More WordPress Plugins Worth a Look

Here are some more WP plugins that I’ve downloaded and will test driving shortly. Those that pass the test, including being user-friendly, will be added to my favorite plugins already in use. In no particular order:

Add From Server: WordPress 2.5+ includes a new Media manager, but, it only recognizes files uploaded via the WordPress interface and not any files uploaded via other means like FTP. Add From Server allows you to browse the file system on the web server and copy any files into the WordPress uploads system, Once “imported” it’ll be treated as any other uploaded file, and you can access it via the Media manager. This is a huge timesaver for bloggers that add a lot of images to their blogs.

FAQ-Tastic Lite – this plugin is a multiple FAQ plugin that make it easy to answer questions from your site visitors. Unlike other FAQ plugins, FAQ-Tastic can help you build different FAQs for different areas on your WordPress site.

Category Order – this plugin allows you to easily reorder your categories the way you want via drag and drop.

Widget Logic – This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called “Widget logic” that lets you control when/where the widget appears. The text field lets you use WP’s Conditional Tags, or any general PHP code. There is also an option to add a wordpress ‘widget_content’ filter for you to tweak standard widgets to suit your theme.

Email Immunizer – this plugin protects against email harvesters by taking email addresses and mailto links on your blog and converting their text to numeric character references.