Roundup of Interesting WordPress Plugins – October 2010

Twitter Fans

Twitter Fans lets you display your twitter followers in the sidebar as a widget just like Facebook’s Like Box (previously, fan widget).

Tweet Blender

Better than Twitter’s own widgets – Tweet Blender is tag-aware and has support for multiple authors, lists, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user or a list of users (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple lists AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

wpTwit

Add your twitter posts to your blog using wpTwit – A PHP Twitter Reader based on lineTwit

XmasB Quotes

This plugin/widget lets you add and show randow quotes to your wordpress blog with ease. It uses mySQL to store quotes. You can specify an image for each quote, deafult image for quotes, and the option to disable images all together. Now with the option to use quotes as links!

Blog Protector Final

Protect your valuable blog content as well as images from getting copied.

Photo Wall FX

One of the most advanced Photo Walls on the web.

Elite Gallery FX

You can integrate it in any website for free without any Flash knowledge. The overall width and height can be customized up to 1680 x 1050 pixels. It’s fully customizable and uses the Dock Menu FX component, keeping many customizable variables of the dock menu and adding a lot of properties for the gallery, image transitions and text effects. You can place the dock menu on any position over the gallery and you can have it hidden on mouse out. The specific properties from the Dock Menu FX like thumbs spacing, scrolling speed, mouse over behaviors and HTML/CSS formatted tooltips are also available.

Weather Widget FX

You can integrate it in any website for free without any Flash knowledge. The width and height of the entire application are customizable and the text is HTML/CSS formatted. The skin for location search is customizable as well as each item that you see (icons, text, items position). Supports both Fahrenheit and Celsius.

Contact Form FX

You can integrate it in any website for free without any Flash knowledge. It has customizable width and height for the whole application. You can create your own custom fields, indicate which ones are required or not. There are multiple options for labels customization, many background and shade properties along with properties for the layout personalization.

Anyfeed Slideshow

Anyfeed Slideshow is a fully customizable slide show widget which displays a feed of images from any RSS or Atom feed provided to it.

WordPress Site Protector Plugin

WordPress Site Protector Plugin will make it very easy to put every possible protection to your very-own precious content and images from being stolen or copied which are present on your wordpress website.

Tagspace

The Tagspace widget lets visitors browse your blog’s categories and tags in a dynamic & engaging 3D environment.

(a) Slideshow

This plugin and widget allows you to create dynamic, controllable slideshows or presentations for your website.

Moo Collapsing Archives

This plugin uses Javascript based on MooTools framework to dynamically expand or collapse the yearly/monthly post archive listing.

Moo Collapsing Categories

This is a relatively simple plugin that uses Javascript based on MooTools framework to make each Categories links in the sidebar collapsable. Every post corresponding to a given category will be expanded.

StatSurfer

StatSurfer is a WordPress plugin, which allows you to surf easily and quickly in the statistics of your website.

Virtual Sidebar

The Virtual Sidebar plugin allows you to create ‘virtual’ sidebars that can have their content inserted into posts using shortcodes.

Events

Create a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site. Includes optional widget and advanced page options.

Custom Etsy Widget

This plugin adds a sidebar widget that displays a grid of thumbnails linking to items in an etsy store. The user can select the number of rows and columns to display. The results are similar to Etsy Mini but since it doesn’t use flash or an iframe the theme sidebar style is inherited. Users can also customize the display by adding ‘etsy’ css class definitions to their theme style sheet.

Share And Follow

Add Share Icons and Follow Links to your site in the way you want. Simple and adapatable.

Calendar Category

Un-registers the default Calendar widget, and registers a new one which supports showing only those posts in certain (or all) categories.

Google Analytics Visits

Uses Google Analytics API to fetch data from your analytics account and displays user visits from each country in the widget with flags.

JJ Simple Signup

Display and manage your Simple Signup events.

Login-Logout

Adds simple, clean links so users can login/logout & register easily. Highly customisable, & can be used as a widget or inserted.

Top Authors

A widget that sums the top authors on your blog.

Nice Quotes Rotator

Allows display of random quotes via shortcode, a sidebar widget, and/or on the admin page. Quotes can be user-entered, post excerpts or links.

SSL Cert Tracker

A widget displaying SSL certificate expiration dates.

Janrain Engage

Janrain Engage – Register, Login and Share with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo! and OpenID.

WP Wall

“Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s sidebar acting as a cool shoutbox for your visitors.

WP Picture Calendar

WP Picture Calendar shows a simple image calendar of World Days whith short description on Your sidebar.