WooCommerce

It is a powerful, extendable ecommerce plug-in that keeps record of incoming sales and reviews, stock levels, and general store performance. WooCommerce can be downloaded for free, with extensions and themes (premium and third-party) available for purchase. Its other features include product and inventory management, a customer account area, control over shipping and tax charges, powerful analytics, flat rate shipping, PayPal standard gateway, and simple offline gateways for payments.

Ready! Ecommerce Shopping Cart

This free plug-in is a shopping-cart solution that allows the users to create products from either pages or posts and also includes a basic XML feed. The configurable shipping address feature and order tracker allow you to keep track of all of your transactions and sort your transactions’ list. It helps you customise product options, create product variations, and import and export products in CSV formats. It includes support for multiple gateways like PayPal, Google Wallet, Pay on delivery method, manual payment, and e-Processing network.

eShop

eShop is a free ecommerce plug-in that allows customers to create profiles to sign up on your site to purchase your services or products. It has a simple interface for quick browsing and purchase. It includes features like shipping and tax options, basic inventory control, and multiple product options. Moreover, it allows you to download your sales data for your convenience. Adding products and customising settings is also very easy on eShop.

WP e-Commerce

This easy-to-install, customisable shopping cart has been popular for several years. The plug-in is available as a free download, with a variety of features such as support for multiple currencies, Google and PayPal Checkout integration, inventory control, flexible coupon and quantity discounts, and control over shipping calculations. This WordPress ecommerce plug-in helps simplify the shopping experience for your customers by offering new product widgets and free shipping options.

WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart

It is a simple-to-use, yet highly customisable plug-in that can be integrated to any existing site or Facebook profile. It outsources tax calculations and location-based shipping to PayPal.

Jigoshop

This marvellous WordPress ecommerce plug-in allows you to set up your online shop in minutes with physical and downloadable products. You can create multiple product types and apply detailed attributes so that customers can easily refine your catalogue with just a couple of clicks. Inside the dashboard, sales graphs, stats on stores together with review notifications can give a huge impact to any business.

Cart 66 Lite

If your blog site offers several products and services, then use this wonderful WordPress ecommerce plug-in to manage orders effectively and sell products from any page or post. Cart 66 has a unique feature that I think makes it a better fit depending on the needs of your ecommerce project. It offers affiliate platform integration and Amazon S3 integration for all of your digital products. Furthermore, it also includes built-in recurring billing and memberships with all top payment gateways. Another great feature of Cart 66 Lite is that it makes shipping of both physical and digital products easy.

MarketPress

It is a powerful shopping cart plug-in that includes multiple payment gateways, Google Analytics Ecommerce tracking, shipping, sale pricing, customisable email reports, and more. Download this easy-to-use plug-in to set up your stylish online EBay-style network of stores.

WP Online Store

This WordPress ecommerce plug-in gives you the ability to easily integrate an online shopping cart into any WordPress theme. It includes features like order editor, product sort order, Discount Coupon Codes Manager, Information Page creator, built-in HTML newsletter system with mass email software, auto sales tax calculation, inventory tracking system, credit card validation, global bestsellers list,  and advanced administration tools.

Quick Shop Plug-in

It is a popular lightweight cart plug-in that only works with PayPal. It adds a sidebar which displays the visitor’s shopping cart along the page. It allows the merchant to set the currency, supports built-in email functionality, provides the option to add products to pages with a TinyMCE button and even provides free shipping for orders exceeding a certain amount. Merchants can remove any item from their shopping cart.

Ecwid Shopping Cart

It is a free ecommerce plug-in which is very easy to install. It is a fully featured shopping card system that can easily integrate with your social profiles. The free plan offers e-commerce widgets for WordPress whereas paid plans add features like volume discounts, discount codes and inventory management.

CataBlog

If you want to create catalogs, stores and galleries for your blog, then customize your ecommerce site with this plug-in. CataBlog comes with a full developer guide that you can use to create and customize a module for your site. With CataBlog, you can create widgets for displaying your catalog and catalog categories in sidebars. Aside from filtering by multiple categories with one ShortCode, sorting your catalog by title or order is also an option.

TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart

It is a free WordPress ecommerce plug-in that can be used as shopping cart, catalog or framework. Not only is it compatible with many existing plug-ins in the WordPress repository, but you can also extend its functionality with themes.

DukaPress

It is a free ecommerce plug-in that integrates a shopping cart with WordPress in an efficient manner. Moreover, it has more pre-built themes than other ecommerce plug-ins.

Are PayPal Plug-in

If you want to restrict the guests from seeing the hidden content of your ecommerce site like intellectual property or digital arts, customize your blog with Are PayPal plug-in. In order to see and access exclusive content of your blog, one will need to register on your site. This WordPress ecommerce plug-in uses Pay Pal – IPN protocol so that payment is quick and automatic.

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One of the reasons this happened is of course WordPress openness to 3rd party plugin development. Which means that any developers who learn quite simple plugin creation rules can can extend WordPress, add new functionality or even integrate WordPress with any other popular CMS out there.

We have listed some great WordPress plugins in previous posts (best mobile plugins, plugins for integrating Facebook and others) and this time we have prepared the list of very useful WordPress plugin development tutorials. You will find how to create plugins, how to structure, design and install. This tutorial list is no short and suits everyone, from beginners to experienced WordPress plugin developers. Enjoy!

1.  Writing a Plugin – WordPress Codex

This tutorial is by WordPress Codex team, the team which is behind actual WordPress development. Section of the tutorial goes through the steps you need to follow, and things to consider when creating a well-structured WordPress Plugin.

2. How to Install WordPress Plugins

Plugins are tools which provide additional functionality to your application. To install a plugin you generally just need to put the plugin file into your ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory. Once a plugin is installed, you may activate it or deactivate it from the Plugins menu in your WP administration.

3. Create WordPress Plugins with OOP Techniques

Building a WordPress plugin with an object oriented code is fairly clean and efficient if you will compare it with procedural code. You can expand using inheritance techniques, which could be very helpful when creating a large plugin.

4. WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin

To create a plugin, all you need to do is create a folder and then create a single file with one line of content. Inside the new folder, create a file ending with the letters .php. Open the file in a text editor, and paste the following information in it. However, if you intend to distribute your plugin, you should add as much data as possible. With that out of the way, you can go into the back end to activate your plugin.

5. Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Plugin Development

In this tutorial there are basic steps required to create a simple WordPress plug-in. The functionality is used to create dynamic excerpts based on the number passed into the function call. You will just need to upload the plug-in file and activate from the Admin panel, then follow up by calling the function from whatever pages you want the excerpt to appear.

6. A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development

When creating a WordPress plugin, the first step is to make sure that you have access to a WordPress installation. Create a plugins folder, then outline the plugins and afterwards create a filter. Filters are functions that WordPress passes data through, at certain points in execution, just before taking some action with the data. Then program a function for this plugin. Finally, return to your WordPress admin panel, and click on the “Plugins” tab.

7. Useful Tutorials For Creating Your First WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugins allow you to extend your default WordPress installation with almost any kind of functionality, you can download a vast collection of plugins from the WordPress plugin repository or you can create your own. This site has elaborated Cleary on how to go about it.

8. Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

This tutorial describes the implementation of a WordPress plugin starting from scratch. The plugin will connect to an external OSCommerce database and display random products on your WordPress site. It also implements a configuration page for the WordPress admin panel.

9. Anatomy of a WordPress plugin

Creating a wordpress pluggin will only need a basic understanding of the PHP programming language and some information on how WordPress expects your plugin to behave.  The simple steps to follow include:

• Creating a pluggin template
• Adding Functionality
• Making the Widget
• Creating settings menu for updating the widget preferences.

10.  How to Write a Basic WordPress Plugin

Plugins for WordPress can be very elaborate and require significant programming expertise to develop.  But learning to develop a WordPress plugin doesn’t have to be difficult; you can start small and grow your skills over time.  The simple steps include naming your plugin file and subdirectory.  Name using lower case and underscores.  Add a plugin header and afterwards a filtering function and complete the plugin.

11. Writing Your First Plugin for WordPress: A Primer

In this tutorial, you will get an idea on the possibility of adding your own customized processes, enhancements and functions, without the need to touch the core system.

12. The Ultimate Guide to Building a WordPress Plugin

The first thing is to generate ideas and reasons to write a WordPress plugin. If your plugin idea seems simple enough to create from scratch, try using your plugin idea as your sample application instead of spending time building a useless application that you’ll never use, just for practice. Generally, the best practice is to start researching other existing plugins and work on ideas to improve them.

13. Building a WordPress plugin: Tweetable

This tutorial will guide you in creating a WordPress plugin from scratch that is tweetable. It will take in the latest five tweets and display them in your WordPress sidebar.

14. Create Database Tables for Your WordPress Plugin

Database tables are used to save info used by a plugin. To be able to develop your WordPress further, you need to learn how to work with and create more database tables. With a plugin specific table, you can define the precise data structure needed for your plugin development.

15. WordPress plugin development from scratch

4 part tutorial covering most of the tasks you will have to do while creating your first WordPress plugin.

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How to use

Akismet wordpress plugin is very easy to use. A default wordpress installation comes pre-installation with plugin script and all you require to do is too active from the wordpress plugin page.  The second thing you need to know register API key.  The register API key allows your blog or website to communicate with Akismet servers. To get an API key you simply register at Akismet.com. Choice the personal website or blog option and you will not have to pay any amount.  You will receive your API key directly to your mail box. Move to the configuration page of your blog or website and submit the API register key.  Akismet plugin will immediately go to work and even fully eliminate trackback spam and “spommet” on your website. In the unlikely situation that a spam message happens to search it way to your website comments, simply mark it as spam Akismet plugin automatically will record this act and recall the experience when dealing with future blog comments. Akismet wordpress plugin has been able to deal with the issue of spam on wordpress blog and websites to a big extent, a few issues have been noted lately. Some heavy traffic on the server leads to an extra overload. The result of this is that easily vanish or few some other funny actions is noticed. Businesses have to pay a cheap fee of between $5 and $90 per month depending on the size of the business and needs.

Defensio

A powerful Akismet plugin competitor in my is denfensio. Actually, Defension does more that just save your website from spam comments. It ca filter out and keep out website links to malware by blocking website links to executable scripts and files. I test Defension and I have to say I really like the service. The way blog spam is presented makes it pretty faster to twin check for positive comments trapped by mistake. I install both defensio and Akismet on my website and both do great job. Like Akismet wordpress plugin you will also require to get API Key to use Defension website.  Remember that you do not active both plugin at same time. De-active one plugin before you active another plugin otherwise both are conflict and makes serious problems for your site.

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Facebook comments is a WordPress plugin that will import comments from your facebook notes back into your wordpress blog.

2. Facebook Comments for WordPress

• Styles can all be customized to fit your site’s theme (v1 only)
• Number of comments displayed can be adjusted
• Option to post comments directly to a user’s Facebook profile page (v1 only)
• Comments can be included on pages only, posts only or both
• Comments can be shown in chronological order or with the most recent comments first (v1 only)
• Facebook comments can be attached to WordPress comments or inserted manually anywhere in your theme
• WordPress comments can be hidden on pages/posts where Facebook comments are enabled
• Comment counts on pages/posts reflect both the Facebook and WordPress comments (v1 only)
• Email notifications can be sent whenever a comment is posted
• facebook notifications can also be sent whenever a comment is posted

3. Facebook Comments

Facebook comments can be annoying to set up. This plugin makes it simple to add the Facebook comments system to your WordPress site without much hassle.

4. Crawlable Facebook Comments

Let Google crawl and index your Facebook Comments. Crawlable Facebook Comments plugin retrieves comments (with authors, dates and replies) and makes them visible in your source code. As we all know deafult facebook displays comments iframe so they are not visible to Googlebot.

5. Simple Facebook Comments For WordPress

Simple Facebook Comments For WordPress is a wordpress plugin which allows you to enable your users to comment on your wordpress posts and pages using their facebook account. It has been designed to be extremely simple to use, unlike other similar plugins.

6. Facebook Comments to WordPress

Finally Facebook made it possible. You have a WordPress blog and you are using Facebook Comments Social plugin. You want that comments your visitors add to Facebook become part of your website, not only visually, but as a part of the WordPress database. In April 2011, Facebook released an extension to their protocol (the so called graph api) that makes it possible. This plugin uses the extended Facebook protocol to import comments from Facebook to WordPress database.

7. Facebook Comments Importer

Imports the comments posted on your facebook fan page (or public profile) to your blog. Your blog has a Facebook fan page ? All of your blog posts are also posted on your fan page ? This plugin is maybe for you. It checks your Facebook fan page every hour (or more), then imports all Facebook comments back to your blog. The plugin identify your blog posts on Facebook with the Facebook “link” attribute. So if the Facebook post links to you blog post, it will work. Facebook Comments Importer is very easy to configure : just specify your Facebook fan page ID… and that’s all.

8. Facebook Comments Points (FCP)

This plugin will allow you to completely customize your comments system layout. By default this will change your current comment system to an amazing comments system like facebook. It looks same as facebook wall’s comment system. People can “Like/Unlike” any comment and they can also share any comment on twitter as tweet. Fully ajax based comment system and makes your comments section easy to load.

9. WP-FB-comments

This plugin allows you merge WordPress and Facebook Comment system fully.With the ability to keep synchronized and updated comments at both ends.

This has many features that enable and pollinate the complete comments system for you in the FB and WP at the same time doesn’t get too heavy on your server.

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1. WP e-Commerce

The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.

WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind.

Perfect For

• Bands & Record Labels
• Clothing Companies
• Crafters & Artists
• Books, DVDs & MP3 files
• Memberships
• Ticketing

2. eShop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. Including:

• Utilises WordPress pages or posts, and compatible with custom post types, to create products
• Customers can sign up to your site (settable option)
• Various methods available for listing products
• Products can have multiple options
• Upload downloadable products
• Basic Statistics
• Download sales data
• Various shipping options, including by weight.
• Admin has access to an Order handling section
• Automatic emails on successful purchase
• User configurable email templates.
• Configurable Out of Stock message.
• Basic Stock Control
• Google Base Data creation
• Uninstall available within the plugin
• Various discount options
• WPMU, Multisite compatible.
• Merchant gateways:Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay, iDEAL and Cash/Cheque!
• Now compatible with WP Affiliate for affiliates – see wiki.
• able to be used as a product catalogue with no sales.
• and much much more

3. Phpurchase – The Best WordPress Shopping Cart

• Sell digital and physical products
• Memberships, subscriptions, payment plans
• Track inventory
• Real-time UPS shipping rates
• Use PayPal, Authorize.net and more
• The most customizable WP Ecommerce plugin
• Great documentation and support
• PCI Compliant: Passes McAfee Security Test

4. Ecwid Shopping Cart

Ecwid is a free full-featured shopping cart and an e-commerce solution that can easily be added to any blog or Facebook profile. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don’t. “Ecwid” stands for “ecommerce widgets”.

5. Getshopped – The WP e-Commerce Plugin

WP e-Commerce is a free bolt-on shopping cart that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online. We make setting up shop incredibly easy. Plus we’ve had over 750,000 downloads!

6. Shopp – simply flexible, completely capable, bolt-on ecommerce solution.

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.

7. ArtPal

ArtPal is a free (GPL) WordPress plugin, originally written for Artists, to seemlessly integrate PayPal with their WordPress blogs so that they can sell their work online.

Artists’ online stores tend to be simple, but also unconventional. The items for sale are one of a kind, and thus the overhead that deals with keeping “stock” is unnecessary. I created ArtPal so that artists would have a simple, easy-to-use solution for their unique needs.

8. Are PayPal

• Post/Page can be set to contain hidden content.
• Instead of the hidden text user is shown a message about the action he has to take to be able to see the content.
• Content can be set as hidden for unregistered users and visible for registered
• Content can be set as hidden for unregistered-unpayed users and visible for registered-paid users
• Gogglebot can index hidden content so users can search for a hidden content but can not see it. Other search engines will see only visible content
• Administrator can grant users to access payed content
• All the features are configurable using administration screens
• Plugin uses PayPal IPN – Instant Payment Notification protocol so payment/content delivery process is fully automated.
• Bonus posts. Packages of posts can be created. So what buying one post from the package all other becomes visible also
• Price for all blog. Administrator can set price for all payed posts so what user who pays can view all the hidden content
• Pay To register feature.

This plugin is used to monetize wordpress blog content using PayPal. It is designed to sell your knowledge.

9. YAK for WordPress

YAK is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries (in other words, posts), so the post ID also becomes the product code. It supports both pages and posts as products, handles different types of product through categorisation, and provides customisable purchase options (cheque or deposit, basic credit card form, basic Google Checkout integration, standard PayPal integration, PayPal Payments Pro, and Authorize.net).

10. Quick Shop

Quick Shop is a WordPress Shopping Cart with both Paypal and Email functionality built-in.

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Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.

Dave’s WordPress Live Search

Dave’s WordPress Live Search adds “live search” functionality to your WordPress site. As visitors type words into your WordPress site’s search box, the plugin continually queries WordPress, looking for search results that match what the user has typed so far.

The live search technique means that most people will find the results they are looking for before they finish typing their query, and it saves them the step of having to click a submit button to get their search results.

This functionality requires Javascript, but the search box still works normally if Javascript is not available.

Search Everything

Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search, options included:

• Search Highlighting
• Search Every Page
• Search Every Tag
• Search Custom Taxonomies ( new )
• Search Every Category
• Search non-password protected pages only
• Search Every Comment
• Search only approved comments
• Search Every Draft
• Search Every Excerpt
• Search Every Attachment (post type)
• Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
• Exclude Posts from search
• Exclude Categories from search

Search Unleashed

Advanced WordPress search with wildcards, highlighting, log, and ability to search all post data. Now with Lucene!

Google Custom Search Plugin

– Replaces all default WordPress search forms to point to Google Custom Search (thanks to a new hook in WordPress 2.7)
– Adds a new search page on your blog at /search/
– Converts the default /?s= URL to a search engine friendly /search/ URL
– Allows you to make money off clickthroughs on Google ads in the search results

Search Light

Search Light adds a nice Find-As-You-Type Ajax dropdown-interface for the standard WordPress search. Just install the plugin and start typing into the default WordPress search input field. You will get instant results ordered by articles and pages in an elegant and easy to use way.

Search Regex

Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress. These go beyond the standard searching capabilities, and allow you to search and replace almost any data stored on your site. In addition to simple searches you have the full power of PHP’s regular expressions at your disposal.

The driving force behind this plugin is to aid in website migration and upgrading. If you’ve ever done either of these then you know the pain of having to go back through all your data, changing URL paths and fixing things. With this plugin you can reduce this work to a search and replace pattern and the job is finished in seconds.

WP Custom Fields Search

This is a search plugin for wordpress, designed to filter posts in a more structured way than the default wordpress search. Specifically it allows multiple form inputs to be configured to search different aspects of a post, i.e. one term could search the post content, one the post title and one could search a custom field associated with the post.

Better Search

• Search for posts contextually with results sorted by relevance
• Automatically replaces your default WordPress search with Better Search results
• Display a list of popular search terms (daily and overall) on your blog in the form of a heatmap
• Choose between WordPress search and Better Search (coming soon)
• Support for a template file for perfect integration into your blog template
• Clean uninstall if you choose to delete the plugin from within WP-Admin
• Works with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache

Sphinx Search

Sphinx Search is a plugin that uses the Search API plugin and Sphinx as a backend for searching. It searches comments, posts, and pages and also allow

Quick Search

Quick Search add AJAX Search to your site sorting results by Posts, Page and Comments. You can easly customize the popup menu style by modifying the file quick-search.css. You can find some option through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Advanced Category Excluder

This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable content sparationd and some CMS like functionalities in WordPress. The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionalities, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.

Today, ACE can override your search results, your RSS feed listing, your category listing, your recent post, and recent post widgets and also your entry page, or even hide whole categories of posts from web crawlers if you want to. This is great, for SEO reasons, for content separation, for grouping information, and handle them as real sub pages.

Customizable Search Widget

Adds a Customizable Search Widget to give you more control over how the search box looks on your sidebar.

Enhanced Search Box

This is a super simple WordPress plugin that simply adds some nice un-obtrusive Javascript functionality to the basic search box. This works out-of-the-box on a WordPress search box once activated and gives you the ability to control the default search text from the admin panel.

Enhanced Search box is built using jQuery and includes jQuery 1.3.2 from the Google AJAX Libraries API. In the admin panel you are given the option to not include jQuery, if you are already including a similar version (Enhanced search works from at least jQuery 1.2.6 and up) or if you are already using a plugin that is including jQuery.

• Allows control over the default search box text from the WordPress Admin
• Clears the default search text when the search box is focused
• Does not clear user-created search text
• Replaces the default search text when the search box is unfocused if no new text has been added

WP Search

WPSearch 2 is the missing site search for your WordPress installation. Install this plugin if you need a fast, relevant, google-like search.

Better Search

Replace the default WordPress search with a contextual search. Search results are sorted by relevancy.

Category Search

Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories.

Autocompleter

Adding auto complete functionality to the blog search input field. The values provided are the tags and categories used in the blog.

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reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. Instead of randomly generating useless characters which users grow tired of continuosly typing in, risking the possibility that spammers will eventually write sophisticated spam bots which use OCR libraries to read the characters, reCAPTCHA uses a different approach.

2. Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

3. Ntz Antispam

A completely rewrite for the old plugin. The plugin works now in a different way. Instead of waiting for robots to fill a field, I decided to go to another route: use a nonce key and a time stamp.

4. Awebsome! Comment Author Mail Validation

Adds a new comment validation method in the “Before a comment appears” Discussion subsection panel.

5. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. Also is fully WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible.

6. AVH First Defense Against Spam

The AVH First Defense Against Spam plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served by identifying them at the Project Honey Pot, a local blacklist or the local IP cache. Visitors trying to post a comment are checked at stopforumspam.com. Stop Forum Spam is not used to check before content is served due to the amount of requests, which overloads their infrastructure.

7. Greg’s Comment Length Limiter

This plugin provides a configurable limit on the length of comments left in the comment form, with a character countdown displayed for the user and dynamically updated with each keypress.

8. Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin

The Stop Spammers Plugin Plugin Accesses the StopForumSpam.com db to check emails, username and IP before a user can register. The StopForumSpam database contains over a million spammer emails, User Names and IPs, and is updated daily.

The plugin validates Email, IP and User name against the StopForumSpam.com db. It denies login attempts, such as spammers trying to guess passwords or spammers trying to create login ids. It also stops spammers who try to add comments with a spammer email or ip addresses.

9. Animal Captcha

Animal Captcha is a lightweight plugin for WordPress that adds a captcha control on comments and register with a nice picture of an animal than any man knows, and yet a robot is unable to identify. It’s nice, comfortable and very safe. Languages: English, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese

10. Comments Capcha Box

This plugin creates a capcha box before your submit button in the comments section to prevent all that unwanted spam.

11. Block Spam By Math Reloaded

This plugin protects WordPress 3.x (single/multisite) registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding a simple math question to it (“what is 4+3 ?”). It also includes support for Buddypress. This is a proven approach to dramatically decrease your amount of spam. This plugin is based on the Block-Spam-By-Math plugin created by Alexander Grau.

12. TrollGuard

TrollGuard is a free WordPress plugin that protects your blog from spam comments. It learns to filter out spam from your training. After a short while it has adapted to your personal blog and will accurately detect incoming spam. TrollGuard is developed on top of uClassify which is a free web service for text classification.

13. CryptX

No more SPAM by spiders scanning you site for email adresses. With CryptX you can hide all your email adresses, with and without a mailto-link, by con

14. NuCaptcha WordPress Plugin

Publishers have a choice between old style, static Captcha security and the NuCaptcha platform; a multi purpose product which provides industry leading security combined with brand messaging, advertising and unique user engagement.

15. Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress

Asks commenters to complete a simple CAPTCHA if a spam detection plugin thinks their comment is spam. Currently supports Akismet and TypePad AntiSpam.

16. Chronological Spam Removal

This plugin will delete comments that have too many links. Spam can also be deleted if it has a url in the author url field. This is handy if you don’t have a author url form field in your comment form, and bots are submitting without using your form. Finally, spam can be deleted if there are any non US-en keyboard characters in any comment row. I don’t expect any foreign language characters on my blog, and while I know this setting may be a little harsh, it’s a spammy world out there, and sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

17. NoSpamNX

There have been many new good ideas of fighting automated Spam in WordPress. Most of these Plugins (like the antecessor of NoSpamNX: Yawasp) change the name of one (or more) of your comment field. On the one hand, this is indeed more effective, but on the other hand, this goes to the expense of compatibility. Therefore, NoSpamNX does not change any of your comment fields, but still claims to be very effective.

18. Antispam Bee

Protects your blog from spam by replacing the comment field. It’s easy to use and extremely effective. Really!

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1. WP-Syntax

WP-Syntax provides clean syntax highlighting using GeSHi — supporting a wide range of popular languages. It supports highlighting with or without line numbers and maintains formatting while copying snippets of code from the browser.

2. jQuery.Syntax

jQuery.Syntax is an extremely fast and lightweight syntax highlighter. It has dynamic loading of syntax source files and integrates cleanly using CSS or modelines. It supports a large number of different programming languages.

This WordPress plugin provides syntax highlighting using jQuery.Syntax, supporting a wide range of popular languages. It supports both block elements (pre) and inline elements (code) for highlighting.

3. wp-syntax-rettke

wp-syntax-rettke serves as an example for the programmatic “Advanced Configuration” of GeSHi in Ryan McGeary’s excellent WP-Syntax plugin.

4. WP-Syntax Download Extension

This plug-in makes WP-Syntax highlighted code snippets downloadable from nice captions.

5. Wp-Syntax Hacktify

A plugin allowing you to change the WP-Syntax code highlighting color scheme elegantly.

WP-Syntax rawks for writing about geeky stuff, but I want it more blacker. And I want a CSS file to hack instead of those icky and inefficient inline styles.

I got the basic idea from WP-Syntax-Colorizer but went further with an external CSS file.

6. WP-Syntax Editor Integration Plugin

This plugin will add a button to both the visual and HTML WordPress Editor panel allowing you to easily insert code for WP-Syntax. WP-Syntax is a syntax highlighting plugin for WordPress

7. WP-Syntax Colorizer

A plugin allowing you to easily set all the WP-Syntax color settings in one place and configure WP-Syntax to fit your theme.

8. Syntax Highlighter MT

This plugin works like many of the others that enable the use of the Syntax Highlighter tool. Dynamic plugin loading is now available as part of the Syntax Highlighter tool, making plugin configuration obsolete.

9. Syntax Highlighter Compress

Syntax Highlighter ComPress is a simple WordPress plugin, that is based on the latest Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter Script. Code and source text of different mark-up or programming languages can be highlighted in WordPress

10. SHJS Syntax Hilighter

Syntax hilight 30 languages, 2 dozen themes to choose from. Fast, can easily hilight 1000 lines of code (the Google Syntax Hilighter based plugins die around 75-100 lines).

2 ways to include code in your posts – use as documented on SHJS or use the [SyntaxHilite:…] syntax described in the installation/usage section to link to a raw text file.

Uses SHJS for syntax hilighting, simple hand-rolled JavaScript for line numbering.

11. Easy Google Syntax Highlighter

This plugin is an implementation of the Syntax Highlighter 2.1.364 by Alex Gorbatchev with a front end to allow configuring all the global settings that are available, such having the plugin automatically include languages to highlight, thereby improving page loading performance.

12.  Dottoro Syntax Highlighter

Colorize your source code as easily as possible. Dottoro Highlighter provides professional coloring for CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML languages.

13. Syntax Highlighter for WordPress

100% JavaScript syntax highlighter This plugin makes using the SyntaxHighlighter to highlight code snippets within WordPress simple.

14. The Ultimate Syntax Highlighter

This plugin allows for easy addition of highlighted code with the [code lang=””] tag supporting over 10 languages
Feature summary

• 100% client side, no server dependency
• Multiple languages support
• Wide browser support
• Very lightweight
• Easily added with the shortcode [code lang=”language”][/code]
• Languages Supported
• C++ (cpp, c, c++)
• C# (c#, c-sharp, csharp)
• CSS (css)
• Delphi (delphi, pascal)
• Java (java)
• Java Script (js, jscript, javascript)
• PHP (php)
• Python (py, python)
• Ruby (rb, ruby, rails, ror)
• Sql (sql)
• VB (vb, vb.net)
• XML/HTML (xml, html, xhtml, xslt)

15. Dojox WordPress Syntax Highlighter

Free syntax highlighter written in Java Script as WordPress Plugin.

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1. WP-PostRatings

Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

2. GD Star Rating

Plugin allows you to set up advanced rating and review system for post types and comments in your blog using single, multi and thumbs ratings.

3. Star Rating for Reviews

Insert inline rating stars within your posts based on the score you assign, supports outputting list of reviews sorted by date, score or post title.

4. Vote-The-Post plugin

Vote-The-Post plugin is a professionally-designed computer application for WordPress, which allows users to vote on the individual posts on your blog or website.

Features

• Readers can vote on your blog posts
• The voting system is based on a 5-star system with the stars representing votes for: Below Average, Needs Work, Average, Above Average, Excellent
• Voters get immediate feedback that their vote was registered via a “Thank you for Voting” prompt as well as an immediate update of the voting results displayed alphanumerically
• Administrator can set how many times a visitor can vote for a post, and visitors are tracked by IP address
• The default setting will not display the number of total votes, thereby making the plugin useful for both high traffic and low traffic blogs

5. Post Star Rating

Post Star Rating is a plugin that allows blog users to rate posts in a classic five stars way.

6. Xavin’s Review Ratings

Adds a shortcode tag [xrr rating=4/5] that displays a rating in one of several formats. Intended for sites doing reviews.

7. Visitor Like/Dislike Post Rating

Let your visitors rate your posts, using simple AJAX and jQuery to update the posts’ ratings dynamically. Visitors can either like or dislike your posts, which should provide you with simple, yet constructive, feedback of the content you include in your posts.

8. Visitor Like/Dislike Comment Rating

Let you and your visitors rate your comments, using simple AJAX and jQuery to update the comments’ ratings dynamically. Visitors can either like or dislike the comments, which should provide you with simple, yet constructive, feedback of the content included in them.

9. Mombly Review Rating

Mombly Review Ratings allow you to easily insert ratings for your reviews on your wordpress blogs. The format to add a rating is simply just [Rating:3.5/5]. You can even use your own pictures for the stars of the ratings. There is also text support for RSS feeds.

10. Comment Rating Widget

This plugin is an add on to the Comment Rating plugin (version 2.9.0 or later). It displays ratings along with the most recent comments in the sidebar in formats of your design. The comment rating and images on display can be “Likes only”, “Dislikes only”, or Both. This is customizable by the “Value for comment_karma” option in Comment Rating.

11. Comment Rating

Allows visitors to rate comments in Like vs. Dislike fashion with clickable images. Poorly-rated & highly-rated comments are displayed differently

12. Five Star Rating

Five Star Rating is a plugin that allows WordPress users to rate post(s) and or pages using a classic five star method.

13. Contestant Rating

Contestant Rating is a plugin that allows wordpress users to rate post(s) in a single post using a classic five star method.

14. I Like This

This plugin allows your visitors to simply like your posts instead of commment it.

15. wp-postratings-my

Shows users their WP-PostRatings and allows filters.

16. WP-StarsRateBox

An AJAX Stars Rate Box with slide down effect and opinions collect system for your WordPress blog’s page.

17. Vote-the-Post

Vote-the-Post allows users to rate each post from one to five stars. Vote-the-Post will show the default rating (3 stars = average) unless one user has already voted, in which case the plugin will display their vote. The overall vote calculation includes the default value. The plugin is blogger-friendly.

18. Rate Anything!

Rate Anything adds a rating list to your blog, allowing you to set up your own categoried and give items in it a rating.

19. Blogarate User Style Rating Widget

Blogarate plugin allows you to have your blog post rated. The plugin shows the score you’ve got and the total number of viewer that have rated your post. Full admin options available. Can styles the plugin in several ways.

20. Rate it!

A collection of functions that allow you to add a rating to each post.

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