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It’s time once again for WordPress Wednesday and this time we will be having a look through the official WordPress plugin directory to see what were some of the newest plugins that been newly released to the WordPress community. Below you will find 6 latest plugins that hopefully can help you to put something new and awesome into one your WordPress powered website.

Some of the plugins that you can find featuring in today’s post can help you with improving the WordPress Dashboard Editor with some new fonts, a plugin that alerts visitor that their browser is out of date, a plugin to build your resume, a plugin that will set an image as the featured image at the same time your insert your post content, a plugin that shows the popular social icons and another builder plugin but this time you can build a contact form with ease.

1. WP Editor Tweaks for WordPress

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For the first latest plugin for this roundup is WP Editor Tweaks, this plugin is a super-simple WordPress plugin that improves both tabs of the WordPress editor with better fonts from Google Fonts (Source Sans Pro in the Visual editor and Source Code Pro in the Text editor) and improved typography. Once you start using WP Editor Tweaks, you may even enjoy drafting your posts in WordPress!

2. Outdated Browser

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With the Outdated Browser is for the developers that are tired of people visiting your website with an outdated browser and not doing anything about it. Maybe they aren’t the “power” users, maybe it’s your of your family members running a last century browser trying to see awesome CSS3 animations and transforms.  So why don’t you let the user know that’s an outdated browser, and advise them on a better one.  That why with this solution you can check if the user’s browser can handle your website. If not, it will show a cool looking notice advising the user to update the browser. It’ll be up to him/her to decide if he upgrades or not.

3. Resume Builder

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With the Resume Builder you can build out your complete resume, contact info and skills list with this powerful plugin. Includes the features such as a powerful and exclusive Resume Builder to build out your resume, skill set and contact information, the resume plugin is responsive so it will fit on any theme plus, also this plugin comes with four great shortcodes for displaying your resume, skills and contact information in different locations

4. Instant Featured Image

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The Instant Featured Image plugin will set an image as the featured image at the same time as you insert it into the post content, as this plugin solves this problem by adding a new button along the “Insert into post” button in the media manager modal. When clicked, this button will insert your selected media and then, if you have selected an image, set that image as the post’s featured image.

5. WP Social Sharing

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WP Social Sharing plugin will add a very attractive, responsive social share buttons of Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to WordPress posts, page or media. This plugin is very lightweight and simple social sharing plugin and this plugin provides option whether you want to include plugin CSS/JS or not. As most of the social sharing plugins uses images/api to display social share buttons, but this plugin created large buttons using CSS3. Also, these social sharing buttons are responsive and for device that has a width less than 480px the button will be converted into their respective icons.

6. Contact Form Builder

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The Contact Form Builder WordPress plugin is one of the best tool for quickly arranging a contact form for your clients and visitors. As the form includes all of the form field types necessary to create a complete contact form, where is those can be activated and deactivated, as well as rearranged.

The form has an integrating Google Maps feature allowing you to display the location of your office using Google Maps. Each form comes with a shortcode displayed in Manager Section for easier copying/pasting it in the post or page, where you want to display. After submitting the form, the users might get a custom text and even receive an email copy of the submissions.

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WordPress Wednesday – 6 Latest Plugins from the Plugin Directory