all your files.

Email Users – This plugin allows you to mail registered users on your blog based on their role.

Enforce WWW Preference – Provides 301 redirects to queries with /index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www to make sure your search engine indexing is uniform.

Excerpt Editor – Provides you with more control over the excerpts such as length and auto creation.

FeedBurner FeedSmith – Ensures all your RSS feed subscribers get counted in your FeedBurner subscriber count.

Fix Database – Checks your WordPress database for errors and attempts to fix them.

Genki Announcement – Allows you to add an announcement before your first post without editing your themes.

    Genki Pre-Publish Reminder

Genki Pre-Publish Reminder – Allows you to write reminders for things like setting categories before you post.

Google Analyticator – Inserts Google Analytics code on every WordPress page.

Google Sitemaps Generator – Will create a Google compliant site map of your blog.

GT Post Approval – Adds “Approve” and “Reject” buttons to the administrators view on all posts, which is ideal for blogs with multiple authors.

Instant Update – Handles the tedious chore of upgrading your WP install with just one-click.

Just Unzip – Allows you to upload a zip folder from the Write page. Just Unzip will then unzip the contents and associate them with the current post.

Khanh’s Instant Notepad (KIN) – Allows you to jot notes to yourself on a notepad.

Leprakhauns Word Count – Adds a Java powered word counter to your editing page.

Mass Post Manager – Allows you to move or delete all the posts in a category at once.

Mutliply – Allows one administrator to control multiple blogs.

NextGEN Gallery – Adds an image gallery to your control panel.

OneClick Install – Adds an extremely powerful uploader and installer for plugins and themes to WordPress, eliminating the need to unzip or FTP.

Page Link Manager – Allows you to easily rearrange, hide, and move pages.

Permacop – Allows you to redirect any URL to another.

Post2Page – Allows you to take existing posts that you have and convert them into pages.

PlugInstaller – Helps you install new plugins by obtaining it, uploading it and unpacking it.

podPress – Includes numerous features for bloggers wishing to add podcasts to their WordPress install, such as previews, RSS feeds, and adding cast to posts.

Search and Replace – Search all your posts at once for specified text, quickly replace it.

Share This – Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an e-mail-this function in one handy button.

Simple Pop-up Images – Add a thumbnail image to your post; when the user clicks on it, they get a larger pop-up of the picture.

Simple Tagging – Simplifies the tagging process to drop down menus and includes the ability import from your current tagging plugins.

Site Unavailable – Publishes a message that your site is down while still allowing admins to login.

Throttle – Monitors your bandwidth and limits non-essential items during heavy load times to help performance.

Wikipedia-NoFollow – Written in response to Wikipedia’s implementing a “nofollow” rule to their outgoing links, this plugin allows you to add nofollow to links you give to Wikipedia pages.

WordPress Mobile Edition – Strips your blog down for easy reading on phones and PDAs.

WordTube – Why use YouTube when you can host and stream your videos as you please? Includes a flash player.

WP Grins – Adds clickable smilies to both the administration area and comments section.

WPAds – Add rotating banner and text ads to any location you define on your blog.

WP-Custom Login – Allows you to modify the user login page logo to an image of your choice.

WP- DBManager – Provides you with the ability to optimize the database, back it up, restore, delete the backup database, drop emptied tables, and run selected queries.

WP-phpMyAdmin – Provides you with quick access to your PHP databases directly from the WP admin area without having to login to phpMyAdmin.

WP Plugins Tracker – Verifies all of your plugins are the latest version by checking them against the wp-plugins-db.org database.

    WP Super Edit

WP Super Edit – Provides you with more control over the Visual editor including emoticons, layers, style attributes, and more.

WP-Table – Allows you to add a table directly in the Visual mode or import from a spreadsheet.

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Image Management Tools

Aniga Gallery – Allows you to create picture galleries that use the WordPress comment system.

Batch Image Uploader – Upload and resize multiple images to your blog at once.

Duh Gallery – Creates a photo gallery from your uploads folder in WordPress.

ImageManager – Includes interface for browsing and uploading images and basic tools such as cropping and rotating.

WP Image Gallery – Create photo galleries from within WordPress and display them in posts.

fMoblog – Post pictures with descriptions from a mobile phone.

Pop-up Image Gallery – Photo gallery plugin with various options for transitions.

PhotoZip – Allows you to upload a .zip file to create an image gallery.

PictPress – Automatically generates a picture post from a directory on your server and resizes pictures on the fly.

Importing Images from Other Services

Another Flickr – Allows your readers to browse thumbnails from your Flickr albums and go directly to full size images.

BubbleShare – Display photo galleries from your BubbleShare account.

Facebook Photos – Shows thumbnails of photos from your linked Facebook account.

Flickr Photo Album – Pulls in your Flickr photo sets and displays them as albums in WordPress.

FlickrRSS – Displays most recent images from any RSS feed from Flickr such as a user, group, or tags page.

Fotobook – Import your Facebook photo albums into a WordPress page.

ImageShack Uploader – Upload an image to ImageShack’s free storage service and insert a thumbnail into your posts.

Slickr Gallery – AJAX photo gallery that pulls in images and photosets from Flickr.

Smugmug Gallery Bar – Insert photos from your Smugmug account into blog posts.

Image Display Effects & Hacks

Enlarger – Displays a thumbnail but loads the bigger image in the background so when clicked the full size version loads instantly.

IImage Panorama – Helps you create a 360 degree panorama picture to add to your blog.

Image Headlines – Create cool text images for the titles of your posts.

Lightbox 2 – Generates thumbnails that when clicked load in a lightbox.

Multi-Topic Icon: Shows images that represent each of the categories assigned to a blog post.

Random Image – Pulls a random image from your blog and links back to the post it came from.

Transparent PNG Fix – Make sure your PNG files don’t look nasty.

WP Wetfloor – Create the ever-popular reflection effect for the images on your blog.

Playing Music

Del.icio.us MP3 Player – Makes links to MP3s in your posts playable and easily postable to del.icio.us.

Audio Player – Inserts a simple MP3 player into your posts that plays uploaded audio files.

XSFP Player – Flash player that allows you to embed music on your blog via http.

What Am I Listening To?

DG PlayingNow Updater – Displays the song you are currently listening to on iTunes, MSN Messenger, or J. River Media Center.

EZ-Scrobbler – Displays your most recently listened to tracks on last.fm.

iTunes Spy – Displays your most recently listened to tracks on iTunes.

Pandora Feeds – Displays data from Pandora feeds, for example, a list of your stations, bookmarked songs, and bookmarked artists.

onAirNow – Now playing plugin that displays most recent song from iTunes or WinAmp.

Podcasting Tools

Odeo – Embed a podcast that you recorded on Odeo.

Podcast Release – A “release” form for guests of your podcast, accepting your terms.

PodPress – Full featured plugin for podcasters including feed generation, iTunes preview, and download stats.

iPodCatter – Helps podcasters create a valid feed for the podcast directory on iTunes.

Miscellaneous Audio Tools

Evoca Browser Mic – Allow your blog readers to send you voice comments which you can later post to your blog.

Odiogo – Converts your text to speech and provides a link for your readers to listen to your posts.

Video Tools

Anarchy Media Player – Plays a wide variety of audio/video file formats in the appropriate player on your blog.

Easy Inline SWF – Allows you to insert Flash files in .swf format into your posts without any weird tags.

SeeTheFace – Complete tool for recording video and posting it to your blog.

Extreme Video – Plays any .flv file on your blog with support for YouTube, Google Video, Quicktime, and more.

Noembedder – Automatically adds a noembed section to any embedded content that does not already have one.

YouTube Brackets – Allows you to simply enter a URL for a YouTube video versus copying and pasting embed code.

wordTube – Video player that includes the ability to program a menu of videos.

TubePress – Display YouTube galleries as blog posts or a sidebar item.

YouTube Video Gallery – Displays thumbnails for any gallery from YouTube.

vPIP – vPIP stands for “Videos Playing In Place,” meaning it will only embed after a specified image or link is clicked by the user.

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Stats for the Blog Owner

    FireStats

AWStats Xtended Info – Requires AWStats and adds things such as screen size, Flash, PDF, and Java support.

Backlinks inbound links counter – Uses MSN to track all incoming links to your site.

Bluetrait Event Viewer (BTEV) – Tracks your logins, deleted users, last passwords, invalid user names and more.

Bsuite – Tracks page loads, search terms used on incoming links, top performing posts, and lists related posts at the bottom of each entry.

CountPosts – Shows you how many times each post gets visited while ignoring visits from the admin.

DownloadCounter – Counts downloads of files you attach to your posts.

Dschini Bot Checker – Lets you know which pages are being checked by which search bots and how often.

Feed Statistics – Monitors your feeds and tells you which readers are being used, the links that readers click on, and which stories they are reading.

FeedBurner SiteStats Enabler – Helps you install the FeedBurner script in your site with instructions in both Italian and English.

FeedBurner StandardStats – Simplifies the process of installing the FeedBurner script so you can monitor your RSS feed statistics.

FeedStats – Statistical tool for counting your feeds, measuring length of stay on your site and more. Stats appear in the dashboard.

FirStats – Full-featured, Ajax powered stats for your admin area.

GoStats web counter – Lets you install the GoStats counter in your blog as a text widget.

Lightstats – Plugin generates bar and pie graphs for statistics about posts, comments, and categories.

Live – Lets you watch the activity on your blog in real time. See things like posts visited, new comments, and feeds grabbed.

Open Web Analytics – Tracks page views, visits, unique visitors, clicks, referring websites, and plots visitor geography on Google Earth.

Posts/Comments Time – Shows you the number of posts and comments for the hours of each day so you can better plan your posting times.

Search Phrases – Straightforward plugin that just displays what search terms brought the visitors to your site.

Social Traffic Monitor – Monitors the social sites Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, Fark, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon.

Ultimate Google Analytics – Adds the Google Analytics script to your site while also counting downloads and outbound links.

Word Count – Tracks the word count of your posts.

WordPress.com Stats – Uses your WordPress API key to pull stats and places them in a page in your admin area.

WP OnlineCounter – This plugin counts the number of readers currently online, highest number of visitors at the same time, and the total count of visitors.

WP-SlimStat – Tracks all of the standard stats you’ve come to expect from a stats package, but in a very compressed database for less load on your server.

WP-Stats – Very general statistics package focusing on your number of posts, comments and so on.

Stats to Share with Visitors

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Akismet Spam Count – Show off your Akismet spam power and let spammers know you’re protected from their attempts.

Alexa Rank – Allows you to display your Alexa rank for the world to see.

GeneralStats – Displays your choice of number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.

Google PageRank – Display your Google Page Rank on your front page.

Impress – Display number of users, posts, pages, comments, categories, words, and more on your blog.

Jon’s Showoff Rankings Widget – Displays your Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Ranking, and Technorati Rank all in one plugin. (Ed note: this plugin is no longer supported, and the developer recommends using the widget version instead.)

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Post Administration & Layout

    Notify On Draft Post

Add Graphic Signature – Adds a graphic of your signature to your posts either automatically or via the insertion of a simple tag.

Adman – Allows you to post ads such as Google AdSense at the beginning or middle of a post.

Another WordPress Meta Plugin – Allows you to add Meta tags and keywords to your post to try to further optimize your blog for search engines.

Category Remindr – Category Remindr puts a button next to the “Publish” button to remind you to select the categories for your post.

Corrector – Adds Google Spell Check to your admin area and can spellcheck in 27 languages.

DropCap First Character – Enlarges the first character of a post to give it more of a magazine appearance.

Front Page Excluded Categories – Allows you to exclude posts from certain categories on your front page.

Limit the size of main page posts – Set the number of words you want each of your main page posts to contain so that if they exceed that limit, a link is provided to a page with the complete post.

Notify On Draft Post – Notifies the editor when the authors of a multi-author blog post a new draft for review.

Post Notification – Sends an email to a list of registered users when you make a new post. Includes the option to include the post in the email.

Post Repeater – Re-posts an entry with significance every week, month, or year.

Post Templates – Allows you to set up repeating templates such as a “Picture Of The Day” without all of the tedious copy and pasting.

PostPost – Allows you to add content such as advertisements before or after every post.

Posts Expire – Set an expiration date on your post.

Subscribers Only – Lets you mark a post as “subscriber only” so they are visible only to members of your site.

Subscribe-Remind – Adds a reminder to the bottom of each post to subscribe to your RSS feed.

WordPress PDA – Helps your readers view your blog on a PDA browser.

WP-orderposts – This plugin allows you to custom order your posts (as opposed to the default reverse-chronological order).

WP-Sticky – Make a post the default first entry on your blog.

Post Tools

    TD Word Count

Auto Link – Use the Google API to set delimiters like [movie]Move Title[/movie] to make it auto link to the page on IMDB.

Author Complete Post List – Gives you the ability to display all the posts by an author, including the ones where they are co-author.

Blog by Mail with Categories – Changes the “Blog by Mail” feature in WordPress so you can also set the category.

Code Markup – Allows you to include snippets of code, including HTML, in your post without it affecting the page.

Easy Post-To-Post Links – Allows you to use a shortcut when writing a post linking to another post on your blog.

On This Day – Displays posts posted on the same day in previous years.

Plain Text Paste – Helps to ease the pain of pasting something you wrote in Microsoft Word into WordPress.

TD Word Count – Displays a word count for each post on a blog, and gives you a total count.

Ubernyms – Allows you to make shortcuts for terms and links you use often. Just enter the abbreviation and this plugin fills it in for you.

WP-Footnotes – Allows you to add footnotes to a more detailed post.

wpSpoiler – Allows you to hide text behind [spoiler] tags. Ideal for sites with tv or movie reviews.

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Crossposting

    DJ-Email-Publish

DJ-Email-Publish – Once you publish on your WordPress blog, this sends the post as an email to your other blogs such as MSN Spaces.

Live Space Sync – Allows you to import all your posts to your Microsoft Live Spaces so you can advertise your blog to your contacts.

LiveJournal Crossposter – Automatically posts your latest entries to your LiveJournal account, or any other LJ software based site.

Vox Crossposter – Cross-posts your posts to your Vox account.

Xanga Crosspost – Allows you to have your posts appear on your Xanga account.

RSS Feed Tools

    ©Feed

©Feed – Adds copyright info to your feed and places a digital fingerprint on it so you can search the web for content theft.

Add to Any Subscribe Button – Allows your readers to subscribe via most popular RSS readers.

AddThis Sidebar Widget – Adds RSS info and social bookmarking links to the sidebar.

Better Feed – Adds a “read more” button, a copyright notice, and a “Add to del.icio.us” link.

DeCat – Allows you to select certain categories to not be included in your feeds.

Feed Control – Gives you the ability to exclude posts from your feed, add pages, and more.

Feed Footer – Adds copyright and advertising to your RSS posts.

Feed Master – Assigns a number to your feed readers to give you a better idea of stats specific to them.

Feed Styler – Allows you to style your feed.

FeedBurner FeedSmith – Make sure all your RSS feed subscribers get counted along with the ones signed up via FeedBurner.

FeedStats – Gives you statistical data on your feeds.

Feedvertizer – Add text links to the end of your feed posts.

RSS Flashfeeder to Myspace – Feeds your last two posts to your MySpace page.

Slash Comments – Adds info to your feed about how many comments are on the post.

Subscribe-Remind – Adds a little reminder to subscribe to your feed at the end of each post.

Social Bookmarking

    Share This

Digg Button – Allows you to add the Digg button anywhere in a post with a simple code snippet.

Digg IT – A plugin that allows the inclusion of the Digg button.

JPF Add to Reddit – Allows readers to submit your posts to Reddit.

Share This – Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an email-this functionality in one button.

Sociable – Adds the linking information for 61 social bookmarking sites.

Social Bookmark Buttons – Adds social bookmark buttons for Digg.com, Netscape.com, Reddit.com, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon.com, Google.com, Socialogs.com, and Socialposter.com.

Social Bookmarks Plugin for WordPress – Provides you access to the social bookmarking icons for more than 20 popular sites.

Socializer Plugin – Adds the ability to post to nearly 40 social bookmarking sites.

SocialList – Allows you to see which of your posts have been submitted to del.icio.us and Digg.

Socialogs.com – Allows you to have your entries submitted to Socialogs.com.

WP-Notable – Adds the icons for numerous social bookmarking sites to each post.

wphotspots – Tracks the activity of your posts on several social bookmarking sites.

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Social Site Integration

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Blogmark Integration – Display your Blogmarks list on your blog.

DiggClick – Add the Digg button to the beginning of your posts.

DiggIT – Allows you to add the Digg button even if someone had already submitted your post.

Facebook Comments – Allows you to bring comments on your Facebook notes over to the relevant blog post.

Gregarious – Combines a Digg button plugin with Alex King’s popular “Share This” plugin for social bookmarking.

Ma.gnolia Widget – Display links from your Ma.gnolia account using this widget.

Reddit Button – Adds a Reddit button to your blog posts.

StumbleCrumble – Display a pre-determined number of your latest Stumbled websites on your own blog.

Status Indicators

    IM Online

360Voice Bits Plugin – Connects with 360Voice.com to post the latest info on your 360 standings.

AIM Online Status Indicator – Let your readers know if you’re online.

IM Online – Presence indicator for AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Skype and ICQ.

MeeboMe Plugin For WordPress – Display a Meebo widget on your blog so you can chat with your visitors.

WP-ICQ-Status – Display your current ICQ status on your blog.

Xbox 360 Gamercard WordPress Plugin – Allows you to display your Xbox 360 Gamecard.

Miscellaneous Site Integration

    Facebook photos

.Mac Sidebar WP Plugin – Display information from your .Mac account in your WordPress sidebar.

Amazon Wishlist – Add your Amazon Wishlist to your blog.

Bloggersnap – Allow your visitors to take a webcam shot and post it to your blog.

EasyPayPal – Allows you to accept payments for many services including subscriptions, trial periods, and more.

Ebay Sales Lister – Display Ebay listings (from your account or others) on your site.

Facebook Photos – Allows easy access to your Facebook photos for use in your blog.

GetWiki – Embed a Wikipedia article in your blog.

iTunesSpy – Display your latest played songs on your WordPress blog.

Last Amazon Review – Displays latest reviews from an Amazon RSS feed. Supports Associate IDs.

MasterWish – Place your wishlist from MasterWish.com on your blog.

Netflix – Share portions of your Netflix queue with your readers.

Phoogle – Add Google Maps with markers you choose to any of your posts.

Slashdot.org Headlines – Display the latest headlines from Slashdot on your site.

PayPal Donate Button – Allows you to add a “Make a Donation” button powered by PayPal.

WP-Twit – Display your latest Twitter postings on your site.

Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication – Allows users to sign in to your blog using their Yahoo ID and password.

Your YouTube Favorite Videos – Display your favorited YouTube videos on your site.

YouTube Video Gallery – Display a gallery of YouTube videos on your site.

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Left Sidebar

    DarkT

DarkT – Slick black design, extremely legible, very modern looking, fixed width and widget ready.

    Green Bug

Green Bug – Very pleasant looking fixed width and widget ready theme, great for a nature blog.

    HijauSegar

HijauSegar – Very open with easily edited headers. Fixed width.

    Integral

Integral – Very uncluttered design, makes a great theme for a company blog, fixed width and widget ready. Fixed width.

    Melod Art

Melod Art – Unique coloring, would make a great family blog. Fixed width and ready for widgets.

    Notes

Notes – Make your personal website look like an actual personal journal.

    Rainbow Feather

Rainbow Feather – Fluid width theme, perfect for a writer or someone aspiring to be one.

    RedHorizon

RedHorizon – Clean and professional, stylish. Fixed width and widget ready.

    Riaz

Riaz – Very professional and classy looking, could be used for many needs. Fixed width and widget ready.

    rounded-transparent

Rounded Transparent – Very clean, easy to navigate, stylish, fixed width, widget ready.

    Simply Blue

Simply Blue – Nice rounded corners, modern looking, fixed width and widget ready.

    Simplicity 2.0

Simplicity 2.0 – Just as the name applies, very simple, but visually appealing. Would make a great personal blog, or possibly fashion related. Fixed width, widget ready.

    Skeletons In My Closet

Skeletons In My Closet – Very easy to read, fixed width, great for a personal or music blog.

    Solid

Solid – Very stylish, clean reading, fixed width, widget ready.

    ImJTk

Was: ImJTk – Nice mixture of colors, very smooth and free flowing, fixed width, widget ready.

Right Sidebar

    Blending Curves

Blending Curves – Pink is a difficult color to pull off in a lot of themes, but this one does it well with blending in a “torn out journal pages” feel. Fixed width and widget ready.

    Blogger’s Cafe

Blogger’s Cafe – Very simple, great for sites about blogging, coffee shops, or just plain old coffee lovers. Fixed width.

    Blue-Ridge

Blue-Ridge – Muted colors so as not to distract, great for a personal blog, fixed width, widget ready.

    Boxy Mint

Boxy Mint – Great personal page or company blog, versatile, modern look. Fixed width and widget ready.

    Elegant Purple

Elegant Purple – Great personal blog with an all purple look. Fixed width and widget ready.

    Green Love

Green Love – Great personal or travel theme, fixed width and widget ready.

    Green Pro 2.0

Green Pro 2.0 – Excellent use of green, versatile look that can be used for many different sites. Fixed width and widget ready.

    Leaf On Edge

Leaf On Edge – Very versatile theme that could be used for blogs on any number of subjects, fixed width.

    Lemon & Lime

Lemon & Lime – Pleasing colors, logo placeholder, fixed width and widget ready.

    Melmac

Melmac – About as modern as you can get. Fixed width, widget ready.

    NightLight Idea

NightLight Idea – Nice black theme with lite animation in the header. Fixed width and widget ready.

    Otek

Otek – Orange colored, but not enough to be distracting, clean navigation, Fixed width and widget ready.

    Persian Minyx

Persian Minyx – Fixed width and widget ready, unique way of marking the width.

    Pgreen

Pgreen – Very readable, versatile look for a fixed width theme that is widget ready.

    Raised

Raised – Blue everywhere, but still readable. Child page navigation is a little sloppy, but passable. Fixed width.

    RedPlanet

RedPlanet – Great for a science or technical blog, very customizable, fixed width, widget ready.

    Silver Light

Silver Light – Another good professional person’s theme, fixed width, widget ready.

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SybmimDX Remix: Ghost – Very simple, would make a great professional blog, fixed width.

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05 Moon 1.0 – This is an excellent black theme, variable width and widget-ready.

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Acid Green Pro – Fixed width, centered layout with widget ready sidebars. Tons of space in the sidebars for lots of goodies.

    Acid Green Pro

Alike Theme – Another darkish theme, but quite easy on the eyes. AdSense ready, fixed width and widget ready.

    Alike theme

Ayumi – Primarily white theme with good highlights, easy to read and widget ready.

    Ayumi

Bionic Jive – Compartmentalized well, clean read, variable width.

    Bionic Jive

Blogging Simply – Fluid width, widget ready, loads of space in the sidebars for all the extras you want.

    Blogging Simply

CitrusIsland – Variable width, widget ready, colors that pop.

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Cordoba Green Park – Variable width, widget ready, easily changeable color schemes.

    Cordoba Green Park

Creaker – Widget ready and perfect for customizing.

    Creaker

Crunch – Available in multiple colors, easy to change header.

    Crunch

Daily Digest 3.0 – Fixed width, widget ready, newspaper style.

    Daily Digest 3.0

Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti – Very elegant looking, great for a foodie blog, variable width.

    Fava Beans

Fresh Apple – This theme is based around a green apple, how can it not be soothing to the eye? Variable width and widget ready.

    Fresh Apple

I Like Grey – Variable width with lots of boxes in each side column for customization.

    I Like Grey

i3Theme – For Mac lovers, this theme makes your WordPress blog look like your favorite operating system.

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Illacrimo – Widget ready, smooth appearance. Perfect for a graphic artist’s site.

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Intensive – Google AdSense optimized, good for newish blogs.

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Journalized Winter – Variable width, great for someone that likes lots of info on their pages. Also available in Sand colors.

    Journalized Winter

Mandigo – A fixed width (800 or 1024) theme that can be two or three columns based on settings on the Options page. Widget ready.

    Mandigo

Mogle – Black and orange professional looking theme, Adsense ready.

    Mogle

Navigation WP Theme – Based on the WordPress Admin area, variable width, widget ready.

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Nuberu – You can’t get much cleaner than plain black & white. Fixed width.

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OmegaLeaf – Very sleek white and red theme, fixed width.

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Pink Web 2.0 – Versatile theme with numerous uses, widget ready and fixed width.

    Pink Web 2.0

ProSense – Fixed width, clean reading, and available in three different color schemes. Widget ready.

    ProSense

Soccer Theme – Fixed width, widget ready, great for a sports-themed blog.

    Soccer Theme

Talian 1.0 – Clean colors, easy to read, variable width, widget ready for easy customizing.

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Track 17 – Variable width, great for a tech themed blog.

    Track 17

TyreMonkey – A nice red and black three column design. Fixed width.

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Ubmodicus – Lightweight, fast loading, widget ready.

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Unnamed – While it lacks a name, it has Ajax features (the black area you see is a pop-in) as well as being widget ready. Fixed width.

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Zen – Very stylish, easy to read, fixed width, widget ready


Dynamic (flash) and static website design – part 2

Simplifying modifications and updating pages on the website.

This advantage proceeds directly from the first. In the examination of the previous point I already touched on this question a little. I gave an example with a change in the firm’s logo on all pages of the website. But a flash website requires constant updating, especially with respect to content. Information must stay fresh.

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Dynamic (flash) and static website design – part 1

All sites on the Internet fall into two large categories: static and dynamic. From the visitor’s point of view sometimes it is not important whether the webpage is located on a site that is static or dynamic; it is sometimes even difficult to determine this. But I want to examine this difference from the point of view of the developer – the website creator.

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Flash Animation Has Made the Website Revolution

The first websites in comparison with the new website design, multimedia, «WEB 2.0», multiple portals look like cars 20-ies in comparison with modern concepts automotive industry. When a web of resources to deliver only the texts now to make the user can be virtually any type of information – video, audio, text. Another point of all kinds of multimedia technology can be Flash.
So, like any human invention advanced, flash-animation in the usual form for us has not once with tutorials. Started more than two decades ago, this technology has several stages of development and eventually became a very necessary and useful applications that made the web sites, multimedia information and can make an unusual design pages.

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