You may notice that some popular websites add an “email this article to friend” link at the bottom of the article. This is to let people recommend the article to their friends. Adding such feature in other CMS are very easy, but how about add this features in a Wordpress blog?

There is a Wordpress plugin called WP-Email developed by Lester Chan, which add such feature to your Wordpress blog.

Before users can forward your article to their friends, they have to enter a verification code, which will greatly avoid spamming and will reduce your server usage also.

There are a lot of options which you can configure. For example, you can set your email template, SMTP options, and even a log file to keep track emails being sent by your users.

As a conclusion, this is a must have plugin if you seriously want to let your readers recommend your articles to their friends.

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPres. Bloggers can use this plugin to inform readers about new post published, or inform subscribers about new events and updates.

Various canfiguration can be set by the administrators. For example, you can exlude certain categories post, set the email format to either plain text or HTML. The format of the email can also be customised.

Administrator can subscribe or unsubscribe users, and create a form for readers to subscribe. Although we may use Feedburner to let our readers receive new post through email, but this plugin enable us to have more controls to our readers and.

Download: Subscribe2

Do you feel bored with your contact form? Seems like every contact forms have similar appearance. Although there are a lot of Wordpress plugin for you to create your contact form, but most of them do not provide “themes” for you.

So, you may use this plugin, WP-Niceforms to customize your contact form. It is a script that will replace commonly used form elements with custom design appearance.

Looks nice? To use this script, simply add class=”niceform” for the form that you want to beautify.

Plugin Download | Plugin Website | Demo

I believe most of Wordpress users know the differences between “Post” and “Page” right? One of the significant difference is we have a “Page Template” but we cannot have a “Post Template“.

If you don’t know what is Page Template, you may refer Wordpress Codex. So, if you want to have your custom Post Template, what would you do?

There is a plugin called “Custom Post Template” which add a Post Template section below your Writting Panel so that you can attach different template to your posts.

The templates are defined similarly to page templates, and will replace single.php for the specified post. The readme file that comes with this plugin has a very detail about how to create your custom post templates.

Author website: http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/wordpress/
Download: Custom Post Template Plugin

Do you like Mac OSX Leopard design? You can skin your Wordpress Admin Panel into Leopard style by using Leopard Admin plugin.

The screenshot above show your admin panel after activate the Leopard Admin. Simply download, install and activate the plugin to have your Leopard admin panel. No extra modification needed.

This plugin works well on both Wordpress 2.5 and 2.6. I tried the plugin on Wordpress 2.7 but it looks weird. Hope the author will release a new version when Wordpress 2.7 final version release.