Recently we listed what we think are the 5 most essential plug-ins for WordPress, and  5 Useful but not essential ones.  Today’s round up is a list of the ones we think are the sexiest.

1. Frame-Image by Jessai

This plug-in displays a frame around the images on your blog. You can control the colour and width of border and padding from the admin. When the user mouses over your images the background of the padding changes to your pre-defined colour.

2. Tabbed Widgets by Kasper Dambis

You can save vertical space and make your blog look less cluttered by placing your widgets into tabbed and accordion type interface blocks using this plug-in.  Configuration options are available in the admin. We used this script on our own site, unfortunately however it doesn’t work with the most recent upgrade of WordPress (2.8.4) but we hear that the developers are working on this and look forward to it coming back soon.

3. WP Tool Tips by Brian Hert

This plug-in enables you to show word definitions or explanations as tool tips, in your posts.  The tooltip appears when the user mouses over a tagged word.

Tooltip example

4. Audio Player by Martin Laine

Audio Player provides you with a simple way of inserting a stylish Flash mp3 player on your WordPress posts and pages. Features include configurable colour scheme, enclosure integration, runtime options such as autostart and loop and ID3 tag integration.

Sample audio track by (bestest) voice over, Jonathan Ryan:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

5. Latest Twitter Sidebar Widget by Corey Salzano

This plugin creates a widget capable of displaying Twitter updates in any widget-ready theme. Enter any Twitter user name and the number of status updates to display before positioning the widget on your blog’s theme. See the right-hand column on this page for an example of this plug-in. No, don’t actually, because we removed it. But, believe us, it works!