WordPress Plugins From WordPress

A Large List of Plugins From WordPress

If you see a plugin you’re interested in using or want more information on from within WordPress, go to Plugins, click “Add New” and then copy & paste the name in bold into the search field.

The one’s with an asterick are either favorites or commonly used one’s.

Index:

 

SEO & Tracking Plugins:

* All in One SEO Pack
Details | Installed 1.6.14.1
Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
Upgrade to Pro Version
Translations
Some features:
Google Analytics support
Support for Custom Post Types
Advanced Canonical URLs
Fine tune Page Navigational Links
Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integrat… By Michael Torbert.

 

Google XML Sitemaps

Details | Install Now 3.2.6

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search … By Arne Brachhold.

 

Google Analytics for WordPress

Details | Install Now 4.2.4

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin allows you to track your blog easily and with lots of metadata.

Check out the Google Analytics for WordPress video:

Full list of features:

Simple installation through integration with Google Analytics API: authenticate, select the site you want to track and you’re done.

This plugin uses the asynchronous Google Analytics tracking code, the fastest a… By Joost de Valk.

 

* All in One Webmaster – 5.0

Details | Install Now 7.5.3

If you are a webmaster you probably heard of Google Webmaster Tool. Both Yahoo and Bing have their own versions called Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central. With them you can check how your site is indexed (Webmaster Tool), get detailed statistics (Analytics Tool), earn money (Google AdSense) and more.

This is very simple plugin with out any complicated code. It adds your requested meta … By NetCrunched.

 

StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats

Details | Install Now 1.6.3

The Official StatCounter WordPress Plugin brings you all the powerful StatCounter features to your wordpress blog. (Only includes last 500 page visits unless purchase upgrade)

Including but not limited to the following:

Invisible Counter Option

Configurable Counter

Configurable Summary Stats

Magnify User

Drill Down

Popular Pages

Entry Pages

Exit Pages

Came From

Keyword Analysis

Recent Keyword Activity

Search Engine Wars

Visitor Paths

Visit Length

Returni… By Aodhan Cullen.

 

Super Simple Google Analytics – 5.0

Details | Install Now 1.4.2

This is a bare bones option for people who are looking to simply insert the basic Google Analytics tracking code into the head section of every page.

No crazy options, not very exciting, but works reliably. By bitacre.

 

 

Optin & Optin Forms:

* Contact Form 7

Details | Installed 3.1.1

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Plugin’s Official Site

Contact Form 7 (http://contactform7.com)

Docs – FAQ – Support

Contact Form 7 Needs Your Support

It is hard to continue development and support for this… By Takayuki Miyoshi.

 

* Really Simple CAPTCHA

Details | Installed 1.5

Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins. It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.

Note: This product is “really simple” as its name suggests, i.e., it is not strongly secure. If you need perfect security, you should try other solutions.

How does it work?

Really Simple CAPTCHA does not use PHP “Session… By Takayuki Miyoshi.

 

Custom Contact Forms

Details | Install Now 5.0.0.1

Guaranteed to be 1000X more customizable and intuitive than Fast Secure Contact Forms or Contact Form 7. Customize every aspect of your forms without any knowledge of CSS: borders, padding, sizes, colors. Ton’s of great features. Required fields, captchas, tooltip popovers, unlimited fields/forms/form styles, use a custom thank you page or built-in popover with a custom success message set for eac… By Taylor Lovett.

 

 

Images, Gallery & Sliders:

NextGEN Gallery

Details | Install Now 1.9.3

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option. Before I started writing the plugin I studied all the existing image and gallery plugins for WordPress.

Some of them are really good and well designed, but the gap I filled was a simple administration system at the back end which can also handle multiple galleries.

Demonstration |

FAQ|

Supp… By Alex Rabe.

 

GRAND FlAGallery – Best Photo Gallery

Details | Install Now 1.71

Try GRAND FlAGallery – powerfull flash & jQuery media content plugin. It provides a comprehensive interface for handling image galleries, audio and video.

You can edit your media content the way you want: upload images, import music and video, create photo gallery, music playlists, group pictures in slideshow and add descriptions for each image, mp3 or video – GRAND FlAGallery is the smart ch… By Rattus.

 

* Lightbox Plus

Details | Install Now 2.4.6

Lightbox Plus implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox was created by Jack Moore and is licensed under the MIT License. Lightbox Plus for WordPress implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox was created by Jack Moore and is licensed under the MIT License. Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without ha… By Dan Zappone.

 

Lightbox Pop – 5.0
Details | Install Now 1.1

This plugin is used to create a lightbox with custom content in your site. You can configure lightbox position settings (height, width ,top, left) in percentage or pixels, display logic related settings (time delay after page load, number of pages to browse for lightbox to appear, lightbox repeat interval for a user) and style settings(z-index, overlay opacity, color, border etc). You can use the … By xyzscripts.com.

 

Easing Slider – 4.3

Details | Install Now 1.2

Need more features? unlimited slideshows, unlimited images, video support? Get the Riva Slider Pro!

The Easing Slider comes with various options that allow you to choose different sources to get the images from and also multiple styling options so that you”ll never have to edit any files directly & with ease. Create your own unique elegant slider.

Live Demo

Choose between images sourced fro… By Matthew Ruddy.

 

wp superb Slideshow – 5 Star
Details | Install Now 2.2
Display this 3d slider using [superb]. This free 3d slideshow has many features and it is easy to install.
Features
Customizable gallery width and gallery height
Customizable coloumns and rows in slide transition
Customizable autoplay option
Customizable random slideshow option
Customizable font size and color options
and many More…
Requirements/Restrictions:
Works with WordPress 3.0, WP… By XML / SWF.

 

WP Smush.it – 4.4
Details | Install Now 1.5.0
Yahoo’s excellent Exceptional Performance series recommends optimizing images in several lossless ways:
stripping meta data from JPEGs
optimizing JPEG compression
converting certain GIFs to indexed PNGs
stripping the un-used colours from indexed images
Smush.it offers an API that performs these optimizations (except for stripping JPEG meta data) automatically, and this plugin seamlessly integr… By Dialect.

 

 

Text Editor Controls:

CKEditor For WordPress – 4.5 (One I use to use)

Details | Installed 3.6.2.5

This plugin replaces the default WordPress editor with CKEditor.

CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It’s a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the

text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it.

It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.

CKEditor is comp… By CKSource.

 

* Ultimate TinyMCE – 5.0 (What I use now. Shows shortcodes.)
Details | Install Now 1.8
Are you a visual person? Do the letter combinations “HTML” and “CSS” send you running for the hills; but you still want to create beautiful blogs like the pros? Then this is the plugin for you!
Ultimate TinyMCE will add over 30 new buttons the default visual tinymce editor, giving you the power to visually create your pages and posts. No need for mucking about in HTML and CSS.
How will Ultim… By Josh Lobe.

 

Mobile:

WPtouch

Details | Install Now 1.9.39

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress website into an application-like theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects when viewed from the most popular mobile web browsing devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile devices, Palm Pre/Pixi and BlackBerry OS6 mobile devices.

The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-fr… By BraveNewCode Inc..

 

WordPress Mobile Pack -4.0

Details | Install Now 1.2.4

The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.

It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

The pack has been tested on WordPre… By James Pearce & friends.

 

 

Local Business Specific Plugins:

* Comprehensive Google Map Plugin – 5.0
Details | Install Now 7.0.28
A simple and intuitive, yet elegant and fully documented Google map plugin that installs as a widget and a short code. No limited plugin editions or limited functionality! This is the full version of this free and premium plugin, which comes packed with useful features:
Intuitive and user friendly interface, which makes it very easy to configure Google map. No complex configuration options. Face… By Alexander Zagniotov.

 

 

Calendars & Events:

Events Manager

Details | Install Now 5.1.4.3

Events Manager is a full-featured event registration plugin for WordPress based on the principles of flexibility, reliability and powerful features!

Version 5 now makes events and locations WordPress Custom Post Types, allowing for more possibilities than ever before!

Easy event registration (single day with start/end times)

Recurring and long (mul… By Marcus Sykes.

 

The Events Calendar

Details | Install Now 2.0.5

The Events Calendar plugin enables you to rapidly create and manage events. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list, widget and so much more. Looking for recurring events,… By Modern Tribe, Inc..

 

* All-in-One Event Calendar – 4.8

Details | Install Now 1.5

Welcome to the All-in-One Event Calendar Plugin, from The Seed Network, a web development company. The All-in-One Event Calendar is a new way to list your events in WordPress and easily share them with the rest of the world.

Our new calendar system combines a clean visual design, solid architectural patterns and a powerful set of features to create the most advanced calendar system available for … By The Seed Studio.

 

 

 

Share & Social Media Buttons:

Floating Social Media Icon – 5.0
Details | Install Now 1.1.2
Floating Social Media Icon is an easy to use plugin which allows you to configure essential social media profile links, like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, Rss Feed and Linkedin from plugin settings and you also have option to select an icon style from the icon packs available.
You can make the icons to appear automatically or you can use widgets,
shortcode or php code to display icons wh… By Acurax.

 

Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny – 4.0

Details | Install Now .9.9.9.9

The WordPress plugin to help people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Google, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more sharing and social bookmarking sites.

New: Pinterest Pin It Button in addition to the Facebook Like Button, Twitter Tweet Button, and Google +1 Button.

This sharing plugin comes with a customizable Smart Men… By micropat.

 

Add Link to Facebook

Details | Install Now 1.145

Automatically add links to posts or pages that are being published to your Facebook wall, pages or groups. Simple one time setup and forget. The way links appear on Facebook can be customized.

The link title will be the post title. The link description will be the excerpt, or part of the post text if there is none.

It is possible to configure a link image (WordPress icon, first image in the media… By Marcel Bokhorst.

 

AddThis – 3.2

Details | Install Now 2.3.2

Get more traffic back to your site by installing the AddThis WordPress plugin. With AddThis, your users can promote your content by sharing to 330 of the most popular social networking and bookmarking sites (like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and MySpace). We also support address bar sharing in modern browsers. Our button is small, unobtrusive, quick to load and recognized all over the web.… By The AddThis Team.

 

Add Twitter, Facebook Like, Google plus one Social share

Details | Install Now 2.4.0

Author Site|

Plugin Home Page

This plugin is the most efficient way to integrate the important social share buttons like twitter, facebook like, google +1 (plus one), LinkedIn, stumbleupon and Pinterest in three different position and styles.

Automatically display the social share buttons Above the post, below the post, both above and below or floating left side of post.

Flat/Round borde… By Kunal Chichkar.

 

Share and Follow

Details | Install Now 1.80.3

Designed for average users to use, ideal for developers who want to save time, this plugin gives links to the most prominent Social Networking sites for sharing and following, presented in many different formats (widgets/shortcode/template tag/auto added). Optional subscriptions for extra 25 icons sets.

You can watch this video for an overview of many of the features of Share and Follow or scroll… By Andy Killen.

 

ShareThis: Share, Email, Tweet, Like, +1 Made Simple – 3.0

Details | Install Now 5.0.0

Increase your audience engagement with our innovative sharing tools!

Used on over 1,000,000 sites, the ShareThis plugin allows users to share your content through email and 50+ social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit.

Now with simultaneous sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Email and more: you can broadcast your message more easily and widely than ever before.

New F… By ShareThis, Manu Mukerji .

 

Social Essentials – Social Stats and Sharing Buttons – 5.0

Details | Install Now 1.0.4

Social Essentials provides you with:

A simple way to add social sharing buttons to your posts and pages.

A simple way to add a call-to action to your buttons, to increase social engagement.

Stats that show you how much your content is being shared, in detail.

The following social networks are supported for both stats and buttons:

Twitter

Facebook (like and share buttons)

Google+

StumbleUpon

 

Slick Social Share Buttons – 4.3

Details | Install Now 2.4.1

Add facebook, twitter, google +1, linkedin, digg, delicious, reddit, buffer, stumbleupon and pinterest pin it social media buttons to your website in either a floating or sliding panel and see summaries of all your social metrics in the admin social statistics page

Button Panel Options

To access the plugin settings go to WordPress admin -> Social Buttons -> Social Buttons

The button pan… By Lee Chestnutt.

 

Facebook AWD All in one

Details | Install Now 1.2.1

Facebook AWD is an all in one Facebook capabilities for wordpress.

Add Socials plugins, OpenGraph, Comments and FB connect.

Publish your content to all your FB pages and on your personnal wall on Facebook

Easy to install and setup. Use Iframe or Xfbml or HTML5

Add Like button and comments to pages, posts and custom posts types, at top, bottom or both.

Widgets and Shortcodes available for each Fac… By AHWEBDEV.

 

 

Widget Management:

* Dynamic Widgets – 5.0

Details | Install Now 1.5.1

Dynamic Widgets gives you full control on which pages your widgets will appear. It lets you dynamically show or hide widgets on WordPress pages by setting conditional logic rules with just a few mouse clicks. No knowledge of PHP required. No fiddling around with conditional tags. You can set conditional rules by Role, Dates, Browser, Language (WPML or QTranslate), for the Homepage, Single Posts, A… By Qurl.

 

Display Widgets – 5.0

Details | Install Now 1.22

Change your sidebar content with different pages. Avoid creating multiple sidebars and duplicating widgets by adding check boxes to each widget in the admin (as long as it is written in the WordPress version 2.8 format) which will either show or hide the widgets on every site page. Great for avoiding extra coding and keeping your sidebars clean.

By default, ‘Hide on Checked’ is selected with no b… By Strategy11.

 

Widget Context – 4.9
Details | Install Now 0.7
Widget Context allows you to specify widget visibility settings.
For news and updates regarding this plugin, check http://konstruktors.com/blog/ By Kaspars Dambis.

 

 

WordPress Security:

BulletProof Security – 4.7

Details | Install Now .46.9

WordPress Website Security Protection: BulletProof Security protects your WordPress website against XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking attempts. One-click .htaccess WordPress security protection. Protects wp-config.php, bb-config.php, php.ini, php5.ini, install.php and readme.html with .htaccess security protection. One-click Website Maintenance Mode (HTTP 503).… By Edward Alexander.

 

Better WP Security – 4.0

Details | Install Now 3.2

#1 WORDPRESS SECURITY PLUGIN

Better WP Security takes the best WordPress security features and techniques and combines them in a single plugin thereby ensuring that as many security holes as possible are patched without having to worry about conflicting features or the possibility of missing anything on your site.

With one-click activation for most features as well as advanced features for expe… By Bit51.com.

 

WP Maintenance & Speed:

 

W3 Total Cache (Not Recommended)

Details | Install Now 0.9.2.4

The most complete WordPress performance framework.

Recommended by web hosts like: MediaTemple, Host Gator, Page.ly and WP Engine and countless more.

Trusted by countless sites like: stevesouders.com, mattcutts.com, mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com, makeuseof.com, yoast.com, kiss925.com, pearsonified.com, lockergnome.com, johnchow.com, ilovetypography.com, webdesignerdepot.com, css-tricks.com a… By Frederick Townes.

 

WP Maintenance Mode

Details | Install Now 1.7.1

Adds a maintenance-page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenancetime. User with rights for theme-options get full access to the blog including the frontend.

Activate the plugin and your blog is in maintenance-mode, works and see the frontend, only registered users with enough rights. You can use a date with a countdown for informations the visitors or set a value and … By Frank Bültge.

 

WP-Optimize

Details | Install Now 0.9.4

WP-Optimize is a WordPress 2.9++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables.

It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks.

Now Multi-Lingual.

Requirements:

WordPress 2.9++

PHP 5.1.xx

MySql 5.1.xx

PHP 4.xx and MySql 4.xx not supported

Translators are welcome to send their… By Ruhani Rabin.

 

 

Bulletin Boards:

* Simple:Press Forum

http://simple-press.com/

Welcome to the home of Simple:Press – the number one forum plugin that integrates seamlessly into your WordPress website. Whether you need a small private forum or a large public arena, Simple:Press will scale to the needs of your community and offers the features normally only available from a stand-alone forum application.

 

bbPress

Details | Install Now 2.0.2

Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, web standards, and speed.

We’re keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system. What does all that mean? bbPress is lean, mean,… By The bbPress Community.

 

Multi-Media:

JW Player Plugin for WordPress
Deactivate | Edit Embed a JW Player for Flash and HTML5 into your WordPress articles.
Version 1.5.8 | By LongTail Video Inc. | Visit plugin site

 

MediaElement.js – HTML5 Video & Audio Player

Details | Install Now 2.7.0

Video and audio plugin for WordPress built on the MediaElement.js HTML5 media player library. Provides Flash or Silverlight fallback players for non-HTML5 browsers. Supports iPhone, iPad, and Andriod.

Supports MP4, OGG, WebM, WMV, MP3, WAV, WMA files as well as captions with WebSRT files.

Check out mediaElementjs.com for more information and examples.

Typical Usage for video

”ht…your text here[/toggle]’
Or you can se the toggle button in wordpress post editor.
I am working on to improve the plugin further more and will be adding different types of toggle boxes and wordpress option page. By phantom.omaga.

 

* Testimonials Solution – 5.0
Details | Install Now 2.0.4
Testimonials Solution is a WordPress plugin which is inspired from a Popular Testimonials Manager plugin developed by Gobala Krishnan that allows you to manage and display testimonials for your blog, product or service. It can be used to build your portfolio or to encourage readers to subscribe / buy your products. This is without doubt the best testimonial plugin for WordPress, it is simple but… By Huskerinfotech.

 

* GD Star Rating

Details | Install Now 1.9.16

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi … By Milan Petrovic.

 

* Shortcodes Ultimate – 4.5
Details | Install Now 3.9.2
With this plugin you can easily create buttons, boxes, different sliders and much, much more. Turn your free theme to premium in just a few clicks. Using Shortcodes Ultimate you can quickly and easily retrieve many premium themes features and display it on your site. See screenshots for more information.
Features
30+ amazing shortcodes
Handy shortcodes generator
Custom CSS editor with syntax hi… By Vladimir Anokhin.

 

J Shortcodes  – 5.0
Details | Install Now 1.405

J Shortcodes allows you to add custom buttons, content boxes, tabs and accordion panels, build call to action and information boxes.
You can choose color, size and shape for any of these elements.
J Shortcodes also gives you the power to define custom column layouts within any page, post or even text widget.
Fly above restrictions and boundaries of the chosen theme. No more need to struggle with … By Gleb Esman, http://www.jshortcodes.com/.

 

Shortcoder  – 4.9
Details | Install Now 3.0.1

Shortcoder is a plugin which allows to create custom shortcodes and store HTML, Javascript and other snippets in it. So if that shortcode is used in any post or pages, then the code stored in the shortcode get exceuted in that place.
An example usage
Create a shortcode named “adsenseAd” in the Shortcoder admin page.
Paste the adsense code in the box given and save it.
Use [sc:adsenseAd]… By Aakash Chakravarthy.

 

WP125 – 4.1
Details | Install Now 1.4.2
If you’ve given up the low-paying and slightly obtrusive ad networks used by many new bloggers, in favor of selling ads directly, you may have been frustrated with the excessive time involved managing your ads. Not only do you have to find advertisers to sponsor your blog, you have to manually edit your template to put the ad in, and then head over to your favorite calendar app to set an alert to … By Matt Harzewski (redwall_hp).

 

* Easy Embed – 4.8
Details | Installed 1.0

This plugin allows you to easily add code to your pages and posts without worrying about what the WordPress editor will do to it. You can embed HTML, video embed codes, Paypal forms, Google maps and more. Please note: this plugin will not allow you to run server side scripts such as PHP.
To use the plugin, all you have to do is create a custom field (you can name it anything), place your code in … By Alex Mansfield.

 

* DRP Coupon – 3.8
Details | Install Now 2.1
DRP Coupon is a WordPress Coupon Plugin which Allows You To Add Coupons that Expire To Your Posts and Pages. You can set your coupons to expire at the end of a certain date and they will disappear from your post or page or display a custom message like “no longer available”. Add a regular link or an affiliate link from which the coupon will go to when clicked. A person cannot copy the code unless … By Direct Response Publishing.

 

* PowerInviter – 3.7
Details | Install Now 1.0
Regular “Tell a friend” scripts can only send simple recommendations to people.
PowerInviter represents a new generation of “Tell a friend” programs with many additional “PRO” features and viral marketing principles: an extremely easy way to convey a message and get a reward for the action. Without interesting rewards, only a few visitors will feel the urge to tell their friends about your site… By PowerInviter.com.

 

* WP-Table Reloaded – 4.0
Details | Install Now 1.9.3
WP-Table Reloaded enables you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin area. No HTML knowledge is needed. A comfortable backend allows to easily edit table data. Tables can contain any type of data and additional JavaScript libraries can be used to extend it with features like sorting, pagination, filtering, and more. You can include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widge… By Tobias Bäthge.