Social

1. Digg Digg
A social plugin that use to add Digg , Reddit , Dzone and Yahoo Buzz button into wordpress content.

2. Sociable
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

3. Lifestream
Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites. View Demo

4. Social Bookmarks
The Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites.

5. Facebook Connect Community
Wordpress plugin that allows direct integration of WordPress blogs with Facebook using Facebook Connect

6. Popu List
PopuList allows you to track the popularity of your posts on social bookmarking sites reddit, stumbleupon, del.icio.us and digg.

7. Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Ad Managements

8. Ad Coder
Ad Coder is an easy way to spread adserver banner code or other html/js code over your blog or page content – e.g. type {IMU 486_60} and this tag will be replaced with the code you have prepared in the admin option panel for this.

9. Amazon Context Links Ads
Use this plugin to enabled amazon context ads in your blog start earn money from amazon affiliate

10. WP125
The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads.

11. All in One Adsense and YPN
All in One Adsense and YPN is a Free and Open Source WordPress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly.

12. Ozh’ Who Sees Ads
Who Sees Ads is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, for instance Adsense, depending on user defined conditions. You can manage ads in your templates or within posts and pages.

Comments and antispam

13. Disqus Commenting System
Disqus is a powerful comment system that easily enhances the discussion on websites.In minutes, connect your community with those of thousands of other websites.

14. WP-SpamFree
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.

15. Ajax Comments-Reply
When a reply is made to a comment the user has left on the blog, an e-mail shall be sent to the user to notify him of the reply. This will allow the users to follow up the comment and expand the conversation if desired.

16. Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.

17. Add to Any Subscribe Button
Helps readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Netvibes, Windows Live, and all other RSS readers.

18. WP Ajax Edit Comments
WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.

19. Thank Me Later
Thank Me Later is a plug-in which will automatically send a thank you email to readers after they post a comment. It can be set to send the message a time after the comment was posted (an hour, day, week, month, etc).

20. IntenseDebate
IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Full comment and account data sync between IntenseDebate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments.

Video and Photos

21. WP YouTube
This plugin helps you to present your YouTube videos without the effort to paste the whole embed-code. You only need the YouTube ID, the rest is handled by WP YouTube.

22. Viper’s Video Quicktags
Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you.

23. FlickrRSS
This plugin for WordPress allows you to display Flickr photos on your weblog. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams, and is relatively easy to setup and configure via a settings panel.

24. SEO Friendly Images
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set.

25. Scissors
This plugin adds cropping and resizing functionality to WordPress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports watermarking of images.

26. Custom Upload Dir
WordPress allow you to use month- and year-based folders. With this plugin you can construct paths from additional variables like: day, post title and post author.

27. WordPress Download Monitor
Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.

Posts content

28. Popularity Contest
Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. There are numerical values assigned to each type of view and feedback; these are used to create a ‘popularity score’ for each post.

29. WP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

30. Exec-PHP
The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.

31. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

32. Random Image Selector
This plugin will generate an tag for a random image selected from a specified folder.

33. Organize Series
The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series. It helps make it easier for readers of your blog to discover all the series you’ve written and also to easily find post that are part of the same series.

34. WP-Note
This plugin allows you to create nice «notes» in your WordPress posts or pages.
You just should add note tags in your post.
There are all five tags: note,important,tip,warning and help.

Analize Traffic

35. Google Analytics
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads.

36. WP-Stats
Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.

37. WP-Click-Tracker
Scans posts and rewrites them to include a tracking element. Enables users to create stand alone trackable links that can be embedded in posts or offsite.

38. Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Feeds

39. FeedSmith
This plugin — a toddler in age, but a prodigy with HTTP requests — will be made available directly from FeedBurner as “FeedSmith.”

40. Google Adsense for Feeds
This puts Google RSS Ads in your feed, make sure you fill in your publisher ID by editing the plugin file.

Other article by WPZOOM

1. How was the installation of WPZOOM, or what plugins I recommend

Other articles found online

1. WordPress Plugins For Increasing Traffic
In that article you’ll learn more about some WordPress plugins that can help increase the number of visitors to your site.

2. 10 Great WordPress Plugins to make your Life Easier
There are many other interesting plugins available there.

3. 10 Best WordPress Plugins in 2009 for Productive Blogging
A post with top 10 wordpress plugins in 2009. Author took few days to find the right and working wordpress plugins that he wanted. ]]> http://www.wpzoom.com/plugins/40-wordpress-plugins-to-improve-your-blogs-performance/feed/ 37 http://www.wpzoom.com/wpzoom/wordpress-related-firefox-addons/ http://www.wpzoom.com/wpzoom/wordpress-related-firefox-addons/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:09:44 +0000 Pavel Ciorici http://www.wpzoom.com/?p=661 ]]> Firefox is regarded as the best Web browser in terms of extensions. It has hundreds of add-ons, which can be downloaded from here. But in this list I collected the most useful WordPress related Firefox extensions (addons). Let me know your own favorite add-ons in the comments.

Wappalyzer

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Wappalyzer tracks the distrubition of software on the web and shows you which CMS, wiki, message board etc. is used on the page you’re currently at.
Addon page

WordPress Helper 1.0.1

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The Firefox extension WordPress Helper helps you working with WordPress by providing useful help and tools.

Addon page

Deepest Sender

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Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too.

Addon page

Screen grab to WordPress! 0.2

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This addons ads to Screen Grab! by allowing screen captures to be uploaded to WordPress (2.5+) blogs via xml-rpc

Addon page

MMD WordPress.com Extension 1.1

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This extension adds a tiny statusbar panel that shows you your blog hit count for your WordPress.com blog

Addon page

WordPress Post 0.17

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This extension lets you post the text you select in your browser directly to your WordPress blog.

Addon page

One-Click Installer for WP 1.1

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Install plugins or themes on your self-hosted WordPress blogs with a single click (needs the related WP plugin to work; not intended for WordPress.com) .

Addon page

easyComment-a-Blog

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Filling out Blog Comment Forms automatically with ease.

Addon page

The next series of articles I proposed to bring in the spotlight different ways of using the WordPress, bringing examples, resources, like themes and various tutorials.

Most of us have used that the WordPress has evolved in a such way, that many have forgotten that WordPress is actually a platform for blogs and there is no surprise to see popular sites of any kind, which are powered by this blogging platform. Among such sites are listed well known on-line publications like: CNN Political Ticker or NYTimes.com Blogs pand many other notable blogs, which list can be found here.

WordPress as Magazine or News Site

There are a lot of themes and techniques to create a wonderful Magazine or News Site in WordPress. Most of these theme often differ from the rest of specifications as Featured Content Gallery, Administration Panel and a lot of integrated plugins.
Many web-designers suggests WordPress because it’s simple and yet is such a pleasure to use. Yes, there are things that need to be improved but WordPress being an open source software, you can expect continuous improvements on it by the community.

Examples:

Here are my favourite sites with Magazine style, created with WordPress:

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FollowTheWinds is a blog about Windsurfing Lifestyle, which is a modification of the theme Arthemia, and next to the default theme features it has integrated and a great flash slide panel.

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It’s hard to believe, but Timothy Sykes is an WordPress powered blog, because it is very well structured and the concept is different from any others.

Tutorials & Resources:

• 45 Free WordPress Themes With Magazine Style
• Hot To Use WordPress as Magazine News CMS
• Hot To Use WordPress As A Membership Directory
• 10 Useful RSS Hacks For WordPress

Magazine Themes

Here are my favorite WordPress Themes of all time, which I think are perfectly created for Magazine Style blogs.

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Mimbo Pro

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Arthemia Theme

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NewsPaper

WordPress as a Twitter clone:

Have you ever wanted to have a Twitter profile different from the rest? Now this is possible using WordPress. Often we observe different uses of the twitter plugins in WordPress, which led to a mini-blogging spreading among bloggers, who prefer short posts.

Examples:

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Frozr

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Firman Firdaus

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Mark Jardine

Twitter-like WordPress themes:

Twitter-like WordPress Themes allows you to customize your Twitter “profile” as you want. Sometimes I feel the need to post a video or a picture, and then appears and the need for a twitter profile that you can manage as you wish, and this leads to the using of WordPress as an alternative to Twitter. But there is also a disadvantage because you lose the main essence of Twitter, that of creating a community of mini-bloggers, and disappears at the same time interaction between people who follow you.

Plugins & Tutorials

• RSS Stream is plugin that displays your social feeds in a lifestream way from different communities like: Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, and others. You can take a look on this plugin in action here.
• Tutorial: How to display Twitter as WordPress post
• Tutorial on how to customize Twitter Tools for you WordPress Blog
• Life-Stream Plugin

WordPress as a Trailer or Video Site:

In my opinion, beside WordPress Rockstar, I think we have to invent and VideoStar expression. Can you guess who can be called so? Certainly that’s Jason Schuller, who has introduced a new type of WordPress theme – Video Themes.

Examples

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FlickOut is an Powered by WordPress Blog, where we can find trailers and wathc them in a very easily way.

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TrailerFlick is a site developed by VideoStar Jason Schuller, and I would like to mention that it is very much like structure with the first example in this, even if it lacks some features.

Themes

Bellow I post all the video theme created by Jason Schuller:

And the remaining themes are creations of various authors:

I hope you enjoyed this article, and don’t forget to come back soon to read the new articles from this series called: WordPress: More Than A Blog Platform.

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But firstly, I would like to recommend you a plugin called WP Security Scan, which scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities, passwords, file permissions, database security, version hiding, WordPress admin protection/security and suggests corrective actions.

• 1. Remove WordPress ‘version string’ in your theme files
  • 1. Go to WordPress dashboard, click on presentation -> edit themes -> header.php
  • 2. Find and remove this. bloginfo(‘version’) Save the file.

  Explanation: Hide the version number of your WordPress such that it will be hard for hacker to find security loopholes for the specific version of WordPress.

• 2. Place empty ‘index.html’ file in the plugins folder
  • 1. Open Notepad. Click ’save as’ and save the file as index.html (be sure to change the filetype from text files to all files)
  • 2. Upload the file to WordPress plugins folder in your web server.

  Explanation: Hide the plugins used by your WordPress blog. It uses the same concept as above which is to hide security loopholes in the plugins.

• 3. Upload a copy of .htaccess file in the wp-admin folder
  • 1. Using FTP program or your webserver file manager, go to the root folder of your server and download .htaccess file (set ’show hidden files’ first if you’re using FTP program such as FileZilla)
  • 2. Go to your wp-admin folder
  • 3. Upload the .htaccess file you’ve downloaded just now.

  Explanation: Prevent files in wp-admin from being accessed by hackers by limiting the access to this folder by IP address (means that the access is limited to the server owner/user only).