20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins

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Hey there let me ask you

  • are you tired of simplicity
  • are you bored with what you have on your site
  • are you sick and tired of the same old wordpress plugins every other site uses
  • are you unsatisfied by the plugins you find on Wordpress.org
  • have you considered Wordpress.org’s “popular/featured plugins” to be utter crap

 
 
I know how it feels I’ve been there. Trying to feed all the hungers and needs that your website has is a daunting task.
 

At times you’ll feel like your trying to feed jubba the hut. But as with all things in life “There are no FREE lunches”. So I did you a majority of the work and found some peculiar plugins that are not your every day WP plugin.

The ones I have listed are unique and really helpful in my opinion. Check it out , download and comment on the author’s site so that he knows SOMEONE appreciates his/her work.
I’ve tried a majority of the plugins , I can safely say I haven’t had problems on WP 2.6+. :P
 

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[Linked Image]  

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1 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Linked Image is one of my new personal favorite plugins for WP. Ever wish there was a simple cure-all solution for images you place in all your excerpts like I do ? The solution is simple ! The author of Linked Image made a nifty plugin that will make ANY picture included in your excerpt automatically hyperlinked to the permalink of your article.

[Pros]-> Simple , Easy installation , I LOVE IT !  

[Cons]-> Non , Nada , Non-Existant , This is a must have for anyone who uses images as part of their excerpt.

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[ShadowBox JS]  

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2 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins This plugin is quite similair to a previous plugin I mentioned in my other article about “WordPress Plugins“. The only difference is that it is an alternative to MultiBox (another LightBox-esque plugin) if you are having problems while running multiple scripts / plugins. I know that sometimes it is hard to keep a balance between plugins that do not interfere with each other while using Jquery scripts that keep to themselves.

[Pros]-> Easy to work with , 0 Configuration has to be tweaked.  

[Cons]-> None that I have found. (Try to not overload your site with plugins otherwise your asking for trouble!)

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[SEO Friendly Images]  

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3 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins This plugin sounds an awfully similair to the other plugin related to SEO . . . . oh yea SEO-ALL-IN-ONE plugin. This plugin searches your article for any <img> you have inserted into the post and will automatically rename the <alt> tag to the name of your article. Very helpful if you want to do everything you can to bring in those extra unique hits , here and there.

[Pros]-> Pretty Much all automated , and you see results immediatly !
[Cons]-> All images are named based on your title , so variation is sparse. (Then again who has the time to name all the tags)

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[Category Icons]  

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4 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins This is a funky plugin. This let’s you add an icon of your choice and size to be placed on the left of your categories in the sidebare widget. It’s only as useful as your imagination can make it. The icons used on this site are from the popular famfamfam website

[Pros]-> Makes your category sidebar widget standout with style !
[Cons]-> May be difficult to stylize for newbies of css. Check the author’s website for documentation.

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[Samsarin PHP]  

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5 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Break the boundaries of standard WordPress guidelines as far as what can or can’t be placed into the text Widget box. With the Samsarin PHP Widget you can make use of any code. The limits are endless with the amount of scripts you could run. I love it to death. You should check this out it may save you time next time you feel you have to edit your template’s sidebar.php file.

[Pros]-> Very useful , extremley flexible. Can run php scripts as well as others without trouble.
[Cons]-> May backfire on you if you put in a PHP code that is bound to give you errors.

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[Simalair Posts]  

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6 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Similar Posts is a MUST-HAVE plugin if you plan on running a blog/site and want to keep your visitors glued to your site. After your readers finish skimming through an article you wrote you want to keep them interested by showing them related articles that may also tickle their fancy. From my experiences it has worked wonders in reducing visitors bounce % as well as jacking up my page views 4 folds. It is based of a variety of library engines and you can tweak the engine to pull up articles that are related based on keywords , article titles and content keywords. Ah I LOVE extreme tweakable settings , don’t you ?

[Pros]-> This can only help you in the long and short run.
[Cons]-> Don’t download this if you HATE your visitors.

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[Snazzy Archives]  

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7 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins This is one of the most creative plugins I know of Today. It takes one of the most boring sections of a website (in my opinion anyway!) the “Archives” and transforms it into a visually appealing and inviting calender. It styles any pictures or words to fix in its appropriate box according to post date and current date. There are also various variations to the animation such as the caresoul.
[Pros]-> Spruces up the old Archives section.
[Cons]-> May be too new and therefor intimidate new users of the new format.

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[WP-PageNavi]  

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8 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins This nifty plugin by LesterChan aka LC is widely popular all over the net’ where WP is used. It adds the 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 and pageinates your blog / website. It is very easy to work with and is highly customizable thanks to a stylesheet. Further Documentation can be found on LC’s forum.

[Pros]-> Gives your blog / site a more profesional feel to it as well as increases your page views.
[Cons]-> Will look boring unless you stylize it yourself to make it belnd in with your site’s scheme.

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[Theme Test Drive]  

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9 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Our friend Vladimir has yet created another plugin that is so useful it’s insane. The idea behind this plugin is while all your readers and users are on your site with the default theme. You can essentially activate this plugin , choose the template you would like to “test drive” and see it on your site. But anyone else without “admin” or site permissions (aka your every day users) will see your regular default template.

[Pros]-> Very easy and helpful prior to going into launching phase of a template/theme.
[Cons]-> I don’t beleive there were any cons to this plugin when I tried it a month ago.

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[Recent Comments]  

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10 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Recent Comments , is an obvious plugin that needs little expanation. It allows you to put a widget in your sidebar that pulls up the latest comments on all of your articles. It’s useful and is a first step in making your website more of a community

[Pros]-> Easy to work with , customizeable via php.
[Cons]-> If you don’t have samsarin php widget it may be difficult to styize 100% to your liking.

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[NextGen Gallery]  

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11 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins This plugin is one of the brand name plugins out there and well known by the masses of WordPress users alike. It makes arranging your albums and galleries very very easy to manage. I strongly reccomend you download this if you have a lot of pictures on your site then this is a MUST-HAVE plugin to have.

[Pros]-> Highly customizable and this plugin can handle more than 70 pictures at once without any problems.
[Cons]-> May be hard to customize at first but once you get the hang of it it’s very simple to use.

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[Popular Posts]  

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12 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Now I always ask myself why can’t people be more creative and make sweet plugins such as this one. This plugin shows off which of your posts are the most read, most popular. It tells your users “These articles are the cream of the crop” , Based off my heat maps people are very interested in checking out the hot articles I gaurntee you it will generate some extra traffic.

[Pros]-> Show off your popular articles to everyone. Boost traffic.
[Cons]-> If your site is new , your articles will make your site look like a ghost town.

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[IntenseDebate Comments]  

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13 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins The long awaited arrival of Auttomatic’s recent acquisiton of Intense Debate is here. In short it is a comment system similair to others such as Disqus and is aimed at bloggers. It’s kinda nice in the sense that it’s micromanaged and has its own dashboard in regard to who’s commenting on what , where and when almost like a google analytics only for comments. It also applies under one roof if you have more than 1 blog.

[Pros]-> Customizable , clean , fast .
[Cons]-> Haven’t had enough time to find any.

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[WP Tuner]  

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14 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins WP Tuner plugin for WordPress is a powerful and easy to use way to answer many hard questions about why your blog is slow or cranky. What’s causing the slowdown? Is it a plugin? Is it your host?

[Pros]-> This plugin breaks down every load time , what more could you want
[Cons]-> May be a bit difficult understanding all the reports since there are a lot of numbers to look at and compare with.

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[Upgrade IE]  

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15 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins As a designer I hate IE 6.0 , I’m sure other designers will agree. Hopefully it’s swift death will arrive sooner than later. Unfortunately people at the workplace , school , 3rd world countries still use this defunct browser for various reasons. This is where this plugin steps in and drops a pane above the website suggesting IE users to upgrade. Personally I don’t mind pestering users who use outdated technology.

[Pros]-> If you have a lot of IE 6.0 users this will send the message.
[Cons]-> Might tick off some users.

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[WP-NoSpamUser]  

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16 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins “WP-NoSpamUser” is all about blocking potential spammers from registering on your blog. It compares the username and the email-address with the ones in the database at http://www.stopforumspam.com. If it gets a positive result, it immediately prevents the potential spammer from registering on your blog.

[Pros]-> Anything that supplements Askimet is a good thing.
[Cons]-> 0 cons , I hate spam , you hate spam , we all hate spam.

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[Redirection]  

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17 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

[Pros]-> I haven’t personally used this yet , but I strongly beleive to keep your website in top notch shape you have to keep a close watch on how many 404 errors your readrs are encountering.
[Cons]-> Sounds like a promising plugin with minimal to no flaws.

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[WPtouch iPhone Theme]  

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18 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins WPtouch formats your WordPress blog with an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects. The theme only shows when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch.

[Pros]-> Looks great , very user friendly
[Cons]-> It may take some time to get use to.

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[OpenID]  

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19 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID.

[Pros]-> I love this plugin , eventually it should be a one pass/user system less headaches.
[Cons]-> This will probably become the new haven for ID theft.

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[Multi-page Toolkit]  

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20 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins Multi-page toolkit  

This plugin is the ultimate companion for people who use the multi-page capabilities of wordpress. Easy to use fully integrated in to the wordpress visual editor (tinyMCE) (Wordpress 2.5 and above) and simple to use options page to create great navigation links. No coding required !!!!

[Pros]-> Pagination is a great way to break down very long articles into smaller edible pieces for your readers.
[Cons]-> Some people alwasy want the whole article upfront.

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5 Responses to 20 of the Sexiest Exotic WordPress Plugins

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That_GirlNo Gravatar

December 6th, 2008 at 1:36 am

I'm so with you on ShadowBox! =)

And you brightened up my day with a few ones I hadn't heard of yet. Good work!

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kmpoaquestsNo Gravatar

December 6th, 2008 at 3:44 am

There are many others out there as an alternative like shadowbox or multibox , you run into trouble when you start to use lots of scripts that use the same library lol, and your welcome !

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wordolNo Gravatar

February 21st, 2009 at 9:14 pm

yes others here: http://wordpress.xe-media.ch/ :)

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April 29th, 2010 at 11:34 am

как же все-таки не хватает врмени даже на то чтобы прочитать что-то интересное((

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