Newest WordPress Plugins 20/08

I have been so busy with a few projects this week, some of my own and some of others that I almost forgot to get this weeks newest WordPress plugins post out. I hope you enjoy this weeks post

Autolinks
Autolinks is a very smart WordPress plugin, it automatically generate a hyper links for images of the post summary. For category list,search result etc, if topic summary have images, autolinks will generate hyper links for these images, these hyper links will link to the topic’s full text. Additionally, Autolinks can also automatically generate title and alt information for images when they are lack of them. Thus, Autolinks can improve both human friendly and search engine friendly.

Restricted Site Access
Limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specific IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message. A great solution for Extranets, publicly hosted Intranets, or parallel development sites.

WordPress Plugin - Restricted Site Access

FancyTweet
Is the best widget-plugin for streaming niched twitter tweets from your sidebar. FancyTweet harnesses the power of the glorious rounded-corner-avatars, accenting your blog with a sleek web 2.0 appeal.

WordPress Plugin - FancyTweet

DiaryPress
Is a plugin designed to allow your blog to operate like a diary. It will disable RSS feeds to keep your blog private. It will also ask you to login before being allows to view the blog. Finally it allows you to custom brand your login screen.

Simple contact form
Providing a simple contact form on your WordPress site at side bar. Entered contact us details are stored into database, to see that details go to ‘simple contact form’ link under SETTING menu.

WordPress Plugin - Simple Contact Form

WPChameleon
After launching a new theme, I found that my readers couldn’t agree on what colors they find easy to read. WPChameleon lets you define custom bits of CSS to define “variations” on your current theme. Your users can then select which variation they wish to use.

Add to Header
Add additional code to your header WITHOUT editing your theme:

• Stylesheets (CSS)
• Javascript (JS)
• Google Analytics
• Metadata
• Anything else

WordPress Plugin - Add to Header

Hungred Feature Post List
This is similar to recent post embedded in WordPress. The only differences is that this come with a control panel where you can control the following stuff:

• Number of features
• CSS class on the feature container
• CSS class on the feature widget
• Feature type available, ‘selected only’, ‘random only’ and ‘both
• Table that shows all the selected feature post

WordPress Plugin - Hungred Feature Post List

Cooliris Photo Wall
Cooliris for WordPress lets you add an infinite wall of photos to your WordPress blog. Simply configure your settings in the “settings” tab.

Activity Sparks
Is a highly customizable widget to display a “sparkline” style graph in your sidebar indicate post and/or comment activity. This plugin leverages Google’s Chart API, so does not require the PHP GDI library. Customization options include Title, size, colour, background transparency, caching period, activity granularity and period.

WordPress Plugin - Activity Sparks

Booking Calendar
Using this plugin, you can add booking service to your site. Your site visitors can make booking of one or several days. Its can be interesting for hotel reservation service, rental service or any other service, where is needed making reservation at specific dates.

WordPress Plugin - Booking Calendar

WordPress Comment Warrior
Firstly, stat comment warriors periodically, and show relevant warriors for different period. For example, when open an article posted in Jul. 2009, widget will list warriors in Jul. 2009.

Secondly, if a comment’s author is a warrior, an cup image can be shown in the warrior’s comment.

WordPress Plugin - WordPress Comment Warrior

Send link to friend
If the user thought the page link is useful to their friend, he can send the page link via this plug-in..

• Simple.
• Admin can choose which page this plugin should display.
• Easy style-override.
• Widgets, so you can add pretty much anything.
• Easy installation.
• Ajax, so no page refresh.

WordPress Plugin - Send Link to Friend

Final Thought

I hope you enjoyed the plugins this week and hope that you found something new to use on your site. Let me know if you try any of them, your feedback would be appreciated.

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