10 Next-Gen Plugins to Pump-up your WordPress Site
Categories: Featured, Resource, WordPress
Written By: Vardaan

Community News – Its a nice plugin if you want to infuse some sense of community for your readers, visitors to take part in sharing, submitting their own content. Also If your blog update is not so frequent then adopting this plugin can atleast bring you some ‘new content’ for your blog. The plugin comes with with moderation panel, a settings page and its own RSS.

Media Burner – Its a cool plugin that extracts media files (MP3, FLV, YouTube, etc) from your blog posts automatically by filtering post content on the fly and creates a site-wide player. Although it still to release full fledged its great to have it even if you seldom put videos in your blog posts. (Example Screenshot below)

GooseGrade (Citizen Editing) -
You might heard of citizen Journalism where visitors involve in publishing their own articles apart from it, this service cum plugin does Citizen Editing i.e. let you visitors do copy-editing your blog just by selecting the word(s). In other words it crowd-source any blog’s copy-editing to readers and as a blog owner you get a notification for each edit, and you can then go in and see what the suggested change is and have it fixed with one click.
GuestBook – As the name says, its a GuestBook plug-in with more than just comment form, it notifies your readers by mail when a new entry has been posted. Moderation, so that you have to check an entry before it is visible in your guestbook along with Recaptcha and Akismet integration for fighting spam.

1-Click WP Plugin Install – This is amazing plugin combination of WordPress hooks and Greasemonkey script that you install in your firefox browser for WordPress.org site, now whenever you browse plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugin you will see install link below the download link and now you can install plugin to your WordPress installation in one go, amazing isn’t it!

ProPlayer – It places online videos into your post by using any FLV Custom Player with 27 skins and great features customized for your blog branding such as Custom Playlists, Youtube Playlists, Rating video, Visualizer for audio files, Displaying watermark etc.
Live Blogging – Live Blogging is a plugin developed to support blogs that are doing live micro blogging of running events, such as major sport events or tech conferences, it create new options settings in WordPress admin dashboard and one can create live micro-blogging to your blog in any particular post. The screencast made to understand is superb too see – Live Blogging screencast
Different Posts Per Page – This useful plugin will allow you to modify the number of posts shown in home, category, archive or search page by ascending or descending order. You can set custom number of posts for other pages as well like – Author, Paged, Feed, Date, Month or Categories page of you WordPress blog.

Retaggr – Its a plugin to let your commentators flaunt their profiles they might have on web entities such as facebook, linkedIn, MySpace, Twitter etc. The plugin have almost every networking site on earth to show-off, when reader mouse-over the name it shows a virtual, interactive business card with which you can customize as well.

Community Cloud Plugin – This plugin simply displays a ‘tag cloud’ but this time for all the people who have contributed to our blog by commenting. The more comments someone has made on your blog the bigger and bolder their tag. The plugin adds a sense of community bulding features and feel good factor for your true commentators of your blog and this way you can reward them.
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May 26th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Thanks, I’m choosing 1 click WP plugin isntall, it lwould be usefull for me