New WordPress plugins – 2010/02/25

This plug-in is used for displaying a button which let users to add links of your blog posts to Google Buzz. The button is delivered in two modes, being suitable for two languages: English ("buzz it") and Polish ("buzznij"). It lets you use either small or big type of Google Buzz button. You can post this button anywhere you want to, just using <?php if(function_exists('buzz_button') { echo buzz_button(); } ?> in source code of your template.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Marcin Szepczyński (czepol)
• : 22
• : 2.7.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (3 votes)
• : 1.565
• : click here

The Taxonomy Images plugin allows users to associate images from the Media Library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies. For usage instructions please view the screencast.

Displaying Images in a Page or Post

Version 0.4 introduces a new shortcode which will display a list of all active terms of a given taxonomy. This list features the term in a second level heading <h2>, the term description in a paragraph and an intermediate version of the uploaded image floated to the left. Here is the shortcode in it's simplist form:

[taxonomy_image_plugin]

This will display a list of all terms in the built-in "Category" taxonomy with desriptions and images (sized as "thumbnails").

If you would like to change the taxonomy, you can set the "taxonomy" argument:

[taxonomy_image_plugin taxonomy="post_tags"] or `[taxonomy_image_plugin taxonomy="my_custom_taxonomy_name"]`

You can also change the size of the image by setting the size attribute:

[taxonomy_image_plugin size="medium"] or ``[taxonomy_image_plugin size="detail"]``

Displaying Images in your Theme #1: Category, Tag + Custom Taxonomy archives

To display the images in your theme, you will want to use the following code in the appropriate theme file. The correct file will vary depending on your theme. category.php, tag.php, archive.php are a few file that this code will work in. Please see Template Hierarchy for more information.

<?php do_action( 'taxonomy_image_plugin_print_image_html', 'detail' ); ?>

Here we have passed to arguments to the WordPress core function do_action(). The first is taxonomy_image_plugin_print_image_html and should not be changed. The second represents the size of the image that you would like displayed. Acceptable values are:

• detail
• thumbnail
• medium
• large
• fullsize

Displaying Images in your Theme #2: Category Thumbs

The following example was inspired by this thread in the WordPress.org Support Fourms. This code can be placed inside any theme template and will produce a string of links for every taxonomy that has an associated image.

$cats = get_categories();
foreach ( $cats as $c ) {
    $url = get_category_link( $c->term_id );
    $img = $taxonomy_images_plugin->get_image_html( 'detail', $c->term_taxonomy_id );
    if( !empty( $img ) )
        print '<a href="' . $url . '">' . $img . '</a>';
}

Support

If you find that this plugin is has a bug, does not play nicely with other plugins or if you have a suggestion or comment, please use this link to add a new thread to the WordPress Support Forum

Hook it up yo!

If you have fallen in love with this plugin and would not be able to sleep without helping out in some way, please see the following list of ways that you can hook it up!:

• Rate it! - use the star tool on the right-hand sidebar of the homepage to tells me what you think.
• Let me know if it works - Use the Compatibility widget on the homepage to let me know that the current version works with your version of WordPress.
• Do you Twitter? Help promote by using this shortlink: http://bit.ly/taxonomy-images
• Are you a writer? Help promote by writing an article on your website about this plugin.
• Are you Super-Wicked-Awesome? If so, you can always make a donation.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Michael Fields
• : 22
• : 2.9.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.89/5 (9 votes)
• : 638
• : click here

This plugin will display all the posts in a category on the page or post you wish. Simply insert [cat=X] into your post or page with x being the category number. The plugin will display the first image it finds then below it the first 200 characters of text. Each will have a "view more" button which will link you to the post itself.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Craig Farnes
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (2 votes)
• : 883
• : click here

Google Buzz with official Google Buzz Counter. Best Google buzz integration to wordpress + 5 different admin panel options (Settings -> WP Google-buzz) + 5 different button images + Shows Counter. Enjoy..!!

• Please see Screenshot for all buttons.

Automatically displays Google Buzz button for every post and pages. Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts/pages to the service? Google has released new Google Buzz APIs and this plugin includes those official Google Buzz APIs. Ultimate all in one Google Buzz buttons. Beautiful popup window option included.

More will come to next releases of WP Google-buzz. Please stay tuned. Try it now & enjoy. Happy buzzing!.

Features

• Shows Google-buzz button before/after post content
• Google Buzz Counter (Using official Google Buzz APIs).
• Manual insertion of code: Use this: <?php if(function_exists('add_wp_google_buzz')) { add_wp_google_buzz(); } ?>.
• rel="nofollow" option for buzz links
• Show/Hide option to show Google Buzz button on page.
• float = left/right option
• NEW: Popup window option

List of my WordPress Plugins

• WP Google-buzz
• All in one Webmaster
• WP Archive-Sitemap Generator
• Twitter Goodies
• FourSquare Integration

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Arpit Shah
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.68/5 (22 votes)
• : 27.117
• : click here

This plugin will send a newsletter to everyone on your email list. You can specify how many recent posts it will send in the newsletter options under settings. You can also specify how often it sends it with the choices of daily,weekly or monthly. It also comes with a newsletter widget which will allow users to sign up to the newsletter.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Craig Farnes
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3/5 (6 votes)
• : 4.144
• : click here

This plugin, will create a feed showing the 5 (can be changed) latest posts on your google buzz feed.

If you like this plugin, please take a moment to think of donating some money. NOT TO MYSELF, but to a charity as a thank you for my work. My personal favourite is Help For Heroes!

Money can be donated at: http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/donations.html

You can view an example of the plugin here:

http://www.fieldjournal.co.uk/

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Ian M. Archambeau
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3/5 (2 votes)
• : 305
• : click here

With editorial guidelines you can show a quick and small box next to the edit screens of both the page and post page what the editorial guidelines are.

The contents of the editorial guidelines box are, of course, fully editable. This will be more usable as your Wordpress activity grows and more contributors are added.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Micro Formatica
• : 22
• : 3 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (2 votes)
• : 174
• : click here

With this plugin you can add videos to your sidebar (or any other widgetized area of your site). Just copy and paste code of the video into the Advanced Video widget. The Youtube's original video code doesn't pass W3C validation. The filtered video code of the Advanced Videobox will keep your site XHTML valid. The plugin is easily customizable through widget panel. This plugin is ideal for music, tutorial, ads videos. Check for more on the plugin's page

• Easy to manage
• Option to change width and height
• Option to disable parameters that produce invalid XHTML code
• Web 2.0 graphics
• Add up to 20 videos
• Easily customizable via CSS
• Ideal plugin for music, tutorials, ads videos
• You can add ANY videos, not only from Youtube. Just keep "Enable parameters" option checked.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Tom Sramek
• : 22
• : 1.5 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (2 votes)
• : 1.475
• : click here

You can browse Picasa Web album and select image to insert or select several images to the gallery

• Use Picasa user for get albums ( username can be stored in settings )
• Show albums cover and name for get images
• Images from album with caption or filename for selection
• Select and insert single image or banch for gallery
• Private albums after granting access via Google service
• Wordpress MU support - sidewide activation, users, roles

Additionaly setting is managing:

• Image link: none, direct, Picasa image page, thickbox,lightbox and highslide with gallery
• Sorting images in dialog and in inserted gallery
• Caption under image or/and in image/link title
• Alignment for images and gallery
• Additional style or CSS classes for images and gallery
• Define Roles which capable to use the plugin
• Switch from blog to user level for store Picasa user and private access token

And by design:

• Support native Wordpress image and link dialog for alignment, caption, description, style and CSS class
• Thumbnail images size defined in Wordpress native properties
• Multilanguage support

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Wott
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.57/5 (7 votes)
• : 4.858
• : click here

World clock showing the local time at six major cities round the world. The plugin provides a choice of analog and digital clocks, colors and sizes.

• Select analog or digital clocks
• Select from three different group of world capitals
• Select horizontal or vertical clock format
• Select text, border and background color

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : localtimes.info
• : 22
• : 1.5 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (3 votes)
• : 1.047
• : click here

ColorBoxes adds a new section on the Edit Post and Edit Page screens that allows users to easily add colored information boxes to their post or page. These colored boxes will show up above their content. This is perfect for anyone who needs an easy way to put temporary alerts or announcements on their WordPress site.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Alison Barrett
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (4 votes)
• : 776
• : click here

statistX adds a configurable hit counter to your WordPress blog. It also includes a web traffic and search/keyword -analysis. To get your free statistX ID, simply visit http://www.statistx.com/signup.php and: 1. enter your desired username 2. enter your website's URL 3. select the counter style you like 4. opt for top 100 inclusion for valuable backlinks 5. enter the captcha code 6. press "Signup" 7. write down or save your statistX ID and password 8. insert your statistX ID in the widget parameters 9. press "Save".

Visit http://www.statistx.com and statistX Top100.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Yatko
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.64/5 (11 votes)
• : 1.930
• : click here

This plugin let's you add - to any spot on your blog's sidebar - a section dedicated to the articles you'd like to highlight. How it works is very simple: once it's installed and activated you can decide which articles to add to the highlights section, how many to display, the display order mode and the size of the image retrieved (it takes the first image in the article and automatically resizes it using the "timthumb.php" script).

Some Features

• Specify a title to be shown on the sidebar.
• Choose the number of articles to display in this section.
• Choose the way in which the articles will be ordered.
• Define the dimensions of the image that will be created.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Nando Pappalardo e Giustino Borzacchiello
• : 22
• : 2.8, PHP4 & PHP5 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.88/5 (8 votes)
• : 6.111
• : click here

Dottoro Highlighter plugin is based on the Dottoro Syntax Highlighter service that provides professional coloring for CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML languages. It supports highlighting CSS, JavaScript and XML blocks embedded into HTML documents, optionally selectable line numbering and buttons for copying and printing code snippets. It performs a detailed lexical analysis on the source code and attaches different style classes for different language items, thus providing a very flexible way to modify the appearance of the highlighted code.

Using of the Dottoro Highlighter plugin is really simple. Just insert your code snippet in the Visual or HTML view, select it and press the Dr-Highlight button on the toolbar. You don't need to embed your source code into an element (such as PRE), just select the whole source that you want to highlight and press the Dr-Highlight button. Clicking on the Dr-Highlight button pops up a dialog box where you can specify the settings for the highlighted code. If you need to modify the appearance of a previously highlighted code, click into it then click on the Dr-Highlight button on the toolbar.

The default settings for the Dottoro Highlighter plugin can be set on the preferences page. For further description, please visit the Dottoro Syntax Highlighter site.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Dottoro.com
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.67/5 (3 votes)
• : 512
• : click here

This is a very simple plugin that will check to see if a visitor is logged in before allowed your WordPress site to be displayed. If they are not it will display the login page of your site. It will also add text on the login page to explain that the site required all visitors to login.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : David Marcucci
• : 22
• : 2.8.0 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (4 votes)
• : 1.936
• : click here

The Footer Sitemap plugin generates a footer sitemap, listing pages, categories, archives by year and customizable Terms of Use and Powered by fields, changes to the Terms of Use and Powered by text areas can be made in Settings >> Footer Sitemap Options.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Sean Ham, Dynamis Consulting
• : 22
• : 2.1 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (2 votes)
• : 2.722
• : click here

statistX PageRank displays the Google (TM) PageRank of your WordPress blog. The widget is automatic and can be configured to display different button styles.

Visit Free pagerank Display for details.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Yatko
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (2 votes)
• : 1.260
• : click here

this plugin has been discontinued, please download Rico Ajax Menu plugin( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rico-ajax-menu/ ) instead.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : obaq
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 0/5 (0 votes)
• : 597
• : click here

Display a folder tree of your pages that is easy to expand and contract on your Dashboard. Designed for people that use Wordpress as a content management system.

The idea came from developing a site with over 50 pages in multiple folders and it became impossible to follow which page was where in the folder structure.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Tristan Botly
• : 22
• : 2.5 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3/5 (2 votes)
• : 2.009
• : click here

This plugin allows you to watermark your uploaded images. You can create watermark with different fonts and apply it to different image sizes (thumbnail, medium, large, fullsize), positioning it anywhere on the image.

Requirements:

• PHP5
• GD extension for PHP
• FreeType Library

To-do:

• Bug fixing (request by: all)
• Don't display watermark on images where watermark would overflow image (request by: alex)
• Watermark background color and opacity (request by: quentin, alex, Richard, nick)
• Option to disable watermark on certain pictures (request by: anchy-9, Yannick Chauvet)
• Watermarking aditional image sizes added by other plugins (request by: twincascos)
• Watermark pictures with image (request by: Loverock, Nicolas)
• Watermarking images that were uploaded before plugin was installed (request by: anchy-9, Blogging Junction, Ashkir, Mobile Ground, Nicolas)
• Watermark text with outline (request by: James)
• ...

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Sandi Verdev
• : 22
• : 2.9 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.25/5 (8 votes)
• : 10.108
• : click here

Display an exchange rate table for any currency in the world. Select from a choice of table sizes and formats.

• Select the currency to display
• Select sizes and display formats
• Updated once a day from central banks and government institutions

Please rate my plugin!

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : fx-rate.net
• : 22
• : 1.5 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.33/5 (3 votes)
• : 488
• : click here

YOU NEED JAVASCRIPT ON IN YOUR BROWSER!

Have You Ever Wanted Your Website or Blog To Have The Transition Effects That a AJAX Powered Website Possess? Now You Can With This Simple Plug N Play WordPress Plugin Powered With jQuery.

• Easy To Use and Set-up Via the Options Page.

• Tested in IE7, IE8, FF 3.5, And Opera 10. Works Good For The Most Part Accross Those Browsers.

• Click Here to check out the working demo.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Kris Jonasson
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.67/5 (6 votes)
• : 3.509
• : click here

Accordion Menu is a simple jquery accordion menu plugin for Wordpress. It enables an accordion menu for your Pages sidebar widget. It works for upto 3 levels of hierarchy.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Bruce Drummond
• : 22
• : 2.9.1 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (1 vote)
• : 1.685
• : click here

The TranslateThis Button for WordPress installs a Javascript translation widget that provides translation into 52 different languages using the Google Language API. The widget can be included either using template tags or the widgetized sidebar.

The plugin provides a variety of display, language and functionality options for the TranslateThis Button. In the settings page you can:

• Use custom imagery or disable imagery altogether
• Modify the UI text
• Enable Google Analytics tracking
• Restrict the scope of the translation
• Disable the cookie that automatically translates entire site
• Change the languages used in the dropdown
• And much more

Read the complete documentation for more information.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Jon Raasch
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.5/5 (8 votes)
• : 3.013
• : click here