Filed Under (Installation, Plugins) by Wpfeed on 30-10-2009
One of the best ways to let your users say their opinion except from the comments area is by rating systems in your blog. here are the best plugins we found:
I Like This
This plugin allows your visitors to simply like your posts instead of comment it.
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WP-PostRatings
Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
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GD Star Rating
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings. Plugin supports use of cache plugins and dynamic loading of data using ajax.
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Comment Rating
If you’re tired of moderating readers’ comments on your blog, stop doing that and let your readers decide which comment deserves to be shown. If you’re getting outrageous comments on your blog, don’t get too angry yet. Let’s see how many readers feel the same. You can do these tasks (and more) with the Comment Rating plugin.
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DS-Rating for WordPress
DS-Rating is a plugin for wordpress that gives you the ability to add a rating to posts, anywhere from 0 to 5 (including half steps). Note that this plugin does not allow users to rate posts when browsing a site – It is only set up to allow publishers or administrators to add ratings when creating or editing a post.
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WP Digg This
WP Digg This is a plugin that adds a Digg button, but with a twist. Instead of adding a Digg button to all your posts, WP Digg This plugin selectively adds the button only to posts you want.
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Popularity: 19% [?]
We are happy to announce our new free theme for wordpress. after 2 premium themes wpShow, wpBlog and our first wpStore free theme here comes wpFolio – A free cms / portfolio wordpress theme with a help document included.

A wordpress CMS / Portfolio theme with lots of features:
* 5 colors theme
* Theme Options Page
* twitter feed
* Jquery featured carousel
* Easy Portfolio Management
* Blog Section
* 3 page temaplates
* CMS functionality
* Widget ready
* Well Documented
* Well designed text replace for a nicer font
* Valid XHTML
* IE6 + Compatible
* CHROME Compatible
Homepage

homepage with “more about me” text, latest posts, contact us box with details and twitter feed. as on every
page you will see a featured content carousel social websites icons and about me text.
Blog Post

a regular post page with a sidebar and comments area.
Portfolio Page

This is the page where you can display all your work.
DEMO | DOWNLOAD (with help document included)
p.s you can find the logo font inside the theme folder under _fonts_for_logo.
ENJOY!
Popularity: 27% [?]
Filed Under (Installation, Plugins) by Wpfeed on 07-10-2009
from time to time you want more than just the name of the author to display in your new theme. here is a list of the best authors related plugins for WordPress.
Allows a user to associate a profile photo with their account through their “Your Profile” page.

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This plugin does the same thing as the the_author tag, displays the author name, only this time it’s linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link the hidden layer(div) pop’s up with author info gathered from the profile page, plus gravatar photo (if author email is assigned with one).
Example here
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This plugin will show the last X posts by the current author either at the bottom of every post, or where you manually specify in each post. Using the built-in options page, you can choose the number of posts to show, set the header text, choose to show the post dates, select the format of the date, and choose whether or not to include the current post in the list. Other options have been added since the first release.
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This WordPress plugin lets you create custom permalinks for author pages.
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Popularity: 9% [?]