I didn’t want to leave my great readers out of the loop on this, so I’m going to post the day’s collection from my Twitter project here for your enjoyment.

In honor of #pluginSunday, which is my attempt at a Twitter movement, below are some great resources for some of the hottest jQuery plugins making their rounds through the interwebs to date…

15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
Sometimes it’s just hard to fix certain things with CSS alone. Additionally, CSS is for presentation, and JS is for behavior. So when a browser is behaving badly, jQuery, and it’s world of plugins, has your back.

Includes:

• Round Corners
• Equal Heights
• Lazy-loading images
• Increasing click-target size
• And many other “utility” plugins

45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
It’s all about the users. Ajax file uploading, cramming more content onto a page, and providing immediate feedback for users’ actions is a must these days, and these jQuery plugins make it so easy, there’s no excuse NOT to give them a shot.

Includes:

• Ajax forms
• Ajax file uploads
• iPod-style drill down menus
• Text size slider

15 jQuery Plugins To Create A User Friendly Tooltip
Tooltips are not only a great accessibility feature, but a useful usability and user experience element, too.

Includes:

• Plain automatic tooltips
• Stylish Tipsy tooltips
• The simple qTip plugin

35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
Never one to disappoint, Noupe puts together an impressive collection of jQuery plugins that have that certain pizazz some are looking for.

Includes:

• Leopard desktop look navigation
• Advanced keypress navigation
• Galleries and slideshows galore
• More calendars and datepickers than you can shake an .ics at

The Power of WordPress and jQuery: 25+ Useful Plugins & Tutorials
Again, another impressive showing from our friends at Noupe. What could be better than WordPress? WordPress with jQuery goodness, that’s what.

Includes:

• jQuery Post slider
• Live comment preview
• Modal contact form
• Events calendar
• Many more… the only question is, which one don’t you want to use?

I hope you’ll share your plugins, whether they’re jQuery, WordPress, or other in the comments below, and be sure to follow me on Twitter for a great collection of resources on a particular subject each day through the week.

Recently, a good friend from Apple, Jason Bruder, turned me onto a really great Safari plugin called ClickToFlash.

This plugin works very similar to AdBlock Plus, but is focused on blocking Flash. See below for some screenshots.

You can specify to get the H.264 versions (and even the HD versions automatically) of videos from sites like YouTube, and block the really, REALLY annoying Flash ads that slow down your browsing, and can even crash your browser.

* Yes, applications on Mac crash, as does the OS itself.

Here are some screenshots from the app:

And, yes, this is an open source plugin. If you ever wondered how to make a plugin like this… just take a peek at the source.

link to app page: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

link to github: http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash

You all know I’m using WordPress. I’m a huge fan of its ease of use, robust features, plugin architecture, and active community.

That said, let’s be honest here: It’s not the safest thing around. You need to take some action to secure your WordPress install.

After putting in all of the time, and perhaps money, into your WordPress website or blog, its now time to secure and protect it from outside enemies and general bad guys: hackers, spammers and all round tossers. If your WP development knowledge is limited, your best option is to download and install plugins.

My favorites from the list:

• WP-Security Scan
• AskApache Password Protect
• Akismet
• WordPress Database Backup

Those are a subset of the plugins I use on all my WordPress blogs (a full rundown with reviews is pending for a post later this week, so stay tuned).

link: 20+ Powerful WordPress Security Plugins and Some Tips and Tricks : Speckyboy Design Magazine