Open Source Software Blog. Top Wordpress widgets & plugins

 

1. Clock widget for wordpress

- This is easy widget that displays your clock in your sidebar .

Clock widget for wordpress:

  • Display a customizable analog clock.
  • Select your location, select a size and choose a color.

Download from Wordpress.org


2. WP-UserOnline

- Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics.

Download from Wordpress.org


3. Smartlinker

- Smartlinker is a toolbar on the WordPress TinyMCE editor that enables you to hyperlink words and phrases in your blog.

Download from Wordpress.org


4. Weather Widget

- Display your local weather forcast.

Download


5. Incoming Links - Who Link Here

- Shows incoming links on your sidebar. Using for it the Technorati API or Google Blog Search.

Download


6. StatPress

- The real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc. StatPress also includes a widget one can possibly add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can’t use widgets!).

Download


7. Get Recent Comments

- This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar. You have comprehensive control about their appearance. This ranges from the number of comments, the length of the excerpts up to the html layout. And it is a widget.

Download


8. Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button

- Helps readers share, save, and bookmark your posts and pages using any service, such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, and all the rest.

Download


9. WordPress Digg Widget

- Displays your latest dugg items.

Download


10. Fresh Comments

- display recently approved comments with configuration panel to control how recent comments are displayed.

Download

September 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pm


5 Responses to “10 must have widgets for WordPress”
  1. 1
    September 15, 2008 @ 8:20 am
    Webloyalty Said:

    Cool list. Probably the top 10 list.

    -David.

  2. 2
    September 15, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
    AgentSmith Said:

    Hey,

    I’m working on a new version of StatPress as the original author hasn’t been responding for a long time.
    Take a look if you want to: http://blog.matrixagents.org/statpress-reloaded/

    Regards, Agent

  3. 3
    September 16, 2008 @ 11:27 am
    aminhers Said:

    nice blue blog, and thanks about Ur posting
    best regards

  4. 4
    September 16, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
    Ted Said:

    Nice collection. I’ve used StatPress for a while. Gets the job done. Now my stats are processed by the free edition of sitemeter. Love your theme btw

  5. 5
    September 16, 2008 @ 7:13 pm
    MiniMatti Said:

    I’m not quite sure I like this list - you list some very good ones (8: bookmark plugin, though don’t exaggerate with the amount of bookmark/save-sites you list, and 3: smartlinker).

    Some things I really _wouldn’t_ want on my blog:
    1) a big, flashy clock - just about every PC shows the current time in the task bar already, don’t overdo it.
    2) users online: this is irrelevant, it doesn’t make the content of the blog any better by showing how many users you currently have online.
    3) a seperate plugin for digg: it’s already included in your nr8 - bookmarker plugin.

    And why not add the FeedBurner plugin? It’s an easy link to your XML/RSS feed, and shows the popularity of your blog in one quick glance.

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