If used correctly, a popup is always the best way to achieve great results (be it in sales or subscription rate). It is also the best tool to grab your readers attention. This plugin allow you to customize and schedule a popup to show according to various situation.

1) You can schedule a popup to show a welcome message whenever a new visitor arrives at your site

2) You can schedule a popup to show on the readers returned visit to thank them for reading your blog and invite them to subscribe to your feed/email update. 3) If there is any major changes to your website, you can show a popup to inform your readers of the changes

4) If you are selling products on your blog, you can schedule a popup whenever you have a new product launch

5) During a campaign (such as charity donation drive, blogathon etc), you can schedule a popup to show for a number of days to increase the awareness of the campaign. and many more.

All in all, this is a fully customizable plugin that can serves a lot of purposes.
Installation:

1. Upload the folder ‘wp-popup-scheduler’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory. Make sure you upload the whole folder, don’t just upload the files. Do not rename the folder or any files.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Visit the ‘WP Popup Scheduler’ under the ‘Options’ menu in WordPress
4. If you are tech-savvy enough, you can edit the CSS file at the wp-popup-scheduler folder to adjust the look and feel. After you have edited the CSS file, place it in your current theme folder. This will prevent any future upgrade from overwriting your popup CSS file.

Note:This plugin requires cookie and javascript to work.

Please use this plugin with care and concern for your readers. Overuse of the popup can annoy your readers and could result in detrimental effects.

Download:WordPress Popup Scheduler

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I found SocioFluid, displaying some small icons, which grows when the mouse is moved over, similar to the mac effect. SocioFluid plugin uses jquery with icondock plugin to render the “mac effect”.

Features:

• Icons for major Social Bookmarking websites: Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, dzone, stumbleupon, blinklist, blogmarks, furl, newsvine, technorati, magnolia. More to be added in the next versions.
• “mac effect” – when the mouse is over the icons they grow. SocioFluid plugin uses jquery with icondock plugin to render the mac effect.
• Administration Panel to select only the desired Social Bookmarking sites.
• New buttons for other social bookmarking sites: Sphinn, TwitThis, Mixx, Meneame
• Customizable CSS Style for the box containing the icons
• Nofollow attribute added to the links
• Links can be configured from admin panel to be opened in new windows
• The buttons can be generated in custom places(by calling a php function inside the php scripts, template scripts)

SocioFluid adds to your wordpress posts the buttons to the major bookmarking sites. In the current version of the plugin the icons to be displayed can be selected from administration panel. By default all the items are selected.

Installation:

1. Upload the files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Download:SocioFluid

What People Are Looking For:

• Digg button
• Digg extra (advanced template tags)
• Share This
• Reddit button
• Feedburner FeedFlare
• PostBadge

Everything can be configured from the options page. There are absolutely zero template edits required.
You have the option to choose which modules are enabled, and in turn, how many features you’d like to have.

The plugin has been written with usablility and performance in mind, so it shouldn’t have any adverse affects on the speed of your blog while providing you with the most comprehensive social bookmarking system ever.

Installation:

1. Download and unzip gregarious
2. Upload the gregarious folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. (If you’re going to use the “Share This” module, CHMOD akst.js and akst.css in module/share-this/ to 777)
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
5. Configure your settings from the Gregarious options page (Options -& Gregarious)
6. Make sure to hit save at least once even if you don’t change anything so the plugin is fully configured.

Note: To make use of the functionality of Gregarious, you may need to activate some modules. The PostBadge module is usually required if you would like to append the links / buttons to your posts automatically, otherwise you may use template tags.

Dowload:Gregarious

It features a new fresh look which is much easier to use and is extremely search engine friendly. Nonetheless, if you do not like the new layout, you can always use the old one via the administration panel. The new layout should go well with most layouts.

The new version also takes into consideration of non-JavaScript users and would downgrade gracefully to allow non-JavaScript users to utilize every other feature (exception of dropdown).

In addition, you can customize the order of the bookmarks or choose to remove some of them without editing a file.

If you do not like Dropdowns, this plugin has the ability to show the bookmarks without the dropdown – similar to what other plugins display.

Installation:

1. Upload the “social-dropdown” (actually, any directory will do) folder into the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
2. Login to your WordPress Dashboard Panel and activate the “Social Dropdown” plug-in from the plugins tab. If there are no error messages (e.g. in the options panel or else-where), the plugin is properly installed.
3. Insert <?php Show_Dropdown(); ?> at where you want the social bookmarks to be displayed. This line of code should be placed within the WordPress loop (i.e. the place where your posts appear).
4. You can rearrange, add and remove bookmarks that are displayed via the Settings > Social Dropdown panel in WordPress 2.5 and above, or in the Options > Social Dropdown panel in earlier versions of WordPress.

Download: Social Dropdown

What People Are Looking For:

The goal is not to disturb the user by using too many buttons / links (since he could probably only use one or two at all) and rather only show relevant services.

Installation:

• Unzip, upload to /wp-content/plugins/ folder
• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
• In admin go to ‘Themes’, ‘Widget’ and drag new widget to desired position

Download:Hocus Pocus Buttons

You can customize the ShareThis widget on your site as well as register for a dashboard that will track share events and provide reporting.

Installation:

1. Download the plugin archive and expand it (you’ve likely already done this).
2. Put the ‘sharethis.php’ file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click ‘Activate’ for ShareThis.
4. Go to http://sharethis.com/wordpress to customize your widget, then copy the code provided and paste it into the box in Options > ShareThis and click the update button.
5. On the ShareThis Options page, choose if you want to automatically add ShareThis to your posts and pages, or if you want to add the template tag to your theme.

Download:ShareThis

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By default WordPress allows unlimited login attempts either through the login page or by sending special cookies. This allows passwords (or hashes) to be brute-force cracked with relative ease.

Limit Login Attempts blocks an Internet address from making further attempts after a specified limit on retries is reached, making a brute-force attack difficult or impossible.

Features:

• Limit the number of retry attempts when logging in (for each IP). Fully customizable
• (WordPress 2.7+) Limit the number of attempts to log in using auth cookies in same way
• Informs user about remaining retries or lockout time on login page
• Optional logging, optional email notification
• Handles server behind reverse proxy

Translations: Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Plugin uses standard actions and filters only.

Installation:

1. Download and extract plugin files to a folder in your wp-content/plugin directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the WordPress admin interface.
3. Customize the settings from the options page, if desired. If your server is located behind a reverse proxy make sure to change this setting.

Download:Limit Login Attempts

Big Buttons are used in the vertical Sharebar to the left of the post, while the Small Buttons are used in the horizontal Sharebar that appears under the post title (by default) if the width of the page is less than 1000px (or whatever value you set).

When Auto mode (enabled in settings) is ON, the Sharebars are added automatically. When Auto mode is off, you must manually add the sharebar code to your template files:

• Vertical (next to post) Sharebar: <?php sharebar(); ?>
• Horizontal Sharebar: <?php sharebar_horizontal(); ?>

You can also call an individual button in any template by using the following code (where size is either big or small): <?php sharebar_button('name','size'); ?>

Download:Sharebar

Javascript libraries supported are: None, YUI, Prototype, jQuery and MooTools. Prototype and jQuery are used from the Javascript libraries included with WordPress, YUI is loaded from Yahoo APIs and Mootools is loaded from Google APIs.

This plugin can also be used as a drop in lightbox replacement, without requiring you to edit posts already using lightbox.

By default this plugin will use Shadowbox for all image links, movie links, audio links and YouTube/Google Video links including those generated by the[gallery]shortcode.

Installation:

1. Upload the shadowbox-js folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or install directly through the plugin installer.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress or by using the link provided by the plugin installer
3. Optional: Visit the settings page in the Admin at Settings -> Shadowbox JS
4. Optional: Activate the ‘Shadowbox JS – Use Title from Image’ plugin to push the title from ‘img’ tags onto the parent ‘a’ tag

Download:Shadowbox JS

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The results can be tweaked in several ways to tailor them for you blog. By default the plugin chooses the 20 most frequent words to make its matches but the number is adjustable. It is worth experimenting to see how many words gives the best results for your blog — it has hardly any impact on speed, even if you set the value high enough to include the whole post. The relative importance given to words in your title may be adjusted so that well-chosen titles can be used to advantage or titles with little relevance downplayed. Similarly, tags can be used to improve matching or not according to your blog and it’s needs.

It is also possible to override the automatic similarity ranking by using a custom field. In the post edit screen create a custom field called ’sp_similar’ with the ID value of the post to which you wish to ‘link’. You can link to multiple posts by entering a comma-delimited list of IDs.

The plugin has a settings page which lets you change how the output is generated and displayed. There is also a management page where you can change settings which affect the index.

This plugin requires the latest version of the Post-Plugin Library download it.

Installation:

1. IMPORTANT! If you are upgrading from a previous version first deactivate the plugin, then delete the plugin folder from your server.
2. If you have the Similar Posts Feed plugin installed you must deactivate it before installing Similar Posts (which now does the same job).
3. Upload the plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. If you haven’t already you should also install the Post-Plugin Library.
4. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
5. Put <?php similar_posts(); ?> at the place in your template where you want the list of related posts to appear or use the plugin as a widget.
6. Use the Settings/Similar Posts page to adjust the behaviour of the plugin.

Download:Similar Posts

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