Textlink Adder generates your very own textlinks to each single post your wordpress has to offer. Bind as many textlinks as you want to each post.

Raven’s antispam is a smart antispam based on a JS solution of Jakub Vrana.

AnswerTips are small bubbles of information triggered by double-clicking any word on an AnswerTips-enabled page.

SEO-Plugin allows you to add Meta tags for Description and Keywords to your blog. (Site in German)

AddThis Plugin will automatically insert the AddThis widget below each post in your blog.

WordPress Plugin Template includes all the framework necessary for a displayable plugin (Something which will show up in a sidebar, template, or anywhere in a post using a token such as )

SETI Stats shows the current credit, average credit and team stats for a given SETI@Home account.

The StripTease plugin is a simple filter that strips fragment identifiers from WordPress’s default teaser links so that they link to full posts.

Post Notification sends an email to every registered user whenever a new post is made on the blog.

LiveSig is a WordPress plug-in that automatically inserts your MyLiveSignature code after each of your WordPress posts making it seem like each post has been personally signed by you.

Subscribe-Remind will automatically place text at the end of each of your posts inviting your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

Comments Waiting Count is a simple plugin that adds the current number of comments in the moderation queue to the WordPress 2.1 admin menu. It will also display the number comments that have been flagged as spam if your using an anti-spam plugin.

Folding@Home Stats is a WordPress plugin that displays your total score, overall rank, number of processes completed in the last 50 days.

Fuzzy Colorpicker adds a color picker to your post pages. This lets you choose the color of your text at will.

wp-page-linker is a WordPress plugin that allows the insertion of links to internal pages while writing a page or a post.

EasyTube allows you to easily embed a youtube player into your website but one simple tag.

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FeedBurner SiteStats Enabler allows you to add the code to the theme that allows Feedburner to track your site stats as well.

Yet Another Photoblog converts your WordPress 2.x installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.

Rob Neville’s Firestats Popular Content Plugin displays your most popular blog posts as tracked by FireStats.

GenKeep is a plugin which allows WordPress to keep track of your birthday. You can display your current age, your birthday, and lots of other age related things.

Wiki Syntax allows you to use simple wiki syntax for posts.

Nike+ iPod Stats plugin for WordPress is a great way to display to the world how you’re doing at your workouts. It uses Nike’s public API (the same one used for the official Nike widgets) to retrieve your personal data and formats it to display correctly on your WordPress blog.

Flog Maker is an entirely self-contained alternative flash blog system that resides within a WordPress plugin, designed for absolutely seamless integration with your WordPress installation.

Flashbox is is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page using a combination of Javascript and Flash 8.

altrugon dropdown categories gives you a function called altrugon_dropdown_categories() which displays your categories in a drop down list and at the same time use the onchange() event to submit the chosen category. (Site in Spanish)

Weather.com widget – shows forecast information for a city. Displays image related to current conditions.

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Noembedder inserts a noembed section into any embedded content (videos, etc.) in your posts. It inserts a customisable message, and for Youtube videos, a thumbnail too.

Dahnielson’s Footnotes adds footnotes to your posts.

Language Plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress. The way it works is that you will write the content for your blog in multiple languages, using special HTML tags.

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

bib2html enables to add bibtex entries formatted as HTML in wordpress pages and posts.

Skinner adds skin selection and editing to WordPress for Skinner compatible themes.

Adsense Manager allows you to create, modify and position Adsense Ads from within the WordPress admin panel.

Inline Ajax Page displays an excerpt of your post (the same way WordPress does when you use the_excerpt or a <!--more--> tag), but rather than making the user go to another page to read the remainder of the post, this plugin uses Ajax to download and display the rest of it when the user clicks a link to read more.

Ask the Oracle displays the random answer to a question in Magic 8-ball fashion

WP-o-Matic create posts from RSS/Atom feeds in the categories you select.

post thumb revisited automatically generates thumbnails from post content.

External Identities – Flickr turns WordPress into a Flickr Identity consumer so that users can sign up and sign in without a password.

GT Post Approval adds Approve/Reject buttoms visible just for administrators and editors in edit » posts.

The WordPress Tag Cloud Plugin generates a weighted WordPress category-based tag or category

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Litebox Plugin incorporates Litebox to display both single images and galleries in your posts.

authUI, a productivity plugin, provides a function that can be placed anywhere in a template to display a toolbar consisting of a log-in form, and links to creating new posts and pages.

Random Image displays images from Desktop Exchange in your sidebar.

WP Contact Form – Part III is another mod of Ryan’s WP-Contact Form and Douglas‘ mod. It now includes custom Subject support.

Head Meta allows you to add your own meta data or javascript to the meta section of your blog without editting your template

Enquiry and Contact form lets you create and embed standard or Ajax powered forms.

Link Love is a WordPress plugin which turns off nofollow for all commenters who have posted at least 10 comments (configurable).

Better Stats Insertion is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily insert stats code from trackers such as Google Analytics, SiteMeter, or just about any other.

FeedBuilder24 generates a custom RSS-2.0 feed from your WordPress weblog postings.

Photon is a plugin that allows to integrate phpwebgallery WordPress.

Admin Theme Preview allows you to preview of any currently installed theme without making it viewable to site visitors.

AdKit24 lets you create your own adbar for your WordPress blog.

Motivational Quote will randomly display a quote in the upper right of your admin screen. Similar to the now infamous Holly Dolly plugin.

BibTex is a tool for formatting lists of references used by the LaTeX document preparation system.

My Link Order Widgetized is the widgetized version of My Link Order.

Role Manager 2.0 is based on the plugin by Owen Winkler. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles – called Roles and their Capabilities. Also you can create new Roles and Capabilities.

WatchMyBack24 verifies if a backlink exists to your trackbacked posting. If no backlink is given, the trackback will fail.

Tickme.com plugin adds a TickMe.com ribbon to the top right of your WordPress Blog, with a link to your profile on TickMe.

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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.

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Litebox Plugin incorporates Litebox to display both single images and galleries in your posts.

authUI, a productivity plugin, provides a function that can be placed anywhere in a template to display a toolbar consisting of a log-in form, and links to creating new posts and pages.

Random Image displays images from Desktop Exchange in your sidebar.

WP Contact Form – Part III is another mod of Ryan’s WP-Contact Form and Douglas‘ mod. It now includes custom Subject support.

Head Meta allows you to add your own meta data or javascript to the meta section of your blog without editting your template

Enquiry and Contact form lets you create and embed standard or Ajax powered forms.

Link Love is a WordPress plugin which turns off nofollow for all commenters who have posted at least 10 comments (configurable).

Better Stats Insertion is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily insert stats code from trackers such as Google Analytics, SiteMeter, or just about any other.

FeedBuilder24 generates a custom RSS-2.0 feed from your WordPress weblog postings.

Photon is a plugin that allows to integrate phpwebgallery WordPress.

Admin Theme Preview allows you to preview of any currently installed theme without making it viewable to site visitors.

AdKit24 lets you create your own adbar for your WordPress blog.

Motivational Quote will randomly display a quote in the upper right of your admin screen. Similar to the now infamous Holly Dolly plugin.

BibTex is a tool for formatting lists of references used by the LaTeX document preparation system.

My Link Order Widgetized is the widgetized version of My Link Order.

Role Manager 2.0 is based on the plugin by Owen Winkler. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles – called Roles and their Capabilities. Also you can create new Roles and Capabilities.

WatchMyBack24 verifies if a backlink exists to your trackbacked posting. If no backlink is given, the trackback will fail.

Tickme.com plugin adds a TickMe.com ribbon to the top right of your WordPress Blog, with a link to your profile on TickMe.

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Noembedder inserts a noembed section into any embedded content (videos, etc.) in your posts. It inserts a customisable message, and for Youtube videos, a thumbnail too.

Dahnielson’s Footnotes adds footnotes to your posts.

Language Plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress. The way it works is that you will write the content for your blog in multiple languages, using special HTML tags.

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

bib2html enables to add bibtex entries formatted as HTML in wordpress pages and posts.

Skinner adds skin selection and editing to WordPress for Skinner compatible themes.

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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Feature Me! makes it easy to spotlight a blogger on a site with multiple authors.

WPCandy inserts a “candy” (snippets of code/text) into pre-defined locations. It can insert more than one candy in the same location, there is no limitations.

Better Nearby Posts Links lets limit the length of the previous and next post titles to the number of characters you want and display the full post in the tooltip.

Really Simple Sitemap generates a simple sitemap so that every post is only 2 clicks away from the homepage.

Web Log Generator creates daily web logs containing IP address, request, referrer, date/time stamp and useragent. Can be used in conjunction with a web log analyser.

root Cookie is a simple plugin that changes the authentication cookie’s path to /. It is useful if you use wordpress code outside of your wordpress installation directory.

Webvirtue Share Your Post allows your visitors to share your post content via 45 social bookmarking websites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend. Post to a friend also support Import Contact from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and MSN.

Thamizmanam inserts the Thamizmanam toolbar code at proper places.

Retz Flash XML Blogroll is a WordPress Flash-based dynamic Blogroll / News Ticker.
MasterWish WordPress Plugin allows you to aggregate your publicly viewable lists from MasterWish.

WP-Enhanced Plugin Management adds some additional functionality to WordPress default plugin management.

o7aCode Plugin allows to use o7aCode for the page-setting of posts and comments

AutoFlickr will automatically find and insert one ore more photos that are related to the content of your post. Photos are found and hosted on Flickr.

Ma.gnolia WordPress Plugin makes it easy to output a list of your Ma.gnolia bookmarks anywhere on your site. You can set it to only pull bookmarks with a specific tag, which is great for listing sites related to a specific category or post.

Unitary is a Units Converter sidebar widget for WordPress that can convert between hundreds of different units of Length, Area, Volume, Weight / Mass, Speed etc.

Security Code creates a security image with security code that is shown on the register screen.

tdw-combobox-links displays the links in the sidebar as dropdown boxes. It will list each of your link categories in a separate box.

PG-CafePress is a WordPress 2.0 plugin that uses the PrestoGifto API and lets you put CafePress stuff into your sidebar, a static page, your footer or after posts.

SpamViewer deletes spam entries in your database as marked by WordPress or various spam plugins like SK2, Akismet, trackback validator etc.

TDO Mini Forms allows you to add a form to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (configurable) to submit posts.

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.

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Feature Me! makes it easy to spotlight a blogger on a site with multiple authors.

WPCandy inserts a “candy” (snippets of code/text) into pre-defined locations. It can insert more than one candy in the same location, there is no limitations.

Better Nearby Posts Links lets limit the length of the previous and next post titles to the number of characters you want and display the full post in the tooltip.

Really Simple Sitemap generates a simple sitemap so that every post is only 2 clicks away from the homepage.

Web Log Generator creates daily web logs containing IP address, request, referrer, date/time stamp and useragent. Can be used in conjunction with a web log analyser.

root Cookie is a simple plugin that changes the authentication cookie’s path to /. It is useful if you use wordpress code outside of your wordpress installation directory.

Webvirtue Share Your Post allows your visitors to share your post content via 45 social bookmarking websites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend. Post to a friend also support Import Contact from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and MSN.

Thamizmanam inserts the Thamizmanam toolbar code at proper places.

Retz Flash XML Blogroll is a WordPress Flash-based dynamic Blogroll / News Ticker.
MasterWish WordPress Plugin allows you to aggregate your publicly viewable lists from MasterWish.

WP-Enhanced Plugin Management adds some additional functionality to WordPress default plugin management.

o7aCode Plugin allows to use o7aCode for the page-setting of posts and comments

AutoFlickr will automatically find and insert one ore more photos that are related to the content of your post. Photos are found and hosted on Flickr.

Ma.gnolia WordPress Plugin makes it easy to output a list of your Ma.gnolia bookmarks anywhere on your site. You can set it to only pull bookmarks with a specific tag, which is great for listing sites related to a specific category or post.

Unitary is a Units Converter sidebar widget for WordPress that can convert between hundreds of different units of Length, Area, Volume, Weight / Mass, Speed etc.

Security Code creates a security image with security code that is shown on the register screen.

tdw-combobox-links displays the links in the sidebar as dropdown boxes. It will list each of your link categories in a separate box.

PG-CafePress is a WordPress 2.0 plugin that uses the PrestoGifto API and lets you put CafePress stuff into your sidebar, a static page, your footer or after posts.

SpamViewer deletes spam entries in your database as marked by WordPress or various spam plugins like SK2, Akismet, trackback validator etc.

TDO Mini Forms allows you to add a form to your website that allows non-registered users and/or subscribers (configurable) to submit posts.

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.

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These are the plugins I’ve found most useful and well written.

• Google Sitemaps Generator – Generates a Google Sitemap
• Ultimate Tag Warrior – This plugin adds tagging functionality to WordPress. You can produce a tag cloud, add Technorati tags and show related posts. I find more things to do with it each week, so make sure to check out the full Readme files.
• Add to Del.icio.us – This simple but effective plugin gives your users an easy way of adding the post to their del.icio.us archive.
• WordPress Database Backup – On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
• Subscribe To Comments – Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry
• Related Posts – Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches.
• Akismet – What is there to say? This is the best spam catcher I’ve ever run into.
• PodPress – Allows you to easily set up your blog/feed for integration with iTunes. Puts flash player right in the post. Really nice.
• wp-shortstat – Effortless installation, for a quick and easy overview of essential statistics to measure traffic. Screenshots and upgrades for WP 2.0.1 can be found here.
• Gravatar – This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options.
• Search Hilite – The Search Hilite Plugin highlites Search-Words, from external Searches over Yahoo,Google and Lycos, as well as Wordpres internal Searches, on the Search Results-Pages.
• Image Manager – The ImageManager provides an interface for browsing and uploading image files on/to your server. The Editor allows for some basic image manipulations such as, cropping, rotation, flip, and scaling.
• Firestats – Statistics plugin that let’s your view top referrer, user agents, visitors countries and visitor trails on your blog. Easy to install and real alternative to wp-shortstat
• WP Tiiger Administration – If you’re not happpy with the standard look of the WordPress admin panel this plugin changes it to look a bit like Mac OSX Tiger.
• Extended Live Archives – Implements a dynamic, AJAXified way of digging into the archives of a blog.
• Feedburner Feed Replacement – Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.
• Random Quotes – Manage random quotes within the administration panel, provides a lot of personalization in implementation by providing neat CSS classes.
• wpStats – Much like wp-shortstat except, cleaner works with wordpress 2 and has more features.
• WP lightbox JS – Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page written by Lokesh Dhakar. Add rel=”lightbox” attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. This plugin integrate its feature into your WordPress blog.
• Audio player – Lets you insert audio mp3 files into your posts. Comes with it’s own flash music player
• Structured Blogging – Structured Blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that’s more usable. You can enter information in this form and it’ll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can read and understand it.
• Permalink Redirect – Redirects less than ideal URLs to their corrected versions. This includes adding slashes on post slugs, or redirecting to a permalink URL when a query string (?post_id=) URL is given.
• Wordspew Ajax LiveChat eXtended – adds a Live Chat Box to your WordPress Site
• Less – Less is more. Less is a WordPress plugin that makes reading posts more intuitive for your many readers. With Less, when readers click a (more…) link they see the full article on the screen, not just the part after the (more…).
• Jerome’s Keywords – “Jerome’s Keywords” is a plugin for to associate keywords with your posts. Can create a tag cloud and use search-engine friendly tag links.
• LiveJournal Crossposter – Automatically copies all posts to a LiveJournal or other LiveJournal-based blog. Editing or deleting a post will be replicated as well.
• RusToLat – This plugin convert cyrillic characters in post title to latin characters. Very usefull for russian-speaking users of WordPress. You can use this plugin for creating human-readable links.
• Related Entries – Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches.
• Filemanager Tinymce Editor – WordPress 2.0 Plugin – - Files upload, delete, rename, move (also multiple file actions but upload) – Directory create, delete – insert Download Link into Post with Filetype Image and/or Filesize and/or Date – can acces htacces protected folders .. at least with my server-config – sort FileList by Name / Size / Date
• FetchRSS – Embeds an RSS reader into a page.
• F Gallery – Displays a gallery of your flickr photos.
• Croissanga – Croissanga is a WordPress plugin that re-posts your published-status posts to your Xanga site. It also edits and deletes Xanga posts you initially created through WordPress.
• Evermore – Evermore is a WordPress plugin that automatically displays a short preview of your posts. The preview appears on the home page, and also the archive and category pages. For each post, the first paragraph is shown along with a link to read the full post.
• OpenID Comments for WordPress – This plugin will allow users to leave comments using their OpenID identities.
• WP-Lists – Because quite a few of the my posts contain lists which may be added to later, I find it easy to manage them using this plugin, which adds a screen in the Manage section. There is a QuickTag button to add a list to the post.
• Weighted Categories – Template tag to display a weighted list of category links
• WordPress Reports – Generates reports from Google Analytics and Feedburner data.
• Author Highlight – Author Highlight is a plugin that prints out a user-specified class attribute if the comment is made by the specified author. It is useful if you would like to apply a different style to comments made by yourself.
• Popularity Contest – This plugin takes into account the views, comments and trackbacks each post gets and sorts them into order of popularity, and the percentage is in comparison to the most popular post. You can adjust the weighting each element has as well.
• PopStats 2.0 – Show stats onlive using Ajax. Highly adictive and very light for your database(installing instructions only in spanish but it’s installed like every plugging so it doesn’t matter.)
• del.icio.us cached – Outputs a list of your del.icio.us bookmarks