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aStickyPostOrderER allows you to re-arrange the order that WordPress displays posts.
ClickQuote will wrap selected text in appropriate tags and insert it into your comment reply box.
Limosin Status Line displays a line of text at the top of your blog page.
PowerBlogroll allows you to display a blogroll with name and favicon.
Simple Feed Copyright will add a simple copyright notice at end of full text articles in your feed.
3Grey is a 2-column, stylish theme with third column for advertising.
Amber is a 4-column, fluid-width theme with light colors.
B3 is a single-column, no-frills rebuild of the minimalistic Bare theme.
Blue Paradise is a 3-column theme that provides support for WP-Ratings and Subscribe To Comments. Also check out HateMate by the same author.
Crzy Blu is a 3-column, lightweight theme with support for Gravatar and MyBlogLog.
Gluttony is a 2-column, grey theme in SmallPotato’s Seven Deadly Sins series.
LinearEX is a 2-column theme that provides some visual tweaks from the author’s Linear theme.
Marc is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with customizable header image.
I have always wanted to ask this question from my readers since I believe that the answer would help me provide more ways receive the information that is posted on this blog (and help WordPress users). Since I came across this cool app for Facebook that allows you to attach polls to your Facebook pages, I added it to the weblogtoolscollection.com Facebook fan page. With that in mind, where do you read weblogtoolscollection.com?
The poll embed code is not behaving. If you want to vote, please visit the facebook fan page, click on “View polls for weblogtoolscollection.com” and vote there. I should have used a better polling plugin like the one from GamerZ. When I get the polls plugin installed, I will update the post with the right information. Till then, please leave a comment.
Thank you for being patient and I apologize for the confusion!
Comment Stupidity Filter On Its Way: Interesting site pointed out by WebProNews about a comment stupidity filter that could differentiate between sarcasm and stupidity (and I presume spam is stupid). Apparently, stupid comments (as opposed to stupid people) tend to use more consonants and more clever comments use more vowels. This can get pretty offensive! CNN Money, where this was originally noticed, must have been having a slow day.
The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English…. we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.
Interesting. I hope the StupidFilter folks have spent some time thinking about internationalization of comments and encoding standards in their upcoming WordPress plugin. I can see spam comments in the form of a bunch of vowels and/or commenters being really self-conscious about what they write. It would however, be cool if someone could come up with a plugin that uses the information from StupidFilter to test various posts and comments. I sure would like to know how stupid I am!
[EDIT] Enjoy some random stupidity, courtesy of StupidFilter.
Collapsible Categories Widget allows for collapsible category lists in the form of a widget.
DualFeeds turns your feed into two separate feeds (full post and summary), allowing your readers to subscribe the feed of their choice. (Upgraded to v. 1.1)
Duplicate Post allows you to create a draft copy of a current post.
GigPress is a WordPress plugin built specifically for touring bands, allowing them to list shows, tours, Google maps, and more.
Obfuscate makes email addresses in your posts and pages obscure, thereby reducing the chance of your email address getting picked up by a web crawler or bot and used as a spam target.
Trustworthy XHTML lets you control how much auto-formatting WordPress does both while using the Rich Text Editor and after posting articles.
Atlantia is a 2-column theme with striped background and sea-worthy header.
DivClear is a 2-column, light theme with third column for advertising.
RevolutionCars is a dark, 3-column theme with Adsense readiness.
I will be traveling in China through the earlier part of December. This is a great opportunity for me to meet some of my Chinese readers, fellow bloggers and WordPress aficionados. If you are interested in meeting, are knowledgeable about the area or could provide some tips, please leave a comment or contact me directly. As the itinerary stands, the following times are open for me.
Beijing: December 2nd, Evening
Qinhuangdao: December 3rd and 4th, Evening
Shanghai: December 6th and 9th, Evening
Hangzhou: December 7th, Evening
Judging from my reader statistics, I have quite a few readers in China. If you are reading this blog from China, where do you live?
Lijit is a search tool/widget that you easily install on your blog. It lets you provide a comprehensive search of almost everything that you want, including integration with popular social networking tools such as Facebook. Lijit creates custom Google searches with your search items and then, I assume, puts up their own Google Ads in the searches. I happen to think search statistics are very important for a blogger to understand user trends, likes and dislikes. I noticed Lijit for the first time while reading about Kindling on A VC and the name Lijit reminded me of Lijjat (which is a snack from India). I did setup an account to test out the services and you can see it at work on the sidebar of this blog. The popular search cloud and pretty cool set of stats are the killer set of features I was looking for. Give it a whirl on the sidebar.
If you have tried Lijit, what are your thoughts?
Adbrite Widgets shows ads from adbrite.com as widgets.
GoodReads allows a user to display the RSS feed of one of their Goodreads shelves on their WordPress weblog.
WordPress Playing Cards Generator lets you display various combinations of playing cards in card games like canasta, thirty-one, pinochle or poker. (English download.)
WP Tags to Technorati turns your WordPress tags into Technorati tags.
WP User Manager aims at improving the Wordpress User Management so that Wordpress can be used beyond a blog and something like a CMS.
WP User Moderation helps to moderate and approve the Wordpress User Account generation.
Christmas Days is a 2-column theme designed for the coming holiday season.
Curved 3-Columns is a 3-column, blue theme with a Web 2.0 look.
FluidFlower is a 3-column, dark theme with bright header.
Genesis is a 3-column, widget-ready dark theme.
Paperback is a single-column, minimalistic theme designed to remove clutter and focus on content.
PortraitPress is a 2-column theme designed to place prominence on a portrait or picture in the header.
Skyscraper is a 3-column, dark theme with customizable header image and About section.
WPDesigner is a 2-column theme with a style switcher that lets you choose between red, blue, and green.
Accordian oads your wordpress site faster than before, it saves huge space, provides tabbed browsing inside your sidebar using jquery and providing ajax functionality.
Advanced Search uses MySQL’s fulltext search as a much more effective search method than the native WordPress search function.
Arkayne displays a list of related articles at the bottom each blog entry.
Big Surprise allows you to place an item on a post or page that only a specific user can see.
WP-Forum Latest Posts lists the latest posts from your WP-Forum.
Zune Card adds a sidebar widget and theme function that allow you to easily embed a Zune Card into your theme.
Dignity is a 2-column, green theme with customizable header image and profile information block.
FantasycVector is a 2-column theme with stylish design.
Greenicon is a 2-column, dark theme with stylish icons.
Primitive is a 2-column, minimalistic theme.
Sanserif Racer is a 2-column, minimalistic theme with custom classes for more specific styling.
Shylock is a 2-column theme with artistic header.
Wicked Lemon is a 2-column, dark theme with changeable color scheme.
There was a plugin competition of sorts held mostly on the wp-hackers mailing list on coming up with a plugin that would allow WordPress administration through the iPhone. WPhone has won WordPress iPhone Plugin Competition. Wphone Admin Plugin has its own page and forums and was put together by a collaborative venture between Stephane Daury, Doug Stewart and Viper007Bond. WPhone is available through the WordPress extend pages. Thanks Montreal Tech Watch.
Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!: An interesting bunch of reasons why you should have a Facebook page for your blog or website. Sadly, I get addicted easily and once I got into Facebook, I could not stop. I created a page for this blog, created my profile and then started looking at their API which is incredible. It is a lot of fun to dabble in Facebook apps. Also, while I am at it, I apologize to the people that received a friend request (and either did not want to add me or were surprised by the request). My address book import did not go so well. Please ignore the request if you like.
If you have a Facebook page and would like some exposure, please leave a comment here or on the Facebook page for Weblog Tools Collection. Do you have a Facebook page yet? Have you come across any WordPress related Facebook apps?
Ajaxed WordPress harnesses the power of AJAX and Wordpress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any Wordpress based blog.
Local Analytics is a Wordpress plugin for integrating Google Analytics, the free web analysis service by Google, into your WordPress powered blog.
WP-Spamfree is designed to stop automated comment spam.
DarkCell is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with dark color scheme.
Neoclassical is a 3-column theme that features prominent, rotating header images.
Partyround is a 2-column theme with a very fun design.
SMW is a 2-column, skinnable theme that pays homage to Super Mario World.
Snowman and Let It Snow are two winter-styled themes with 2-column layouts perfect for the approaching season.
Sun is a bright, 3-column theme.
Techozoic is a 2-column theme with a technological header.
Tenaj is a 3-column theme with a stylish layout.
Turkish Carpet is a 2-column theme with a very attractive design.
I cherish the ability to communicate and I try to praise and imitate those who have the ability to communicate ideas lucidly and with alacrity. With that intent in mind, here are the Ten Reasons to choose WordPress. Aimed at the non-technical, could-be blogger, I could not have created a more succinct and convincing list myself.
I first found WordPress back when b2 was still alive, and had the WordPress bug bite me the minute I downloaded the zip file. I have not looked back since. What are your reasons for using WordPress?
WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier for OS X: After Matt made the post about the Windows system tray based comment moderation notifier for WordPress, Edward Dale wrote up a Python script to the same effect and used Growl to notify the user. There are instructions in the download.
Jim Stitzel 
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