AndrewZhang

Provide a widget to show the hot tags of your recent posts.
<a href="http://www.mashget.com/2008/09/18/wp-recent-tags-changelog/" rel="nofollow ugc">ChangeLog</a>
What’s Tag?
Tag is simply a word you can use to describe something, with WordPress, ‘something’ will be your posts or pages. It’s very easy to use, think this way, if you want to google your post, what keywords should you use, that’s it.
Why ‘Recent Tags’?
Giving an example:
Olympics were very hot about a month ago, and we might write many posts about this topic, then ‘Olympics’ was a very hot tag. But Olympics would not always the hot spot, right? It’s gone, and we might talk Elections now, so how to let the visitors get this, get what you’re talking about now?
Recent Tags! That’s the simplest way.
How to define ‘Recent’ and something you should know?
‘Recent’ is a problem? Yep, actually it is. Recent tags might be tags used in some recent posts, or it might be the tags used in some recent days, strictly speaking, they’re different, but most of the time, the difference can be very small. The point is when you see the tags, you do tell it is the ‘recent’ ones.
For performance considerations, this plugin will log your tags by days, that means it can tell you what and how many times a tag be used for a specific day, and what the hot tags in some recent days.
But for most of us, we don’t write posts very day, right? So there’s a problem here, if you ask hot tags in recent 2 days, you might get a empty box, as you didn’t publish anything. To solve this problem, this plugin will still ask to show the hot tags in some recent posts, but the calculation method will be:
Giving an example, to show the hot tags in recent 20 posts, it will get the date of the 20th post first, and calculate the hot tags since that day.
Worry about performance?
It’s possible to calculate the tag stat directly through wordpress tables, but the server usage will be extremely high, so this plugin creates a table in your database to track your tags by day. You can treat these data as some pre-calculation, if you’re not publishing posts every minute and every post gets lots of tags, I don’t think you should worry about this table.
Also, I think you may use the <a href="http://www.mashget.com/2008/09/01/wp-widget-cache-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Widget Cache</a> to cache the widget output

WP Recent Tags

Provide a widget to show the hot tags of your recent posts.

Daniel

What do you show the reader after they have read your content? Do you show them an empty comment box? A small unrelated block of automated text? 
Instead use afterRead to present an active post footer driving visitors back into the site, don’t waste a prime opportunity. Presently afterRead’s options are focused on driving visitors back into other related articles, but afterRead is capable of much more so expect to see new innovative Suggestions.
Features:
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Add Previous and Next post links to the bottom of posts. These links can potentially be to any post, to only posts in the same category, or even only to posts with a matching tag. By default there are three styles to choose from, these styles integrate well with most themes.
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Suggestions can be anything from a donate button to a subscribe button to anything you can imagine.
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afterRead is modular and made of two primary parts, the afterRead core, and afterRead suggestions.This allows for updates that do not revert changes and for easy custom extension of functionality.
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You can easily add new suggestions by simply pasting code into a text box in the afterRead settings page
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afterRead

Provides suggestions to readers at the end of articles about what to do next, ie; read related articles, donate, read next article in category, etc.

WP Recent Tags vs afterRead