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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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.

Auto Slimbox is a plugin to add slimbox feature for your wordpress powered website.

Adsense Manager allows you to create, modify and position Adsense Ads from within the WordPress admin panel. Allows unlimited Ad templates with defaults and individual settings.

Dugg Widget will display your past 10 dugg stories.

Custom Comment Text allows the customization of comment text (e.g. “5 comments”) generated by Template Tag comments_popup_link(). The customization is set per Post basis.

Jon’s Geolocation Plugin provides a fast and lightweight method to determine a visitor’s location down to a city level from their IP address.

The HitsLink plugin for WordPress lets you easily add HitsLink’s web tracking script to your site

AWStats Xtended Info inserts the awstats_misc_tracker.js into each page WordPress serves, allowing AWStats to track additional items including screen size, Flash, PDF and Java support among other things.

Next Of Kin will monitor your visits to your blog and will send you a warning email after a number of weeks (of your choice) without a visit. If you fail to visit your blog even after that, the system will send a mail you wrote to whoever you choose.

Xiti Widget lets you add the logo of Xiti, a free tool to measure and analyse the audience of a site.

Inline Ajax Page (INAP) will allow you to load posts, comments and the add comment box inline, and also submit comments, paginate posts, paginate your homepage, display a live comment preview.

Updater Blogroll Link catches all links from your post and allows to add easily to your blogroll. (Page in French)

Score Render renders inline sheet music fragments inside posts and comments into images. It supports ABC, GUIDO, Lilypond and Mup music notations.

Web Log Generator With Cookie generates web log files enabling the site owner to track visitors.

Twitter Sharts helps you display your Twitter status in a post.

Vril’s Transparent PNG Fix adds support for the transparent PNG pictures available to Internet Explorer.

Add Your Own Headers allows you to add tags to the header of an individual page or post such as keywords/descriptions, custom meta tags, external style sheet links, or embedded style tags.

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Blogstamp plugin makes a request of timestamp (the number of seconds elapsed since the 0 hour of the 1st of January of 1970 GMT), certified by third parts, and adds a signature, which comprised of contents SHA-1 hash, returned timestamp and a digital signature.

The WP Link Directory is a link directory plugin on the Internet for WordPress admin to store and maintain a set of links in classified categories.

AdSenseBot-Stats counts the visits of Google AdSense Bot (Mediapartners) and writes them into a database.

The WordPress Updated Plugin echoes the last modification date instead of the standard the_time() and the_date().

Routes allows you to add geographical route information to articles and pages in a WordPress blog, and map the routes using Google Maps.

Subscription Icons allows you to put a set of icons for RSS subscriptions on your WordPress blog page.

Private Notes plugin for WordPress provides registered users on a site with the ability to send messages to one another.

Cloud-O-Google Queries is a filter to display keyword clouds based on search engine queries.

WP Group Restriction is a WordPress plugin that enhances the current user role feature, by allowing administrators to manage access to content (i.e., pages).

The Organize Series plugin helps with the organization and presentation of articles/posts you write as part of a series.

Slickr Gallery is a bandwidth-friendly AJAX photo gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages. It is especially useful for people with many Flickr albums/photos. Slickr Gallery needs a Lightbox plugin to work properly.

Google Sitemap Parser outputs all the links from your sitemap.xml that is generated by using the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress.

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No Directory adds NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags to the header of your theme to force the search engines to use your own description and title for your site, instead of the one that is in DMOZ or the Yahoo directory.

Selig-Stats provides you with a number of filters that can be used directly within your posts / pages in order to display some statistics like post count, comment count etc.

Technorati Rank utilizes the Technorati API to display your blog information (Rank, Links, Blogs Linking) and an Add to Favorites all in simple display.

CodeHighlighter uses GeSHi to highlight syntax for source code.

Book Cover displays the book cover image from ISBN.

WordPress AdSense Deluxe+ Widget is a widgetized version of AdSense Deluxe+ Plugin

Attach Links is a Word Press plugin that allows you to attach one or more external links to each post. They will be shown in a list when calling the function al_display().

TellAFriendPost allows the user to forward the post to there friend.

PromotePost allows the user to Extend the post reach by forwarding it to the 45 sites including del.icio.us, Digg, Flurl, Techorati.

DoubleClick Meaning allows you to doubleclick on a word to know its definition / meaning.

ScaleImage scales images in the post using a slider.

wp-weather widget uses Weather.com to show forecast information for a city.

Duplicate Content Cure prevents duplicate content in wordpress blogs by adding a noindex meta tag to wordpress pages that don’t contain any unique value, like categories, archives, and paged pages.

wp-publications-archive is a WordPress plugin that allows administrators to upload and manage all sorts of files (i.e., publications). Additionally, end-users are able to navigate, search, and download them in the front-office.

Currency Converter sidebar widget for WordPress that can convert between 148 currency formats from all over the world.

Ajaxified Expand Post NOW uses AJAX to expand the “more…” on your blog.

Ma.gnolia Widget allows you to display your ma.gnolia links in your sidebar similar to the del.icio.us sidebar widget. This widget uses SimpleXML and as such requires PHP5.

Visualize Advanced Features will display the hidden buttons in the WordPress 2.1 WYSIWYG editor.

Meyshan 6 acts as a place holder for any 6 plugins of your choice, in a very beautiful mini tabbed pages.

onAirNow gets information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog.

IWG Extended Author List expands your author-list at the post-page of every user that is allowed to show_in_authorlist.

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Stat Traq provides detailed statistics in a nice graphical format. It tracks hits, pageviews, sessions, browser details etc.

wordTube will display your own videos, images or sound files on your blog.

WordPress Passwords adds a site-wide password to your posts and pages without the need of .htaccess, users or security levels.

Import New Blogger imports posts and comments from the new Blogger to your WordPress blog.

Top Posts by Category displays your best posts, as determined by the number of visits to the post or number of comments.

FreshTags is a context-sensitive tagging-based navigation system originally for Blogger.

Distributed Social Networking lets you publish hCards, blogrolls as XFN, allow public/private profiles and adds a messaging system.

Category Converter lets you condense categories on your blog into a shorter list. Seems really useful if over time you want an updated category list while maintaining the posts.

Slightbox is a combination of Slimbox and Lightbox.

Simple Yahoo! Sitemap lets you create a Yahoo! compatible sitemap.

Single Bookmark Category List displays links in a bookmark (aka blogroll) category within an unordered list tag.

Simple Tagging Widget is a Widget plugin to show a tag cloud generated by the WordPress plugin ‘Simple Tagging’. Only works with ‘Sidebar Widgets Plugin’ installed.

Post/Comments Time creates a chart that shows the number of posts and comments for the hours of a day.

SL Study Motivation enables you to use your WordPress Blog as an Motivator for your Studies.

Simple Trackback Validation Plugin for WordPress 2.x performs a simple but very effective test on all incoming trackbacks in order to stop trackback spam.

Multi Column Category List generates an alphabetical listing of your WordPress categories in multiple columns. You can choose the number of columns to display, with an option to split up the list of categories by letter.

Yahoo Sidebar Link Badge Widget For WordPress displays the SiteExplorer Badge on your blog.

WP-Amazon will allow you to search Amazon as you compose your post or page entry and add links to the products on Amazon.

PHPlist Helper will render a auto-login link to phplist and can render a subscription input form within a template.

Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your del.icio.us bookmarks to your blog.

WP_Identicon provides a small persistent randomly assembled geometric symbol for each user based on their email or IP address.

Live Sync allows you to synchronize WordPress posts to Live Spaces, facilitating MetaWeblog API.

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