Do you know what the most difference between the hard-working wordpress theme developer and the lazier one is? The hard-working always finds the ways to restrict plugin using for his theme, but the lazier one just needs a plugin that can use for his theme and save his time is fine. However, sometime, there are wordpress plugins that two kind of designer above must use.
This post contains 10 wordpress plugins that help you to boost up your wordpress design. Some of plugins in this collection based on the ideas around the web blog design tutorial posts. Enjoy it!
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Paginator or Paginator 3000
This is a pagination plugin that based on the idea of scrolling. Your pagination will not be split into parts, it will display all the pages but you can easily access all page by the scroll bar. You can find a demo here.
Download: Paginator.
Freebie Images
The Freebie Images Plugin allows you to search among hundreds of thousands of high quality stock photos, illustrations & vector files. Spice up your blog with high quality free stock photos & images created by professional photographers and illustrators: Easy to use search interface with advanced filtering and Drag & Drop functionality.
Download: Freebie Images: Free Stock Images Plugin.
Category and page icons
Using this plugin, you can add icons (images) to sidebar of your site or blog into section of categories and pages.
Download: Category and page icons plugin.
Login With Ajax
Login With Ajax is for sites that need user logins and would like to avoid the normal wordpress login, this plugin adds the capability of placing a login widget in the sidebar with smooth AJAX login effects.
Download: Login With Ajax.
Attachments
Attachments allows you to append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts and Pages. This plugin does not directly interact with your theme, you will need to edit your template files.
Download: WordPress Attachments.
WP Content Slideshow
If you plan to build WordPress theme for sell, you should put this plugin in your pocket. Here below is the plugin description.
WP Content Slideshow shows up to 5 Posts in a very nice and powerfull Javascript Slideshow. On the left side of the Slideshow it displays a Image for every Post. On the right side, there are all the Titles (and a small description under the Title) of the Posts. The Slideshow highlights the active Post and repeats automatically after getting to the 5th Post. You have a powerfull Administration Area to adjust the Category, the number of Posts, the width and height, and many colours for the Slideshow!
Download: WP Content Slideshow.
Drag To Share
The plugin was developed on the source files created by Dan Wellman. Read more here. This plugin is basically a similar effect release by Meebo.com and used by big players like Mashable.
Download: Drag To Share.
I Like This
This plugin allows your visitors to simply like your posts instead of comment it.
Download: I Like This.
WP Sliding Login/Dashboard Panel
Add a sliding login/dashboard panel to WordPress Theme. This awesome panel is based on Nice clean sliding login panel built with jquery
Download: WP Sliding Login/Dashboard Panel.
Author Exposed
Author Exposed is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your visitors easy and elegant way to see more details about the post author.
Download: Author Exposed.
Great article. I’m always looking for new plugins to try out and use.. never considered using any of these.
great Plugins
thanks
These are lovely little plugins and ones I’ve never seen before. Great article!
Very useful plugins. Thanks!
What does the title of this post even mean?!
@David – It means: “… the little known 10 wordpress plugins ….”
Can’t wait to try these! Thanks a lot!
Now this is an original list of plugins I had not seen before. Great work collecting them. I look forward to playing with “content slideshow” and “I like this”.
Thank you for sharing Lan. The plugins are amazing, and I think it is always good to know what they have available at WordPress. Keep up the good work.
Login with AJAX is very smooth and professional looking. With a little effort you can CSS the plug-in to match the look of your site. I use it on http://www.askmeabout.us
More Plugins and simple ideas too.
Thanks for the Author Exposed idea.
One best alternative to Drag To Share is WP-Drag2Share, it has a beautiful icons and shadow image on over, like mashable – http://bit.ly/23aQ4b
You should use the extended version of drag to share : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dragtoshare-extended/
Very nice Plugins, thank you !
greets,
Dennis
Nice. Paginator looks cool.
Very nice set of plugins, I was actually looking for some of these and could not find them, thanks for the share
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Great work! Very nice article.
great plugins, but im still wondering what plugin you used for the end of this post?
the thing that says the author, advertise here, related posts, and share the post buttons.
how did you do that?
if anyone knows can you please email me at techsupportgonebad@hotmail.com
Search for plugin Yet Another Related Posts Plugin and check this post: http://aext.net/2009/10/wordpress-hack-anything-can-be-added-anywhere-in-the-post-content/
Thank You for great sharing..have the idea now what to to my blog theme..hehe
these are very helpful …thanks dear
You need a plugin for creating grammatically correct titles.
Great plugins, im definitely getting the Ajax login one.
i like this was the best one
.. Mashable has been using that kind of thing from a long time 
thnk u
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I’ll give this one a try and let you how it goes…..WP Sliding Login/Dashboard Panel
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Gawd I love WP plugins. If only there was no problem with installing as many as you like onto your blog.
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Category and pages Icons Looks new to me and I’m going to try this on my blog…Really niec plugins and i must say..Wordpress the Best.
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Great plugins, thanks for sharing Lan.
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Hey Gaby,
My name is Lam (not Lan). In Vietnamese, Lan is the name of a girl
. Anyway, thanks for your comment!
Nice list, I didin’t know some of them, thanks for the tips!
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drag to share its interesting l think and good choices
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Very good stuff. Please, create next list best of Wp Plugins.
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Glad to see I’m not the only “WP Plugin Junkee” out there. Great list, I’m going to try a couple of these on my blog.
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Great Post! Will be trying some of these plugins on my blog.
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I am going to give the content slideshow a chance. I’ve been looking for something like this, but wanted a recommendation.
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Thanks a lot. I like the Paginator.