Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin for Wordpress blogs that monitors your blog traffic for activity coming from social news or bookmarking sites. When someone clicks on a link to your blog on one of the major social news or bookmarking sites (currently Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, Fark, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon), the plugin begins to log the visits to that page.

Wordpress plugins are making worpdress easy to manage and are top reason of its popularity. Plugins can change wordrpess features and can be used to automate anyting.

As the year is coming to an end, perhaps it’s time for a different kind of “Top X” post. Instead of a list of new WP plugins to try out, here are the top plugin authors - the brilliant people who create outstanding tools and share them with the WordPress community. The list is ranked by the number of downloads from the wordpress.org plugin directory. Also check out the big Top 1000 table.

Twitter is causing quite a buzz in the blogosphere. Everyone is talking about it and wondering why it is so popular. Anyway since it is popular, and maybe you are already addicted to it, here is a collection of top 10 twitter tools to integrate with your wordpress blog.

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter.

Considering WordPress’s popularity and huge user base as a blog platform, it makes perfect sense that people are pushing and testing its limits. I’ve been seeing creative and new uses for WordPress everywhere. Photo galleries, job posting boards, e-commerce sites. The list goes on and on. Once you learn what WordPress can do, the sky is the limit.

A list of free plugins which have similar functionality to paid/premium plugins.

Here is our latest WordPress plugin, buzzZ-Et. It essentially displays a Yahoo! Buzz button for each post. This will be most likely our last button plugin for the time being, unless another popular service should arise in the future. We have a couple more WordPress plugins in the works for the near future.

If you are a Wordpress user, you must be very concerned with security issues and for good reasons. In this world of growing intrusions, hacking, cracking and data-thefts, security is of major concern for a starter as well as for a pro. Here are 20 Plugins and tips for you to help you get a good sleep at night assuring you that your blog is in safe hands (read WordPress security plug-ins).

A list of popular WordPress plugins to manage or enhance your comments, trackbacks, code, pages, posts, RSS feed, SEO, contact form, archives, and more.