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I’ve just recovered from a Wordpress plugin frenzy, courtesy of Lorelle on Wordpress. Here are some that I’ve downloaded and tried out.

The Awesome:

Star Rating for Reviews - Totally awesome plugin that allows you to display star ratings on your blog simply with tags. Now in use here: [ rating: 3.5 ] = [rating:3.5]

Global Translator Plugin - Does exactly what I’ve been trying to do: Automatically translate the entire website. Now, just scroll down to the bottom of the page, click a flag and surf the site by language, even bookmark it by language! Awesome!

Netflix Plugin - This is actually a sidebar widget/module but it allows you to easily display the movies in your queue, at home, etc. on Netflix with either the movie title or the movie poster (see the sidebar of this blog)

Ultimate Tag Warrior - Fairly advanced tagging system for Wordpress. Even gets for the search to recognize them also. Awesome.

Tiger Administration - Give your administration panel a new look based on OS X Tiger. Very nice, but a bit slow so I don’t use it.

The Simple:

Admin Drop Down Menu - Now you don’t have to reload the page in the administration control panel anymore to see the subpages - it shows up once you rollover the page. Duh! Why didn’t I think of that?

Full Text Feed - Wordpress 2.1 makes it so your RSS feeds are cut off after the <–more–> tag, making the user visit your website. This fixes that.

Spoiler Tags - Didn’t work for me, but introduces the rollover functionality commonly seen on online forums when displaying spoilers, whether it be for movies, television, etc.

Updated Today - If there is a new post for that day, a little yellow banner will be displayed alerting the visitor of that information. Of course, 300 pixels away is the actual new content, but it looks cool! This is also in use here.