WordPress Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. There is currently over 5,800 plugins and almost 40 millions total downloads and counting in WordPress.org Plugin Directory. In this article we have selected a list of totally 35 new and engaging plugins that you should check and install to enhance your WordPress sites to next level.

1. Post Editor Buttons by [Oren Yomtov]
This plugins allows you to add your own buttons to the post WSIWYG editor’s toolbar like bold, italic or strikethrough. The plugin is pretty useful if you have any custom style that you always implement to the post.

2. Widget Block by [Matt Gibbs]
Allow you create widgets that only display on specified pages.

3. Weather Widget by [fliptel]
Shows the current weather of the visitors location via widget in the sidebar.

4. WP Twitter Badge by [Kyle Baker]
A simple plugin that allows you to display a Twitter “Follow” badge that is provided by Go2web20 on your site.

5. Autoptimize by [Emilio López]
Autoptimize makes optimizing your site really easy. It can speed up your website, helps you make your HTML code light weight and save the bandwidth. It minifies and compresses all scripts and styles, adds expires headers, caches them, and moves styles to the page head, and scripts to the footer.

6. Twitter Grid by [tom]
Displays the Twitter images of all your friends as a mosaic in the sidebar. The plugin is widget ready and comes with various configuration.

7. JS Banner Rotate by [Eric Mann]
This plugin uses JavaScript to create a platform agnostic rotating image banner and works even on Flash disabled web browsers.

8. WP NotCaptcha by [WebJema]
It’s a complete new kind of human Captcha that helps prevent spam from automated bots. Add Captcha anti-spam method to WordPress on the comment form or registration form. In order to post comments, users will have to range icons in right place.


9. Shadows by [Andrew Radke]
Add shadow style to images, div and blockquote objects.

10. Gravatar Favicon by [Patrick Chia]
Allow you to generate a Gravatar favicon for your blog and admin logo automatically.

11. Background Changer by [Turcu Ciprian]
You can change the background color efficiently by select a color or set a link to an image at admin control panel.

12. WP Smart Image by [Dario Ferrer]
With WP Smart Image you can: 1. choose the image to show; 2. Choose between thumbnail, medium, large and full sie; 3. link the image to the article or leave it without a link; 5. showing images in the posts list, even if those images are not setting to appear in the content. 6. get the image url instead of the whole tag. 7. personalize the alt and title attributes; 8. add custom CSS classes and ID to properly handling the images through CSS, javascript, PHP and others web resources; 9. add a link to the full version of the image from the thumbnail or the medium size one; 10. personalize the generic images and its paths for all the sizes.

13. Supr by StumbleUpon by [StumbleUpon]
Supr plugin for WordPress enables users to easily post links to Twitter and Facebook. It supports the features such as host short URLs on your own domain; search engine friendly short URLs (301 redirect) and drive more traffic with the self-hosted StumbleUpon toolbar.

14. WP Spry Menu by [takien]
WP Spry Menu is plugin that automatically creating Adobe Spry drop down menu for WordPress category with configurable “Home” link.

15. WP PDF by [Florian Krauthan]
Print WordPress Posts as PDF.

16. Short URL Generator by [Jan Hendrik Merlin Jacob]
This plugin automatically generates a short URL for your article. You can choose your favorite providers like bit.ly, is.gd, u.un, or tinyurl, and let you insert the shortened URL via a handy shortcode.

17. Quick Search by [Giulio Ganci]
Quick Search adds AJAX search to your site sorting results by posts, page and comments. You can easily customize the pop-up menu style by modifying the file quick-search.css style sheet.

18. WordPress Admin Notepad by [Zen]
WordPress Admin Notepad automatically creates a show/hide notepad toggle at top right corner so that admin can save their notes no matter where they are. It also allows selected user group to save or view notes as long as they are logged into admin panel.

19. Autokeyword by [Ver Pangonilo]
Autokeyword plugin generates keyword automatically. It uses the award winning Automatic Keyword Generator PHP Class.

20. Blogroll Links Favicons by [John Turner]
Automatically adds favicons next to your links in the blogroll.

21. RSS Shortcode by [Joost de Valk]
A handy simple plugin to show RSS feeds in posts and pages using a shortcode. You can specify the number of items to show and set whether to show an excerpt or not.

22. Flash Gallery by [Ulf Benjaminsson]
Flash Gallery turns your ordinary galleries into interactive and full screen Flash slideshows. It is especially great for when you have lots of images in a post, or want to have multiple categories/albums in one gallery.

23. Advanced Twitter Widget by [Turcu Ciprian]
A widget enables visitors to add twitter account or return search results, with a custom number of maximum results per account/search.

24. Featured Posts by [Gary R. Hess]
A simple featured posts plugin which allows for a full customizable display a post excerpt or custom excerpt along with an image anywhere outside the_loop.

25. Twitter Bubble by [Morten Frederiksen]
A sidebar widget showing the latest twitter update in a nice talk bubble.

26. OnlyWire Bookmark & Share Button by [OnlyWire Engineering Team]
OnlyWire syndicates your content and articles to the web’s top social networking sites with a single button click. The plugin simplifies the process of submitting your content to over 20 social networking sites at once including Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter and many others.

27. Efficient Related Posts by [Aaron D. Campbell]
A related posts plugin that works quickly even with thousands of posts and tags.

28. Socialize This by [Mike Rogers]
Socialize This is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily generate social bookmarking icons and spread the blog posts.

29. Datafeedr Random Ads by [Datafeedr]
Allows you to simply and easily show random, rotating ads anywhere on your site by adding a template tag to your theme’s template files or using widgets. You can show ANY type of ad like Google Adsense, affiliate ads, banners, images, flash, text, etc.

30. WP Copyrighted Post by [minimus]
Adds copyright notice in the end of each post of your blog.

31. Subscription Options by [freedimensional]
A widget enable you easily create a subscription option sidebar including RSS, email and Twitter without any hardcode.

32. Tweet Blender by [Kirill Novitchenko]
Similar in functionality to Twitter’s own widget but has support for multiple authors and/or hashtags all blended together.

33. Twitter Tools: bit.ly Links by [Viper007Bond]
This plugin will replace the normal URLs sent by Twitter Tools to Twitter with bit.ly URLs tied to your bit.ly account. You can then easily track the number of clicks from your bit.ly profile.

34. Gravatar Grid by [teledir]
Display the Gravatars of all your commenters as a nice mosaic in the sidebar of your blog.

35. Google Analytics Dashboard by [Carson McDonald]
Google Analytics Dashboard allows you to pull your site’s Google Analytics profile data into your dashboard as well as embed the data into posts.