Other Plugins
Here is a bunch of other well used plugins. I dont use them but you may find something in here for a customer or project you are doing. At the bottom there is also a bunch of new Ajax plugins
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404 Notifier – Gives you a log of all your 404 errors so you can see why your readers are ending up on broken pages.
Admin Dropdown Menus – Make your crowded admin panel menus neat and orderly 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 combination of dictionaries to check your posts.
Auto-hyperlink URLs – Gives you several options for having URLs automatically turn in to hyperlinks.
AWSOM Pixgallery – Designed to allow artists and webcomic creators to create a portfolio of their artwork.
Batch Categories – Adds a page to the category management, showing all the posts that belong to a category making it easier to add to another category, or when using an import tool 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. Hide things you don’t need such as “Post Password” and add things you feel you may need.
Dashbar – Let admins have admin access while working in the frontend of the blog without having multiple windows open.
Dashboard Editor – Ever wanted to change the Dashboard to be more useful? This is the plugin you need.
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 – Will allow one WordPress install to be accessed from multiple domains and will even change the name and URLs based on the address people access it with.
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 – Gives you more control over the excerpts such as length and auto creation.
FeedBurner FeedSmith – Make sure all your RSS feed sbscribers get counted along with the ones signed up via FeedBurner.
Fix Database – Will check your WordPress database for errors and attempt to fix them.
Genki Announcement – Allows you to add an announcement before your first post without editing your themes, can even run on a timer.
Genki Pre-Publish Reminder – Forget to set your categories before you publish? Write yourself a reminder!
Google Analyticator – Inserts Google Analytics on every WordPress page
Google Sitemaps Generator – Will create a Google compliant sitemap of your blog.
GT Post Approval – Adds “Approve” and “Reject” buttons to the administrators view on all posts, very handy for blogs with multiple authors.
Instant Update – Will handle the tedious chore of upgrading your WP install with just one-click.
Just Unzip – Upload a zip folder from the Write page; this plugin unzips the contents and associates 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, very useful for writers working to a word count on professional blogs.
Mass Post Manager – Allows you to move or delete all the posts in a category at once.
Mutliply – Allows you to control multiple blogs from one administrator.
NextGEN Gallery – Adds an image gallery to your control panel and can even add a flash gallery.
OneClick Install – Adds an extremely powerful uploader and installer for plugins and themes to WordPress, eliminates the need to unzip or FTP!
Page Link Manager – Allows you to easily rearrange pages, hide them, and move them at will.
Permacop – Allows you to redirect any URL to another.
Post2Page – Write a post that should really be on permanent display? Turn it in to a page with this plugin and have it handle the URL redirects to boot.
PlugInstaller – Point this plugin to a new plugin you want on the web, it takes care of obtaining it, uploading it and unpacking it.
podPress – Numerous features for bloggers wishing to add podcasts to their WordPress install. Previews, RSS feeds, adding cast to posts, and many, many more.
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, can import from your current tagging plugins.
Site Unavailable – Puts up a message your site is down, customize the message, all the while, the admins can still log in.
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, a plugin 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 at once.
WPAds – Add rotating banner and text ads to any position you define in your blog.
WP-Custom Login – Allows you to modify the user login page logo to an image of your choice to allow you to brand your site more completely.
WP- DBManager – Gives you the power to optimize the database, back it up, restore, delete the backup database , drop emptied tables and run selected queries.
WP-phpMyAdmin – Gives you quick access to your PHP databases directly from the WP admin area without haveing to login to phpMyAdmin. Very handy.
WP Plugins Tracker – Will verify all of your plugins are the latest version by checking them against the wp-plugins-db.org database.
WP Super Edit – Gives you 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.
The WordPress blog platform has thousands of plugins, and many of them now use ajax to improve usability. Here’s our pick of more than 30 goods ones: don’t install them all at once.
For the blogger
AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding 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 – 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 the admin area to check your posts with.
Plug ‘n’ Play Google Map – Adds any post you make with longitude and latitude 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 simply 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 for your readers to take.
WP-Post Ratings – Allows readers to rate your posts.
Zorpia That’s Hot Box – Allows visitors to send posts they like Zorpia.com and vote on their favorite articles.
For your readers
AJAX Comments 2.0 – Auto updates the comments page with no full reload, much smoother commenting than the older full reload system.
AJAX Google Video Search – Search Google Video without having to leave your favorite blog.
AJAX Shoutbox – Realtime conversation with sound to alert of new messages.
Cool Weather – Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any area they define.
Currency Converter – Adds a real time currency converter to the page with data pulled from Yahoo Finance.
Google AJAX Search – Allows you to set search for just the contents of your site and the web, or another option allows for search of a second 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, and then they fade-in with no reload.
Inline Ajax Page – Allows readers to see a snippet of a post, click a button and the remainder will appear 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, Speed without reloading the page.
WP Movie Ratings – Combines data from IMDB with the bloggers movie review and lets the readers add their own rating instantly.
XDTalk – Allows real-time conversation between registered users.