+15 Most Popular Sidebar WordPress Plugins

In this Post we try to make a wide Collection of wordpress plugin you can use to enhance your blog sidebar, increase traffic, add feature, create sidebar posts, add videos, add flicker galleries, newsletters, etc …..

You can give these plugins a try

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The Subscription Options Plugin

The most common ways for people to subscribe to a blog and its content are through RSS, Email and Twitter. Facebook pages are increasing in usage too.
This plugin places the above icons in a widget area and lets users enter their own feed or page URLs and colour options. It’s really simple but there’s lots of power under the hood.

Tweet Blender

Better than Twitter’s own widgets – Tweet Blender is tag-aware and has support for multiple authors, lists, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user or a list of users (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple lists AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

GRAND Flash Album Gallery

Are you looking for a better way to manage and display photos on your blogs??? Then you must try this fantastic GRAND Flash Album Gallery plugin. It provides a comprehensive interface for managing photos and images through a set of admin pages, and it displays photos in a way that makes your web site look very professional. You can display galleries with a beautiful flash skins integrated with GRAND Flash Album Gallery.

WP Social Blogroll

WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll.

Sidebar Photoblog

There are several photo blog plug-in for WordPress. Most of them assume that you are a professional photographer who makes lots of money via his/her camera. We are perfect for bloggers.

Sidebar Photo blog doesn’t use lots of server resources and doesn’t have any confusing options. It uses WordPress functions to get maximum compatibility and flexibility.

Mingle WordPress Plugin

The simple way to turn your WordPress blog into a Social Network. Mingle uses your standard WordPress website and standard WordPress theme to create profile pages, user friending, profile page posts, profile activities, social comments, email notifications (with privacy settings) and a full directory of members. So go ahead and try it out — give your users a more social experience on your website!

AlexaRank

Das Plugin zeigt den aktuellen Alexa Traffic Rank deiner Blog-Domain in der Sidebar an.

WordPress and bulk email software

Building an email marketing website ready for a free email marketing software bulk email delivery can be pretty easy using open source and free softwares like WordPress and SendBlaster Bulk Emailer Free edition.

Login With Ajax

Login With Ajax is for sites that need user logins and would like to avoid the normal wordpress login, this plugin adds the capability of placing a login widget in the sidebar with smooth AJAX login effects.

WP-Cumulus — Flash tag cloud

WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page .

PageSpot

PageSpot uses private Pages as groups of content to be inserted in various other places in your Page or theme. By default it creates two special private Pages:

PageSpot Snippets are pieces of another Page. To create a new snippet, just create a child Page of the [PageSpot] Page Snippets page. PageSpot will ensure your new snippet remains Private and inaccessible on its own. PageSpot then expects you to assign the snippet to a Spot on one of your public Pages.

GeneralStats

Counts the number of users, categories, posts, comments, pages, links, tags, link-categories, words in posts, words in comments and words in pages.

PayPal Donations

Adds a PayPal donation sidebar widget and shortcode to WordPress. The options menu lets you setup you PayPal ID and a few other optional settings. You can choose which donation button you want to use or if you want to use your own button. You can also set an optional default purpose and reference which can be overridden on each inserted instance with the widget and shortcode options. There is also settings for currency, custom payment page style and the return page.

Flickr Photos

Flickr Photos plugin is the perfect and easiest way to show your Flickr pictures on your site. You can also show any Flickr group or public photos too.

Twitter Bubble

Do you want to display your latest tweet on your blog? Don’t like the look of other Twitter widgets or feeds?

Ad Codes / AdSense Widget

he Ad Codes widget allows you to place ANY size banner into a widget-ready bar for WordPress®. You can paste HTML, JavaScript, an IFrame, or even PHP code into this widget without any problem at all. The Ad Codes widget also supports multi-widget options, so you can add more than one banner to your sidebar, or even more than one size if you’d like. This widget also supports shuffle-rotations, allowing you to place more than one ad code into a single widget box

Twitter @Anywhere Plus

This plugin allows you to easily add Twitter @Anywhere to your blog, enabling the @Anywhere

Comment Rating Widget

This plugin is an add on to the Comment Rating plugin (version 2.9.0 or later). It displays ratings along with the most recent comments in the sidebar in formats of your design. The comment rating and images on display can be “Likes only”, “Dislikes only”, or Both. This is customizable by the “Value for comment_karma” option in Comment Rating.

Xhanch – My Twitter

Xhanch – My Twitter is a WordPress plugin made by Xhanch Studio to show your latest tweets and you can customize it with our predefined customizations settings/options. Your latest tweets can be displayed via sidebar, post or page

sidebarTabs

* Multiple instances;
* The layout of each instance can be defined as horizontal or vertical;
* Layout of tabs > horizontal instance: fixed without icons, fixed with icons, scrollable without icons and scrollable with icons;
* Possibility to select the corners of the tabs between 18 options generated by jQuery Corner plugin;
* Definition of font weight, font size and font family of tabs for the instances vertical and horizontal without icons.

Dock Menu FX

You can incorporate the Dock Menu in any website for free without even using Flash. The alignment may be horizontal and vertical, customizable min and max images width and height, configurable spacing. You can also choose from three expanding directions and have an optional auto scrolling and multiple scrolling properties and speeds. It can be resized to the extent of 1680 x 1050 pixels. The tooltip is HTML formatted. Lightbox can easily be integrated for this menu.