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As one of the leading open source blogging platforms, WordPress
has inspired hundreds (if not thousands) of plugins and tools to
customize your blog. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of more
than 300 of our favorites.
This information is compiled from previous Mashable articles. If
you enjoy this post, also see ONLINE MEDIA GOD
and ONLINE
PRODUCTIVITY GOD.
For the blogger
AjaxWP -
Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site, which speeds up
the load times.
Alexa Rank - Display
your Alexa rank with pride.
Ajax
Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment
before submitting.
asTunes -
Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts
it as a list on your blog.
Codebox - Creates a side
scrolling box for displaying code snippets.
Crossroads -
Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account.
FireStats - Full featured
statistics including referrers and popular pages.
Google PageRank -
Allows you to display your Google Page Rank on your blog.
Hardened-Trackback -
Generates a single-use trackback to help fight trackback spam.
imgViewJX -
Refreshes an image on your main page from a selected directory.
Live Spell Checker - Adds a spell checker to your posts in the
admin area.
Plug
‘n’ Play Google Map - If you include longitude and latitude in
your post, this will automatically add it to a Google Map on a
separate page. Very useful for blogs writing restaurant reviews or
about events.
Wordpress Mailing List - Have a mailing list? Let readers
subscribe and unsubscribe from the front page of your site.
WP e-Commerce - Adds a
shopping cart to your WordPress powered site.
WP-Polls
- Adds fully customizable polls to your blog.
WP-Post
Ratings - Allows readers to rate your posts.
Zorpia
That’s Hot Box - Allows visitors to send posts they like to
Zorpia.com and vote on their favorites.
For your readers
AJAX
Comments 2.0 - Auto updates the comments page with no full
reload, enabling much smoother commenting than the older full
reload system.
AJAX
Google Video Search - Search Google Video without leaving your
favorite blog.
AJAX Shoutbox -
Real time conversation with sound to alert you to new messages.
Cool Weather -
Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any location they
choose.
Currency Converter - Adds a real time currency converter to the
page with data from Yahoo Finance.
Google AJAX Search - Allows you to setup search for your site,
the web, and another site such as your Flickr account.
Google
MapSearch Widget - Allows readers to search Google Maps without
ever leaving the page.
Gregarious
- Social bookmarking plugin that adds Digg, Reddit, Feedburner
FeedFlare buttons and more.
Hottaimoijiruna
- Adds a self-updating clock to the site for a timezone defined by
the blogger.
Inline
Ajax Comments - Hides comments until the user clicks on
them.
Inline Ajax Page -
Displays a snippet of a post and then allows the reader to click a
button to load the full entry without going to another page.
Tagboard Widget - Adds an auto-updating tagboard to your site
that displays new messages as they are posted.
Units Converter - Converts hundreds of different units of
length, area, volume, weight / mass, and speed without reloading
the page.
WP
Movie Ratings - Combines data from IMDB with the blogger’s
movie review and allows the readers to add their own ratings.
XDTalk
- Allows real-time conversation between registered users.
Fight Spam
Akismet - Anti-spam plugin
from the creators of WordPress that uses a central database of spam
comments to identify spam. Requires a free API key from Wordpress.com
Spam
Karma - Analyzes comments for spam based on a karma system.
Bad
Behavior - Prevents spam bots from accessing your site by
analyzing their HTTP requests.
Did You Pass Math? -
Asks users a simple math question before their comments are
posted.
Comment
Timeout - Closes comments on old posts.
Encourage Commenting
BlogFollow - Shows a snippet of the user’s blog beneath their
comment.
DoFollow -
Removes “nofollow” attributes from links in comments so search
engines can follow them.
DoFollow Trackbacks - Removes “nofollow” attributes from
trackbacks.
Show Top Commentators - Lists your most frequent commenters
along with links to their blogs.
Improve Appearance
Nicer Trackbacks - Improves the appearance of trackbacks from
other blogs.
WP-NoSh*t
- Filters bad words from comments.
Numbered
Comments Adds numbers to comments.
AuthorHighlight
- Highlights comments by the blog’s author.
Comment
Highlighter - Styles comments based on the author’s name,
email, or URL.
wp-chunk
- Truncates long URLs in comments to prevent them from stretching
the page.
Enable Rich Comments
Custom
Smileys - Adds clickable smiley emoticons to comments.
TinyMCEComments
- Turns the comment box into a full-featured rich text editor.
Live
Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment
before posting.
Edit
Comments XT - Allows users to edit their own comments.
Enable Avatars
Gravatar - Displays
user-selected avatars next to comments.
Favatars -
Pulls the favicon from a commenter’s blog or website and uses it
for their avatar.
MBLA - Adds
user images from MyBlogLog to comments.
OpenID Comments - Lets readers comment with their OpenID
identity.
Show Off Comments
WP-Most
Commented Posts - Displays the posts with the most comments in
the sidebar.
Latest Comments with Avatars Reloaded - Shows the latest
comments along with the MyBlogLog avatars of the commenters.
Allow Better Conversation
Simple
CoComments - Tracks the conversation across blogs.
Comment Karma - Digg-style voting on comments.
Quoter - Allows
users to quote a previous comment in their comment.
Whisper
- Lets users “whisper” comments that are only visible to one
person.
Moderate Comments Effectively
Comment
Twitter SMS Notification - Notifies you of new comments via SMS
through Twitter.
Bannage -
Adds the ability to ban users from commenting by name, email, or
IP.
CommentCentral
- Allows batch opening and closing of comments on multiple
posts.
404 Notifier - Provides a log of your 404 errors.
Admin Dropdown Menus - Streamline your crowded admin panel
menus by turning them into dropdown menus.
Admin Panel Comment Reply - Adds a “reply to comment” option in
the comments section of the admin area.
Ajax Spell Checker - Uses a variety of dictionaries to spell
check your posts.
Auto-hyperlink URLs - Provides you with several options for
automatically turning URLs in to hyperlinks.
AWSOM
Pixgallery - Designed to allow artists and webcomic creators to
create a portfolio of their artwork.
Batch Categories - Makes it easier to add posts to another
category, or to organize posts when importing from another
blog.
Custom Admin
Menu - Gives you the power to rename, hide, or move just about
anything you want in the admin area.
Custom
Write Panel - Allows you to customize the “Write” panel of
WordPress by hiding things you don’t need such as “Post Password”
and adding things you would like easier access to.
Dashbar -
Allow your admins to have admin access while working in the
frontend of the blog without having multiple windows open.
Dashboard
Editor - Completely customize your admin dashboard using PHP,
HTML, and widgets.
DashNote
- Adds a post-it note feature to the dashboard to jot down notes to
yourself.
Digital Fingerprint - Adds a digital fingerprint to your posts
so you can search the web to see if your content has been
scraped.
Domain
Mirror - Allows one WordPress install to be accessed from
multiple domains.
Download Counter - Counts and tracks the downloads of all your
files.
Email
Users - This plugin allows you to mail registered users on your
blog based on their role.
Enforce
WWW Preference - Provides 301 redirects to queries with
/index.php and enforces your use or non-use of www to make sure
your search engine indexing is uniform.
Excerpt
Editor - Provides you with more control over the excerpts such
as length and auto creation.
FeedBurner
FeedSmith - Ensures all your RSS feed subscribers get counted
in your FeedBurner subscriber count.
Fix
Database - Checks your WordPress database for errors and
attempts to fix them.
Genki
Announcement - Allows you to add an announcement before your
first post without editing your themes.
Genki Pre-Publish Reminder - Allows you to write reminders for
things like setting categories before you post.
Google
Analyticator - Inserts Google Analytics code on every WordPress
page.
Google Sitemaps Generator - Will create a Google compliant site
map of your blog.
GT Post
Approval - Adds “Approve” and “Reject” buttons to the
administrators view on all posts, which is ideal for blogs with
multiple authors.
Instant
Update - Handles the tedious chore of upgrading your WP install
with just one-click.
Just
Unzip - Allows you to upload a zip folder from the Write page.
Just Unzip will then unzip the contents and associate them with the
current post.
Khanh’s
Instant Notepad (KIN) - Allows you to jot notes to yourself on
a notepad.
Leprakhauns
Word Count - Adds a Java powered word counter to your editing
page.
Mass Post Manager - Allows you to move or delete all the posts
in a category at once.
Mutliply
- Allows one administrator to control multiple blogs.
NextGEN
Gallery - Adds an image gallery to your control panel.
OneClick
Install - Adds an extremely powerful uploader and installer for
plugins and themes to WordPress, eliminating the need to unzip or
FTP.
Page Link Manager - Allows you to easily rearrange, hide, and
move pages.
Permacop -
Allows you to redirect any URL to another.
Post2Page - Allows
you to take existing posts that you have and convert them into
pages.
PlugInstaller -
Helps you install new plugins by obtaining it, uploading it and
unpacking it.
podPress -
Includes numerous features for bloggers wishing to add podcasts to
their WordPress install, such as previews, RSS feeds, and adding
cast to posts.
Search and Replace - Search all your posts at once for
specified text, quickly replace it.
Share
This - Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an
e-mail-this function in one handy button.
Simple
Pop-up Images - Add a thumbnail image to your post; when the
user clicks on it, they get a larger pop-up of the picture.
Simple
Tagging - Simplifies the tagging process to drop down menus and
includes the ability import from your current tagging plugins.
Site Unavailable - Publishes a message that your site is down
while still allowing admins to login.
Throttle -
Monitors your bandwidth and limits non-essential items during heavy
load times to help performance.
Wikipedia-NoFollow
- Written in response to Wikipedia’s implementing a “nofollow” rule
to their outgoing links, this plugin allows you to add nofollow to
links you give to Wikipedia pages.
WordPress Mobile Edition - Strips your blog down for easy
reading on phones and PDAs.
WordTube - Why
use YouTube when you can host and stream your videos as you please?
Includes a flash player.
WP
Grins - Adds clickable smilies to both the administration area
and comments section.
WPAds - Add
rotating banner and text ads to any location you define on your
blog.
WP-Custom Login - Allows you to modify the user login page logo
to an image of your choice.
WP-
DBManager - Provides you with the ability to optimize the
database, back it up, restore, delete the backup database, drop
emptied tables, and run selected queries.
WP-phpMyAdmin -
Provides you with quick access to your PHP databases directly from
the WP admin area without having to login to phpMyAdmin.
WP
Plugins Tracker - Verifies all of your plugins are the latest
version by checking them against the wp-plugins-db.org
database.
WP
Super Edit - Provides you with more control over the Visual
editor including emoticons, layers, style attributes, and more.
WP-Table -
Allows you to add a table directly in the Visual mode or import
from a spreadsheet.
Image Management Tools
Aniga Gallery –
Allows you to create picture galleries that use the WordPress
comment system.
Batch Image
Uploader – Upload and resize multiple images to your blog at
once.
Duh Gallery – Creates a photo gallery from your uploads folder
in WordPress.
ImageManager
– Includes interface for browsing and uploading images and basic
tools such as cropping and rotating.
WP Image
Gallery – Create photo galleries from within WordPress and
display them in posts.
fMoblog
– Post pictures with descriptions from a mobile phone.
Pop-up Image Gallery – Photo gallery plugin with various
options for transitions.
PhotoZip – Allows you to upload a .zip file to create an image
gallery.
PictPress –
Automatically generates a picture post from a directory on your
server and resizes pictures on the fly.
Importing Images from Other Services
Another Flickr –
Allows your readers to browse thumbnails from your Flickr albums
and go directly to full size images.
BubbleShare
– Display photo galleries from your BubbleShare account.
Facebook
Photos – Shows thumbnails of photos from your linked Facebook
account.
Flickr
Photo Album – Pulls in your Flickr photo sets and displays them
as albums in WordPress.
FlickrRSS –
Displays most recent images from any RSS feed from Flickr such as a
user, group, or tags page.
Fotobook
– Import your Facebook photo albums into a WordPress page.
ImageShack Uploader – Upload an image to ImageShack’s free
storage service and insert a thumbnail into your posts.
Slickr Gallery –
AJAX photo gallery that pulls in images and photosets from
Flickr.
Smugmug Gallery Bar – Insert photos from your Smugmug account
into blog posts.
Image Display Effects & Hacks
Enlarger – Displays a thumbnail but loads the bigger image in
the background so when clicked the full size version loads
instantly.
IImage
Panorama – Helps you create a 360 degree panorama picture to
add to your blog.
Image Headlines – Create cool text images for the titles of
your posts.
Lightbox
2 – Generates thumbnails that when clicked load in a
lightbox.
Multi-Topic
Icon: Shows images that represent each of the categories
assigned to a blog post.
Random Image – Pulls a random image from your blog and links
back to the post it came from.
Transparent PNG Fix – Make sure your PNG files don’t look
nasty.
WP
Wetfloor – Create the ever-popular reflection effect for the
images on your blog.
Playing Music
Del.icio.us MP3 Player – Makes links to MP3s in your posts
playable and easily postable to del.icio.us.
Audio
Player – Inserts a simple MP3 player into your posts that plays
uploaded audio files.
XSFP Player –
Flash player that allows you to embed music on your blog via
http.
What Am I Listening To?
DG
PlayingNow Updater – Displays the song you are currently
listening to on iTunes, MSN Messenger, or J. River Media
Center.
EZ-Scrobbler –
Displays your most recently listened to tracks on last.fm.
iTunes Spy –
Displays your most recently listened to tracks on iTunes.
Pandora
Feeds – Displays data from Pandora feeds, for example, a list
of your stations, bookmarked songs, and bookmarked artists.
onAirNow –
Now playing plugin that displays most recent song from iTunes or
WinAmp.
Podcasting Tools
Odeo –
Embed a podcast that you recorded on Odeo.
Podcast Release – A “release” form for guests of your podcast,
accepting your terms.
PodPress –
Full featured plugin for podcasters including feed generation,
iTunes preview, and download stats.
iPodCatter
– Helps podcasters create a valid feed for the podcast directory on
iTunes.
Miscellaneous Audio Tools
Evoca Browser
Mic – Allow your blog readers to send you voice comments which
you can later post to your blog.
Odiogo – Converts your text to speech and provides a link for
your readers to listen to your posts.
Video Tools
Anarchy
Media Player – Plays a wide variety of audio/video file formats
in the appropriate player on your blog.
Easy Inline SWF - Allows you to insert Flash files in .swf
format into your posts without any weird tags.
SeeTheFace –
Complete tool for recording video and posting it to your blog.
Extreme
Video – Plays any .flv file on your blog with support for
YouTube, Google Video, Quicktime, and more.
Noembedder – Automatically adds a noembed section to any
embedded content that does not already have one.
YouTube Brackets – Allows you to simply enter a URL for a
YouTube video versus copying and pasting embed code.
wordTube
– Video player that includes the ability to program a menu of
videos.
TubePress – Display
YouTube galleries as blog posts or a sidebar item.
YouTube Video Gallery – Displays thumbnails for any gallery
from YouTube.
vPIP –
vPIP stands for “Videos Playing In Place,” meaning it will only
embed after a specified image or link is clicked by the user.
Stats for the Blog Owner
AWStats
Xtended Info - Requires AWStats and adds things such as screen
size, Flash, PDF, and Java support.
Backlinks
inbound links counter - Uses MSN to track all incoming links to
your site.
Bluetrait
Event Viewer (BTEV) - Tracks your logins, deleted users, last
passwords, invalid user names and more.
Bsuite -
Tracks page loads, search terms used on incoming links, top
performing posts, and lists related posts at the bottom of each
entry.
CountPosts -
Shows you how many times each post gets visited while ignoring
visits from the admin.
DownloadCounter
- Counts downloads of files you attach to your posts.
Dschini Bot
Checker - Lets you know which pages are being checked by which
search bots and how often.
Feed
Statistics - Monitors your feeds and tells you which readers
are being used, the links that readers click on, and which stories
they are reading.
FeedBurner
SiteStats Enabler - Helps you install the FeedBurner script in
your site with instructions in both Italian and English.
FeedBurner
StandardStats - Simplifies the process of installing the
FeedBurner script so you can monitor your RSS feed statistics.
FeedStats -
Statistical tool for counting your feeds, measuring length of stay
on your site and more. Stats appear in the dashboard.
FirStats - Full-featured,
Ajax powered stats for your admin area.
GoStats web counter - Lets you install the GoStats counter in
your blog as a text widget.
Lightstats -
Plugin generates bar and pie graphs for statistics about posts,
comments, and categories.
Live - Lets you watch
the activity on your blog in real time. See things like posts
visited, new comments, and feeds grabbed.
Open Web
Analytics - Tracks page views, visits, unique visitors, clicks,
referring websites, and plots visitor geography on Google
Earth.
Posts/Comments
Time - Shows you the number of posts and comments for the hours
of each day so you can better plan your posting times.
Search Phrases - Straightforward plugin that just displays what
search terms brought the visitors to your site.
Social
Traffic Monitor - Monitors the social sites Digg, Netscape,
Reddit, Newsvine, Fark, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon.
Ultimate
Google Analytics - Adds the Google Analytics script to your
site while also counting downloads and outbound links.
Word Count - Tracks the word count of your posts.
WordPress.com
Stats - Uses your WordPress API key to pull stats and places
them in a page in your admin area.
WP
OnlineCounter - This plugin counts the number of readers
currently online, highest number of visitors at the same time, and
the total count of visitors.
WP-SlimStat -
Tracks all of the standard stats you’ve come to expect from a stats
package, but in a very compressed database for less load on your
server.
WP-Stats - Very
general statistics package focusing on your number of posts,
comments and so on.
Stats to Share with Visitors
Akismet Spam
Count - Show off your Akismet spam power and let spammers know
you’re protected from their attempts.
Alexa
Rank - Allows you to display your Alexa rank for the world to
see.
GeneralStats
- Displays your choice of number of users, categories, posts,
comments, pages, links, words in posts, words in comments and words
in pages.
Google
PageRank - Display your Google Page Rank on your front
page.
Impress - Display number of users, posts, pages, comments,
categories, words, and more on your blog.
Jon’s
Showoff Rankings Widget - Displays your Google Page Rank, Alexa
Traffic Ranking, and Technorati Rank all in one plugin. (Ed note:
this plugin is no longer supported, and the developer recommends
using the widget
version instead.)
Post Administration & Layout
Add
Graphic Signature - Adds a graphic of your signature to your
posts either automatically or via the insertion of a simple
tag.
Adman -
Allows you to post ads such as Google AdSense at the beginning or
middle of a post.
Another WordPress Meta Plugin - Allows you to add Meta tags and
keywords to your post to try to further optimize your blog for
search engines.
Category Remindr
- Category Remindr puts a button next to the “Publish” button to
remind you to select the categories for your post.
Corrector - Adds
Google Spell Check to your admin area and can spellcheck in 27
languages.
DropCap First Character - Enlarges the first character of a
post to give it more of a magazine appearance.
Front Page Excluded Categories - Allows you to exclude posts
from certain categories on your front page.
Limit the size
of main page posts - Set the number of words you want each of
your main page posts to contain so that if they exceed that limit,
a link is provided to a page with the complete post.
Notify
On Draft Post - Notifies the editor when the authors of a
multi-author blog post a new draft for review.
Post
Notification - Sends an email to a list of registered users
when you make a new post. Includes the option to include the post
in the email.
Post
Repeater - Re-posts an entry with significance every week,
month, or year.
Post Templates - Allows you to set up repeating templates such
as a “Picture Of The Day” without all of the tedious copy and
pasting.
PostPost -
Allows you to add content such as advertisements before or after
every post.
Posts
Expire - Set an expiration date on your post.
Subscribers Only - Lets you mark a post as “subscriber only” so
they are visible only to members of your site.
Subscribe-Remind
- Adds a reminder to the bottom of each post to subscribe to your
RSS feed.
WordPress
PDA - Helps your readers view your blog on a PDA browser.
WP-orderposts
- This plugin allows you to custom order your posts (as opposed to
the default reverse-chronological order).
WP-Sticky -
Make a post the default first entry on your blog.
Post Tools
Auto Link -
Use the Google API to set delimiters like [movie]Move Title[/movie]
to make it auto link to the page on IMDB.
Author
Complete Post List - Gives you the ability to display all the
posts by an author, including the ones where they are
co-author.
Blog by Mail with
Categories - Changes the “Blog by Mail” feature in WordPress so
you can also set the category.
Code Markup - Allows you to include snippets of code, including
HTML, in your post without it affecting the page.
Easy
Post-To-Post Links - Allows you to use a shortcut when writing
a post linking to another post on your blog.
On
This Day - Displays posts posted on the same day in previous
years.
Plain Text Paste - Helps to ease the pain of pasting something
you wrote in Microsoft Word into WordPress.
TD
Word Count - Displays a word count for each post on a blog, and
gives you a total count.
Ubernyms -
Allows you to make shortcuts for terms and links you use often.
Just enter the abbreviation and this plugin fills it in for
you.
WP-Footnotes
- Allows you to add footnotes to a more detailed post.
wpSpoiler -
Allows you to hide text behind [spoiler] tags. Ideal for sites with
tv or movie reviews.
Crossposting
DJ-Email-Publish -
Once you publish on your WordPress blog, this sends the post as an
email to your other blogs such as MSN Spaces.
Live Space Sync
- Allows you to import all your posts to your Microsoft Live Spaces
so you can advertise your blog to your contacts.
LiveJournal
Crossposter - Automatically posts your latest entries to your
LiveJournal account, or any other LJ software based site.
Vox
Crossposter - Cross-posts your posts to your Vox account.
Xanga
Crosspost - Allows you to have your posts appear on your Xanga
account.
RSS Feed Tools
©Feed - Adds
copyright info to your feed and places a digital fingerprint on it
so you can search the web for content theft.
Add to
Any Subscribe Button - Allows your readers to subscribe via
most popular RSS readers.
AddThis
Sidebar Widget - Adds RSS info and social bookmarking links to
the sidebar.
Better Feed - Adds a “read more” button, a copyright notice,
and a “Add to del.icio.us” link.
DeCat
- Allows you to select certain categories to not be included in
your feeds.
Feed
Control - Gives you the ability to exclude posts from your
feed, add pages, and more.
Feed
Footer - Adds copyright and advertising to your RSS posts.
Feed
Master - Assigns a number to your feed readers to give you a
better idea of stats specific to them.
Feed
Styler - Allows you to style your feed.
FeedBurner
FeedSmith - Make sure all your RSS feed subscribers get counted
along with the ones signed up via FeedBurner.
FeedStats -
Gives you statistical data on your feeds.
Feedvertizer - Add text links to the end of your feed
posts.
RSS Flashfeeder to
Myspace - Feeds your last two posts to your MySpace page.
Slash
Comments - Adds info to your feed about how many comments are
on the post.
Subscribe-Remind
- Adds a little reminder to subscribe to your feed at the end of
each post.
Social Bookmarking
Digg
Button - Allows you to add the Digg button anywhere in a post
with a simple code snippet.
Digg IT - A
plugin that allows the inclusion of the Digg button.
JPF
Add to Reddit - Allows readers to submit your posts to
Reddit.
Share
This - Adds multiple social bookmarking links and an email-this
functionality in one button.
Sociable - Adds the
linking information for 61 social bookmarking sites.
Social
Bookmark Buttons - Adds social bookmark buttons for Digg.com,
Netscape.com, Reddit.com, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon.com, Google.com,
Socialogs.com, and Socialposter.com.
Social
Bookmarks Plugin for WordPress - Provides you access to the
social bookmarking icons for more than 20 popular sites.
Socializer Plugin - Adds the ability to post to nearly 40
social bookmarking sites.
SocialList - Allows you to see which of your posts have been
submitted to del.icio.us and Digg.
Socialogs.com
- Allows you to have your entries submitted to Socialogs.com.
WP-Notable -
Adds the icons for numerous social bookmarking sites to each
post.
wphotspots -
Tracks the activity of your posts on several social bookmarking
sites.
Social Site Integration
Blogmark
Integration - Display your Blogmarks list on your blog.
DiggClick
- Add the Digg button to the beginning of your posts.
DiggIT - Allows
you to add the Digg button even if someone had already submitted
your post.
Facebook
Comments - Allows you to bring comments on your Facebook notes
over to the relevant blog post.
Gregarious
- Combines a Digg button plugin with Alex King’s popular “Share
This” plugin for social bookmarking.
Ma.gnolia Widget
- Display links from your Ma.gnolia account using this widget.
Reddit Button
- Adds a Reddit button to your blog posts.
StumbleCrumble -
Display a pre-determined number of your latest Stumbled websites on
your own blog.
Status Indicators
360Voice
Bits Plugin - Connects with 360Voice.com to post the latest
info on your 360 standings.
AIM Online
Status Indicator - Let your readers know if you’re online.
IM
Online - Presence indicator for AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk,
Skype and ICQ.
MeeboMe
Plugin For WordPress - Display a Meebo widget on your blog so
you can chat with your visitors.
WP-ICQ-Status
- Display your current ICQ status on your blog.
Xbox 360 Gamercard WordPress Plugin - Allows you to display
your Xbox 360 Gamecard.
Miscellaneous Site Integration
.Mac Sidebar
WP Plugin - Display information from your .Mac account in your
WordPress sidebar.
Amazon
Wishlist - Add your Amazon Wishlist to your blog.
Bloggersnap
- Allow your visitors to take a webcam shot and post it to your
blog.
EasyPayPal -
Allows you to accept payments for many services including
subscriptions, trial periods, and more.
Ebay Sales Lister - Display Ebay listings (from your account or
others) on your site.
Facebook
Photos - Allows easy access to your Facebook photos for use in
your blog.
GetWiki
- Embed a Wikipedia article in your blog.
iTunesSpy - Display
your latest played songs on your WordPress blog.
Last Amazon
Review - Displays latest reviews from an Amazon RSS feed.
Supports Associate IDs.
MasterWish - Place
your wishlist from MasterWish.com on your blog.
Netflix
- Share portions of your Netflix queue with your readers.
Phoogle
- Add Google Maps with markers you choose to any of your posts.
Slashdot.org Headlines - Display the latest headlines from
Slashdot on your site.
PayPal Donate Button - Allows you to add a “Make a Donation”
button powered by PayPal.
WP-Twit - Display
your latest Twitter postings on your site.
Yahoo Browser-Based
Authentication - Allows users to sign in to your blog using
their Yahoo ID and password.
Your YouTube Favorite Videos - Display your favorited YouTube
videos on your site.
YouTube Video Gallery - Display a gallery of YouTube videos on
your site.
Left Sidebar
DarkT -
Slick black design, extremely legible, very modern looking, fixed
width and widget ready.
Green
Bug - Very pleasant looking fixed width and widget ready theme,
great for a nature blog.
HijauSegar - Very open with easily edited headers. Fixed
width.
Integral - Very
uncluttered design, makes a great theme for a company blog, fixed
width and widget ready. Fixed width.
Melod Art -
Unique coloring, would make a great family blog. Fixed width and
ready for widgets.
Notes
- Make your personal website look like an actual personal
journal.
Rainbow Feather - Fluid width theme, perfect for a writer or
someone aspiring to be one.
RedHorizon - Clean and professional, stylish. Fixed width and
widget ready.
Riaz
- Very professional and classy looking, could be used for many
needs. Fixed width and widget ready.
Rounded Transparent - Very clean, easy to navigate, stylish,
fixed width, widget ready.
Simply Blue
- Nice rounded corners, modern looking, fixed width and widget
ready.
Simplicity 2.0 - Just as the name applies, very simple, but
visually appealing. Would make a great personal blog, or possibly
fashion related. Fixed width, widget ready.
Skeletons In My Closet - Very easy to read, fixed width, great
for a personal or music blog.
Solid -
Very stylish, clean reading, fixed width, widget ready.
Was:
ImJTk - Nice mixture of colors, very smooth and free flowing,
fixed width, widget ready.
Right Sidebar
Blending
Curves - Pink is a difficult color to pull off in a lot of
themes, but this one does it well with blending in a “torn out
journal pages” feel. Fixed width and widget ready.
Blogger’s Cafe - Very simple, great for sites about blogging,
coffee shops, or just plain old coffee lovers. Fixed width.
Blue-Ridge - Muted colors so as not to distract, great for a
personal blog, fixed width, widget ready.
Boxy
Mint - Great personal page or company blog, versatile, modern
look. Fixed width and widget ready.
Elegant
Purple - Great personal blog with an all purple look. Fixed
width and widget ready.
Green
Love - Great personal or travel theme, fixed width and widget
ready.
Green Pro
2.0 - Excellent use of green, versatile look that can be used
for many different sites. Fixed width and widget ready.
Leaf
On Edge - Very versatile theme that could be used for blogs on
any number of subjects, fixed width.
Lemon
& Lime - Pleasing colors, logo placeholder, fixed width and
widget ready.
Melmac - About as modern as you can get. Fixed width, widget
ready.
NightLight Idea - Nice black theme with lite animation in the
header. Fixed width and widget ready.
Otek -
Orange colored, but not enough to be distracting, clean navigation,
Fixed width and widget ready.
Persian
Minyx - Fixed width and widget ready, unique way of marking the
width.
Pgreen
- Very readable, versatile look for a fixed width theme that is
widget ready.
Raised -
Blue everywhere, but still readable. Child page navigation is a
little sloppy, but passable. Fixed width.
RedPlanet -
Great for a science or technical blog, very customizable, fixed
width, widget ready.
Silver Light - Another good professional person’s theme, fixed
width, widget ready.
SybmimDX Remix: Ghost - Very simple, would make a great
professional blog, fixed width.
05 Moon 1.0 - This is an excellent black theme, variable width
and widget-ready.
Acid Green Pro - Fixed width, centered layout with widget ready
sidebars. Tons of space in the sidebars for lots of goodies.
Alike Theme - Another darkish theme, but quite easy on the
eyes. AdSense ready, fixed width and widget ready.
Ayumi -
Primarily white theme with good highlights, easy to read and widget
ready.
Bionic
Jive - Compartmentalized well, clean read, variable width.
Blogging Simply - Fluid width, widget ready, loads of space in
the sidebars for all the extras you want.
CitrusIsland
- Variable width, widget ready, colors that pop.
Cordoba
Green Park - Variable width, widget ready, easily changeable
color schemes.
Creaker - Widget
ready and perfect for customizing.
Crunch - Available in multiple colors, easy to change
header.
Daily Digest
3.0 - Fixed width, widget ready, newspaper style.
Fava Beans and a
Nice Chianti - Very elegant looking, great for a foodie blog,
variable width.
Fresh Apple - This theme is based around a green apple, how can
it not be soothing to the eye? Variable width and widget ready.
I Like Grey -
Variable width with lots of boxes in each side column for
customization.
i3Theme - For
Mac lovers, this theme makes your WordPress blog look like your
favorite operating system.
Illacrimo - Widget ready, smooth appearance. Perfect for a
graphic artist’s site.
Intensive - Google AdSense optimized, good for newish
blogs.
Journalized
Winter - Variable width, great for someone that likes lots of
info on their pages. Also available in
Sand colors.
Mandigo
- A fixed width (800 or 1024) theme that can be two or three
columns based on settings on the Options page. Widget ready.
Mogle -
Black and orange professional looking theme, Adsense ready.
Navigation WP
Theme - Based on the WordPress Admin area, variable width,
widget ready.
Nuberu -
You can’t get much cleaner than plain black & white. Fixed
width.
OmegaLeaf - Very sleek white and red theme, fixed width.
Pink Web
2.0 - Versatile theme with numerous uses, widget ready and
fixed width.
ProSense - Fixed width, clean reading, and available in three
different color schemes. Widget ready.
Soccer
Theme - Fixed width, widget ready, great for a sports-themed
blog.
Talian
1.0 - Clean colors, easy to read, variable width, widget ready
for easy customizing.
Track 17 -
Variable width, great for a tech themed blog.
TyreMonkey -
A nice red and black three column design. Fixed width.
Ubmodicus - Lightweight, fast loading, widget ready.
Unnamed - While
it lacks a name, it has Ajax features (the black area you see is a
pop-in) as well as being widget ready. Fixed width.
Zen
- Very stylish, easy to read, fixed width, widget ready.