take a look at this tutorial http://wpmu.org/automate-your-facebook-twitter-wordpress-post-updates-2-plugins/ a or if you feel like using an external serviceyou can use http://twitterfeed.com which is not a plugin but will do the job more then fine.
I find it difficult for you to find a plugin SPECIFIC for marathon, but you can check out some “normal” event managers like : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-events-registration/ or http://wp-events-plugin.com/events-manager-pro/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-manager/
Do you want the long answer or the short answer? Okay fine I’ll give you both. Short answer, no (at least not one that I know of that does this) Long answer, no but you can do this pretty easily by using other plugins. Here are a few ways to go about it. Create a … Read more
JW player for wordpress is a good plugin for all your needs. Download it from wordpress.org
As mentioned in a comment above the cookie solution will not totally do the trick. If it’s ok that they can revisited the welcome page from a different browser or if they delete cookies. This is fine. If not I would use the database. I think easiest would be to regard the time the user … Read more
I’m not sure about plugins that would do that, but I can definitely recommend this software: https://poedit.net/ It won’t translate automatically every phrase, but it suggests pretty accurate string translations. The pro version also has the option to retrieve all translation ready strings from a theme or plugin. It lets you to easily update and … Read more
I didn’t dive too deep, but it seem like it was done with jQuery UI tabs. I helped with similar layout some time ago at Hybrid forums, here is resulting post WordPress Feature Posts Slider Using jQuery For the record I think it is variation of slider and it is ok to call it that. … Read more
WordPress’ analytics – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/
Set up a custom page template and in the content of the template use WPDB to query your table. Example to get a row: $mylink = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->links WHERE link_id = 10”);
There’s plenty out there, http://winkpress.com/membership-plugin/ has a good write up on most of them and stays pretty unbiased. I can’t tell you a good one but if you come across Magic Members stay well clear of it. It’s buggy as hell and their support staff only help if its an easy fix. When you point … Read more