Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/10

New Plugins

Random Posts from Category

This widget will list random posts from a chosen category. You can choose how many posts to display, and whether to show the excerpt or the full content in addition to the post title. You may also link the widget title to the category archive if you like.

Dashboard Notepad

The very simplest of notepads for your Dashboard. The widget settings allow you to choose which roles can edit the notes, and which roles can merely read them.

Related Tweets

Using your blog as the seed, find quality content from the Blog Traffic Exchange and tweet it automatically. Provide your followers with interesting and relevant content within the niche of your blog. Supplement your twitter account with quality content related to your blogging niche using the our powerful content search engine.

Updated Plugins

GD Change Template

The plugin allows to change theme (template) on desired dates. If you want a Christmas theme automatically on your blog just for 5 days (or more), the plugin will do it for you.

Contextual Related Posts

Contextual Related Posts lets you display a list of contextually related posts for the current post. It does this by analyzing the title and content of your post and finding the most relevant posts based on this.

Better Search

Helps you improve the search results on your blog. The plugin tries to find highly relevant search results for your blog based on the title and content of the posts on your blog.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.

GD Simple Widgets

This plugin contains several widgets with simple functionality. Some of them are based on standard WordPress widgets but with extended options and rendering. You can also disable default WordPress widgets if you choose to use Simple Widgets versions.

Front-end Editor

Allows you to edit various parts of your site without going through the admin interface.

SEO Ultimate

This SEO plugin can handle titles, meta, noindex, canonical tags, 404 monitoring, linkboxes, and robots.txt. Version 0.9.3 fixes bugs and adds slug optimization.

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