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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Automattic has launched WordPress.tv today as a resource for all things WordPress Tutorials and all the WordPress how-to stuff on WordPress blogging and development.

With the this as video/ screencast resource WordPress users not might able get thing sorted much easily that otherwise make them land upon either WordPress Forum or Google search.

WordPress enthusiast can also find slideshows of presentations made by Automattic employees and other WordPress expertsand even interviews of media and fellow bloggers. Automattic is expected to inculcate much more things in future to make WordPress.tv as community place to find all latest things happening in WordPress development and news.

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After upgrading my WordPress to WordPress 2.5 I got error for my Tag Archive page i.e. for any Tag it was showing ‘Page not found’ or some PHP error for UTM plugin function, the clarification – UTM doesn’t work in WordPress 2.5 as the latest version of WordPress has Tag functionality built in itself, the soultion for all this lies in WordPress itself.

To make Tag Archive page go for following steps, whether you were using UTM plugin or not and without any extra plugin;

1. If you were using UTM plugin previously, go to Manage -> Import and Import tags from UTM to your WordPress 2.5 database by selecting Ultimate Tag Warrior from the list (there are 4 easy Steps rest is done by WordPress itself). (skip this Step if you dont have UTM plugin)



2. Make a Page and name it – Tag.php and put it in you template folder where all other pages like archive.php, index.php lies.
3. Put these lines (just copy paste) in Tag.php page (through Design -> Theme Editor -> Select -’Tag.PHP’);

<?php
/*
Template Name: Tag Archive
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?> /*---Get the Header of Page---*/

/*---  Below is code for getting Tags in list Format---*/
<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=11&largest=11&number=0&orderby=name
&format=list'); ?>

 <?php get_footer(); ?>/*---- Get Footer of Page*/

4. Go to Write -> Pages ->, Now make a fresh New Page with no content in it, select Title of your Tag Archive page, important thing is there in “Page Template” option Select “Tag Archive” as a Template of this Page.
5. Done -> publish the Page.

You can customize the tags thru function – <?php wp_tag_cloud()?>, like how they should appear in page in Tag Cloud format or List format or order of tags in order of Name (alphabetically or no. post of that tag). For example, in above I have used – &orderby=name, to order the list oaf Tags Alphabetically and &Format=List so as to display them in Listed one after the other wit line break rather than Tag Cloud wormat. For more easy customization options of refer here , Wp_Tag_Cloud Tag

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