We already gave adieu to year 2010 and celebrated 2011 with full joy and new hopes. Within the same flow when I look back and counted my learnings of 2010 from my work , I got WordPress in the first position.

Year 2010 gave me lots of opportunity to work in WordPress. I developed few plugins while working on client’s project and updated some existing one for my own use. So I thought lets give farewell to year 2010 by writing a post on plugins only.  So here I am listing some of the plugins which were released in 2010 and got popular (based on the download stats from wordpress.org)

1. Wickett Twitter Widget : Wickett twitter widget is a very simple widget which show latest tweets from you twitter timeline, you just need to give a valid twitter handle, with this you can set how many tweets you want to show on the your blog .
2. Share and Follow: Share and follow is a full social plugin which gives you option to add any social icon in your blog like facebook, twitter, linkedin, reddit, stumbler and many more. Not only this, it provides many ways and styles to match your blog’s theme.
3. Exploit Scanner : Exploit scanner is really awesome plugin which search for suspicious data in your website and list it down for admin to take action. It searches data in your posts and comments database which is considered to be an easily accessible place in your website.
4. Disable WordPress Plugin Updates: This plugin is really useful for  those users who gets annoyed by updates that comes for the plugins. This pugin disable all the updates that comes for any plugin in your wordpress site.
5. Facebook Members: Facebook members is a plugin which shows list of members who already liked your site’s facebook page. New users may get attracted by this list on your website and simply like facebook page from the website itself.

While writing this post I also observed that year 2010 was a full social year, as not only people connected through various social medium but developed so many apps, plugins and addons to do the same. 2010 was wonderful social year