WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0043

Title: Foursquare Map

Author: Digital Cortex

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

Foursquare is rising in popularity, and will continue to grow. This plugin makes it easy to share your last check-in location without needing to worry about giving away personal info, and you don’t need to be an expert in mapping APIs!

The plugin places a Google map in a widget area and lets users enter their preferences over what they show, be it just the map, or the name of the place too, or the comment they left while there. Simple, effective, and sociable.

Features:

• Offers an easy way to share your last check-in location with your blog’s readers.
• Built on the Foursquare and Google Maps APIs, so expect blistering fast speeds.
• Intuitive interface for editing options, with plenty more power under the hood.
• Independent handling across multiple widget instances, using WordPress 2.8′s widget_class coolness.

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0042

Title: jQuery Lightbox

Author: Pedro Lamas

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

Used to overlay images on the current page.

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0041

Title: LinkXL.com Plugin

Author: Link XL

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

LinkXL enables you to monetize your blog, automatically. Once you install the plugin, we handle the rest! LinkXL has relationships with digital agencies, large corporations and other link building companies who are looking for find high-quality and relevant ads for their clients’ goods and services.

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0040

Title: Google Ajax Search

Author: Dan Cameron

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

Using this WordPress plugin you can add AJAX Search to your site. Version 1 allows for the option of having Blog Search and/or Web Search with another option for a secondary url search, ideally for flickr or another photostream. Full Style options and Widgetized for you pleasure.

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0039

Title: Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin

Author: Skyline Consult

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

This plugin is designed to allow you to add a classifieds ad section to your blog. The plugin supports any type of classified ads service that can run under a simple structure, taking some basic information from the user.

Features:

• Posting ads can be free or paid.
• Support for Paypal and 2checkout built-in. Google Checkout is also supported via Premium Modules.
• Ads can (optionally) support user-uploaded pictures
• Ads in Paid Mode supports multiple fee scales
• Ads in Paid Mode supports different number of pictures users can upload based on a specific fee scale
• Ads in Free Mode supports picture upload limits
• You can control the size of image files users can upload
• You can turn on image approval so images are hidden until you approve them
• You can turn on ad approval so ads are hidden until you approve them
• The standard form takes an ad title, at text, contact name, email, city, state, country, phone. If you want you can disable city, state, country and phone so only title, contact name, email and ad text fields are shown in the submission form
• You can turn on or off notification when new ads are posted
• Ads will autoexpire based on free or paid mode. If free mode, you can set a value for how long an ad can stay in the system. If running in pay mode ad term length depends on the value you configure and ads will automatically expire when that term ends.
• You can turn on or off the option to display adsense in ads
• If displaying adsense in ads you can configure the position based on 3 position options
• You can turn on or off search engine friendly URls
• You can allow or disallow HTML in ad text
• You can set a limit on the size of the ad text
• You can turn on or off notification to ad poster when ad expires
• Users can edit their ads
• Users can delete their ad
• Admin can edit user ads
• Viewers can contact the ad poster. Ad poster’s email is never shown
• Ads can be searched by keyword, city, state, country, name of poster.
• Classifieds can be setup so only admin can post ads
• Classifieds can be setup so only registered users can post ad.
• Lost access Key retrieval for users needing to edit their ad who can’t remember their access key
• Display how many times an ad has been viewed (admin can turn off or on)
• For sites where HTML will not be allowed in ad text admin has the option turn on or off hyperlinking of any URLs found in text

These are just some of the features of Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0038

Title: WP Greet Box

Author: Thaya Kareeson

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!



From the author:

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction. Best of all, this plugin is compatible with WPMU and various WordPress cache plugins (so you do not have to sacrifice speed).

Features

• Show a different greeting message to your visitor depending on the referrer URL. You can add/edit/delete/disable these greeting messages as you choose.
• Beautiful set of icons shipped along with the different default referrers.
• Clickable icon in greeting messages with target=_blank option.
• Greeting messages automatically get inserted into the top of your posts upon activation. There is no need to modify theme files.
• Ability to auto-insert greeting message to the top or bottom of the post.
• Greeting messages can be user closeable or not.
• Ability to detect the visitor’s search keywords from major search engines and automatically display related posts under or above the greeting message.
• Show a default greeting message even if the vistor does not match any of your configured referrer URL.
• Show a default greeting message even if the visitor does not have javascript enabled.
• Cache compatible mode makes use of AJAX to display greeting messages in the frontend. This makes WP Greet Box compatible with other caching plugins (such as WP Super Cache) and WPMU.
• AJAX administrative interface that uses nonce verification to discourage hackers.
• Ability to keep displaying the greeting message until after the user clicks close for the first time. After that, the greeting message will not show up for that user anymore.
• Ability to set a timeout to forget a visitor so we do not keep nagging them with greeting messages.
• Ablity to set rules to exclude some referrer URLs from seeing greeting messages. Regular expressions is also supported (but not required!).
• Ultra customizeable greeting message box (with CSS) allowing you to prepend/append HTML around the greeting message box.
• Ability to disable included CSS for manual CSS management.
• Ability to disable included JS for manual JS management.
• Available “greet_box_text” filter for other plugins to modify greeting message before outputting.
• Ability to import and export all WP Greet Box Settings.
• Currently the following referrers are installed by default, but you can easily create your own if your favorite referrer is not on the list!
  1. bing.com
  2. blinklist.com
  3. blogmarks.com
  4. del.icio.us
  5. delicious.com
  6. designrfix.com
  7. digg.com
  8. diigo.com
  9. facebook.com
  10. flickr.com
  11. friendfeed.com
  12. furl.com
  13. google.*
  14. linkedin.com
  15. ma.gnolia.com
  16. mister-wong.com
  17. myspace.com
  18. netvibes.com
  19. newsvine.com
  20. plurk.com
  21. reddit.com
  22. scoopeo.com
  23. search.live.com
  24. search.msn.com
  25. search.yahoo.com
  26. simpy.com
  27. stumbleupon.com
  28. technorati.com
  29. twitter.com
  30. webdesign-ne.ws
  31. wikio.com
  32. youtube.com

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0037

Title: World Cup Predictor

Author: Ian Haycox

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

This plugin is designed to collect users predictions for each of the matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Users predict the score for each World Cup match in the group and knockout stages and are awarded points based on the accuracy of their prediction.

Match results may also be displayed using this plugin.

New in V1.2

Ability for users to toggle match kickoff times between South African and browser local time. Manually order Group tables in the event that FIFA draw lots. Countdown timer message can be customized to use local language conventions. Display all users predictions for all matches with one shortcode.

Features

• easy adding of matches, venues, results
• entry form for users to make predictions on each World Cup games
• sidebar widget to display prediction standings
• sidebar widget to display currently logged in users’ predictions
• countdown timer to next prediction deadline
• display of match results and group tables
• configurable scoring system to award points to users’ predictions
• toggle match times to local users browser time

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0036

Title: ShareBar

Author: Monjurul Dolon

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is resized below 1000px (default), the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal sharebar appears under the post title.

Big Buttons are used in the vertical Sharebar to the left of the post, while the Small Buttons are used in the horizontal Sharebar that appears under the post title (by default) if the width of the page is less than 1000px (or whatever value you set).

When Auto mode (enabled in settings) is ON, the Sharebars are added automatically. When Auto mode is off, you must manually add the sharebar code to your template files:

• Vertical (next to post) Sharebar: <?php sharebar(); ?>
• Horizontal Sharebar: <?php sharebar_horizontal(); ?>

You can also call an individual button in any template by using the following code (where size is either big or small): <?php sharebar_button('name','size'); ?>

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0035

Title: Make PDF Newspaper

Author: Martin Hawksey

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

The ‘Make PDF Newspaper’ plugin replaces the Make Tabbloid to automatically create printer friendly ‘tabloid’ editions of your WordPress blog in an attractive 2 column magazine/newspaper format. Development of the original plugin stopped after HP removed API access to their service. The new plugin uses code developed for the Five Filters PDF Newspaper project, which in itself pulls together code from a number of other open source projects including TCPDF, HTML Purifier, SimplePie and SmartyPants

The plugin includes a widget to let you control how you advertise your ‘tabloid edition’. You can also choose to display a thumbnail of your custom newsletter (powered by Bluga.net Webthumb) to let your readers see what they are missing.

Key features

• PDF generation entirely self-hosted removing reliance on 3rd party services and making it suitable for Intranet installations of WordPress
• Option to include QR codes for each post
• Customisable banner text and logo
• Option to automatically footnote all the links which appear in a post (using tinyurl or bitly to shorten long links)
• Integrated widget to display thumbnail of your publication
• User controlled production of PDF

See the ‘screenshot’ for a summary of the features.

For an example of its usage visit http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/

WordPress Plug-In of the Day #0034

Title: Simple Google Street View

Author: PJ Volders

Price: Free

Click here to visit the plug-ins website!

Click here to download the plug-in!

From the author:

This plugin creates a point and click interface to add Google Street View panorama’s to your posts and pages. You can add as many panorama’s as you want and style them idividually using CSS.

Features:

• Easy to use (if you have used Google Street View before, you will recognize the interface)
• No template hacking required
• No API key required
• CSS can be used in the quicktag for advanced styling

When you add the view to the post/page, the plugin generates a [streetview] tag. This tags contains the location and point of view information:

[streetview width="100%" height="250px" lat="34.360988" lng="-86.693436" heading="-94.17771883289124" pitch="-3.342175066312998" zoom="1"][/streetview]

The orther attributes (eg. width and height) are converted to CSS and you can add you own CSS as well. For example, this code will generate a square (500×500) street view window, with a green border:

[streetview border="green 1px solid" width="500px" height="500px" lat="34.360988" lng="-86.693436" heading="-94.17771883289124" pitch="-3.342175066312998" zoom="1"][/streetview]