50 best plugin for wordpress

July 2, 2008

The wordpress plugins are arranged broadly by category of usage. As
far as I know, all these plugins are compatible with the latest
WordPress version. Please feel free to suggest great plugins in
comments that I can add to this list.

Manage WordPress Comments

  • Subscribe To Comments - Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
  • WP AJAX Edit Comments - Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post inline using AJAX.
  • Close Old Posts - Closes comments on old posts without any DB queries.
  • WP Grins - allows you to put clickable smilies on your post and comments forms.
  • WordPress Paged Comments - allows comment paging. Useful for those very popular blog entries receiving many comments.
  • Live Comment Preview - the simplest way to get live comment previews on your site.
  • Show Top Commentators - Encourage more discussion from your readers, by displaying their
    names and number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar.
  • MyAvatars - shows MyBlogLog’s alvatar in your comments
  • Comment Relish - Sends a thank you e-mail to your first time commentators.
  • Favatars - displays the favicon associated with the commenter’s website.
  • Brian’s Threaded Comments - adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. Makes it easy for people to reply to comments and discuss better. Read more

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    How to Create Multiple Dynamic Sidebars for Wordpress Widgets

    June 28, 2008

    In the last tutorial, you learnt how to widgetize your wordpress theme to support wordpress widgets. Now this tutorial explains how to create multiple dynamic sidebars to add various combinations of widgets to customize your wordpress theme even more. I suggest you read how to Widget-Enable Wordpress Themes in 3 Easy Steps before reading further as examples will be quoted in the same context.

    Edit Functions.php for Multiple Dynamic Sidebars

    The functions.php code which helped to widgetize your wordpress theme and support a single dynamic sidebar, now needs to be edited (using any text editor like Notepad) to support multiple sidebars. You remember we had modified the default function.php from

    <?php
    if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar();
    ?>

    to the new code below to support our customized template with h4 subtitles and non-default unordered lists in the sidebar. REMEMBER you need to edit functions.php to match your wordpress theme or it will not work.

    <?php
    if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
    'before_widget' => '',
    'after_widget' => '',
    'before_title' => '<h4>',
    'after_title' => '</h4>',
    ));
    ?>

    To support multiple sidebars, I simply need to specify that multiple sidebars be used and name them as I like. In our case I use Sidebar1, Sidebar2 etc and as many as you like. The code now looks like this -

    <?php
    if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar1',
    'before_widget' => '',
    'after_widget' => '',
    'before_title' => '<h4>',
    'after_title' => '</h4>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar2',
    'before_widget' => '',
    'after_widget' => '',
    'before_title' => '<h4>',
    'after_title' => '</h4>',
    ));
    ?>

    I personally have extended this capacity to 6 dynamic sidebars on this blog. Here is how it looks like on top of admin panel.

    Read more

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