User Submitted Posts (USP) is a free Manage User Submitted Posts on WordPress Plugin that lets your visitors submit posts and images. User-submitted posts optionally include tags, categories, post title, and author name & URL. Submitted-post status can be set to draft, publish immediately, or publish after some number of approved posts.

It’ s also handles multiple image uploads, custom URL redirects, and much more. And the easy USP Settings Page makes setting up and fine-tuning a breeze.

Using the Settings Page, you choose which fields to display, min/max number of images, min/max image size, redirect location, error messages and more. User Submitted Posts makes it easy to setup just about any type of user-submitted functionality for your WordPress-powered site. Here are some examples of how the USP plugin could be used:

* Public Submit a Link form with tags
* Simple Submit News form with post, title & author
* Use as Contact Form that allows image attachments
* Use as an Image Uploader, maybe with tags, title or whatever

Features

* Let visitors submit posts from anywhere in your site
* Posts may include title, tags, category, author, url, content & image(s)
* Display submission form anywhere on the page via shortcode or template tag
* Redirect user to anywhere or return to current page after successful post submission

SEO Auto Links & Related Posts (SEO ALRP) is a combination of related posts and auto links plugin. The auto links feature is similar to SEO Smart Links plugin, without the 2000 posts limitation and faster.

The auto link’s concept is simple, instead of comparing all the blog posts title with the current blog content, it will only match the post title of posts related to the current blog post. In short, it is a related posts inside the blog content it self.

For the related posts, you have two options here, to find the related posts base on the post title only or base on post title and post content. The post title importance is higher compare to the post content. And during the process, the plugin removes stop words from the post content to get the best possible related posts.

WP-Property is a free WordPress Powered Real Estate and Property Management System help you to create a directory of real estate / rental properties and integrate them into you WordPress, As always, integration is seamless, the system is expandable and customizable, functionality is rich.

Simple:Press is a feature rich, completely integrated and fully scalable forum plugin for WordPress. It is fully customizable (packaged with various themes) and is fully scalable no matter what your sites membership number is. Version 4.4.0 for WordPress version 3.1

Also included is a Private Messaging sub-system, the ability to link blog posts with forum topics, the capability to extend the forum display with custom code, a number of template tags for use outside of the forums, extensive online help that explains every option and full language support.

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

WordPress doesn’t make it easy for you to engage your readers with images. You’re going to have to look beyond core to the hundreds of image/photo based plugins available to make your blog highly visual. Below, you’ll find a score of solutions to all your image/photo problems in the form of the best plugins around. There are lazy loaders, gallery creators, slideshow generators, photoblog initiators and much, much more. You’ll soon realize that there’s more to WordPress than a few lousy thumbnails!

If you are a regular user of WordPress like me then you might get bored of the default user interface of WordPress. Although the User Interface of WordPress is good but there is always room for improvement. Automattic the company behind WordPress has decided to go for Open Source Design Contests to make the User Interface of WordPress even better.

Toolbars used in WordPress installations as plugins become more and more popular and effective. I am sure you noticed such toolbars on sites like Mashable.com, Abduzeedo.com etc and wondered how you can get one, why to use it and actually how good is sortiment. Maybe there are better toolbars available just for your needs?

I wondered and decided to create article about it – finding the most popular, interesting and eye-catching WordPress toolbar plugins you could use daily to increase pageviews, comments, sharing, twitter followers, subscriptions and more. Some of these plugins even offer online chat with your readers, how cool is that? Enjoy, research and find your pick! Let us know your favorite toolbar plugin as well!

Nowadays almost everyone has a WordPress powered website, but not everyone has a professional build blog. To build a professional blog you have to concentrate on few aspects. One of the most important aspects is of course the design. The design of your blog is without a dub the one who decides if your blog is going to be a successful one or not.

The design of your blog is based on the way you structure everything and the actual look. In this post I will talk only about the ways to improve your sidebar structure and make your blog more accessible to your visitors.

I will list here the most recommended WordPress plugins for your blog sidebar. You don’t have to use all of them, using all of them will create chaos in your blog and people will be annoyed. You should choose the ones you think that fits your needs and try to avoid the situation described bellow.

1. Akismet

Akismet is a perfect spam catcher.