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I was searching for a wp plugin that is similar to Amazon’s “4/12 people found this useful” feature for my MalaysianIslandReview project. I wanted to integrate such a feature so that tourists can rate the reviews based on their usefulness. But so far no luck. What I found was this plugin below:

WP Smart Sort

It’s a very interesting wp plugin that can be used in many ways in various types of projects. Basically this plugin allows you to provide much more advanced search/sorting option to your wordpress based project. For example, if you are using wordpress for your e-shop project, you could use this plugin to allow users to search for products based on their price, rating, most commented products, most rated products..etc

Unfortunately the premium version of the plugin is not free, it costs $35 which i think is quite reasonable if you have a professional commercial project.

I will bookmark the site for later, I think I will need this plugin in the future, now my hands are quite full. Back to my plugin search… if you find wp plugin like Amazon’s “… people found this useful” do let me know.

Website: http://www.dyasonhat.com/wp-smart-sort-premium/

Update: found this plugin and modified to suit my need.

If you are using Show Top Commentators plugin for more than a year and haven’t updated it yet, then you are probably using version 1.05 which has a bug – it allows people to replace the link of any top commenter in the list.

All they have to do is to put exactly the same “name” as one of the top commenters, and then put their own “link”, this would change the link of the “top commenter” to the new “spam” link. This would last until the real author comments again or the admin of the blog removes the spam comment. So the plugin somehow was allowing the last commenter with the same name to replace the URL displayed in the list for that particular commenter.

So if you are using the old version, do update it to version 1.06 which solves this problem.

Note: Thanks to Andrei for informing me about this bug, I was too using the old version and had two of my commenters complain about their comments being hijacked. I have updated my plugin.

Twittar is a wordpress plugin that uses twitter profile images for your blog’s comment section.

Features

• Loads user’s avatar by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email address.
• If user doesn’t have a Twitter account, it first tries to load user’s gravatar. If user doesn’t have a gravatar, it loads a default image. This is an optional setting.
• You can set a 2-pixel border to the images (you choose the color).
• You can choose the size: we suggest 24, 48 or 72 pixels.
• You can set an image other than the default one to load if a user doesn’t have a Twitter account or a gravatar.
• It builds a valid image for you (with alt and title attributes, etc.) based on user details.
• Allows you to add a class to the image, so you can style it later.

I think it’s quite cool. It’s a plugin from smashing magazine.

Plugin Page: click here

Social networking sites are great for driving traffic to your blog. It’s even better when this process is automated (as long as it doesn’t go against their terms of use, otherwise you will be cast “anti-social” and your account closed ;).

Wordbook is a wordpress plugin that allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall automatically. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts. (see screenshot)

Plugin Page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/
Author Site: http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook/