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Akismet has protected your site from 2,000,396 spam comments.

WeblogToolsCollection.com also reached the 10,000 comments milestone a couple of weeks ago. So, for comparison’s sake, at present there are 10,577 comments on this blog.

Huzzah!

[EDIT] I forgot to ask, how is Akismet treating you?

Today is the last day of the Wordpress Plugin Competition. So today is the last day for you to submit plugins to the competition. If you were planning on submitting a plugin, please email the final version of the code to mark at wltc dot net. I must receive your code by the end of today for your plugin to be eligible as an entry into the competition.

If you, as a plugin user, have not checked out the competition entries and tried out some of the incredible plugins, head over there right away. Once you have downloaded and used the plugins, make sure you come back to the competition and rate the plugins that you have used. Your ratings will go a long way in helping us determine the best entries into the competition.

Thanks again to all the sponsors and donors that have made this competition a reality.

ACMS is a 3-column theme designed to turned WordPress into a Content Management System.

Blog Oh Blog is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with minimal design.

Hope in Dark is a 2-column, widget- and adsense-ready theme with orange and black colors.

Moo-Point is a 2-column, widget-ready theme built on the Sandbox theme.

Recycled Canvas is a 2-column, experimental WordPress theme designed to gather and share mouseclick data via a specialized plugin for academic research in how people share designs, use blogs, and a variety of other purposes.

Add to Facebook adds a link to the bottom of each post and page on your blog with the text “Share on Facebook”.

Drop-down Post List allows you to easily display drop-down boxes containing the posts for specified categories.

TwitterPress lets you display your Twitter friends on your blog, shows latest updates, and automatically sends a Tweet when you post a new entry. Current version of this plugin is a preview version.

WordTwit automatically generates a twitter status update for every post published.

Gangway is a 3-column theme designed for group or team blogs.

SandPress is a 3-column, minimal theme built on the Sandbox theme for the Sandbox competition.

Upstart Blogger Takimata is another minimalist theme from the Sandbox competition.

WPNJ01 is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that supports widgets for both the sidebar and footer.

Add to Google enables a user to add the small “Add to Google” widget button on a WordPress blog, without editing the source code by hand.

Crossroads interfaces with flickr and lightbox, adding thumbnails and flickr photo comments to your blog entries.

Fullscreen 1.0 for WP-Super-Edit is a plugin for WP Super Edit. By using it, you can enlarge your TinyMCE editor to fit the full screen of the browser, and toggle between those two views.

Monsters Editor 1.0 for WP-Super-Edit brings the magic of Fckeditor back to TinyMCE.

Peter’s Anti-spam Image generates random anti-spam images instead of custom anti-spam images.

SemGeshiCodeFix presents clear, highlighted code on your blog and even works in comments.

Simple Download Counter counts how many times a file is being downloaded from your wordpress blog and, if you like, lets you display the total number of downloads on its pages.

WP-Backlinks will trade backlinks via a form on your side bar. It will spider other sites to check for reciprocal links and then add them to your WP-Backlinks admin section wainting for approval.

WP-Slimstat tracks your blog stats.

Bogart is a 3-column, widget theme with a very simple look and a clean style.

Isolated is a slick little single-column theme that uses Mootools Accordian for the posts and GD image support for the titles.

Minimal is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that allows you to use a class=”left” or class=”right” to float images in your posts.

Styled is a 2-column theme based on K2 featuring a micro-header and clear-cut styling.

I am proud to announce the beta version of Wordpress Jobs.

The site is intended to be used as the primary location for employers looking for professional Wordpress help to post their needs and for Wordpress professionals to find, apply for and obtain jobs in WordPress. We have focussed on aesthetics, ease of use and consolidation of resources in developing WordPress Jobs. Feeds are available for every job category to make it easy for job seekers to find and apply for the right jobs as quickly as possible. We will also advertise jobs from Wordpress Jobs on weblogtoolscollection to increase exposure.

Job categories include WordPress Design Positions, WordPress Programmer Positions, WordPress Blogger Positions and General Positions divided into full time and project job types. Once posted, jobs should appear on the main listing within 24 hours and will continue to be listed on the site for a period of 21 days from posting.

While in beta, the service will be free. However, hiring intentions are better thought out and more steadfast when there is something to be lost in vacillation. We want the process of finding WordPress professionals to be easy and cheap for employers and fast and painless for job seekers.

WordPress Jobs is proudly powered by WordPress. Thanks to Matt for his help and support and to Jennifer for her excellent work on the design.

Artueel is a single-column theme with green colors.

CommentPress allows readers to comment on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis.

Dark Red is a widget-ready theme built on the famous Hemingway.

Margot is a 2-column, widget-ready with dark colors.

Mezzanine is a 2-column, minimalistic theme with a fresh, clean look.

Article Dragon Content Finder quickly adds keyword-targeted content to your WordPress blog. The plugin is powered by ArticleDragon.com.

CodeViewer pulls source code from an external file and displays it, optionally adding a link to download the code directly.

GeoAddress provides a contact/address list in a Google map. The representation the Google map and/or the address form can be affected in the Admintool by means of numerous options.

gpx2map displays your geo track data on Google maps.

MyDashboard is designed to replace the standard, but limited, WordPress dashboard with something a bit more useful, extendable and skinnable.

sHeise Ticker displays X headlines in your sidebar. The length of each hyperlink can be edited through the admin-control-panel.

WP-Bulb sends you notifications about new comments through the Jabber/XMPP protocol.

aideRSS is a feed filtering and classification system that was recently showcased on Read/WriteWeb. As usual, the RW writeup is in depth and the insights and the research are useful in understanding the purpose and the use of aideRSS. aideRSS uses a proprietary “PostRank” algorithm to categorize and rank the posts on a certain blog and gives a reader the ability to filter the most important and most attention grabbing topics from any feed or blog. PostRank is particular to each blog’s statistics and is not a universal algorithm. The resulting ranked lists can then be subscribed through any regular feedreader. For example, the “best posts” from WeblogToolsCollection’s feed are available through this feed.

You can perform a similar analysis on your blog by using the simple search on the main page. You can also use the service to filter the feeds that you read in order to reduce clutter (you can import your OPML file). The service also provides widgets that you can embed on your own blog that allows your readers to make the same choices. RW touts that the real benefit of the service will be realized when the service is able to track reader behavior and provide insights into what makes readers tick.

I think the service is interesting from a social networking and reader tracking perspective and it can be useful to find counts of most the social bookmarking links on one page. However, I think that as a way of tracking interesting posts, it provides information that I, as an involved blogger, already have had through simpler means. I already know which of my posts struck a chord with my readers and which posts tanked. (among other things, if you are a registered user on weblogtoolscollection.com and are logged in, you should see the number of times each post was visited) I see little benefit in offering a “best posts” widget to readers for the obvious reasons. In addition, if you are like me and you read feeds to get the latest information as quickly as possible, waiting for a post to become popular and show up on aideRSS would take too much time. It might be useful for those that read feeds like newspapers and use them as a consolidated, summarized version of the daily news.

Would you find a use for aideRSS in your blogging life?

BluVision is a 2-column, bluish theme to give your blog an attractive look.

Dark Green is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with three different colors options (blue, read, and green).

Grady is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that is Lightbox-enabled and provides support for a few additional plugins.

Pop Blue is a 3-column, lightweight theme that has been expanded from it’s 2-column counterpart.

Simple Foundation is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a minimalistic design.

Wrath is a 3-column theme with red colors based on the Sandbox theme.

BGtoLAT converts Bulgarian Cyrillic characters in post title to Latin characters. Very useful for Bulgarian users of WordPress.

d4rss is an RSS Aggregator plugin that allows to display rss entries from external rss sources of your choice. RSS entries are updated once a day using Wordpress Cron API.

MiniMeta Widget adds a contact form to your sidebar and allows you to enable or disable links.

Mother Approves Vote Button adds an external Vote Button on individual posts on your blog that allows readers to ‘Approve’ your post at MotherApproves.net (A Digg for Parents) right from your individual post with a user-friendly graphical vote button.

Plastic Tunes allows your blog to display and collect informations about the music you play in your media player.

Slideshare.net Slideshows for WordPressMU lets you add slideshows to your WordPressMU blogs.

Text Link Ads for WordPressMU allows WPMU users to use the TLA basic service and earn money. On the other hand, WPMU operators can earn money by joining the TLA affiliate program and refer their users to the service.

WordPress Automatic Upgrade automatically upgrades your WordPress installation with the latest files from wordpress.org.

wp-wishlistr allows you to vew your wishlist from wishlistr.com in your WordPress installation, either on a page or in a post.

SezWho Offers Portable Reputations : Web Worker has a thorough writeup on the SezWho service which allows commenter reputation and rating across the web. Installation is really simple with their Wordpress Plugin (also for MT). Web Worker seemed cautious about professing the success or viability of this service. However Read/WriteWeb, who is already using SezWho, was a lot more upbeat about the prospects. WeblogToolsCollection on the other hand, has been bitten hard by third party services and their scalability issues and I am going to shy away from this one for now. Sadly, it is quite hard to determine the dependability of a remotely hosted service from just their SLA and their promises, especially if their financial model is shaky.

The WordPress Plugin Competition is rapidly headed towards a fantastic close. If you were planning on entering a plugin, get registered on the Plugin Competition Blog and post your entry there. Remember, in order to be considered as an entry into the competition, you have to post an entry on the blog and send in the final code to me via email by July 31st. Some fantastic entries have already been released for the competition and we have about $1000 in cash and other cool sponsored prizes. Thanks to all the sponsors and the donors. There is still time to throw in a few bucks to help sweeten the pot (look for the ChipIn Widget).

I have also added a rating feature for the entries on the Competition Blog. If you have not rated your favorite plugins, head over to the Plugin Competition Blog and help decide the best plugins. The ratings can have a significant impact on the final outcome of the competition. Also, since there have been a few questions on this issue, I would like to make it clear that as an entrant into the competition, you may release your plugin anywhere you like as long as you post your intentions on the plugin blog. There are no other restrictions on release as long as you follow the rules.

Also of interest to the WordPress aficionado is the Sandbox Designs Competition run by Scott. Last date for that competition is July 29th.