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Grunion Contact Form

Another Contact Form. Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email).

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/grunion-contact-form/

Author: Automattic, Inc.

Installation:

1. Put folder grunion-contact-form into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Usage: Add a contact form to any post or page by inserting [contact-form] in the post or page. Emails will be sent to the post's author. As seen on WordPress.com.

Scaleable Contact Form Plugin

Another Contact Form with very scalable multi-type Fields. Uses Captcha, no Akismet. Can use external SMTP via wp_mail() and other PLugins. AJAX Support!

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scaleable-contact-form/

Author: Ulrich Kautz

Installation:

1. Put folder scaleable-contact-form into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Usage: Either put [scaleable-contact-form-ajax] somewhere in a Contact page or site or call scf_print_contact_form_ajax() directly from a template.

Lifestream

Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/

Author: David Cramer

Installation:

1. Upload the plugin (unzipped) into /wp-content/plugins/. You should end up with /wp-content/plugins/lifestream/lifestream.php
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Visit 'Lifestream' -> 'Settings' to configure the basic options, and add feeds.

Usage: The easiest way is to use the normal context handler (works in pages and posts) [lifestream].

Clean Archives Reloaded

A slick, Javascript-enhanced post archive list generator.

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clean-archives-reloaded/

Author: Viper007Bond

Installation:

1. Extract all files from the ZIP file, making sure to keep the file structure intact, and then upload it to /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Then just visit your admin area and activate the plugin.

Usage: Just create/edit a post or page and type [cleanarchivesreloaded] where you would like the archives list to show up. You can also use [cartotalposts] to show your total post count.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/

Author: alexkingorg. crowdfavorite

Installation:

1. Download the plugin archive and expand it (you've likely already done this).
2. Put the twitter-tools.php file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click 'Activate' for Twitter Tools.
4. Go to the Twitter Tools Options page (Options > Twitter Tools) to set your Twitter account information and preferences.

Usage: If you are not using widgest, you can use a template tag to add your latest tweets to your sidebar <?php aktt_sidebar_tweets(); ?> . If you just want your latest tweet, use this template tag <?php aktt_latest_tweet(); ?>

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

Author: Matt Mullenweg

Installation:

1. Upload the Akismet plugin to your blog, Activate it, then enter your [WordPress.com API key] (http://wordpress.com/api-keys/).
2. 1, 2, 3: You're done!

All in One SEO Pack

Automatically optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization)

URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Author: hallsofmontezuma

Installation:

1. You can either use the automatic plugin installer or your FTP program to upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory the top-level folder. Don't just upload all the php files and put them in /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Visit your SEO options (*Settings - All in One SEO*).
4. Configure any options as desired, and then enable the plugin.
5. That's it!