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Much like modules, plugins extend the functionality of EE. Plugins are more limited than modules in that they cannot store information, but are used for changing the behavior of tags or adding functionality “on the fly.”

List of Add-ons hostd at GitHub

There is information on this Wiki for the following plugins:

* Feed Enclosures Plugin

Here are plugins (in alphabetical order) that are not listed at the EE Plugins site:

* AJAX Comments - allows to post a comment to a blog post using AJAX so the page would not have to be refreshed.
* AllowPHP
* Browser Info - allows you to display information about the user’s browser.
* Browser Sniff - allows you to find browser name and version and use them in EE conditionals.
* BU Search Pagination - add this into your template when you wish to have greater control over customising the pagination tags on your search results page. Related forum thread.
* Cacher - Caches stuff to retrieve later. It does somewhat what the Reeposition plugin does, but works across templates.
* Category Cloud - Displays category links in a tagcloud-like view
* Category Expander
* Category Id - Allows you to find category id. Use found category id as parameter of other tags.
* Category Info - Allows you to output info about certain category without specifying anything about weblog or entries.
* Child Categories - Allows you to to display a list of subcategories for a given category and list of entries posted into each subcategory.
* Cleaner - Sanitizes text to be included into HTML-attributes
* Clear Entry Views Plugin
* Cookie Plus - Set and get cookies.
* Countries Select - simple drop down for countries (related forum thread)
* CSVee—Attain CSV files for custom SQL queries.
* Custom Text Plugin—displays text from system language files as specified by the {exp:custom_text} tag.
* Date Compare
* Developer Plugin - After adding the plugin tags to a template, and if you are logged in as a Super Admin, a small tab appears at the top left. Clicking this opens a pane with 6 tables of data: Weblogs, Member Groups, Categories, Weblog Fields, Admin Quicklinks and Weblog Entries. Each table line has shortcut links that will open that specific item in the CP in a new window.
* DynoCat Category plugin
* Entries List - (was Category Posts) Allows you to find titles, url_titles, weblog names, weblog urls and category names of all entries posted to certain categories and/or to certain weblogs.
* Entries Number - Allows to find number of entries posted into certain weblogs and/or into certain categories and/or having certain url_title or entry_id. Use the number found in conditionals.
* Entry Categories - allows you to output info about categories the entry was posted into.
* EntryData - Get custom fields without exp:weblog:entries
* Entry Id - Allows to find entry id of the entry which belongs to certain weblog and/or is posted into category having certain id number and/or has certain url_title.
* Entry Queue - Queue future entries an have them published in fixed intervals.
* Excerpt - This plugin is designed to be wrapped around the {full_text} variable on your search results template.
* Extract URL Plus - More functionality for your perusal.
* Field Value - allows you to output values of custom fields of certain entry without using exp:weblog:entries.
* Find and Replace Plus - Find and replace characters in text. Mark area in which you want replace operation to happen.
* Formatted Date - Output the date formatted according global or ad hoc format.
* From To Converter - Allows you to output values of “start_on” and “stop_before” parameters of exp:weblog:entries tag by inputting entry_id of the first and the last entry in range.
* GeeVar allows you to create global variables using the control panel’s publish and edit interface (related forum thread).
* Item Finder - allows you to find needed item by parsing numbers in url_titles.
* It’s new - This simple little plugin can be used to display some content (like an image) based on the age of an entry.
* Landing Page—allows you to display relevant entries when a visitor is referred to your site from a search engine.
* LG Multi Language - Simple and easy to install frontend language switcher.
* List Contents - allows you to specify a path (not full URL) and it will iterate over the contents and print an ordered or unordered list of the files.
* Localized Text Plugin—localized text string variable loader.
* LogMeIn - automatically log a site visitor in from any template without having to collect details from them, great for SAEF.
* Loop Plugin - allows you to perform loops within any template without having to enable php.Related forum thread.
* Loop Plus - allows you to iterate all tagdata or only the part of the tagdata.
* Mathematical operations - enables the usage of basic mathematical (arithmetic) operations (e.g. + - * / ). It can be useful especially in conjunction with conditional ({if}) statements.
* Maximum Posts Reached—Enables you to set a number of posts allowed per member group via an SAEF.
* Member List - output a list of members from a certain group.
* Members - Allows you to find info about individual members based on their member id numbers.
* Meta Words—Get most frequent words for a template.
* MP3 Info—This plugin can be used to extract header information from a given mp3-file.
* navTrail
* Nice Weblog Categories - this plugin is basically an improved version of the default {categories} tag, it still shows the categories that an entry belongs to, however what makes this different is that it shows the categories in a much nicer format.
* Number To Date - purpose of this plugin is to assist in ordering of entries which have titles
containing numbers.
* Pager Plugin - plugin to split a field into multiple pages, without having to do the multi_field pagination trick
* PHP Markdown Extra—Updated version of Markdown plugin that utilizes Michel Fortin’s additions
* PHPStringFun - Gateway to PHP’s string functions without needing to activate PHP in a template
* Random Sticky - Randomly reassigns the ‘sticky’-flag(s) in a given weblog in fixed intervals.
* Random Number - Allows you to output random numbers.
* Recursive Subcategories - display any level of subcategories as a nested list.
* Redirect To you will be re-directed to the URL specified in the location parameter.
* Reeposition - allows you to move content from Point A to Point B (related forum thread)
* Repeet (beta) - Displays Repeating Entries (related forum thread).
* Search Marker - when using the EE search module this plugin highlights the search terms on the search results page
* Search Pagination - Add this when you wish to have greater control over customising the pagination tags on your search results page (related forum thread).
* Search Term—Format your search result excerpts, Google style!
* SEO gadget - display various search engine stats from your referrer log.
* Session Variables - allows you to store variables in PHP’s native session (related forum thread).
* Simple Math - provides support for doing simple mathematical operations in templates.
* Single Field - allows you to output the value of single custom field of certain entry without using exp:weblog:entries.
* Sliced Typography
* Splitter - This plugin may be used to split any kind of listings into several blocks with evenly distributed items.
* Subcategories - will let you show a list of subcategories for a given category.
* Subsegment - Split url segment into subsegment array and find any subsegment. Use subsegment as parameter of other tag.
* Tag Limit—Limit html output by tag.
* Template Language
* Traverse Segments - Allows to return the value of a certain URI segment working from the end of the URI backwards.
* TextLinkAds—Simplifies the embedding of TextLinkAds Ad Code into EE templates.
* Trimmer—Cuts X characters from the beginning and / or the end of a given text and returns the trimmed string.
* Value Aggregator - allows you to compose from several values a string suitable for use as a value of parameter of ExpressionEngine’s tag.
* Weblog URL - Allows to find weblog url as specified in weblog preferences.
* WI Friendlee Date - Convert supplied date parts to a friendly date output.
* Yahoo! BOSS Search - allows you to create custom search engines using Yahoo! BOSS API.