There is a great post on Weblog Tools Collection by Frank, aka Weathervane, who talks about making sure WordPress plugin authors start to come up with a better system for designing and implementing their plugin code.
Naming Conventions
1. Do not append your WordPress plugins with “wp-“ or “wp_.” We know it’s for WordPress, [...]

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Jeffro put up a great post on Weblog Tools Collection about WordPress and how deleting plugins doesn’t mean that everything with regard to the plugin is gone, as many of them add entries into the database, that sit there doing nothing once the plugin is gone, except for causing bloat, and if you are like [...]

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While not using the plugin here, I have always been a big fan of the ShareThis WordPress plugin, and for those of you that haven’t enjoyed the ShareThis 2.0 release due to positioning constraints built into it, check out the new version 2.1b1 which allows you to have more control over the plugin.
Alex King and [...]

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Now on version 0.3, the Blog Metrics plugin caught my eye, and is a lot of fun to use, especially on multi-author blogs.
Want to know how many posts a month your blog is averaging? What about how many comments a month? Curious at how many words you have written? Blog Metrics answers all of these [...]

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Quick Online Tips has compiled what they believe to be the best WordPress plugins for power blogging and while they aren’t necessarily the most popular plugins, they are ones that the author has found extremely useful or helpful.
Of course it has some expected ones like Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, and Related Posts, but [...]

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I have done WordPress sites for bands before, and have always been annoyed at how there was no good way for them to easily show off upcoming gigs, but that issue has since been resolved with GigPress.
GigPress is a WordPress plugin built specifically for touring bands. As a website developer who was often building websites [...]

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Most of us use Akismet, as it is included with WordPress, but there is a new player in town, and it is called Defensio. Just like Akismet, it is a service where your comments are sent off your site to be analyzed by Defensio before going live on your site.
It is supposed to help [...]

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Jeffro from Jeffro2pt0 has posted an interesting WordPress plugin that allows you to use WordPress a little more like Tumblr. The plugin is called QuickPosts and quickly gives you many of the same features you would be used to in a Tumblr site.

The plugin is called QuickPost and was developed by a company called Twelve [...]

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Did you notice that Automattic changed the incoming links tracking from Technorati to Google Blog Search? If you did, and are annoyed, there is now a plugin that will allow you to change it back to Technorati if you are so inclined.
Simply put:
When WordPress 2.3 was released a lot of people complained about the WordPress [...]

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So, I was just talking to a friend of mine, and he was complaining how he has to put his images on a photo hosting site like Flickr to be able to help withstand the Digg effect.
I said to him that we need a plugin that would allow us to create alternate locations for [...]

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Over on Colloquium there is a list of some great plugins that I think people should be using. I didn’t write the list, but I have to admit that over ninety percent of what is listed are plugins I either use, want to use, or think are great.
There are zillions of WordPress plugins available, with [...]

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Over on Colloquium there is a list of some great plugins that I think people should be using. I didn’t write the list, but I have to admit that over ninety percent of what is listed are plugins I either use, want to use, or think are great.
There are zillions of WordPress plugins available, with [...]

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Darren Rowse has put up a post showing off some great plugins for WordPress to deal with comments. Comment management has been criticized heavily in the blogosphere due to spam, and the ability to follow conversations that occur in the comment area.
He focuses on plugins like Better Comments Manager, Comment Relish, Subscribe to Comments, WP [...]

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When I first heard about this plugin and Firefox extention combination, I didn’t give it much thought. I didn’t think that something like this could be created. I took another look at it when LifeSpy, one of Bloggy Network’s sites, mentioned it, and now I am happy to report that I think this is pretty [...]

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Andy Skelton has put up a post on his blog letting everyone know that the WordPress.com Stats Plugin has been updated to version 1.1.
The new version includes a much asked for iframe which allows you to see your stats without going to WordPress.com.

We updated the WordPress.com Stats plugin just a little bit today. Now, [...]

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Those of you that love crazy long lists of resources and tools should check out the post on Mashable which is packed the brim with things that WordPress administrators should be using.

Running your Wordpress blog can feel like a full-time job sometimes. We’ve compiled an A-Z list of more than 50 plugins to help you [...]

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Back, a long time ago, there was a plugin that made it easy to add other plugins to your WordPress blog, but that plugin died off, and since then we have had to do things the manual way, but now, a new plugin, OneClick, has been released, and it is pretty powerful.
Oneclick is my first [...]

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Here is a plugin which I had thought about a long time ago, and has now come to fruition: category access.
I’ve released a new version of the Category Access Wordpress 2 plugin. This plugin allows the blog maintainer to restrict access to posts belonging to particular categories on a user-by-user basis.
This would allow you to [...]

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Since I last wrote about WPZipper they have added themes to their tool, and improved the interface one hundred times over.
They have added some interesting AJAX’y interface elements which makes adding and removing both themes and plugins a snap. They have also added a user system, in case you want to keep that great custom [...]

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Monetizing your blog can be very difficult, and really, begging on your site can turn people away, but studies have shown that if you ask for a donation towards something simple, like a beer, or a coffee for those not into beer, you’ll get more donations.
This WordPress plugin allows your readers to donate money via [...]

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