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?
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products. You can learn more about him by following his personal tweets here.
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I’m excited to see who the winner is, I think that this plugin competition may be one of the reasons that WordPress has seen such success in the past year or two. We also see a large number of incredibly inventive plugins during the competition and even if those plugins don’t win it is still very helpful to the WordPress community as a whole.