Blog Development

Author: John Watson

Shows word and sentence counts plus a readability analysis of the post
currently being edited using three different readability measurements.

Readability analysis is an attempt to show how difficult a text is to read.
There are several methods of doing readability analysis. The most popular
methods are used here. The Flesch and Flesch-Kincaid methods use formulas based
on the average number of words per sentence and the average number of syllables
per word. The Gunning-Fog method uses a formula based on the average number of
words per sentence and the percentage of “hard” words (words with 3 or more
syllables) in the passage.

Both the Gunning-Fog and the Flesch-Kincaid give a score that is the number of
years of education the reader must have completed to understand the text.
Different types of writing calls for different scores. Technical subjects may
require a higher level of education so a higher Fog or Kincaid score is
acceptable. Informal writing may try for a score in the 7-10 range. The Flesch
score is a percentage. The higher the value, the better the readability.

Author: John Watson

Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It
does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden
feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All
existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for
all users. Just tell the plugin what your Feedburner feed URL is and you’re
done.

Author: David Lynch

Produces output very similar to delicious’s linkrolls script, but in a way that isn’t guaranteed to mess with most themes.

Allows you to customize:

• The number of links to display
• Whether the link’s description is shown, if you provided one
• Whether the link’s tags are shown
• Whether the link’s favicon is shown
• Showing only links with certain tags
• And the ever-popular widget title

Author: Mark Jaquith

Comment management in WordPress isn’t too hard when you manually approve each comment. You know which comments you’ve seen, and which you haven’t. The only downside is that you have to approve the comments before they appear. Comment Inbox gives you the ease of the moderation queue with the freedom of unmoderated comments. It’s a better way to deal with spam and bacn on your blog.

Here’s how it works:

• All comments except caught spam go into moderation (renamed “Comment Inbox”)
• All comments in your Comment Inbox immediately show up on the blog — so conversations don’t wait on your moderation skills
• There are three actions that can be performed on comments in your Comment Inbox: Archive (i.e. mark as read), Spam, Delete
• When your Comment Inbox is empty, you can rest easy knowing you’ve dealt with all your new comments

For the history of this plugin, please see The Comment Inbox.

Author: Josh Byers

The Custom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to re-brand the Wordpress login screen, the admin header and footer with your own custom images.

It should be fairly easy to use for anyone familiar with Wordpress and has basic css and html skills. At its simplest it only requires you to activate and then replace three images with your own. Photoshop templates are included to help you with that.

Author: Schmap Inc.

This plugin enables a Schmap widget to be added to either the sidebar, or the main body, of your Wordpress blog. Schmap widgets provide an extremely simple and flexible way of presenting data relevant to your blog on a map. Some available Schmap widgets include:
- Schmap travel guide widgets (eg. Sights & attraction on a city map)
- Schmap sports widgets (eg. a teams season highlighted as stadium venues on a country map)
- Schmap concert tour widgets (eg. a bands tour schedule highlighted as venues on a country map)
For a complete list of available widgets visit http://www.schmap.com/widgets

Author: frank

Adds Amember login and status functionality to your Wordpress (2.3 ) sidebar.

Features:

• Configurable Title (Default: Members)
• Configurable Active Link Title (Default: Active Memerships)
• Configurable Amember Directory (Default: amember)
• Skinnable via CSS (input#amembersubmit for submit button)
• Full XHTML compliancy
• Listing of members subscribed products (hyperlinked where applicable)
• Works under Wordpress 2.3.x and 2.5

Future plans:

• Remember me checkbox
• Ajax based invalid userid/password checking
• Ajax based “Forgot Password”
• Configurable “Logged in” links (check boxes in adbmin to select which links you want to show to members)
• Ajax based lightbox based version to bypass redirect to login page

Author: Phalkunz Ponlu

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Author: Hendrik Bahr

The Social Bookmark plugin is a “ready to run” addon for the Wordpress blogsoftware. It adds a list of 16×16px icons of the most common social bookmark services to your wordpress blog.
It comes as a sidebar widget that can be activated and positioned in the admin’s widget configuration interface. The plugin takes care of the correct transfer of bookmarking titles, URLs and descriptions individually generated from your content.
You can activate or deactivate each social bookmark service individually through your wordpress administration interface. The Plugin is fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compatible.

Included is a mousover-javascript that shows the platform’s name in text above the icons.

Icons of the following services are included:
* Add to Browser Favorites
* Mr. Wong
* Facebook
* StumbledUpon
* Technorati
* Furl
* Del.ico.us
* Yahoo
* Linkarena
* Oneview
* Webnews
* Digg
* MySpace
* Windows Live Favorites
* iGoogle
* folkd
* Blinklist
* Favoriten.de
* Yigg
* Weblinkr
* Kledy

Author: Wolfgang Digo Hollin

The plugin DigoWatchWP scans your blog posts and pages for changes.

Whenever an entry has been changed it informs you via email. So if you receive an email and you have nothing changed you should have a closer look at your post or page. Maybe somebody changed your post or page to include a spam-link (e.g. links to OnlineCasino, adult-content are very popular).