This plugin adds social media counters to your blog posts from many services including Twitter, Facebook and Google +1. list of services so far:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google +1
• LinkedIn
• StumbleUpon

SETTINGS

• Where to display – pages / posts
• How to display – horizontal / vertical
• if vertical you can control the position in your page
• What to display – Facebook | Twitter | Google +1 | StumbleUpon | LinkedIn
• Style your counters – background and border colors

you can preview it here on the blog (on your left) and see the screenshots here.

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Offline Credit Card Processing

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http://www.visser.com.au/wp-ecommerce/plugins/offline-credit-card-processing/

WordPress is a popular blogging CMS software that is very secure when properly installed. Site owners can take security a step further by installing the following plugins, especially when running WordPress in a cheap hosting environment.

WordPress Security Scan
This basic security plugin will look at the database, passwords and permissions for files and alert the site owner to any needed changes. It also hides the version of WordPress and adds extra protection to the administrative area.

This plugin should be installed by all WordPress site owners. It’s simple and easy to understand.

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Secure WordPress
Going a few steps further than WordPress Security Scan, this add-on provides an index page for the plugin folder, does away with error messages on the login page and blocks any bad queries. It also hides version and plugin update information from everyone except admins.

Removing version information is crucial because hackers won’t know what they’re dealing with and will move on to less secure installs on free domain names.

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Invisible Defender
Forms are a favorite target by spambots. Invisible Defender protects forms by providing extra fields which are visible to spambots but hidden from the user by style code. When the fields are filled, indicating a bot, the plugin returns a 403 error, which blocks the bot and protects the blog.

This plugin keeps a tally of blocked bots in the admin area so site owners can see how effective it is.

Login Lockdown
Brute force password attempts are a big problem for any site, especially since many people don’t choose secure passwords. This plugin timestamps and records the IP address of any bad login attempt. When a certain number of attempts are reached, the IP string is blocked from the site. The default block time is one hour but this can be adjusted by the site owner. There is also a manual option for lifting the block.

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Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC)
TAC works by checking all installed WordPress themes for suspicious code, especially BASE 64, which can obfuscate the code’s intended purpose. When bad code is found, TAC will show the exact location in the theme files. The latest version of TAC also reveals static links within theme code. These are not always harmful but it is good to know about them.

And remember, the best way to avoid bad code is to not use free themes.

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I will try sharing with you the knowledge i acquired in the last weeks while trying to stop spam blogs and users in one of my blogs.

Captcha And Blocking Spam Plugins

WP-reCAPTCHA

Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam methods with WordPress including comment, registration, and email spam protection. WPMU Compatible.

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Simple CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples. It’s simple and yet secure.

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SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image. This prevents spam from automated bots. Adds security. Works great with Akismet. Also is fully WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress compatible

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WP Captcha-Free

WP Captcha-Free blocks automated comment spam without resorting to CAPTCHAs. It does so by validating a hash based on time (and some other parameters) using AJAX when the form is posted. Comments posted via automated means will not have a hash or will have an expired hash and will be rejected. Unlike using a captcha, this does not place any burden on the commenter.

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Animal Captcha

Captcha Animal protects your user registration and comments with a test of identifying two friendly animals.

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Block Spam By Math Reloaded

This plugin protects WordPress 3.x (single/multisite) registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding a simple math question to it (“what is 4+3 ?”). It also includes support for Buddypress. This is a proven approach to dramatically decrease your amount of spam.

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Sabre

Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.

Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Sabre is the solution to stop definitely these robotized visitors!

this plugin has many features like:  Selection of the captcha’s complexity, Registration blocked if visitor’s IP address is found on ban lists, Limited number of days for user confirmation, User must give an invitation code during registration and many more…

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Ban Specific Users Or Domains

htaccess support

## USER IP BANNING
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 200.49.176.139
allow from all
</Limit>

you can also use a check to make sure they come from your domain

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.wpfeed.com. [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

Ban email domains from user registration

you create a Registration Blacklist and  “Options” menu in the administration section you will find  a box called “Registration Blacklist”.

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IP Ban

Returns ‘Page Not Found’ 404 error message for IP’s visiting your blog specified in the IP Ban option on the Discussion Options page.

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Other Plugins And Soultions

Anti-Splog

to tell you the truth – wpmudev name their plugin – “The ultimate plugin and service to stop and kill splogs in WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress”, well, not quit true. since buying anti-splog in 39 dollars, anti-splog succeeded in marking spam blogs as spam but not to block the registration. so maybe it is more comfortable to click on the plugin options and delete all spam blogs in one place, but the database is still spammed and manually i could do it my self (i already recognize the mail the spammers use). the other features like captcha and human tests i could find plugins myself without paying.

read more about the plugin – URL

BuddyPress Restrict Email Domains

This plugin enables restriction of email domains during user registration for a single (non-multisite) WordPress installation of BuddyPress

URL + use this link to enable the multisite – http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-added-banned-email-domain-check-to-multisite-buddypress-registration/#topic

Enable Akismet For all Sites

first of all activate akismet. then just open wp-config.php and add:

define(‘WPCOM_API_KEY’,'your-api-key’);

DONE!!!

have ideas for more plugins and solutions, comment here.

WP Better Emails

Adds a customizable good looking HTML template to all WP default plain/text emails and lets you set a custom sender name and email address.

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News Mailer

Simple plugin for mailing news or updates to members registered on the blog.

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Subscribe2

Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog

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MailPress

Style your html and plain text mails with dedicated themes and templates.

Double opt-in subscription.

Subscriptions to Comments, Newsletters/Post notifications and even to Mailing lists.

Newsletters/Post notifications on a per post, daily, weekly, monthly basis.

Optional : full control on all mails sent by WordPress.

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HTML Emails

Converts the default plain text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet-lookin’ HTML emails.

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Newsletter

Newsletter is a plug-in to collect subscribers and send out newsletters.

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there are many options to create a mailing list.

you can let subscribers sign for a mail every time a post is published Subscribe2 does, provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.

you can also use a local program that runs on your client’s computer, let’s say you download something like 1st mass mailer, than you can let the client to import the new subscribers into a mailing list. (it’s the less comfortable way to do it).

and you can use the online tools for mailing list, most of them are very good, but they cost money. we really like mailchimp.

of course there are many great free and premium wordpress plugins for newsletter and mailing list, here are some of them:

Automatic Newsletter

This plugin will send a newsletter to everyone on your email list. You can specify how many recent posts it will send in the newsletter options under settings.

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Simple Newsletter Plugin

This plugin is a simple newsletter plugin. It can show opt-in form, save opt-in email and name, and send emails to your opt-in list. It also have import and export email data ability.

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Newsletter

This plug-in lets you collect subscribers on your blog with a single or double opt-in subscription process. Double opt-in means the user has to confirm a subscription following simple standard instructions sent to him via email.

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there is also a PRO version of this plugin, her:

http://www.satollo.net/plugins/newsletter-pro

MailChimp WordPress Plugin

The MailChimp WordPress plugin allows you to quickly and easily add your MailChimp signup form as a widget on your WordPress 2.3 or higher blog. See it in action on our own MailChimp Blog.

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*** try them all and find the one you like.

ENJOY

Recently Facebook released what they call social plugins, with these plugins you can easily integrate your blog or website with many Facebook features.
Wordpress programmers made the work for you and wrote excellent and simple plugins although if you know a bit of code you can always go to http://developers.facebook.com/plugins and check the plugins by facebook, try it here :http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.

now if you want it the easy way, here are some of the best we found for you, actually for all your facebook connect purposes.

Facebook Comments

Facebook comments is a WordPress plugin that will import comments from your facebook notes back into your wordpress blog.

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Facebook Comments for WordPress

This plugin integrates the Facebook commenting system right into your website. If a reader is logged into Facebook while viewing any comment-enabled page or post, they’ll be able to leave a comment using their Facebook profile. Non-Facebook users can post with a valid email address.

Features:

• Styles can all be customized to fit your site’s theme
• Number of comments displayed can be adjusted
• Option to post comments directly to a user’s Facebook profile page
• Comments can be included on pages only, posts only or both
• Comments can be shown in chronological order or with the most recent comments first
• Facebook comments can be attached to WordPress comments or inserted manually anywhere in your theme
• WordPress comments can be hidden on pages/posts where Facebook comments are enabled
• Like button can be hidden if required

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Like

Let your readers quickly share your content on Facebook with a simple click.

You can customize it in the Settings section:

• Access directly your Facebook Pages to manage them (see screenshot 2)
• Send updates to your Fans
• IFRAME or XFBML versions of the button
• Asynchronous or Synchronous loading of the Javascript
• Width/Height
• Layout (standard or button_count)
• Verb to display (Like or Recommend)
• Fonts
• Color Scheme (Light or Dark)
• Show thumbnails of Facebook profile pictures
• Align to the Left or Right of your posts
• Show at the top and/or bottom of posts
• Show/hide the button on pages/posts/home/search/archive.
• Margins (top, bottom, left, right)
• Complete support of the Open Graph protocol (http://opengraphprotocol.org)

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Facebook Like Box

If you have a page in Facebook about your blog and want to show the Facebook Like Box with the recent updates and fans.

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Sharecount for Facebook

Displays the number of times the current page has been shared on Facebook and allows visitors to share it themselves. Uses awe.sm for tracking and offers Google Analytics integration even without an awe.sm account. Pulls count and click data from Facebook as well as awe.sm.

Features:

• Display the number of shares and on hover the total number of clicks for those shares (displays Facebook logo when 0 shares)
• Large or small button
• Track the shares from the button using your awe.sm API Key or fbshare.me links
• Add Google Analytics parameters to fbshare.me links
• Configure the colors of the badge in the large button
• Disable the button on Pages

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DDSliderWP – 11 Transitions – Slide Manager Panel

DDSliderWP features EVERYTHING that the jQuery plugin already offered PLUS a custom admin panel, with total management of slides.
Features:

• Slide manager – Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts.
• Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page
• Extremely user interactive panel – Tooltips on all fields and jQuery driven panels
• Over 11 different transitions
• Inline content support
• TimThumb integration
• ColorPicker included
• Access documentation directly from admin panel
• A whole lot more. Checkout screencast for an overview of the admin panel.

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WP-Membership Plugin

This is a WordPress plugin that helps you sell your content; you only need to install the plugin, create a category for your private content, setup the prices of your memberships and your Paypal account. Don’t hesitate and purchase it today
You can easily select the posts you want to sell, manage the memberships you acquire and is fully integrated with Paypal. All you have to do is activate the plugin, setup your memberships and your Paypal account.
Features:

• * You don’t have to modify your template.
• * Paypal integration.
• * Premium posts only seen by active members.
• * Setup unlimited memberships.
• * A dashboard that shows your sales by month.
• * Manage your subscription.
• * Filter your subscriptions by Month and Memberships.
• * Subscriptions are paginated.
• * Easy setup.
• * Very well documented with plenty of images.
• * Works with WordPress 2.7 and above (also 3.0).

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Events Calendar Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

The Events Calendar Premium plugin for WordPress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.

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Twitter Widget Pro – WordPress Premium Plugin

If you own just one twitter plugin for WordPress, let it be this one! The only premium twitter plugin out right now – with support for multiple twitter users and includes a ton of premium options. This is the last Twitter plugin you’ll ever need!

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Extended Google Analytics for WordPress

It’s never been easier to add Google analytics and event tracking to your websites. This in combination with a campaing url generator tool makes a powerfull WordPress plugin to get the most out of Google Analytics.
Features:

Adds google analytics code
Auto link adsense to analytics
Auto event tracking for downloads, mailto and outbound links
Select wich file extensions to download track
Tool to generate campaign tracking links to use in newsletters and other campaigns

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Contact Form 7

the most popular plugin for contact forms, on the plugin description they write, simple but flexible. that is so true.

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WP Contact Form

WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post.

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Enhanced WP Contact Form

Easy contact form, embed it in a post or page by writing the shortcode [wpcf].

Features:

• Spam protection.
• Shows referrer information for the person contacting you.
• Option for user to send himself a copy of the message.

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Tiny Contact Form

Use ‘[TINY-CONTACT-FORM]‘ within any post or page. Add the widget to your sidebar.

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Buddypress-Ajax-Chat

This plugin will extend Buddypress to have an Ajax Chat client that works with Buddypress groups,
as well as all WordPress users. As of version 1.1.8 Buddypress Ajax Chat works with both
Wordpress MU and WordPress Single User.
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BuddyPress Classifieds

A Classifieds ad components that’s fully integrated into BuddyPress.

Features :

Write your ad directly from the frontend, WYSIWYG
Allow/disallow moderation
Browse by category, tags, …
Breadcrumbs
Add to favorites (”follow)
Upload pictures with your classified
Link classifieds to groups
Define a map (Google map) to locate your classified (powered by BuddyPress Maps)
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Seo for Buddypress

It gives you the possibility to enter title, description and keywords for the main blog, the user blogs and the buddypress pages.
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BuddyPress Sitemap Generator

This plugin will generate a sitemapindex and various component sitemap xml files for search engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index BuddyPress.
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BuddyPress QuickPress

This plugin allows the users to write simple posts outside the dashboard (just like QuickPress from the Dashboard).

It adds a “Quickpress” submenu under /blog from which you can easily add a post to any of your blogs.
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Login With Ajax

Add smooth ajax during login, avoid screen refreshes and choose where users get redirected to upon login/logout. Supports SSL, MU, and BuddyPress.
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Invite Anyone

By default, BuddyPress only allows group admins to invite their friends to groups. In some communities, you might want members to be able to invite non-friends to groups as well. This plugin allows you to do so, by populating the invitation checklist with the entire membership of the site, rather than just a friend list.
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BuddyPress Like

Requires BuddyPress 1.2 or higher.

Adds a ‘Like’ button to activities in the stream, allowing users to ‘like’ the item and see who else has done the same.

Updates are constantly being made, and feature requests are more than welcome!
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BuddyPress Maps

BuddyPress Maps is a component that displays maps (from Google Maps) into your BuddyPress website.
This component can be used by others plugins to edit/save map markers and to display maps easily.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-maps

BuddyPress Links

BuddyPress Links is a drop in link and rich media sharing component for BuddyPress 1.2.x
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Remove BuddyPress AdminBar Plugin

This plugin removes the admin bar completely from the public and admin areas of the website. Can be used either as a normal or MU plugin.
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BuddyPress Events Calendar

the bp-events plugin will add an option to the user menu called “Events”. From this menu users can create events and invite friends to join. – the plugin will add an “Events” option to tne main menu system for the events directory view – add the “Events” widget to list the upcoming/newest/active/popular events on your front page
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Helpful Buddypress plugins resources:

buddypress Original Plugins zone: http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/

netweblogic – a very helpful buddypress plugins blog – http://netweblogic.com/

Buddypress Dev – BuddyPressDEV is a community of developers that shares code to extend BuddyPress features. – http://bp-dev.org/

wpmu.org – http://wpmu.org/