Here are the 8 popular WordPress plugins you should take a look.
Emo Vote
Emo Vote let’s you encourage your users by letting them express their feelings by “emoting” rather then voting. Emoting is a fairly simple activity, just press the button that describes your feeling towards the post you just read.
First Impression: This is a very interesting and cool plugin. The traditional voting system is using point system to indicate the satisfaction of readers. But every reader has their respective standard which means 5 points for this reader may equal to 3 points for another reader. With this new plugin, readers can actually deliver their satisfaction by expressing their emotion which maybe more accurate. What do you think?
Homepage Thumbnails With Picdonkey
Show thumbnails of web pages just with a simple ubb code: use [thumb]http://www.bloghighlight.com[/thumb] in your articles and you have linked thumbnails.
First Impression: It’s not difficult to use but it would be nice if the plugin author can create a button for user to embed thumbnail instead of writing ubb code.
DRegister
DRegister (which stands for Dr. Register) is a clean and easy plugin that allows you to force your user to provide first and last name upon registration. Besides, you can create custom fields and specify if they have to be alphanumeric or numeric only , plus if they are required to complete registration.
First Impression: It’s good to extend the original WordPress registration form to collect more data from reader/subscriber upon registration. It will even nice if the plugin can support cutomization of the registration page to suit the brand image of the website.
Visitor Map Generator
The plugin will grab your current visitor IP address, store it and generate a Google Map displaying all those visits. You may take a look at the demo there: http://aichholzer.name
This plug-in includes IP-Geo information files and therefor the plug-in will be larger than the average plug-in you’ll find. This download will be about 22Mb in size.
Feature List:
- Most map options can be customized
- Can be inserted in any page you want
First Impression: Besides showing the visitor map on your website’s front page or any other page, I couldn’t think of any other usage. What about you? Any suggestion?
AJAXed WordPress
AJAXed Wordpress (aWP) is an extremely powerful plugin that harnesses the power of AJAX and Wordpress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any Wordpress based blog. AWP’s basic features include inline paginated posts, inline comments, threaded comments, the ability to submit comments with AJAX, pagination of your homepage, live comment preview and much more, but it does not, however, force you to use any feature, and it also allows all aspects of the plugin to be easily customized through a single administration panel. It also has special features that will ensure compatibility with many other plugins.
Major Features:
- Loads posts, comments and the comment form inline
- AJAX Submit comments
- Threaded Comments
- Highly customizable post excerpts including having multiple inline pages
- Embed posts into posts and pages and load them inline
- Live Comment Preview or AJAX full comment preview
- Rich Text Editor for the comment form
- Japanese, French (83% completed), Spanish, and Italian translations
- Ajax previous/next post and pages
- Full AJAX Navigation
- Clickable quicktags and smilies
- Major features work without theme edits
- Easily customized templates
- Supports multiple themes
- Options can be customized on a post-by-post basis
- Supports the TW-Sack, JQuery, Mootools, and Prototype.js
- Powerful admin panel
- Includes Lightbox, Slimbox, Lightview, and reCAPTCHA support
- Works with WP AJAX Edit Comments to allow inline comment editing
- Excellent support and active developmen
First Impression: Very impressed! Since it’s using Ajax in quite a number of places, the general loading time for a blog should be increased. I’m thinking to give it a try in near future.
WP Wall
WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page. All comments are internally handled by WordPress so that means you have normal comment moderation, SPAM protection and new comment notification.
First Impression: Nice widget! It can collect the feedback instantly from readers without going through the boring contact form. And you can see each other’s comment.
Kimili Flash Embed
Kimili Flash Embed is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to easily place Flash movies on your site. Built upon SWFObject Javascript code, it is standards compliant, search engine friendly, highly flexible and full featured, as well as easy to use. Kimili Flash Embed utilizes SWFObject 2.1, is fully compatible with Wordpress 2.x and plays well with most other plugins.
First Impression: One suggestion for future improvement, support more movies file, not only Flash.
yaCAPTCHA
yaCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress that adds an image in the comment form of your WordPress application. In order to post comments, users will have to write down the characters that are part of the image. This can help prevent spam from automated bots. It’s easy to install and does not require Javascript to work.
First Impression: It will be better if the plugin can support audio to read out the characters inside the image and re-generate new set of characters image file.
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