Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered.

Accordion type tabs were made popular by Apple, who use them for grouping different types of content in a very narrow sidebar. They are particularly useful if you want to have longer tab titles or more tabs that would not otherwise fit into the given horizontal size. Tabbed Widgets can create tabs for you easily. The following are the main features.

• Use other widgets for the tab content and specify a custom tab title.
• Make tabs rotate in a set interval so that they become more noticeable and prominent.
• Set a random start tab on each page load so that all tabbed content gets equal exposure.
• Make unlimited number of tabbed widgets that can be then used as regular widgets under ‘Design’ > ‘Widgets’.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.5+
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tabbed-widgets/

One thing planetOzh wanted to improve in the Admin area of his Wordpress blog was the header menu. He wants to be able to reach any admin page in one click, instead of first clicking on the first level link (”Manage” for example) and then only on a submenu link (”Comments“) So here is a very neat plugin : the Worpdress Admin Drop Down Menu. 

The plugin comes with a wickedly cool API that will allow other plugin developers to interact with it, like adding your own custom icon for your plugin. Read the API for Coders page for examples and documentation. Also, all elements the plugin produces get custom CSS classes and id’s to allow easy styling or selecting.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.5+
Source: http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-admin-menu-drop-down-css/

Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you. Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.

Viper’s Video Quicktags supports YouTube (including playlists), Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Flickr videos, Spike.com/IFILM and MySpaceTV. You can also use the [flash] shortcode to Flash-based video from any website.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

Because the configuration of meta-data can be a complicated and tiresome process HeadSpace provides several shortcuts to reduce your effort:

* Meta-data nesting – data is collected not only from the page itself, but nested parent pages
* Dynamic data extracted – why repeat yourself when you can extract data from the post itself?
* Full GUI interface – data is entered alongside post content, and with a full auto-suggested AJAX interface for tags and keywords
* Mass-editing – now you can edit meta-data for all pages and posts at one go!

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/

Google Analytics for WordPress easily adds your Google Analytics tracking code to all pages within your blog. That’s it’s main functionality, it adds the following nice extra features as well.

Tagging outgoing links

This plugin adds the possibility to tag and segment all outgoing links, so you can see whether a click came from a comment or an article. You can choose where it tracks those links too! It also adds the possibility to track just the domain, instead of the complete link, so you get a better view of how much traffic you’re sending where.

Tracking downloads

This WordPress plugin gives you the possibility to track downloads with Google Analytics based on a set of extensions you specify.

Tracking AdSense clicks

By enabling AdSense click tracking, your AdSense clicks are tracked to /outbound/asclick.

Tracking image search keywords

Adds the possibility to track all image searches as organic and collect their keywords.

Adding extra search engines

By default Google Analytics only tracks a select group of search engines, which might not include your local big search engine. With this plugin, you can add extra search engines to those Google Analytics tracks by default.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/

WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.5+) allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit, mark for moderation, mark as spam, and delete all comments. It looks very nice and it is really handy for blogger with lots of comments everyday. The version 2.0 has the following improvements.

• New theme independent comment-editing interface.
• Timer on both the post and in the comment-editing interface.
• Improved usability and look-and-feel.
• Better error and status messages.
• Entirely re-written codebase for maximum stability and extendability.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.5+
Source: http://www.raproject.com/ajax-edit-comments-20/

Nowadays, there are a lot of affiliate marketing websites out there. Some of them are raking in tens of thousands of dollars every month just by running review sites. It is because one of the last things a potential customer does before making a purchase is look for reviews. A couple good reviews from other customers can tip them over the edge. If your site is one with those reviews, you can get the commission easily.

With WP Review Site, you can turn WordPress into a powerful review site engine, easily creating niche review sites for vitually anything. This plugin adds star ratings to your comment forms, turning them into powerful Amazon-style customer reviews.

WP Review Site has already been downloaded hundreds of times, and powers many successful review sites. With the new version 2.0, there is an “affiliate links” settings screen where you can enter keywords and affiliate URLs, and it’ll automatically add a link whenever those keywords appear in your posts or pages.

Pricing: $199.95 (Discounted: $97)
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.wpreviewsite.com/

It’s a brilliant idea to tag blog post. It enables people to find information they’re looking for, but because tag clouds usually offer a more adventurous mode of navigation. If someone clicks on a tag called “water” there’s no way of telling whether he is going to end up reading about water shortages in the third world or the chemical composition of rain.

However, the way tag clouds traditionally look is boring. Enlarging the font for often-used tags causes all sorts of line height weirdness as well. This why Roy started experimenting with Flash to see if he could come up with something better looking. He has created WP-Cumulus which allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/

If you are selling ads directly, you may have been frustrated with the excessive time involved managing your ads. Not only do you have to find advertisers to sponsor your blog, you have to manually edit your template to put the ad in, and then head over to your favorite calendar app to set an alert to remind you when to take the ad down.

Time consuming practices like those are a thing of the past. The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads.

You can show as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order. Keep track of how many times an ad is clicked. When creating a new ad, you don’t have to calculate the end date yourself. Just input how many days you wish the ad to run for, and the correct date will be applied. The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp125/

AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog.  Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well. This Plugin will make alot of the bots out there stop coming back. You just choose a username and password and you are done. It writes the .htaccess file, without messing it up. It also encrypts your password and creates the .htpasswd file, as well as setting the correct security-enhanced file permissions on both.

Imagine a huge brick wall protecting your frail .php scripts from the endless attacks of automated web robots and password-guessing exploit-serving virii.  Forget spam, these millions of zombie bots are too outrageous to ignore, they are attempting known (but strangely outdated) exploits looking for known vulnerabilities against blogs and other Internet software.  Sooner or later some poor blogger is going to miss an upgrade and become a victim to this type of video-game-like-attack.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.askapache.com/wordpress/htaccess-password-protect.html