Updated WordPress plugins – 2010/02/01

With Menubar you can easily build and manage single and multi-level menus for your WordPress site.

• Build your menus selecting item types among Home, FrontPage, Heading, Tag, TagList, Category, CategoryTree, Page, PageTree, Post, SearchBox, External, PHP, Custom, in any combination
• Display a menu inserting in your theme, e.g. at the end of header.php, the line <?php do_action ('wp_menubar', 'your_menu_name'); ?>
• Use the Menubar widget to display your menus in a widget ready area or sidebar (only with WordPress 2.8 or higher)
• To style your menus, select one of the available Menubar templates, customize your selected template, or use the CSS from your theme
• Menubar templates are stored in an independent folder, so you can upgrade automatically to a new Menubar version without losing your template customizations

A Menubar live demo is available on the WP Menubar demo site.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Andrea Tarantini
• : 22
• : 2.6 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.84/5 (25 votes)
• : 60.076
• : click here

THIS PLUGIN IS OBSOLETE!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)
• : 979
• : click here

List Category Posts allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using the [catlist] shortcode.

The 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 also display the post author, date, excerpt, custom field values, even the content! The [catlist] shortcode can be used as many times as needed with different arguments on each post/page.

New feature: The different elements to display con now be styled with CSS. you can define an HTML tag to wrap the element with, and a CSS class for this tag. Check Other Notes for usage.

Great to use WordPress as a CMS, and create pages with several categories posts.

It 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.

Since version 0.18, this plugins does not work on servers with PHP 4. If you're still using PHP 4 on your webhost, you should consider upgrading to PHP 5. WordPress 3.1 will be the last version to support PHP 4, from 3.2 and forward, only PHP 5 will be supported. You can still download an older version of the plugin if you're using PHP 4.

Please, read the information on Other Notes and Changelog to be aware of new functionality, and improvements to the plugin.

Usage

[catlist argument1=value1 argument2=value2]

Support the plugin

If you've found the plugin useful, consider making a donation via PayPal or visit my Amazon Wishlist.

New Code is always welcome :D Fork the plugin on GitHub.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Fernando Briano
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.29/5 (146 votes)
• : 224.387
• : click here

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)
• : 1.901
• : click here

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

• : 3.83/5 (12 votes)
• : 11.363
• : click here

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

• : 4.38/5 (16 votes)
• : 3.595
• : click here

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• :
• : 22
• :

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : /5 ()
• :
• :

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)
• : 1.254
• : click here

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/

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Davide Pozza
• : 22
• : 2.3 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.56/5 (124 votes)
• : 501.069
• : click here

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 publicly 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 excerpt (Registered Users only)
• HTML full post (Registered Users only)

If you want to send full content HTML emails to Public Subscribers too then upgrade to Subscribe2 HTML.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Matthew Robinson
• : 22
• : 3.1 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.75/5 (175 votes)
• : 650.352
• : click here

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
• : 3.3 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.33/5 (6 votes)
• : 9.230
• : click here

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
• Bulgarian - Ajoft Technologes
• Chinese Simplified - Hank Yang
• Chinese Traditional - YILIN
• Czech - Lelkoun
• Danish - Georg S. Adamsen
• Dutch - Gideon van Melle
• French - Whiler
• German - Ivan Graf
• Hindi - Outshine Solutions
• Irish - Ray Gren
• Italian - Gianni Diurno and Giacomo Ross (alternative)
• Japanese - ningendesu
• Korean - MinHyeong Lim
• Persian - Omid Sheerkavand
• Polish - http://positionmaker.pl
• Portuguese - PedroDM
• Romanian - Ovidiu
• 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
• : 3.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.9/5 (371 votes)
• : 959.080
• : click here

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. I might need some time to do so, as maintaing this plugin is a hobby only. The influence on the standard functionality of the flickr API is very limited. Adapting width and height of the iframe might result in artefacts which can't be influenced by any wrapper coding out of wordpress.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Jeannot Muller
• : 22
• : 2.5.0 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.09/5 (11 votes)
• : 27.528
• : click here

This plugin allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall / Fan Page Wall / Group Wall. You can Post as an Extract, A Status Update or even as a Note.

NOTE : You MUST have the PHP Curl module enabled and configured in such a way that it can connect to the Facebook Servers. If you do not have curl OR if your hosting company block curl access to externals sites you cannot use this plugin.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Steve Atty
• : 22
• : 2.9 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.4/5 (106 votes)
• : 261.275
• : click here

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.

Please note!

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.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : John Blackbourn
• : 22
• : 2.3 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.43/5 (23 votes)
• : 110.221
• : click here

FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog; the content it syndicates appears as a series of special posts in your WordPress posts database. 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.)

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Charles Johnson
• : 22
• : 3.0 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.91/5 (169 votes)
• : 530.204
• : click here

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:

<?php facebook_fan_box('API_KEY', 'PROFILE_ID'); ?>

If you want to change updates visibility, max. number of fans, width or css properties, just do this:

<?php facebook_fan_box('API_KEY', 'PROFILE_ID', 'STREAM', 'CONNECTIONS', 'WIDTH', 'CSS', 'IFRAME', 'HEIGHT', 'LOGO', 'LANG'); ?>

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.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Marcos Esperon
• : 22
• : 2.5 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.06/5 (16 votes)
• : 99.150
• : click here

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, StepCarousel, jCarousel and NivoSlider.

Please, before asking questions, read "Help" tab, there is a list of FAQ.

For developers, here is the documentation of WP Carousel 1.0.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Sumolari
• : 22
• : 3.0 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.17/5 (24 votes)
• : 38.206
• : click here

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:

• Arabic
• Assamese
• Bengali
• Bosnian
• Bulgarian
• Burmese
• Catalan
• Chinese(China)
• Chinese(Taiwan)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish
• French(Canada)
• French(France)
• French(Switzerland)
• Galician
• German
• Greek
• Greek(Polytonic)
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Irish
• Italian
• Japanese
• Khmer
• Korean
• Kurdish(Sorani)
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Malay
• Mari(Meadow)
• Norwegian
• Norwegian(Nynorsk)
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese(Brazil)
• Portuguese(Portugal)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Spanish(PuertoRico)
• Spanish(Spain)
• Sundanese
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Turkish
• Uighur
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese
• Welsh

Want to help translate the plugin or keep an existing translation up-to-date? Head on over to http://translate.wordpress.com/projects/polldaddy/plugin

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Automattic, Inc.
• : 22
• : 2.6 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.92/5 (136 votes)
• : 422.196
• : click here

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:

<?php
/*
Template Name Posts: Snarfer
*/
?>

First note: Page templates use "Template Name:", whereas post templates use "Template Name Posts:".

Second note: You must have the custom post template files in your theme in the same directory/folder as your index.php template file, not in a sub-directory/sub-folder.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Simon Wheatley
• : 22
• : 2.9 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.79/5 (53 votes)
• : 57.359
• : click here

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• :
• : 22
• :

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : /5 ()
• :
• :

This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress' default way of creating excerpts.

1. Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included)
2. Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count
3. Only the 'real' text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept)
4. Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used
5. Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts)
6. Adds a read-more link to the text
7. Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead
8. Theme developers can use the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ)

Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Bas van Doren
• : 22
• : 3.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.2/5 (100 votes)
• : 124.873
• : click here

Painlessly add a Facebook Share button to your posts and pages.

Features include:

• Supports all five button types, including custom button text;
• Supports placing button above or below content;
• Button can be shown on either posts (including excerpts), pages, or both;
• Includes compatibility modes for seamless theme integration;
• Allows user to override default padding options (defaults provided in admin interface);
• Button can be added via shortcode;
• Function can be added manually.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Erick Hitter
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.55/5 (11 votes)
• : 75.096
• : click here

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• :
• : 22
• :

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : /5 ()
• :
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Easily add breadcrumbs to your template. If you're using one of the supported WordPress frameworks, it's as easy as enabling the plugin and checking the "Try to add automatically box", if you're not using one of those, adding it is as simple as adding one line of code to your template!

Supported Frameworks

Currently the breadcrumbs plugin supports the following frameworks:

• Thematic
• Hybrid
• Thesis
• WP Framework

More info:

• Yoast Breadcrumbs.
• Read more about how to improve your WordPress SEO, so you can get the most out of this plugin.
• Check out the other Wordpress plugins by the same author.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Joost de Valk
• : 22
• : 2.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.41/5 (97 votes)
• : 147.350
• : click here