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I recently went looking for a good audio player for WordPress. I came across WPAudioPlayer from 1 pixel out.

The plugin is extremely simple to use and has a really awesome automatic color detention tool which will match to your site with ease. For more info visit the demo page at http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/ Click here to continue reading

Well, it was a long run, ok, only 24 hours when Mr. Seidel’s announced that he would pull the plug on further updates to the cforms plugin.

But after consideration and many emails, he has released a update to a GPL compliant version of his plugin: 10.2. Click here to continue reading

Most all WordPress theme’s use a a simple search form to search your site. But what it you wanted to search your whole site and not just your posts.

Search Unleashed comes into the picture. Search Unleashed performs searches across all data, including that added by plugins.

Some features of this plugin are:

• Full text search with wildcards and logical operations
• Search posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, tags, and meta-data (all configurable)
• Search data after it has been processed by plugins, not before
• Search highlighting of all searches, including titles and comments
• Search highlighting of incoming searches from

Ricardo Sousa, who writes for Smashing Magazine created a great plugin called Twittar.

This plugin will use someones Twitter Gravatar if their email address is not connected with a Gravatar.

For more info check out the full post at Twitter Avatars in Comments: A WordPress plugin

Image credit: Ricardo Sousa Click here to continue reading

The guys from Instinct whom released the E-Commerce Plugin have release a new plugin today. Dan Milward even went as far as to announce that this plugin was a gift for Matt Mullenweg, seeing how today is his 25th birthday.

The plugin: WordPress Wiki.

Head over to Instinct’s site and check it out. Click here to continue reading

For those looking for a way to optimize your search results on your WordPress blog. You may want to check out the following plugin. Goolge Highlight

It will highlight or colorize the background of any letter or word that you search for. Head over to the site to see it, or do a search on this site and see it in action.

I want to update: I am going to follow up with at least three more great tricks and plugins you can use to help search you WordPress blog. Click here to continue reading

I had this plugin installed, and noticed that I couln’t update or publish a post that was more thank about 50 words. I kept getting an Error 500 once the page was going to redirect. So, for the time being it is inactive. Click here to continue reading

You may notice on some of our posts a gallery of images. We are using the built in WordPress up-loader, and when there are a few images we use the gallery insert button. But we are fans of jQuery and are using Thickbox.

As you know the basic gallery insert with attach the gallery images and link them to an image attachment page. Instead we installed the Gallery Plus plugin by Justin Hawkwood.

This plugin alone will add the ability under the Settings — options to add a “title” attribute in the <a> link and a rel attribute

I just came across an article over at WPHacks.com about a “how to” shift and bring back posts hidden way in the archive. Seems really interesting, cause I have a few blog sites myself and some of them like thefrosty.com and jeanasays.com. Theses sites have been working hard for a long while and have built up a good 20 plus paginated archive of posts.

So I am going to try and download the plugin Scheduled Post Shift Plugin by

Another plugin I am using on this site: Comment Validation by Jörn Zaefferer.

From Jörn’s site:

Why should you install it? Because you care for comments and want to help users reduce mistakes that hold them off from commenting at all.

Whats the technology used? jQuery and the jQuery Validation plugin with a few customizations to make it fit into the standard WordPress theme.

Is it compatible with other plugins? The plugin is tested with the Draw Comments plugin and works, though

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application.

Features include:

• Live Tracking and Web Statistics
• A rich user interface and client monitoring application
• Real-time Analytics
• Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites
• Deep analytic and search capabilities
• Click-to-chat
• Visitor and member tagging
• Real-time notifications
• Easy Installation and Update Notification

I can’t say enough about this plugin! It beats the little pants off any other applet or javascript. Make sure you get your api key from Woopra then download the Woopra Plugin from WordPress and that’s it! You can

WordPress has emerged as not only a leading blogging platform but also a content management system for many Web publishers. Now there is a simple plugin available that will turn your blog into a paid membership site.

The WP-Membership plugin allows publishers to collect membership fees for WordPress blogs via PayPal, Authorize.net, and YourPay, with additional payment gateways in development. Membership fees can be collected via recurring payments, with multiple subscirption levels, various subscription lengths and pricing options. Free and paid trial options are also available, as are page-by-page options so that certain content can be free while other, “premium” content

This powerful plugin is a must have for WordPress users. You can manage your WordPress database and allows you to optimize, repair, backup, restore, and delete your database backup. You can also drop/empty tables and run selected queries to your database from within your WordPress dashboard! It also supports automatic scheduling of backing up via email and optimizing of database.

This is a plugin created by Lester “Gamerz” Chan, you can also download this plugin from the WordPress site. Click here to continue reading