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This plugin allows you to cross-post to your Facebook account directly from your WordPress blog:

The Facebook app that this plugin works with will display a mini-version of your blog’s first page (a list of the most recent blog posts):

Requirements:

• A Facebook profile :).
• Privileges to install WordPress plugins on your blog. In particular, this means that wordpress.com bloggers are left out. Sorry :(. Bloggers using wordpress.com should check out the WordPress Facebook app.

Installation instructions are at wordpress.org.

For problem reports or feature requests, please first check the FAQ or Other Notes, then use the Wordbook Discussion Board.

To be notified of updates (this plugin is still rather young), do one or more of the following:

• Subscribe to the comment feed.
• Leave a comment and check the box next to “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail”.
• Monitor the Wordbook Discussion Board.

WP Authors provides an “Authors” widget in the sidebar, useful for identifying all the different authors in a multi-author blog. This widget used to be present in the Widgets plugin for WordPress-2.1, but was removed for WordPress-2.2.

Installation is the usual for a sidebar widget:

• Download the zip file.
• Unzip it into wp-content/plugins (or upload the wp-authors.php file into the wp-content/plugins directory on the web server).
• Go to the WordPress “Plugins” control panel and activate “WP Authors”.
• Go to the WordPress “Presentation” control panel and configure the widgets; add “Authors” to the sidebar.

I’ve written this a sidebar widget for WordPress-2.2.

This plugin is not necessary for WordPress-2.1, because it is already included in the Widgets plugin for WordPress-2.1.

If you like this plugin (or if you don’t), please leave a comment with a link to your website.

WP Chiclets provides a set of RSS chiclet buttons in the sidebar; it automatically customizes itself to a blog and its feed URL. There are a bunch of “chiclet creator” websites that will generate HTML for you, but I couldn’t find any sidebar widgets to do this without requiring hand-editing of templates.

Installation is the usual for a sidebar widget:

• Download the zip file.
• Unzip it into wp-content/plugins (or upload the wp-chiclets.php file into the wp-content/plugins directory on the web server).
• Look for “WP Chiclets” in the WordPress “Plugins” control panel and activate it.
• Go to the WordPress “Presentation” control panel and configure the widgets; add the “WP Chiclets” to the sidebar somewhere.

There are no code- or template-editing requirements to use this plugin; the links and logos will appear in the sidebar, automatically customized to the blog, wrapped up in standard widget CSS for easy styling.

I’ve written this a sidebar widget for WordPress-2.2; I don’t know if it will work with older versions. If you like it (or if you don’t), please leave a comment with a link to your website.

My first WordPress plugin: all it does is add all the little logos at the end of each post to enable easy submission to various online bookmarking services. It is actually nothing new; googling for “wordpress bookmarks plugin” turns up lots of stuff of varying quality, supporting different sets of bookmarking sites. They either have way too many little icons of sites I haven’t heard of, they don’t include a site or two that I like, they don’t look as minimalistic as I would like, or they are just stale and haven’t been updated to work with WordPress-2.2. The Share This plugin from alexking.org is nice, but it requires two clicks to bookmark something (one to dropdown the icon, and another to click the bookmark). So I wrote my own.

Installation is the usual simple steps for installing a plugin:

• Download the zip file.
• Unzip it into wp-content/plugins (or upload the slashdigglicious.php file into the wp-content/plugins directory on your web server).
• Look for “Slashdigglicious” in the WordPress “Plugins” control panel and activate it.

There are no code- or template-editing requirements to use this plugin; the links and logos will automatically appear at the end of each post, wrapped up in <span class="slashdigglicious"> for easy CSS styling.

I’ve written this for WordPress-2.2; I don’t know if it will work with older versions. If you like it (or if you don’t), please leave a comment with a link to your website.