Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/19

New Plugins

Synected

Synected enables shortened URL creation on your own blog. Synected lets you easily create and use short links based off your own domain. This releases you from dependence on a third party — a server error on tinyurl no longer prevents visitors from reaching your site. In addition, it strengthens your brand, keeping your domain name in view of your audience even on Twitter and other micro-communication platforms.

Hello World Generator

The Hello World Generator is a plugin which provides the blog author two new shortcodes. Each shortcode will display a random Hello World code snippet from a database of approximately 350 different snippets. Each snippet is in a different programming language.

WP SimpleMail

SimpleMail is a plugin that allows you to access an Email account from your dashboard.

OSM

OSM is a plugin that focuses on OpenStreetmap and geo data in your wordpress blog. Simply by using the shortcode [osm_map] within your text you can add several maps within your post/page.

Adsense Now!

Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code into your existing blog posts. It gives you a widget to display ads in your sidebar, and another to show a Google Search box. Easy AdSenser is perhaps the first plugin that gives you a complete solution for managing everything AdSense-related.

Omit Passworded Posts From Search

Prevent passworded posts from being included in site search results.

Admin Commenters Comment Count

Next to all appearances of each commenter’s name in the admin, shows a count of their total number of comments, linked to a listing of those comments.

Updated Plugins

Feed Reading Blogroll

The plugin improves your blogroll by displaying the freshness and the latest post-title of your bookmarks.

Theme Tweaker

Theme Tweaker lets you fine-tune the colors in your theme with no CSS/PHP editing. It displays the existing colors from your current theme, and gives you a color picker to replace them. It also lets you change them in bulk, like invert all colors, use grey scale, sepia etc.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support.

Stray Random Quotes

New features include multiuser capability (contributors to the blog can add their own series of quotes and manage them) and the ability to disable aspect settings for each quote widget, shortcode or template tag. Also included in this release is Dutch localization, and many fixes.

Store Locator

Store locator plugin for WordPress web developers & web site owners who need to show any set of locations on their website. Uses Google Maps.

Koumpounophobia

Koumpounophobia is powered by jQuery, and enhances the WordPress HTML Editor button bar in 5 ways.