Here’s the EasyTube Wordpress plugin, created by Paul Bain and which enables you to put videos from YouTube or Google Video very easy, on your blog. Some of our more advanced readers would ask why trouble and install this plugin when YouTube and Google offer the embed code. Well, the new guys who just started blogging may not know so much about html code and could have som problems managing those videos.

Plus that this plugin enables you to set the videos’ size (width and height) and specify if the video should autoplay or not. Very easy to use and cool plugin from Paul.

Check out the EasyTube plugin’s page HERE or download it from HERE.
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Categories Autolink is a nice Wordpress plugin developed by Alberto Lombardo and I’m thinking of activating it on some of my blogs. When you create your posts, if you write a word that’s also a category on your blog, the plugin automatically transforms the word into a link to that category.

This will be great for the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of your blog, because it will help search engines robots deep crawl your blog, plus that there are more chances your readers will read and stay more on your blog. The installation is very east, just upload it to the Plugin folder and activate it from the Wordpress dashboard.

Visit the plugin’s page

Download the ‘Categories Autolink’ plugin.

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Upgrading Wordpress when new versions come up is a must to, because, beside new features, these upgrades fix some bugs and, most important, fix some security problems that make your blog vulnerable. For some of you, upgrading can be a real pain in the ass, especially that, if you don’t do it right, you can really mess up your blog. But here’s a plugin that makes life easier for everyone. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin for Wordpress upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org.

Here is what Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin actually does:

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins

Click HERE to go to the plugin’s page.

Download the plugin by clicking HERE.

Dagon Design released a cool plugin for Wordpress. Called Drop Down Post List, the plugin allows you to display drop-down lists with the posts in a specified category.

You can use this plugin by entering the trigger text in a post or page, or by adding the function call directly to your theme files. You can display as many drop-down boxes as you like, and you have a choice between a standard select box (with button), or a ‘jump menu’ (as the visitor clicks on a post, they will immediately be taken to that page without having to click a button).

You can download the plugin HERE. Just save the .txt document.

The installation is very simple, all you have to do is download the .txt file, rename it to .php, upload it and activate it from the Plugin page in the dashboard. Then you go to DDPostList options page and configure the plugin.

Here are the options available:

Form Type - You can choose to have the plugin generate a ‘jump menu’, or a traditional list with a submit button

Button Text - If using a traditional list, this is the button text

Sorting Method - You can choose to sort by post date (ascending or descending), or post title

Post Limit - This allows you to define a limit for the number of posts in the list (0 for no limit)

Add Before Form - Code added here will be displayed before the generated form

Add After Form - Code added here will be displayed after the generated form

Add Before List - Code added here will be displayed before the list

Add After List - Code added here will be displayed after the list

Go to the Drop Down Post Plugin’s page.

Here’s an interesting widget for. The ‘Most Commented Posts’ widget for Wordpress allows you to display a list with your most commented posts. This is good, because it will outline your most popular posts and you want people who come for the first time on your blog to get to see your most popular posts, because, most likely those will be your most valuable posts.

‘Most Downloaded Posts’ plugin features are:

1. Customisable header text

2. You can select how many posts you want to list (1 to 10)

3. You can choose to list most commented posts for:
* The current month
* The current year
* Since your blog started

4. Output can be customised via four key CSS classes

Go to the ‘Most Commented Posts’ page.

Download the ‘Most Commented Posts’ plugin.

Wordpress Download Counter is a plugin that could be very useful for your blog, by giving you an idea of what files are most downloaded. Here are the plugin’s features:

* Keeps track of the amount of downloads of a certain file.
* Keeps track of the last download time
* Allows you to reset the counter
* Allows you to add counters to both internal and external urls
* Can use fancy urls (like /downloads/file.zip)
* Can print the amount of downloads in a post.

Download Wordpress Download Counter

Wordpress Download Counter page

Wordpress Download Counter page on WP-Plugins
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