Weblog Tools Collection has announced the winners for this years WordPress plugin competition.   Thanks to everyone who participated for contributing to the WordPress community and congrats to all the winners!

Here are the winners and prizes:

The Grand Prize Winner is WP Comment Remix

• $2000
• Production of a professionally recorded song for the winner.
• Dedicated server for one year from iWeb (Intel Core 2 Duo, HD 160GB Sata2, 1GB of RAM and 1500GB of bandwidth per month)
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Second Prize Winner is Manageable

• $700
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas for the PC and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Third Prize Winner is WP Easy Uploader

• $200
• Country codes of the world poster
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

Consolation Prize Winner is Prelovac

• 12 month blogclub subscription from Blogalized
• Copy of OIOPublisher Advertising Plugin

$250 prize from WPMU

• First Prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin from Incsub goes to Vote2Publish
• Consolation prize for the best WPMU compatible plugin goes to WP Wall

Everyone else got $10.00 for their plugin contribution.

My favorite thing about this competition is that it can provide inspiration for someone who otherwise might have not taken the time to create a WordPress plugin.   In looking for the list of plugins submitted, I think that several of these plugins will find a large userbase and be around for years to come.

Congrats again to everyone who participated!

I’ve always been a big fan of the WordPress plugin competition, which is run annually by the team over at Weblog Tools Collection.  The WordPress community has always been great, but running a competition and offering prizes is a great incentive for more useful plugins to be created.

I knew the plugin competition was close to being complete, but it wasn’t until recently that I saw an almost complete list of the plugins that have been submitted.  It looks like a total of 51 WordPress plugins ended up being submitted!  This list is courtesy of Lorelle over at Blog Herald:

• Role Scoper
• Dodo
• Broken Links Remover
• Yank Widget
• WP125: Easy 125×125 Ad Management For WordPress
• WordPress Image Browser Extender
• Vent – add events to your blog
• Tabbed Widgets Plugin
• Snazzy Archives
• Show Me Options
• PayPal API Subscriptions
• Idealien Category Enhancements
• Flickr Gallery
• Editor Extender
• Attachment Extender
• Snazzy Archives
• Media In Response
• Invite Friends
• FlareSmith
• Click Tracking Plugin
• AnyVar
• WP Sentry: Private Posting Plugin
• MultiSiteManager unleashed
• WPMU plugin: Vote2Publish
• WPMU plugin: rePost
• SlideShare Plugin
• Live Blogroll
• Dk Obama Slideshow Plugin
• WP Wall
• ComicPress Manager
• PhotoJAR: Base
• tWPtter ~ WordPress Microblogging
• New WP Comment Remix Version
• Sidebars
• PostGroups v1.1.0
• WP Easy Uploader
• One Click Upgrade and Backup All WordPress Blogs
• Current tags
• PostGroups
• Manageable
• ZdMultilang
• Post Tabs
• MailPress
• Great Real Estate
• WPMU Plugin Commander
• SEO Smart Links
• Adminimize
• DL-MENU Tab generation and dynamic colorschemes
• Content By Country
• Automatic Timezone Plugin
• Simple Flash Video WordPress Plugin
• Sermon Management WordPress Plugin for Churches
• Reflex Automatic Blogroll WordPress Plugin
• Fun with In-Context Comments WordPress Plugin

These plugins are all for WordPress 2.5+.   If you find some that you like, you can head over to their page and rate your favorites plugins.  You can also view the plugin prize list here.

Last year’s competition resulted in several plugins that have become must have plugins, so it will be interesting to see which of these plugins are picked up by the WordPress community.  Are there any plugins in here that have really caught your eye?