Lazy loading, a WordPress plugin makes your website load faster. It saves bandwidth, Uses jQuery & degrades gracefully for non-js users, Works with both images & iframes including Gravatars.
If BuddyPress @mentions are confusing your site users or you don’t need this feature of BuddyPress then you can easily disable mentions using BuddyPress No Mentions plugin in your WordPress site.
You might have seen that Facebook, Twitter and Google and other sites allows you to login with both username and Email to their services. You can also allow email for login in your WordPress or BuddyPress based website.
Wunderground.com gives most accurate and in-depth weather information. They’re also not evil corporate giants, and are weather geeks. This plugin uses the Wunderground API to gather its accurate forecasts. It uses 10 great-looking icon sets.
Start using Tabbed Login Widget that allows you to have a login form in your WordPress blog’s sidebar including registration, forgot password option, after login display all there in your sidebar widget area. Now no need of increasing one more step by redirecting your users to WP login page.
If you don’t want people to add their website URL while posting any comment to your WordPress blog then you may remove URL field from the comment form by adding a filter in your theme’s function file.
A simple Twitter feed that outputs your latest tweets in HTML into your WordPress blog. You can easily show Twitter @username tweets, mentions, retweets, public feed, searches, hashtag live search and much more.
You can easily embed a live Twitter Hashtag search in your WP post. You may do this either by using a Twitter Feed for WordPress plugin (via shortcode) or by creating your own Twitter Widget
You might have spend a lot time chasing spammers and deleting automated posts posted automated software. Now you can stop spam bots registering on your WordPress site, here is an easy and powerful plugin that lets you modify registration link of your WordPress site which stops WP spam bot registrations. Of course this plugin is not the ultimate spam-bot protection but it is a great additional protection against them.
Add clone of the Milestone widget of WordPress.com in your self hosted WordPress.org site.It uses same CSS styling and should be more or less functionally equivalent to the plugin.
Recently someone asked me how to change default post category in WordPress. The problem he was experiencing is that he hardly post anything in his blog’s default category which he created few years back and everytime he post something new he finds himself constantly having to change to a different post category.