1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.

Pagebar adds a nice page bar for selecting indivual pages instead of just the previous or next page.

wpSEO plugin rewrites your blog title, META description and META keywords so these are more user and search engine friendly. (Page in German)

Amazon Book Picture allows you to include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book from Amazon.

Fancy Pullquotes is a simple plugin for wordpress that allows you to effortlessy obtain a nice pull-quote of a specified text. The pull-quote will be formatted with a fancy nice style, exactly like one of those you can read on a regular magazine.

Alt to Legend is a plugin for WordPress 2.0 that allows you to display the ALT text of an image as its caption.

Updated Today displays a banner in the upper left corner of your blog when the date of the last post matches todays date, therefore telling the visitor that your blog has been updated today.

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WordPress Plugin for Bengali WordPressians allows you to write in Unijoy, Phonetic and Plain English mode.

Category Order by Usage allows you to order categories based on the number of posts that they contain.

Login Anywhere allows you to insert a login form anywhere in your blog (header, sidebar, etc.) by adding a function call to wherever you want the code to be generated. If the user is logged in, it will give them the option to logout.

Trackback List creates two functions that can be used to display the list of sites that link to your post (or page).

With FAQ-Tastic you can make single page FAQs or an index Page with a question list linking to answer Pages.

Enhanced Contact Form adds a contact form to your site. Inbuilt spam protection and ability to send CCs.

NoIndex Feed prevents Yahoo! and Google from indexing a feed by adding a noindex meta tag to a feed.

Mint Popular Posts uses information recorded by the Mint stats program (paid) to output a list of the most popular posts.

post2pdf converts all your posts in pdf files ready to download.

Comment Email Responder provides a simple method to automatically email commenters whenever the blog’s administrator responds to their comments.

Comment Rankings displays stars in a post’s comments next to the comment’s author. Each star represented 10 comments that the author had made on the blog so far.

List Subpages with Description lists a WordPress Page’s subpages in an unordered list with a description of each one.

Block Countries uses the IP2Country database to easily enable you to block certain countries from your blog.

Availability Calendar and Booking Management provides property booking management functionality to the administration area of WordPress and can output a fully customisable availability calendar, as well as public and private RSS and iCal feeds.

DF FileConf is a plugin to be used when you are moving your blog to a different url. DF FileConf prevents the configuration update until you are confident that your changes are correct.

hiClip Webcam Plugin allows you to record and publish video/audio with your webcam in WordPress admin panel. (Page in German)

DDay allows you to set unlimited event countdowns to or countups from an event. (Page in French)

WPG2 embeds the Gallery2 Application within the WordPress Application, allowing WordPress Authors to share photos uploaded into Gallery2 seamlessly into the WordPress Blog and Sidebar content.

KQF adds feeds to posts, pages and much more. KQF allows you to customize the look and behavior of feeds the way you like.

KIN is just a simple notepad for jotting down notes and ideas.

Post Terms List outputs the most frequent terms of a post.

Tracer is a tracking image that allows you to monitor traffic for individual blog posts. It also works in your web feeds. This plugin adds an ‘Insert Tracer’ button to the WP editor.

CaptchaThis! is an attempt to further the fight against comment spam. The idea is asking the user (or robot, for that matter) to ‘recognize the meaning of a question and answer it. The plugin has two modes: “Click The Image” and “Answer The Question”.

SEO Siloing WordPress plugin allows bloggers to configure blogs that follow the “SEO siloing” technique where posts are grouped by category and cross-category links are only made to special category landing pages.

wp-ajax-newsletter is a WordPress plugin that allows users to subscribe and receive a newsletter containing the blog latest posts.

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I came across this post on Weblog Tools Collection. This plugin is a snap to install and it really works!

Plugin Page:
http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instant-upgrade

Description:
The InstantUpgrade plugin provides is a easy and safe way to upgrade your WordPress automatically with a single click (Almost!)
You can upgrade to the latest WordPress version, or you can upgrade to a version of your choice.

How it Works:
The InstantUpgrade plugin downloads the latest WordPress version from the WordPress server and unpacks it at your server.
In the next step, it deletes all of your old WordPress files (except wp-content/ and wp-config.php and language packs) and puts the new files into your WordPress directory.
At last, it runs the upgrade script contained it the new WordPress version.

Installation and Usage:
Installation and usage of this plugin requires a bit more work from a user point of view because of various permissions that need to be set.

You download the plugin and upload it in your plugins folder and activate it.

You need to chmod your WordPress base folder, wp-admin and wp-includes and their subdirectores (except wp-config) to 777. You also need to do the same to the work folder in the plugin directory. These permissions would not have to be set if you have phpsuexec or similar installed where your scripts run as your user id.

Future Plans:
- plugin’s self upgrade
- some sort of dry-run mode for the scared
- support other WP editions (e.g. that of the German WP community)
- Allow defining files to preserve (even though this is discouraged)
- if WP officially introduces and maintains incremental upgrades, support them, too
- Auto take care of the file permissions possibly via FTP

Review:
Recently, WordPress releases have become rather frequent, with a release almost every month. While several users like me prefer using shell to speed up upgrades, most normal users are stuck with the normal lengthy routine of doing so, which can become quite a pain in the neck if you have several blogs to upgrade.
InstantUpgrade bids a happy farewell to that procedure.

Installing the plugin is easy, but using it requires a bit more work. You have to remember to backup all your files and the database before running the plugin. At this point the plugin will not automate this. You also need to set write permissions before running the plugin and remove them after running (for best security).

One thing I like about the plugin is the ability to upgrade your blog to the latest WordPress version as well as any version that you choose, which means that users running 2.0.x version can also use this plugin.

Only thing I don’t recommend is to do major upgrades using this plugin. When I say major upgrade, I mean something like a jump from 2.0 to 2.1 and 2.1 to 2.2 in about two weeks time.

The reason is that WordPress includes major changes in the core during these version changes. The InstantUpgrade plugin doesn’t disable all your plugins. With major changes, there is a good possibility that many plugins may not work and could really mess up your blog!

However, for minor version changes, this is one of the best solutions we have today to upgrade our WordPress blogs.

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WP Ajax Edit Comments allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. User’s can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments.

Preview Post Navigation restores the “preview” and “edit” links that were removed from the WordPress 2.1x series back into the editor.

CSS Hijack Prevention filters out CSS code in your comments to protect your blog from being hijacked using CSS.

IP 2 Nation Longitude and Latitude Update implements 2 new functions to obtain the Longitude and Latitude of the Country.

Sticky Post shows the designated post on the top of every post without modifying your current theme.

Yearly Repeater plugin is a boon when you need to repeat the a single post every year on a particular day. You can achieve this by editing timestamp manually, but using this plugin you can automate this task.

Comments Preview allows visitors to preview their comment before submitting.

New Plugin Thingy allows you to create a plugin right from within WordPress Admin menu itself.

Website Optimizer For WordPress allows you to integrate Google Website Optimizer into WordPress blog posts and pages.

WordPress Navigation Tool is a tool designed to provide you with complete control over the contents of your navigation links. The plugin gives you the ability to create navigation lists and arrange the items within the list in any order required.

Private Post is a full featured private post management interface. It allows you to manage all private post’s publishing status via the Manage admin menu.

WordPress Directory Listing is a very simple plugin usable for showing the files within a directory (a bit like the Index generated by Apache). It’s easy to extend to add more functionality like image icons for file types.

Google Sitemap Parser will generate the output from sitemap.xml to the sitemap page.

WP-Enhanced Management enhances user experience with managing posts/pages/categories.

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 WordPress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly
interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download and use with your own WordPress blog.

40. Qwilm [ Preview ]

39. Don’t Touch This

38. Minima Plus [ Preview ]

37. Alternate 0 [ Preview ]

36. Squible [ Preview ]

35. Pinky and The Brain Theme [ Preview,currently offline ]

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33. 5thirtyone v2 [ Preview ]

32. Japanese Cherry Blossom [ Preview ]

31. BloxPress (AJAXified + Prototype + Scriptalicious) [ Preview ]

Check back tomorrow for more of our 100 WordPress Theme Countdown.

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Genki Announcement lets you display an announcement to you blog visitors.

WP Social Bookmarks is a plugin that will allow you to insert links to social bookmark sites in your WordPress posts.

ClickBank Affiliate Plus allows you to add clickbank products to your posts and enabled to earn from ClickBank affliate program while people reading your posts.

Genki Pre-publish Reminder will display a reminder list on your Post Admin page.

The Copyright Plugin automatically keeps your WordPress page copyright notices up to date. It insures that the copyright notice for each page (be it a single page or an index) includes the earliest date of publication as well as the current date.

AdIcons shows customizable icon-ads on your web page and lets users submit their own ads.

TimeZoneCalculator calculates different times and dates in timezones with respect to daylight saving on basis of utc.

cforms offers convenient deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.

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Login Anywhere allows the user to place a login form anywhere on their site.

WP OpenAds is a WordPress Plugin that allows website owners to easily integrate advertising into their posts and pages.

Buddy Cards are small windows that are shown next to comments and contain a subset of either public Buddy Page information available through 30 Boxes, or dynamically created information as a result of an open web search.

WP Categories and Posts is an extension of the wp_list_categories. Instead of listing just categories, the plugin lists the post under the each category as well. This is very useful for a sitemap.

Featuring CountComments counts the number of comments by authornames.

WP Amazon context link ads is a quick and convenient way to add Amazon Context Links to blog and help you monetize your content.

Breukie’s Pages Widget is a WordPress pages widget, to replace the standard pages widget by Automattic.

Complex Email Forms allows WordPress users to easily create complex forms to be emailed to a predefined email address.

Last Posts to Picture create a picture from your last posts.

SimpleTwitter allows WordPress blog owners to add Twitter messages to their templates.

CompleteRSS makes your feeds validate and attracts more users by displaying full article text in your RSS and Atom feeds, removing the ‘content:encoded’ tags from the XML, and makes your feeds appeal to more users.

Daily Top 10 Posts tracks the number of pageviews per blog post for the current day and cumulatively with options to display sidebar widgets for both.

Recent phpBB Topics will display a list of the latest topics in your phpBB forum on your blog.

Page Feed creates a page feed to show the page content.

All in One SEO Pack is a single plugin to make your blog more search engine friendly. It rewrites your post titles, uses categories and excerpt as Meta Keywords and Description and adds noindex,nofollow to category pages.