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YouTube and Google Videos currently lead the online video space and a lot of times there are instances where you might want to share a cool video with visitors to your blog.  For websites coding in php and HTML the option is easier where you can copy the embed HTML from YouTube or Google Video and paste in on posts on your website.

WordPress unfortunately does not understand the <iframe> tag you use when you need to embed this HTML on your blog and breaks the code. While there are ways around it, we are always looking for easier options to embed YouTube and Google Videos on your WordPress Blog. How about a Plugin where adds a YouTube, Google Videos, MetaCafe and some other popular Video sites onto your WordPress Write Post page like this.

Plugin Name: Viper’s Video Quicktags

Plugin Author: Viper007Bond

Plugin Homepage:

http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/

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Popularity: 16% [?]

This unique WordPress plugin allows your Blog readers to donate you money through PayPal. Using this plugin, you can add a “Buy Me a Beer” or a “Buy Me a Coffee” button at the bottom of your posts or in the sidebar of your blog. When your readers click on the Buy Me a Beer or Buy Me a Coffee button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page from which they can donate money to you.

Why add a “Buy Me a Beer” or “Buy Me a Coffee” button instead of a simple “Donate Money” button?

Well, according to BlogClout, by telling your readers specific reason increases the number of contributions by 200%

Plugin Name: Buy Me a Beer

Plugin Homepage:

http://www.blogclout.com/blog/goodies/buy-me-a-beer-paypal-donation-plugin/

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Popularity: 16% [?]

When you started out blogging, you thought about all the core genres you are going to write about or rant about whatever the case maybe, but something that interests you. Over time, those ideas change or get refined. Maybe you branched out. You may have established categories in your blog, some of which you might not be blogging about any more or maybe created a broader area category. How about something that can Condense your wordpress categories, Rename categories , Add categories and also Delete moved categories

Now, you have two options if you wish to convert categories of your WordPress Posts

1. Go to each and every one of the posts you wish to change categories and then modify their categories. This is however very time consuming.  

2. Use a plugin that does the migration of categories for your your WordPress Blog. Say you have around 30 categories .. how about condesing them into around 10 categories.

Plugin Name: Category Converter

Plugin Page: http://armenianeagle.com/2007/01/30/wordpress-plugin-category-converter/

Set up the Category Converter to migrate and convert your WordPress Blog Categories

Step # 1: Download the Category Converter Plugin

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Popularity: 14% [?]

Permalinks are permanent URLs to your posts, articles and other lists on your WordPress Blog. It is the URL used by your blog visitors as well as Search engines. Having an optimal Permalink Structure for your blog is very important for Search Engine Optimization.

An example of a poor URL structure could be

http://www.exampleblog.com/2007/05/18/archives/p=?421

Instead, a more efficient URL structure for a blog would be

http://www.exampleblog.com/category/post-title

If you are a new blogger and wish to optimize your blog, then use the helpful hints and the code required to optimize your blog with an optimal URL permalink structure 

However, for those people who have been blogging for a while, if you just change your permalink structure, you will end up with a lot of broken 404 links. So, how do we do a permalink migration for a wordpress blog and still keep search engines and more important visitors to your blog who might have bookmarked your old permalink structure happy. We use the Permalinks Migration Plugin and change the permalink structure of your blog without breaking the old links to your website

Plugin Name: Permalinks Mirgration Plugin

Plugin Author: Dean Lee

Plugin Page:

http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

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Popularity: 27% [?]

Visitors to a site a very picky and suppose your content has drawn their attention enough for them to leave a comment, how do you make them keep coming back for more. People love attention on a personal level. In order to gain return readers and potential subscribers to your blog, how about a plugin that automatically emails a first time commentor on your blog thanking them. Sounds good right. You don’t have to spend half your day emailing each and every one of the commentors on your blog and visitors think that you did and draw them towards your blog.

Introducing the WordPress Plugin Comment Relish. Comment relish is a WordPress Plugin designed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your blog and who have never commented before. The message that is sent to the users is defined within the plugin’s preferences. There are various tags attached to this such as time stamp, author name, comment etc to allow for information to be included in the message easily.

Plugin Name: Comment Relish

Plugin Author: Justin Shattuck

Plugin Homepage:

http://www.justinshattuck.com/comment-relish/

Download the Comment Relish Plugin for WordPress

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Popularity: 19% [?]

Most WordPress blogs usually have a Show Comments or rather Show Recent Comments option in their WordPress theme. However, you should take this step even further and reward people who comment the most on your blog by displaying their name and their blog/website prominently in a Top Commentators subsection.

Enter WordPress Show Top Commentators Plugin. Using this plugin, you can encourage even more discussion from your readers, by displaying their names and the number of comments they have made recently to your sidebar. You can also link to their site without a nofollow tag if desired.

You can also set the settings on how often the plugin should reset the comment count whether it is from the last 30 days, last month or last year or the default all time option. In case your blog is starting out or you set the plugin to reset every month and it is the beginning of the month, you can set the plugin to display a message instead if nobody has commented yet.

Plugin Name: WP 2.x Top Commentators Plugin

Plugin Page:

http://www.pfadvice.com/wordpress-plugins/show-top-commentators/ 

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Popularity: 14% [?]

Social Bookmarking sites such as Digg and Reddit have turned the world of content aggregation around. While Digg and Reddit remain two of the most popular social networking sites, there are a lot of equally good sites. What these social bookmarking sites do is that they make YOU the king. They do not generate content but instead link to content and which content gets to bubble up to the top is determined by YOU the user.

Why do I need to add social bookmarking?

If you get an article on the front page of Digg, you will bring in an average of 50,000 new visitors atleast to your blog. Think about it, 50000 potential new subscribers … 50,000 new advertisers … 50,000 new means of increasing revenue to your website. Of those, many more will link to your blog, driving up your ranking on Technorati and Alexa.

So, one of your regular readers decides that your article is Social bookmarking worthy. The problem with these social bookmarking sites is that when your visitor goes to add your blog to these social bookmarking sites, the sites make them manually add some components such as the URL of the post they want to add, the title of that post and a description of the post and guess what, by the time your user goes to step 2, he gives up because it is taking way to much time. So, what you need is a WordPress plugin that does most of this grunt work for your blog visitor making it easy for him to submit your post to social bookmarking sites.

Plugin Name: WP Social Bookmarks

Plugin Author: James Pegram

Plugin Page: http://www.realitywired.com/2007/04/02/wordpress-plugin-wp-social-bookmarks/
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Popularity: 23% [?]

Most Bloggers blog to get their opinion or perspective across on a particular topic and getting comments on that particular post is definitely thrilling and exciting where someone else might share the same opinion or even provide a better suggestion or even better provide a critical review of your opinion.

Comments Waiting Count WordPress Plugin adds the current number of comments in the moderation queue to your WordPress Admin Dashboard. You can also see the number of comments that have been flagged as spam whether you are using Spam Karma or Akismet or any other anti spam plugin.

Plugin Name: Comments Waiting Count

Plugin Author: James

Plugin Page:

http://www.realitywired.com/2007/03/23/comments-waiting-count-wordpress-plugin/

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Popularity: 24% [?]

When WordPress version 2.1.x was released, a lot of people including yours truly jumped in. The reason was that 2.1.x over 2.0.x had some great features like AutoSave, a great new upload manager for images , a complete overhaul of the visual editor among others.

However, one thing I missed sorely was that WordPress version 2.1.x removed the really nice “preview” and “edit” links within Write Post where in the earlier versions as you are writing a post, you could easily jump back and forth between the write post text area and the preview iframe. For those of us who need to see what the post would look you before you hit that Publish button, this is almost a must want feature. So, here you go. A plugin that restores the Preview Post feature in WordPress.

Plugin Name: Preview Post Navigation

Plugin Page:

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Popularity: 8% [?]

Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars. They are usually an image of size 80px by 80px created by a user to represent him online whether in a forum, chat, website, a blog or any other form of online community in which the user seeks to participate and also distinguish themselves from other users.

What this means is that you can create a picture, could be your picture, your Dog’s picture, your favorite QB’s picture whatever which will appear beside your name whenever you comment somewhere online and that blog supports gravatars. Simply, using a Gravator allows a web user, YOU to use a single image to share across the entire World Wide Web.

Gravatar Plugin for your WordPress Blog

We are going to use the Gravatars 2.0 WordPress Plugin to help you set up Gravatar for your blog and allow people commenting on posts on your blog to use them.

Plugin Name: Gravatar

Plugin Page: http://site.gravatar.com/site/implement#section_2_2

Download Gravatar plugin for Wordpress

http://site.gravatar.com/plugins/wp_gravatar.zip

Set up Gravatar for your WordPress Blog

Step # 1: Sign up for a Gravatar. Associate your picture with your Email address. If you already have a gravatar account skip this step
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Popularity: 10% [?]