My WordPress discoveries of the week.

This week I’ve been working on three different WordPress sites, and as usual, I have a bunch of new WordPress ‘magic tricks’ :)

Twittar.
A plugin that 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.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/08/twitter-avatars-in-comments-wordpress-plugin/

Tweet Blender.
Another WordPress Twitter widget but with support for for multiple authors, hashtags, and keywords all blended together.  It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

http://kirill-novitchenko.com/tweet-blender/

Cimy user extra fields
A plugin that allows us to create extra fields in the user profile registration page. This means we will be able to display dynamically any kind of information we want about our users.
http://www.marcocimmino.net/cimy-wordpress-plugins/cimy-user-extra-fields/

Video comments.
I know it’s a controversial plugin but it takes the online conversation to an even more interactive and engaging level by allowing readers to add a video or audio comment from their own web cam. It also works perfectly!

http://riffly.com/

I also found stumbling an old but yet very useful post with an awesome list of Free WordPress themes in Smashing Magazines.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/18/100-amazing-free-wordpress-themes-for-2009/

Have a nice week!