Preview Post Navigation is another simple plugin that was requested by Lorelle for this type of enhancement and one that Matt Cutts also blogged about after his upgrade to 2.1.x. The plugin restores the “preview” and “edit” links that were removed from the Wordpress 2.1x series. There seems to be enough people talking about the removal of this functionality and wanting it back that this plugin might become obsolete at some point if it’s added back into the core. Until then, I hope this helps ease the pain some of you are feeling.

Download
You can download the plugin here.

Requirements

This is a Wordpress 2.1.x plugin, there is no need for it in previous versions. It’s been tested with Firefox 2.0.0.3 and IE6.

Installation:

Upload the plugin to your “blog/wp-contents/plugins” directory
Go to the “Plugins” main menu and find “Preview Post Nav”, then click “Activate”

That’s all there is to it. The links will appear when you edit an existing post or once you save/save & edit a new post since there was no preview pane in the new post screen in 2.1.x.

Please leave feedback or if you have an issue using it, leave a comment in this post and I’ll do my best to help you out. If your feeling especially generous a quick link to RealityWired(http://www.realitywired.com) or ItsOnMyTV (http://www.itsonmytv.com) would be greatly appreciated.

WP Social Bookmarks is a plugin that will allow you to insert links to social bookmark sites in your Wordpress posts. The plugin is designed around my specific needs at the moment so unlike other social bookmarking plugins it doesn’t cover every possible site out there. At present it targets the specific ones I use most frequently and if there is enough interest in this I’ll consider expanding it.

What I was looking for was to accomplish two things. First I wanted the links to be text links and not images, plus I wanted to get the counts for Digg and del.icio.us because I think that’s kind of neat. Actually the whole thing came about because I liked how John Chow has his bookmark links implemented but I couldn’t find a single plugin that performed in that manner. Most use the Digg api and simply pull back the graphical button which I think is novelty and ultimately detracts from a site. Not to mention it’s difficult to implement into a layout sometimes.

So I proceeded to put this together. It will pull back the Digg count and del.icio.us bookmark count if you choose and you can style the links pretty much anyway you want via css.

Example:

Download the plugin:

You can download the plugin here.

Requirements:

This is a Wordpress 2.1x plugin but it should work in previous versions without much of an issue.

Installation:

Upload the plugin to your “blog/wp-contents/plugins” directory
You should end up with this path (”blog/wp-contents/plugins/wp-social-bookmarks/”)
Go to the “Plugins” main menu and find “WP Social Bookmarks”, then click “Activate”

Add the following code snippet to your templates where you want the links to appear:

<?php if (function_exists('wp_social_bookmarks')) { wp_social_bookmarks(); } ?>

The links themselves can be styled via css using (id# wpsb_bookmarks)

That’s it, pretty simple. You can leave feedback or if you have an issue using it, leave a comment in this post and I’ll do my best to help you out.

Comments Waiting Count is a simple plugin that adds the current number of comments in the moderation queue to the Wordpress 2.1 admin menu. It will also display the number comments that have been flagged as spam if your using an anti-spam plugin. It’s a pretty simple plugin done to fulfill a request by Lorelle for this type of enhancement.

You can download the plugin here.

Requirements:

This is a Wordpress 2.1x plugin.

Installation:

Upload the plugin to your “blog/wp-contents/plugins” directory
Go to the “Plugins” main menu and find “Comments Waiting Count”, then click “Activate”

That’s it, pretty simple. You can leave feedback or if you have an issue using it, leave a comment in this post and I’ll do my best to help you out.

The fine folks over at Wordpress.org have finally taken a step at organizing the numerous plugins that they host development efforts for. A recent addition, the Wordpress plugin directory, now covers that and allows the rest of us to have our plugins located in a central place. Check it out if your like me and don’t read your Dashboard updates very often.

That’s all fine and dandy, but having all these plugins isn’t that useful if you’ve got no place to find them. Even though we have provided development hosting at wp-plugins.org for years, we hadn’t had a user interface to the plugins hosted there, which I think was a travesty.

No longer! Our ever-expanding “extend” section now has a brand-spanking new plugins directory where you can browse, download, rate, and comment on all your favorite plugins. I highly encourage you to go check it out.

For users, this means:

• There is now a central place to find and download WordPress plugins.
• You can get a much better idea about plugin quality and compatibility from the site.
• In the future you’ll be able to get notification inside of WordPress about plugins you use that have updates.