Compress for WordPress

Since WordPress 2.5 are posts not gzip compressed. wpCompressor automatically compresses the data output and boosts the speed performance of your blog.

Features

• Gzip data compress
• Very fast code execution
• No user interface required: Install, done!

Misc

• Plugin documentation in German
• Follow us on Twitter for updates
• Other author plugins

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Sergej Müller
• : 22
• : 2.5 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.67/5 (6 votes)
• : 1.921
• : click here

WP-LatestPhotos is a WordPress plugin which extends your media library and gives the ability to highlight some of your latest photos. Selected images can be shown in your sidebar—or wherever you need them to be—through the shortcode or inline PHP code.

Features

• Sidebar widget and shortcode support
• Photo randomizer
• Highly customizable through CSS. Plugin provides example CSS which can be used for demo purposes and can be switched off in the plugin settings. This way you can define your own CSS for your thumbnail galleries without being stuck with the excessive styles which most plugins come with, slowing down your website.
• Plugin provides the ability to include Thickbox bundled with your WordPress installation but you also can switch it off and use any other external library. It supports: Thickbox, Fancybox, Lightbox, Shadowbox. If you would like to use any other media viewer you’re should install an appropriate plugin.
• Thumbnails are located in the default image folder and named according to the WordPress convention.
• No performance bottlenecks. Thumbnails are generated only once—when marked.
• AJAXified thumbnail image cache gets rebuilt in case you change thumbnail size in the settings. Re-generating 10 images per request occurs with a little delay, so your server won’t be overloaded and scripts won’t stop working with a timeout error.

Usage

Use WP-LatestPhotos shortcode to add your photos to your post.

[WP-LatestPhotos limit="6"]

Also you can do it using these lines of PHP:

$options = array('limit' => 6, 'echo' => 1, 'link' => 'thickbox');
wp_latestphotos($options);

Options

• limit – number of images to display (6 by default)
• id – you can specify an ID for the unordered list of images
• link – one or more values that determine the URL of where a clicked image takes the user to

Possible values for link option are:

• post_parent – URL of the post to which the image is attached (it works only if image is actually attached, doh)
• attachment – attachment page URL (works only if page is attached to a post)
• full – full-size image URL
• thickbox, fancybox, lightbox or shadowbox – media viewer dependent link
• empty value means no link

You can mix these values up too. For example, you can use a sequence like this: post_parent, thickbox. If an image is attached to some post it uses a link to this post, otherwise it uses a Thickbox-dependent link.

• before, after – additional HTML before and after an IMG tag of each photo
• echo – 0 or 1, automatically outputs generated HTML; useful when applying a function inside PHP templates

See the WP-LatestPhotos homepage for further information.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Andrew Mihaylov
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (1 vote)
• : 1.139
• : click here

Mortgage Loan Calculator is a great value-add for any loan officer or real estate agent looking to provide good-looking, functional, valuable content to readers. The execution of this calculator is superb from the smooth sidebar integration, modal window results and AJAX-based graphs that are incredibly visually appealing. It's a great little application that delivers a lot of value in a user-friendly and well-executed way.

Languages included: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, and Albanian.

WordPress Mortgage Loan Calculator Plugin

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Free Mortgage Tools
• : 22
• : 2.1.x or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (1 vote)
• : 2.221
• : click here

This is a very simple and tiny pulgin. It makes your page scrolling more smoothly when you click a link like Go Bottom<a/>or any other link.

After click, the url in the address bar will not be added the anchor'name.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Addo Zhang
• : 22
• : 2.6 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 0/5 (0 votes)
• : 178
• : click here

Lets you find and replace text in pages, posts and trashed items with a GUI.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Ramon Fincken, Bas Bosman
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.8/5 (5 votes)
• : 849
• : click here

Mortgage Rates is a great value-add for any loan officer or real estate agent looking to provide good-looking, functional, valuable content to readers. The execution of this infobox is superb from the smooth sidebar integration, modal window trend and AJAX-based graphs that are incredibly visually appealing. It's a great little application that delivers a lot of value in a user-friendly and well-executed way.

WordPress Mortgage Loan Rates Plugin

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Free Mortgage Tools
• : 22
• : 2.1.x or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (1 vote)
• : 704
• : click here

The Comments Loop widget was written to allows users with no coding knowledge to customize their comments loop and comments form, all without editing their comments.php file.

Comments Loop is a complete widigitzation of the comments.php file, with over 30 settings to customize from reply links to what gets displayed when comments are closed. When you activate Comments Loop, you'll have two new available widgets, Comments Loop and Comments Form. Simply drag and drop them in a sidebar that's active in a singular template (e.g. single.php, page.php, or attachment.php).

View the FAQ section for more info on how to use Comments Loop.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Ptah Dunbar
• : 22
• : 2.9 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (1 vote)
• : 532
• : click here

This plugin is based on "Twitter for Wordpress" 1.9.7 by Ricardo González.

It supports MooTools as well as jQuery which comes with Wordpress and can be used as a widget.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Alexander Hofbauer
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 2.33/5 (3 votes)
• : 786
• : click here

Automatically checks all blogroll links if your link is still live. There are times that your link is removed by a webmaster without any notice so this plugin will come in handy especially for people that has a long list of blogroll which will be time consuming on their part if done manually.

See the WP Auto-Blogroll Checker homepage http://yourdailyguide.org/wp-auto-blogroll-checker/ for more information.

Changelog Version 2.0 * Now compatible with wordpress version 3

Version 1.5 * Fixed a bug in check links * Single Update button for all * Add new field (note) * URL validation for Link Located

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Bryan Joseph King
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (1 vote)
• : 858
• : click here

Search Light adds a nice Find-As-You-Type Ajax dropdown-interface for the standard WordPress search. Just install the plugin and start typing into the default WordPress search input field. You will get instant results ordered by articles and pages in an elegant and easy to use way.

The following settings can be changed in the settings dialog:

• Dropdown-theme
• Number of search results shown within the dropdown
• Display of Post-Thumbnail Images
• Fine-tune the position of the dropdown
• Change headline titles shown in the search result dropdown
• Change search-form ID-tag for easy integration into custom themes

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Daniel Kowalski, Sai Liu, IT Systempartner
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.9/5 (10 votes)
• : 5.066
• : click here

WP-MalWatch is a WordPress security plugin scanner designed to help alert you when hackers have been at work inside your blog.

When hackers infiltrate a blog, the first thing they do is plant hidden files, disguised .PHP, and malicious .HTACCESS files in various directores. Their goal is to litter your WordPress installation and theme with links to their sites.

WP-MalWatch performs a security scan of your WordPress installation nightly looking for evidence of foul play and if WP-MalWatch finds it, a dashboard widget will tell you were you should take a closer look. WP-MalWatch's detailed report also provides you a very easy interface for looking at the contents of these files right from within WordPress so you don't have to get into messy FTP clients and editors looking at potential problems.

Version 2.1.2 of WP-MalWatch is based on 2.0.2 which was a complete rewrite of the original WP-MalWatch plugin and provides efficient malware scanning. Version 2.1.2 looks for hidden files, HTACCESS files, configurable file patterns, keywords in theme files, encode 64 calls in key WordPress files, and .PHP files in the uploads directory.

Does WP-MalWatch protect your blog?

NO! WP-MalWatch is a scanning plugin that allows a blogger to easily identify the presence of files in a blog installation and provides a simple viewer for examining them.

If WP-MalWatch finds files in my blog, does it mean I have a problem?

Not necessarily but it does mean you need to take a look at them. The plugin has several links to explanations of what WP-MalWatch is looking for. Any file that WP-MalWatch reports, you should look at and be comfortable that it is there for a purpose.

Why PHP files in the uploads directory? Because they shouldn't be there and are clear evidence of foul play.

What are configurable file patterns?

Hackers love to drop multiple extension files into a blog hoping that you won't notice them. The default setting for WP-MalWatch are the file extension patterns for the somewhat clever "pharma attack". These include patterns like *.old.php and *.bak.php. You can configure these for whatever you are looking for.

Why .HTACCESS files? .HTACCESS files are specific for UNIX and you will generally have one at the root of your website. WordPress actually uses this file for things like Permalinks. Hackers love to drop .HTACCESS files into other parts of your WordPress installation to do malicious things such as implement 301 redirects to trick users or even search engines. Still, some plugins use .HTACCESS files for their functionality. That doesn't mean that a hacker can't get into those. If you have more than one .HTACCESS file in your installation, you'll want to take a look at it and ensure that there are no redirects to sites you aren't aware of.

Will WP-MalWatch scans impact the performance of my blog?

We tested WP-MalWatch on one of our blogs while there were over 2,000 active users online. We were impressed with its performance and the fact that it didn't impact server performance. If you see something different with your hosting, report it to us but we can assure you we paid close attention to the efficiency of scanning in this plugin.

If My Blog Is Clean, Should I leave WP-MalWatch installed?

YES! It only runs once per night and is very efficient. Leave this plugin installed. You can turn modules on/off as well.

WP-MalWatch Features:

• Automated nightly scans with the option to manually invoke.
• Efficient detection of PHP files in your Uploads directory.
• Efficient detection of multiple .HTACCESS files in your installation.
• Detection of files based on configurable file patterns.
• Detection of hidden files.
• Detection of configurable keywords in theme files.
• Detection of encode64 calls in key WordPress files
• Configurations including turning modules on and off.
• A easy to use viewer for any files detected during a scan.
• Symbolic link friendly file scanning.
• Dashboard widget for easy notification.
• Efficient and high performance scanning.
• A very well written, modularized plugin architecture for future expansion.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : OrangeCast
• : 22
• : 2.9.0 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.63/5 (8 votes)
• : 10.818
• : click here

The WordpreSMS plugin allows you to use Wordpress as a mobile SMS content management system. You can set up a Keyword on a given Short Code. If users send that keyword to the short code, the system will reply with an up to 600 characters long SMS to the user. You need an account on http://www.wordpresms.com to get started.

Due to the nature of SMS services and short codes, the usage is limited to certain countries. At the moment, WordpreSMS is supported by mobile phone operators in:

• United Kingdom
• Germany
• Switzerland
• Austria

Live demo under demo.wordpresms.com

Important: This project is still in Beta phase. All feedback, recommendations and ideas should be fed back to feedback@wordpresms.com

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Christoph Burgdorfer
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (1 vote)
• : 258
• : click here

This plugin allows the author to exclude certain posts from archive, tag, search and home page listings. Authors can also exclude posts to appear ONLY to logged in users, thereby forcing membership. The exclusion check boxes appear directly on the edit post page, no need to access the program separately from the admin panel. This is what makes the plugin better than some of the other excluder plugins out there.

The editing checkboxes on the post edit screen are: Disable listing on home page; Disable on tag listing; Disable listing in archives; Disable listing in search; Disable listing for users not Logged In; Disable but show available if Logged In.

The last two options allow hidden content to exist in the system, where it will be displayed if the user is logged in. On these posts that are excluded from listing or display, the author can specify: (a.) Disable from listing if not logged in, or, (b.) Disable from listing if not logged in but let browser know it is there if they do log in.

In situation a, the post is not displayed (direct url will show a 404), and it is not listed in the menus, (unless you have a different plugin/template scheme that will override wp filters).

In situation b, the post will be replaced with a customized message (admin->tools) like 'Sorry, this content is available to logged in users only'. The links to the protected content will be visible.

This plugin is designed to be customized by the end user. The code is simple and heavily documented, and uses only WordPress functions. You should be using WP version 2.7 or greater for this plugin to work properly.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : ClixCorp
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.5/5 (2 votes)
• : 966
• : click here

Ever wanted different pages on your blog to display different types of post? You might have news and changelog pages and want to display categorized posts in each one.

With Pages Posts you can! You can configure a page to display posts only from a specific category or tag.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Rich Gubby
• : 22
• : 2.9.1 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.2/5 (5 votes)
• : 3.279
• : click here

Wordy.com is the fastest, most reliable service for online copy editing on the Web. With Wordy for WordPress you can seamlessly add professional editing to your WordPress publishing process.

• Professional editors check your post for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and structure.
• Get a FREE instant quote the minute you start typing.
• Choose between US and UK English.
• NO LOSS of HTML formatting.

With Wordy for WordPress you can even publish your post first, and then send it to Wordy for post-publication editing.

PUBLISH WITH CONFIDENCE

Whether you deal with academic text, corporate literature, blogs or web content – in fact, any kind of copy – Wordy will help you publish with confidence. Wordy provides you with a standardised editing service in record breaking time at a very low cost.

1. Send your text seamlessly from WordPress. You instantly get a free price quote, and an approximate delivery time.

2. A Wordy editor will check your text for grammar, spelling, punctuation and structure. Wordy has editors that specialise in a wide range of subjects, which ensures your text will be of the very highest quality.

3. When you get your text back from Wordy, it is ready to publish. It’s really as simple as that! Now, go publish with confidence!

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Wordy
• : 22
• : 2.9.1 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (3 votes)
• : 580
• : click here

This plugin adds a graphical chart of the FireStats statistics plugin on the admin dashboard. It supports i18n

Require FireStats >= 1.6.3 Not tested on WPMU

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : David "mArm" Ansermot
• : 22
• : 2.9.0 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.75/5 (4 votes)
• : 2.742
• : click here

If a comment is held for moderation an email message is sent to the comment author with a link to verify the comment author's email address. When the comment author clicks on that link the comment gets approved immediately. This makes discussions more lively as users don't have to wait for the blog admin to approve the comment.

If an author has a previously approved comment and his comments gets approved automatically according to the 'comment_whitelist' option in WordPress no email is sent.

If a comment is classified as spam by Akismet or another anti-spam plugin no email is sent.

This plugin uses the new commentmeta table and thus requires WordPress 2.9

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Martin Lormes
• : 22
• : 2.9 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.33/5 (3 votes)
• : 1.142
• : click here

Simply displays to the visitor the last Google Buzz status updates of a Google user.

Usage: Insert anywhere in your theme the function <?php simple_buzz('ID_of_user', number_of_posts_to_show) ?> (Number of posts is optional [default=1]). If number of posts is larger than 1, they will be displayed in an unordered list.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Antonio Bustamante Mirayo
• : 22
• : 2.0.2 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 5/5 (1 vote)
• : 607
• : click here

WP Editarea turns your Oldschool textarea code editor in Wordpress Dashboard (plugin/theme editor) into a fancy realtime highlighted code editor using Editarea.

Plugin Feature

• Automatically detect syntax language
• Live preview in plugin option page
• Better than codepress (cPanel also use this)
• Easy integration, no file to edit
• Easy to use configuration page

Editarea Feature

• Multi language interface
• Bracket matching highlight
• Support many syntax
• Line numbers
• Toggle word wrap
• Interactive toolbar
• Search/replace with regex
• More at Editarea homepage.

Browser Compatibility

• IE 6 & 7 & 8, Firefox 1.5 & 2 & 3, Safari 3.x & 4, Opera 9, 9.5, 9.6 and Chrome 1 & 2[2]

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Takien
• : 22
• : 2.9 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4.6/5 (5 votes)
• : 944
• : click here

Improve the usability of your Wordpress CMS system. This plug-in creates a dashboard widget with clearly labeled large buttons of the most common tasks one would perform when using wordpress as a content management system.

I have found that particularly when handing a Wordpress CMS over to less than tech-savvy clients, there is often confusion on how to perform some of the more simple tasks simply because the Wordpress side menu can be overwhelming. This plugin creates a simple to use dashboard interface that will let clients easily post, edit, manage users and change widgets with out having to do any hunting or searching.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Ross Johnson
• : 22
• : 3.0 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (8 votes)
• : 3.643
• : click here

Show your Google Buzz post on your Wordpress site. Just set you username and place where you want your Google Buzz posts to be shown.

Features:

• Custom title
• Showing images from post
• Sidebar widget
• Custom color scheme

You can find more information about this plugin on workshop.rs

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Ivan Lazarevic
• : 22
• : 2.3 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3.56/5 (9 votes)
• : 3.859
• : click here

Have you ever wanted to give away vouchers, tickets, coupons or tokens on your website? If so this plugin is for you. You can create a voucher with whatever text you want, choosing the layout and font from a range of templates (you can also add your own templates). Vouchers can then be viewed, downloaded and printed from a specified URL.

There are shortcodes to add a link to a particular voucher, to show an unordered list of all your vouchers, or to show the registration for to request a restricted voucher.

You can require visitors to provide their name and email address to get a voucher. If an email address is required an email is sent to the address with a link to the voucher URL. Each voucher has a unique code, and vouchers that have an email address associated with them can only be used once, so once a registration-required voucher is downloaded it can't be downloaded again.

The plugin also makes use of the __() function to allow for easy translation.

Thanks to Christian Serron (http://twitter.com/cserron) for the code to make the vouchers work in widgets (currently disabled, I'm working on this) and to Barry (http://www.betakeygiveaway.com/) for bug testing above and beyond the call of duty.

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Chris Taylor
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (6 votes)
• : 3.525
• : click here

WP Super Popup makes you able to easily create and manage modal and unblockable popups for your blog. It is proved that a modal and graphically attractive popup (like the one generated by this plugin) have an high conversion! For example you can use it for creating subscription forms or to promote your product in a viral way. The popup content can be retrieved from an external URL or directly edited inlide thanks to a WYSIWYG editor. The most powerful features of this plugin regards its competitors are the following:

• Real WYSIWYG: The popup content is not affected by the stylesheets of your blog: what you edit is EXACTLY what you will see inside the popup

• Live preview: you can directly test any update before saving the configuration options

• Full compatibility with any caching plugin: the cookies are handled on the client side so the plugin is not affected by issues related to a caching system

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Davide Pozza
• : 22
• : 2.7 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 4/5 (10 votes)
• : 11.219
• : click here

With the count down plugin you are able to count down for your visitors to a certain Date. When this date is reached, a custom image will be shown (which can be defined by yourself).

This plugin is Widget enabled, so you are able to add it to your sidebar just by drag and drop and your counter is ready!

• Author
• Version
• Requires WP version

• : Flex-Blog.com (Arjan Nieuwenhuizen, Roelof Albers)
• : 22
• : 2.8 or higher

• WordPress.org rating
• Downloads
• Plugin homepage

• : 3/5 (3 votes)
• : 1.387
• : click here