Multimedia Plugins
Various Plugins
Updated WordPress plugins – 2010/02/01
Another list with updated plugins in this post, featuring some Poll plugins for WordPress and a few plugins for Facebook. The WP plugins featured in this post : Yahoo Weather Widget, List category posts, Featured Blogs List, Move WordPress Comments, CSV 2 POST, Time Release, Menubar, Global Translator, Yoast Breadcrumbs, flickr-slideshow-wrapper, Subscribe2, flickpress, Broken Link Checker, Wordbooker, FlashPoll++, Disable WordPress Plugin Updates, Facebook Fan box, Business Directory, FeedWordPress, WP Carousel, PollDaddy Polls & Ratings, Custom Post Template, Advanced Excerpt, Simple Facebook Share Button and Advertising Manager.
Continue reading below for much more information about all these updated WordPress plugins:
Menubar (2010-02-21)
WordPress plugin MENUBAR
Single and multi-level menus for your WordPress site, styled with customizable menu templates. [read full description]
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Andrea Tarantini
- : 22
- : 2.6 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 4.94/5 (17 votes)
- : 33.632
- : click here
THIS PLUGIN IS OBSOLETE! (2010-03-05)
Displays weather information from Yahoo Weather [read full description]THIS PLUGIN IS OBSOLETE! USE THE NEW PLUGIN http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yahoo-weather/ INSTEAD!
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- :
- : 22
- : or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 5/5 (1 vote)
- : 825
- : click here
List category posts (2010-08-01)
List Category Posts allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using the [catlist] shortcode. [read full description]List Category Posts is a simple WordPress plugin which allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using the [catlist] shortcode. This shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can use [catlist] as many times as needed with different arguments.
Great to use WordPress as a CMS, and create pages with several categories posts.
The plugin includes a widget, which works pretty much the same as the plugin. Just add as many widgets as you want, and select all the available options from the Appearence > Widgets page.
Compatible with WordPress 3.0 and default Twenty Ten theme (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/399754)
Usage: [catlist argument1=value1 argument2=value2].
Tell us how you use this plugin! http://foro.picandocodigo.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=261
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Fernando Briano
- : 22
- : 2.8 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 4.28/5 (58 votes)
- : 64.003
- : click here
Featured Blogs List (2010-02-01)
The Display specific multiple blogs on sidebar. [read full description]This plugin is for wordpress MU. It gives you the freedom to display specific user blogs as featured blogs in the sidebar on MU site homepage. When a user clicks on an item it will redirect him to user's blog URI (subdomain).
The admin can add Multiple user blogs to display as "Featured user blogs list".
Sometimes the site owner wants to make some specific user blogs highlighted on their wordpress MU site. this is a solution for those. It does not display recent user blogs or popular user blogs ordered by ASC or DESC.
It simply displays specific user blogs that were selected by the admin from the admin panel. it creates a tab "Featured Blog " in Settings/Options panel in admin to manage the user blogs selection and add widget to the sidebar.
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Mamoun.othman
- : 22
- : 2.7 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 3.5/5 (4 votes)
- : 1.057
- : click here
FlashPoll++ (2010-03-22)
WordPress plugin FLASHPOLL++
FlashPoll++ is a Flash based poll builder with a lot of customization options. [read full description]
FlashPoll++ is a Flash based poll builder with a lot of customization options. It allows you to display multiple polls, one after another, also view a full voting log from admin panel.
You can customize the size, fonts, colors and more!
Check out the demo here: http://www.flash-poll.com
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : AtteroMedia
- : 22
- : 2.0 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 4/5 (7 votes)
- : 3.057
- : click here
Move WordPress Comments (2010-03-17)
This plugin allows you to easily move comments between posts and pages, and it allows you to change comment threading. [read full description]This plugin adds a small form to every comment on your blog. The form is only added for admins and allows you to move comments to a different page and to fix comment threading.
This plugin is not designed for mass-moving of comments, rather for moving single comments from time to time. There are other plugins better suited for moving many comments at once.
The forms will be visible on every comment on your post/page, but not in the admin section. I found this more convenient than the existing solutions. There's also a widget included that allows you to turn the forms on and off in case you don't need them all the time.
My plugins
Better tag cloud: I was pretty unhappy with the default WordPress tag cloud widget. This one is more powerful and offers a list HTML markup that is consistent with most other widgets.
Theme switch: I like to tweak my main theme that I use on a variety of blogs. If you have ever done this you know how annoying it can be to break things for visitors of your blog. This plugin allows you to use a different theme than the one used for your visitors when you are logged in.
Zero Conf Mail: Simple mail contact form, the way I like it. No ajax, no bloat. No configuration necessary, but possible.
Move WordPress comments: This plugin adds a small form to every comment on your blog. The form is only added for admins and allows you to move comments to a different post/page and to fix comment threading.
Delete Pending Comments: This is a plugin that lets you delete all pending comments at once. Useful for spam victims.
Snow and more: This one lets you see snowflakes, leaves, raindrops, balloons or custom images fall down or float upwards on your blog.
Fireworks: The name says it all, see fireworks on your blog!
Rhyming widget: I wrote a little online rhyming dictionary. This is a widget to search it directly from one of your sidebars.
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Nicolas Kuttler
- : 22
- : 2.7 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 4.63/5 (8 votes)
- : 1.798
- : click here
CSV 2 POST Free Edition (2010-02-12)
Inject any CSV file data into the WordPress database as new Posts! [read full description]Use CSV 2 POST Pro to import a csv data file and inject up to 1 million posts in WordPress! It is free to use and has some cool features that other similiar plugins don't with many more cool new ideas coming soon. Developed by Ryan Bayne from WebTechGlobal, a University graduate in 2009. This is a demo.
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Ryan Bayne
- : 22
- : 2.5.0 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 2.65/5 (20 votes)
- : 5.741
- : click here
Time Release (2010-02-01)
Queue up posts to be displayed after a period of inactivity. If you don’t post during that period, the queued posts are published. [read full description]With Time Release, you set your blog to publish a post after some period of inactivity. You edit and create Time Release posts in the usual way, but you mark it as “Time Release”. After a few days, if you haven’t posted any new stories, then the Time Release posts will start to be published.
Features
- Displays a single post after n days of inactivity
- Posts with a date in the future aren't published until that date has passed
- Notifies author by email when a post has been published
Bugs should be reported in the comment section of the author's page.
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Erigami Scholey-Fuller
- : 22
- : 2.0.2 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 5/5 (2 votes)
- : 619
- : click here
Global Translator (2010-07-25)
WordPress plugin GLOBAL TRANSLATOR
Automatically translates your blog in 34 different languages! [read full description]
Global Translator automatically translates your blog in the following 48 different languages: Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), 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.
The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use. Main features:
- Four different translation engines: Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations
- 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 http://www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost will be automatically transformed in http://www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost
- 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.
- Fully configurable layout: you can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE or DIV layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors
- No database modifications: Global Translator is not intrusive. It doesn't create or alter any table on your database: this feature permits to obtain better performances.
Global Translator is the first real (and free) traffic booster for your blog! It can help you to reach a lot of new users and consequently to strongly increase your popularity: if you derive some benefits and if you want to support the development, please consider to support me with a donation.
For the latest information and changelog visit the website
http://www.n2h.it/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/
A Pro version with full support and additional features is also available! Learn more by visiting this page: http://www.n2h.it/global-translator-pro/
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Davide Pozza
- : 22
- : 2.3 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 3.66/5 (101 votes)
- : 389.718
- : click here
Subscribe2 (2010-06-30)
Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog. [read full description]Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
Email Notifications can be sent on a per-post basis or periodically in a Digest email. Additionally, certain categories can be excluded from inclusion in the notification and posts can be excluded on an individual basis by setting a custom field.
The plugin also handles subscription requests allowing users to publically subscribe (Public Subscribers) by submitting their email address in an easy to use form or to register with your blog (Registered Users) which enables greater flexibility over the email content for per-post notifications for the subscriber. Admins are given control over the presentation of the email notifications, can bulk manage subscriptions for users and manually send email notices to subscribers.
The format of the email can also be customised for per-post notifications, subscribe2 can generate emails for each of the following formats:
- plaintext excerpt
- plaintext full post (Registered Users only)
- HTML full post (Registered Users only)
If you want to send HTML emails to Public Subscribers too then upgrade to Subscribe2 HTML.
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Matthew Robinson
- : 22
- : 2.0.x or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 3.77/5 (100 votes)
- : 358.703
- : click here
flickpress (2010-07-31)
flickpress is a tool to find Flickr photos and insert them into your posts, plus a widget to display recent Flickr photos. [read full description]flickpress adds a button to the post editor to find and insert Flickr photos into WordPress posts. Add Flickr users by entering their usernames or email addresses. Previously-entered Flickr users are stored in a database table that can be managed at Tools:flickpress. Search for users' photos by keyword or browse tags, photosets, favorites, or recent photos. You can also search for Creative Commons, Flickr Commons, and government photos. Click through to a photo to insert a variety of sizes, adding a variety of caption information if desired.
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Isaac Wedin
- : 22
- : 2.9 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 4.8/5 (5 votes)
- : 6.948
- : click here
Broken Link Checker (2010-08-12)
This plugin will check your posts, custom fields and the blogroll for broken links and missing images and notify you if any are found. [read full description]This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.
Features
- Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
- Detects links that don't work, missing images and redirects.
- Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
- Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
- Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
- You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
- Links can be edited directly from the plugin's page, without manually updating each post.
- Highly configurable.
Suggest new features and improvements here
Basic Usage
Once installed, the plugin will begin parsing your posts, bookmarks (AKA blogroll) and other content and looking for links. Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few minutes up to an hour or more. When parsing is complete, the plugin will start checking each link to see if it works. Again, how long this takes depends on how big your site is and how many links there are. You can monitor the progress and tweak various link checking options in Settings -> Link Checker.
The broken links, if any are found, will show up in a new tab of the WP admin panel - Tools -> Broken Links. A notification will also appear in the "Broken Link Checker" widget on the Dashboard. To save display space, you can keep the widget closed and configure it to expand automatically when problematic links are detected. E-mail notifications need to be enabled separately (in Settings -> Link Checker).
The "Broken Links" tab will by default display a list of broken links that have been detected so far. However, you can use the links on that page to view redirects or see a listing of all links - working or not - instead. You can also create new link filters by performing a search and clicking the "Create Custom Filter" button. For example, this can be used to create a filter that only shows comment links.
There are several actions associated with each link. They show up when you move your mouse over to one of the links listed the aforementioned tab -
- "Edit URL" lets you change the URL of that link. If the link is present in more than one place (e.g. both in a post and in the blogroll), all occurrences of that URL will be changed.
- "Unlink" removes the link but leaves the link text intact.
- "Not broken" lets you manually mark a "broken" link as working. This is useful if you know it was incorrectly detected as broken due to a network glitch or a bug. The marked link will still be checked periodically, but the plugin won't consider it broken unless it gets a new result.
You can also click on the contents of the "Status" or "Link Text" columns to get more info about the status of each link.
Translations
- Belorussian - M. Comfi
- Chinese Simplified - Hank Yang
- Czech - Lelkoun
- Danish - Georg S. Adamsen
- Dutch - Gideon van Melle
- French - Whiler
- German - Alex Frison
- Hindi - Outshine Solutions
- Italian - Gianni Diurno and Giacomo Ross (alternative)
- Japanese - ningendesu
- Portuguese - PedroM
- Russian - Anna Ozeritskaya
- Spanish - Neoshinji
- Ukrainian - Stas Mykhajlyuk
Note: Some translations are not entirely up to date with the latest release, so parts of the interface may appear untranslated.
Other Credits
This plugin uses one or more icons from the beautiful "Silk" icon set.
- Author
- Version
- Requires WP version
- : Janis Elsts
- : 22
- : 3.0 or higher
- WordPress.org rating
- Downloads
- Plugin homepage
- : 4.2/5 (164 votes)
- : 440.777
- : click here
flickr-slideshow-wrapper (2010-06-20)
WordPress plugin FLICKR-SLIDESHOW-WRAPPER
Including standard flickr slideshows into your blog. Call your Flickr slideshow by adding I didn't find any gallery which fulfilled my expectations. I don't need private pictures from flickr to be included to
my block, as once included they are not private anymore. That's why I wanted to use the standard functionality
of flickr to embed slideshows. You can change the border, scrolling (yes/no), and width and height of the linked iframe under settings. I haven't found yet any parameter or hint to change the black background color. Please post me in case you have an advice and I'll change the coding accordingly. Wordbooker (2010-07-25) This plugin allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. You can also "cross polinate" comments between Facebook and your Wordpress blog. Various options including "attribute" lines and polling for comments and automatic re-posting on edit can be configured. NOTE : You have to have PHP V5 installed for this plugin to work as the code contains several PHP V5 specific features. Disable WordPress Plugin Updates (2010-01-28) Completely disables the plugin update checking system in WordPress. The plugin prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed on the Plugins page. Ideal for administrators of multiple WordPress installations. It's very important that you keep your WordPress plugins up to date. If you don't, your blog or website could be susceptible to security vulnerabilities or performance issues. If you use this plugin, you must make sure you keep yourself up to date with new releases of your active plugins and update them as new versions are released. FeedWordPress (2010-09-05) FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content
from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog; if you syndicate several
feeds then you can use WordPress's posts database and templating engine as the
back-end of an aggregation ("planet") website. It was developed, originally,
because I needed a more flexible replacement for Planet
to use at Feminist Blogs. FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of
configuration in mind. You'll need a working installation of WordPress or
WordPress MU (version 3.0 or later), and also FTP or SFTP access to your web
host. The ability to create cron jobs on your web host is helpful but not
required. You don't need to tweak any plain-text configuration files and you
don't need shell access to your web host to make it work. (Although, I should
point out, web hosts that don't offer shell access are bad web hosts.) Facebook Fan box (2010-04-27) WordPress plugin FACEBOOK FAN BOX Display a Facebook Fan Box on your blog. Put the Facebook Fan Box in your sidebar using the widget mode or call the function inside your template. [read full description] If you have a page in Facebook about your blog and want to show the Facebook Fan Box with the recent updates and fans, just activate this widget or insert this line of code anywhere in your theme: If you want to change updates visibility, max. number of fans, width or css properties, just do this: Where: STREAM: Set to 1 to display stream stories in the Fan Box or 0 to hide stream stories. (Default value is 1.) CONNECTIONS: The number of fans to display in the Fan Box. Specifying 0 hides the list of fans in the Fan Box. You cannot display more than 100 fans. (Default value is 10 connections.) WIDTH: The width of the Fan Box in pixels. The Fan Box must be at least 200 pixels wide at minimum. (Default value is 300 pixels.) CSS: The URL to your own style sheet (more info: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:fan). IFRAME: If you are unable to use JavaScript method for some reason, you can use add a Fan Box using an HTML iframe tag (Default value is 0). HEIGHT: Limits the height used by the widget. LOGO: Show/Hide Facebook logo bar. LANG: Facebook Locale (en_US, es_ES...). UPDATED: Facebook changed the social plugins so Fan Box is now Like Box (and there is a new plugin for it). If you want to use this plugin LEAVE API_KEY VALUE EMPTY. WP Carousel (2010-07-10) WP Carousel is a plugin that create a carousel with posts, categories, tags, authors, pages, customized content, external carousels and with the extras you can add any kind of content. You can put it anywhere on the blog, modifying your WordPress theme or adding the WP Carousel's Widget to the Sidebar. In the plugin's options page you can add items to each carousel and there you can set up some options and the theme used in each carousel. The plugin uses jQuery and StepCarousel. PollDaddy Polls & Ratings (2010-06-14) The PollDaddy Polls and Ratings plugin allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can create polls, choose from 20 different styles for your polls, and view all results for your polls as they come in. All PollDaddy polls are fully customizable, you can set a close date for your poll, create multiple choice polls, choose whether to display the results or keep them private. You can also create your own custom style for your poll. You can even embed the polls you create on other websites. You can collect unlimited votes and create unlimited polls. The new ratings menu allows you to embed ratings into your posts, pages or comments. The rating editor allows you to fully customize you rating. You can also avail of the the 'Top Rated' widget that will allow you to place the widget in your sidebar. This widget will show you the top rated posts, pages and comments today, this week and this month. PollDaddy Polls is localizable and currently available in: A messages.pot file is included in the plugin - please do send us any language files! Custom Post Template (2010-06-18) This plugin requires PHP5 (see Other Notes > PHP4 for more). Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates are defined similarly to page templates, and will replace single.php for the specified post. This plugin will NOT switch the templates for the different posts in a listing page, e.g. a date or category archive, it will only affect the template used for single posts (i.e. you can choose a template which is not single.php). Post templates, as far as this plugin is concerned, are configured similarly to page templates in that they have a particular style of PHP comment at the top of them. Each post template must contain the following, or similar, at the top: Note that page templates use "Template Name:", whereas post templates use "Template Name Posts:". Plugin initially produced on behalf of Words & Pictures. Is this plugin lacking a feature you want? I'm happy to discuss ideas, or to accept offers of feature sponsorship: contact me and we can have a chat. Any issues: contact me. Business Directory (2010-07-28) WordPress plugin BUSINESS DIRECTORY The Business Directory plugin for WordPress is an easy way to host a free directory page. [read full description] The Business Directory plugin for Wordpress is an easy way to host a free directory page for your readers, affiliates, advertisers, community or club members. Invite them to submit a simple advertisement listing for themselves on your blog. Listings include company name, a short description, and contact information including a live URL. The plugin includes an admin tab that allows you to approve of listings before they appear live on the site. You can also edit and delete listings. We will soon have a premium version of this plugin that allows you to promote a listing upgrade to your directory participants; you set the cost and collect via PayPal, they get to upload a logo and appear in the top 'premium' section of your Directory. Business Directory is a great way to increase the SEO value of your site, and to monetize your community participation. Advanced Excerpt (2010-01-27) This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress' default way of creating excerpts. In addition to keeping HTML markup in the excerpt, the plugin also corrects HTML that might have been broken due to the trimming process. This plugin is also compatible with Shortcodes. Version 3.0 may not be backwards compatible. Check and re-apply the settings after you upgrade to make sure everything works correctly. Version 0.2.1 adds support for multibyte characters (e.g. Chinese and Japanese). This is slightly experimental, more details in the FAQ.
Plugin translations are fully supported and language files are included for translation. The FAQ provides more info on this, also. Simple Facebook Share Button (2010-01-26) Advertising Manager (2010-06-18) This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Other ad networks can be used as well. Features: Related Links: Yoast Breadcrumbs (2010-01-31) WordPress plugin YOAST BREADCRUMBS Easily add breadcrumbs to your template! [read full description] Due to other projects no plugin reviews the past weeks, but new WordPress plugin reviews will follow soon ! The new and updated WP plugin posts will continue of course, so stay tuned and subscribe to our RSS feed today !
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<?php facebook_fan_box('API_KEY', 'PROFILE_ID', 'STREAM', 'CONNECTIONS', 'WIDTH', 'CSS', 'IFRAME', 'HEIGHT', 'LOGO', 'LANG'); ?>
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the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ)
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