Everybody loves Wordpress plugins. After all, that’s what makes Wordpress such a great choice for blogging or CMS needs. Considering the tremendous appeal for the latest and greatest plugins it seemed like a good idea to post some of them every Sunday as a regular feature of this blog.
Today we have a handful of interesting new extensions for your Wordpress installation from creative minds who have given their time freely into the Wordpress community. Without further ado, here are today’s latest and greatest plugins.
Avatars for Comment Feeds - A new Wordpress plugin that adds avatars to your comment RSS feed. The plugin works off Gravatars using the bulit-in functionality added as of WordPress 2.5 release. The plugin lets you set the size of the avatar, between 10 and 96 pixels and it will even add a snapshot from websnapr.com to the pingbacks and trackbacks you receive on your blog.
G4B Photo Gallery Plugin - Created by Gavin Vickery, this plugin provides a minimalistic method to include a complete photo gallery anywhere on your blog. You can adjust thumbnail and photo size in settings page and the plugin crops or resizes photos proportionally to your settings. G4B Photo Gallery Plugin currently supports Wordpress 2.2 - 2.6.2 installs.
DashboardZone Plugin - This is a very creative plugin which aims to help you effectively track your blogging goals. Goals you can set to be tracked are total number of posts, average comments per post and posts per month. Tracking these facets of your blog can help you convert your blog visitors into regular readers which is the ultimate goal of any blogger.
Wordpress Help Desk - Although this plugin is currently in beta mode, it offers a comprehensive integrated help desk and trouble ticketing system that helps you support your blog visitors and resolve issues quickly. This plugin could be extremely helpful for any businesses using Wordpress as a CMS system.
Well, that’s it for this weeks plugins. Be sure to check back next week for more great Wordpress plugins or subscribe to our RSS feed to be alerted when we post another batch next Sunday !!
Happy Publishing,
Dave
The DashboardZone plugin looks interesting. I just installed it and will start testing it on my main blog.
I’m not sure how the Avatars for RSS Comments can be vey useful? I don’t think very many people bother with reading comment RSS feeds.
well they are quite gud and looks easier to use i never used it before though….. thanks for the post anyways
Just like magda, i like DashboardZone plugin. It’s very useful when installed on my blog.
Hi Dave, i have the same question as martin, has anyone used this pugin before and is it useful?
Thought you might also like Kaltura’s Interactive Video plugin. This is not just another video embed tool - the plugin enables you to enhance your blog with a full video experience. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more… Check it out and download it here: http://corp.kaltura.com/wordpress_video_plugin?general&campaign=wordpress-comments
Showcase your blog, see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support in our forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4
DashboardZone plugin really seem interesting. It give good statistic