Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 01/06

New Plugins

WordPress Backup

Performs regular backups of your upload (images) and current theme directories. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. Don’t get caught without a recent backup of your theme or images.

Automatic Blog Stats

This plugin makes available a number of statistics about your blog, including pagerank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, Feedburner RSS count and more which you can use as shortcodes in your posts. Automatically updates all statistics daily.

Plain Gtalk Status Sync

This plugin will automatically show your GTalk status on your WordPress blog. You can set a max-shown number and the cache interval to make it works more smoothly.

Add a Separator

Simple Plugin to add a separator between the intro and the (more…) content. This plugin adds a separator between the intro text and the extended (more…) text of the content of a post. It simply replaces the span id more tag with the separator that is set in the plugins php file.

WP Click Track

Scans posts and extracts all the hrefs, rewrites them to include an onclick event which handles the tracking. Basic reports are displayed on the post and page modification areas.

Antispam Bee

Protects your blog from spam by replacing the comment field. Page in German

Email Alerts

Allows users to configure whether they wish to be alerted when a comment is added, comment held, post posted.

WP-Slimbox2

An WordPress implementation of the Slimbox2 JavaScript.

Pending Posts Indicator

Will show a bubble in the left-hand admin menu of the number of posts pending review, if more than zero.

Updated Plugins

Simple Shortcodes

Simple Shortcodes provides an easy to use mechanism for creating and using custom shortcodes. Added in this version are options to control how the configuration page works and the 255 character limit on shortcode values has been removed.

AddThis

The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows your users to bookmark your site easily with over 45 popular services, and to share it with friends via email.

Daily Top 10

Track the hits of each blog post for the current day and cumulatively at the same time. You may also display sidebar widgets containing a list of the most popular posts for the day and most popular posts overall.

WP Decoratr

WP Decoratr can automatically find images relevant to your post content from Flickr to spice up your posts.

DandyID Services

Displays all of your online identities (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube, more) as clickable links in your sidebar.

Textile Live Preview

Allows you to place a realtime comment preview with support for Textile.

Quote Comments

Creates a little quote icon in comment boxes which, when clicked, copies that comment to the comment box wrapped in blockquote.

Admin Menu

The admin menu plugin for WordPress sticks key admin menu links to the top of your blog’s screen.