We love use­ful stuff. For months, we have been book­mark­ing inter­est­ing, use­ful and cre­at­ive Word­Press plu­gins and and related resources. As we are cur­rently wrest­ling with a big cli­ent pro­ject, the ver­sat­il­ity of Word­Press con­tin­ues to amaze us.

Below, we present five most prom­ising plu­gins. We tried to focus on rather unknown tools that are def­in­itely worth a look. Some plu­gins are new and some are old, but hope­fully every­body will find a couple of new use­ful or at least inspir­ing tools. Don’t for­get to check out the plu­gin author homepages too for fur­ther inform­a­tion.

AJAXed Word­Press

AJAXed Word­Press is a plu­gin that har­nesses the power of AJAX and Word­Press to improve the user exper­i­ence, the admin­is­tra­tion cap­ab­il­it­ies and the design poten­tial of any Word­Press based blog.

Exec-PHP

The Exec-PHP plu­gin executes PHP code in your posts, pages and text widgets.

In The Loop

In The Loop provides an way to auto­mat­ic­ally attach any HTML, CSS or JavaS­cript before or after the post content.

Pods

The Pods plu­gin is like Cus­tom Fields on ster­oids. Pods lets you cre­ate con­tent types for power­ful blog post categorization.

Visual Recent Posts

This plu­gin gives the look of a magazine-style web­site with thumb­nails and excerpts in a clean lay­out. Thumb­nails are gen­er­ated auto­mat­ic­ally, and there is a set­tings page to set an unholy amount of options.