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7 WordPress Gallery Plugins

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Galleries of images are most often viewed by individuals who wish to learn more about the album. This helps to incite reason to stay at the blog and comment on what they see.

IImage Gallery – This plugin is very useful to create simple but useful image galleries for your WordPress blog posts.

Inline Gallery – Easy to configure arbitrary image gallery that works right out of the installation to your WordPress blog. This plugin is no longer under development.

NextGEN Gallery – A very nice and simple to use gallery plugin with an integrated flash slideshow gallery options to use on any WordPress blog post.

PicasaWeb Inline Gallery – This plugin is well designed to integrate existing Picasa and Google image galleries into a WordPress blog post. The design offers simple access to these items as well.

Ajax Gallery – Simple Ajax coded plugin designed to use Thickbox, Picasa and Google image galleries in your WordPress Blogs. All documentation is in Spanish language.

WP Gallery Remote – Plugin designed to use default gallery albums and collections to display images. If the Lightbox plugin is available, images are shown with appropriate effects or opened in a new browser window if not available.

Berri YouTube Gallery – This special gallery plugin is designed to show off customized YouTube gallery in the Sidebar of your WordPress blog.

7 Cache Plugins for WordPress

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Improving the loading time of your WordPress blog is important. Caching systems offer your blog visitors a chance to see everything before it gets stale in their browser and they navigate away.

WP Cache – This is an advanced page caching system for your WordPress blog which allows your blog to load much more efficiently and quickly.

Cache Images – Special plugin tool designed to help cache hot-linked images into a local folder to prevent broken links to images and surprise inappropriate image substitutions which may be offensive to readers.

COS HTML Cache – Creates actual HTML based posts so that the system loads them more efficiently. Increases the speed of load times, allowing for a much better experience for your blog readers.

Advanced Caching – Caches post queries to speed up the loading of your WordPress blog. Very efficient and easy to use by simply enabling it in your control panel.

WP Super Cache – Generates HTML from your posts to be loaded instead of the heavy and inefficient PHP scripts that slow your site down.

del.icio.us Cached ++ – Special plugin designed to update the RSS feed for del.icio.us every 60 seconds to stay within the proper TOS regulations of their service.

Plugin Output Cache – This plugin actually makes use of the output of other plugins to make them more efficient.

7 Anti Spam WordPress Plugins

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

The large amount of spam robots is increasing and the every lasting war between blog owners and spammers is born. Anti spam helps to weed out these comments before they even reach your blog.

Math Comment Spam Protection – This plugin makes sure that the commenter is not a spam robot program by asking a simple math question that must be answered correctly to post.

Peter’s Custom Anti Spam – Uses a system where visitors must be able to match a word with another that is displayed before commenting is made possible.

Defensio Anti Spam – This is an all in one spam protection plugin which makes it very difficult to receive spam into your WordPress blog post comments.

WP Spam Free Anti Spam – Specially designed plugin to stop all forms of spam comments. Most common nuisance spam items such as trackbacks and pingback comments are especially blocked.

WP Spam Hitman – A plugin designed to stop spam comments by assigning rules that must be followed to allow the comment to pass through the system.

Yet Another WordPress Anti Spam Plugin – Valuable anti spam plugin designed to stop spammers from getting into your comment lists with several spam protection tools.

SI CAPTCHA Anti Spam – Allows you to add a CAPTCHA anti-spam at all or only some of the input locations on your WordPress site.

7 WordPress Video Plugins

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Video can be a useful tool to keep visitors on the blog for longer periods of time. It also offers diversions and flare to an otherwise plain WordPress blog.

Embedded Video – Support for over 20 video portal websites with this plugin to embed into your WordPress blog posts.

Viper’s Video Quick Tags – Provides buttons for video link capture on the write screen that open a prompt where you are able to paste in the link to the video on any popular video portal website.

Daiko’s Video Widget – Sidebar widget that makes it possible to show random videos of your choice in the display.

Riffly Webcam Video Comments – Allows people with a Riffly.com account the ability to leave video and audio comments on your WordPress blog. Much different than conventional textual comments and excellent for testimonials.

Revver Video WordPress Plugin – Allows you to create your own video portal website that is hosted on your website. Allows readers to post their own video responses as well through Revver.

WordPress Video Plugin – Special plugin with support for over 50 video portal websites. Allows easy embedding into your WordPress blog posts.

Flash Video Player – Very nice video and multimedia player plugin that uses the power of the FLV player and SWFObject javascript library.

6 Review Site WordPress Plugins

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Formatting everything in blog posts separately for a review can be very tiresome. Having the ability to easily create reviews is important for many review sites.

Stumble Reviews – Allows you to show reviews about your WordPress blog on from Stumbleupon toolbar users on your blogs. Improves the look and feel of your WordPress blog with these reviews by real people.

My Review – Plugin designed to offer the writer a formatted writing page that shows the pros and cons of a product, service or anything at all. Usually very useful for a review type blog website.

Mombly Review Rating – This plugin is made to allow you to place a review on any of your WordPress blog posts. Uses a simple intuitive custom tag that allows the review score to be posted, even with custom stars.

Starred Review – An essential review plugin for any site that wishes to post plain reviews on their WordPress blog posts.

Review Box – Reviews made possible through a box that is displayable within the post or on the page with pros, cons and review bar that is simple to use.

Pendig Reviews Dashboard Widget – Allows you to see pending reviews for posts through the dashboard. Can be customized to show how many are pending and whether or not author data is included.

4 Ecommerce Plugins for WordPress

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Selling products or services online is a very important part of eCommerce. Turning a blog into a sales platform can help make companies and individuals many quick and easy sales.

flshow Manager – Great plugin to use to display a carousel of images of items that are offered in your eCommerce website. Very customizable and offers the ability to link to products or anywhere else.

Xilitheme Select – Special template plugin that allows for users to turn their current WordPress blog into an eCommerce site to sell products and services.

WP OsCommerce – Plugin system to turn any WordPress blog site into a useful eCommerce site. The plugin features special modes such as “new products”, “random products” and “top 10 best sellers”.

WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart – Allows the WordPress blog owner to insert “Add to Cart” button to posts to allow for easy PayPal based shopping cart solution which allows users to add and remove items before checking out.

WordPress Poll Plugins

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Polls are a useful way to not only know that users are reading your posts, but to also learn their opinions if they do not post in your blog. The following plugins are great for taking polls.

WP Polls – A great plugin that is highly customizable in both options and visual styles. Takes advantage of Ajax powered coding to ensure the poll works how you want it to work.

Soda Head Polls – This poll widget claims to be the best. Offers the easiest interface to work with and allows you to integrate images into your polls.

MEMEdex Polls – The MEMEdex polls are very useful for creating custom polls which are tallied accurately offsite without your viewers ever leaving your site. Highly useful and easily integrated through smart tags.

Poll Daddy Polls – This customizable poll plugin option gives a wide range of tools for your poll casting. Allows you to make unlimited polls and store the data publically or privately.

Social Engine Last Polls – Provides polls for the Last X Social Engine Poll for your WordPress blog. The Social Engine Poll service is not free.

PoW Poll – Simple to use Ajax based poll plugin is great for creating customized polls. It offers a wide range of options that can be changed through the admin panel.

WordPress Calendar Plugins

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Having access to a calendar is very useful in many ways. You can use special plugins to customize your calendar to be an event listing, tour date calendar and so much more.

Calendar – Easy to use plugin that is designed to be used as an event calendar. This can be easily configured without hassle by the admin through the control panel.

Future Posts Calendar – This calendar is an admin tool that allows for future posts to be made and managed. You can control the timestamps for posts as well but without editing the timestamp structure.

Ajax Calendar – An advanced Ajax based calendar that has increased functionality. It has the power to cache information on the calendar as well to speed up browsing for your WordPress blog readers.

Events Calendar – a very useful plugin that offers an Ajax based calendar that will have increased functionality with ease. It allows you to use it in widget form as well as a large calendar to be placed on your site pages.

Gigs Calendar – This is a perfect plugin for bands that have plenty of tour dates to keep fans informed of tour dates.

Austin Tech Events Calendar – This plugin is designed to take the architecture of Google calendar and integrate it into your WordPress blog.

7 Translation Plugins for WordPress

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Having a way to display your blog posts for foreign readers which use a language other than your own is important. This way you can target a much larger audience with your blog posts.

Auto Translator – This translator is easy to use and installs a set of flags that allow the visitors to select their country to draw the translation from an automatic translation service with some limitations to accuracy.

EHT Translate – This makes automatic translations of your WordPress blog for your visitors that cannot read your original written language. This plugin is perfect for English blogs that have a large number of international views.

Indoeuropean Translator Widget – This is a very useful widget plugin that provides a list of translator services for people to use to view your page in their language if it differs from your own.

Global Translator – This plugin allows readers to automatically translate your WordPress blog into any of the 41 different languages that are supported. If other than English as the base language, there may be less options to choose from.

Google Ajax Translation – This plugin uses Ajax and Google translate to handle your reader’s translation requests. This plugin offers up to 52 different languages for your readers to choose from.

WP Slug Translate – This plugin is specifically designed to translate between English and Chinese Pinyin. Its accuracy is not perfect but it is well worth the usage.

Kish Translate – Allows your WordPress blog readers to translate your posts into 20 international languages without having to reload the page.

7 YouTube WordPress Plugins

A Niraj Kumar — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:11:35 +0000

Having YouTube videos on your WordPress blog site is a very simple way to show your viewers a wide range of things. Whether it is a product commercial to an emotional video, viewers respond to them well.

YouTube Brackets – This is an easy to use plugin which allows for YouTube videos to be inserted with simple bracket tags. This can be done on any WordPress blog installation with ease.

Genki YouTube Comments – This allows you to post comments on your YouTube videos onto your WordPress blog without having to copy and paste them. Automatically updates itself when there are new posts on your videos.

WP YouTube – This is a great YouTube video management system that only requires you to have the video ID. The system calls up and formats the video how you need it for your WordPress Blog.

Smart YouTube – This plugin allows you to insert YouTube videos and playlists easily into your posts, comments and RSS feeds. It gives you greater control over where you can place content on your WordPress blog.

YouTube Widget – This is a simple WordPress Widget that allows you to display a video on your blog.

Random YouTube Video – Sidebar widget that is designed to call a random YouTube video that you can manage in the admin controls.

[GWA] Google YouTube Video Bar – Allows you to add targeted content to your WordPress blog through Google.