Sidebar is the most essential part of blog design. If you have a cool and dynamic sidebar it adds a lot of value to the look of your blog. Your blog will look professional if it has a nice compact sidebar with lots of options. In this post I collect 30 Wordpress Plugins and Widgets which helps you to spice up your sidebar and give your blog a new stylish and professional look. This plugin enables you to create simple forms for subscription to your newsletter. It includes a sidebar widget with customizable fields (up to 15) to gather from your users all the information you need for your email marketing campaigns.
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 related subscription icons in a widget area and lets users enter their own feed or page URLs and select the colour of their icons.
Quick Adsense is an Ads management Wordpress plugin. It offers a quicker & flexible way to insert Adsense or any Ads code into a blog post.
Using this plugin, you can add icons (images) to sidebar of your site or blog into section of categories and pages.
This plugin adds a new dynamic sidebar which displays the widgets in it as tabs, instead of as a list. It adds a widget, and a template tag, so that it can be inserted wherever it needs to be.
The SmugMug Photo Sidebar widget displays a user-selectable number of random photos from one (or several) RSS photo feeds in the sidebar of a Word Press blog.
It’s called Sidebar Widgets because it allows you to move things (widgets) around, in and out of your sidebar. A widget is something that you might want on your sidebar, such as a category list or the most recent comments or a link to your admin pages.
Now you can create as many sidebars as you need for any page you want. Thats right, page/post specific sidebars. You can easily seperate your site into sections, or make every single page have page specific sidebar content on it.
WP-FlashTime Widget allow you to add a flash clock widget to your wordpress.This plugin include 25 different flash clocks.
This plugin allows you to quickly insert a tag cloud made of flash.
The Alexa Rank Widget easily allows to add widget in wordpress sidebar. This widget will give to control the website name how you want to show the alexa widget in your sidebar.
Recent Comments by Entry plugin will display the latest comments and also the entry where they were posted.
Twitter Widget adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates.
Displays Visitor Maps with location pins, city, and country. Includes a Who’s Online Sidebar to show how many users are online. Includes a Who’s Online admin dashboard to view visitor details. The visitor details include: what page the visitor is on, IP address, host lookup, online time, city, state, country, geolocation maps and more.
Adds a PayPal donation shortcode and sidebar Widget 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.
This plugin can display a highly customizable MP3 player on your sidebar, in a single post page or any other places on your blog pages.
The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site.
Author Information widgetThis Widget shows the "about me" text, gravatar and social network/contact links of an author of your blog. You can add this widget to sidebars on author relevant sections, i.e. pages, posts or author archives.
Chatroll Live Chat is a simple and flexible chat plugin for WordPress. Use Chatroll as a live chat or shoutbox on your sidebar, posts and pages.
When you update/modify one of your posts on your Wordpress blog and you want your visitors to know about it, this is what you need. This widget plugin create a sidebar box with a list of posts you’ve recently updated/modified.
Page Tree gives you a much-needed overview of your pages in the admininstration panel using a common expand/collapse menu, which lets you navigate your page structure like a folder tree in Windows Explorer.
Recent Photos Plugin provides with a widget to display n numbers of recent photos from the media library in the sidebar. The display can be customized through custom css or integrated in main style sheet file.
Creates a dropdown list of tags as an alternative to the tag cloud. Widget provides options to specify dropdown label and trim long tag names to fit theme constraints, as well as display post counts. Widget can also exclude tags based on tag slugs.
Display YouTube videos on individual pages. Let them list on a page, category view or front page or switch them off. You can even let AdSense show when a post doesnt have a video.
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.
PageRank displays the Google (TM) PageRank of your WordPress blog. The widget is automatic and can be configured to display different button styles.
Plugin that allows you to easily see who is currently viewing your blog.
Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.
DMSGuestbook is an easy configurable guestbook with a lot of features. You can customize the whole DMSGuestbook to your desire.
This Widget shows title and link of some random posts in the sidebar. You can choose how many links the user can see. If you use this widget on a sidebar in single post view the current post will be excluded from the randomizing list of posts.
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