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.

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.

List of twenty essential WP plugins for new blogs. Includes plugin definition, installation video, Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, WP Super Cache, and many more

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.

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

Automatically removes comments, new lines, tabs, and gzip compresses (GZIP) any CSS file called with "<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" Just activating the plugin with the default Kubrick theme will reduce the CSS file from 8k to 1.7k.

Sig2feed is a great WordPress plug-in to make signature or put an text/image advertisement under your feeds. Sig2feed’s primary goal is to provide a simple administration interface to allow the addition of a custom tagline, signature or © copyright message to the WordPress generated RSS feeds.

This plugin will make your widgetized sidebars so flexible that you will almost think that your running a more advanced CMS system and not Wordpress. This plugin enables the usage of different widgets in different sections, categories, posts,pages, and so on.