The other day, I had asked plugin developers to dish out their wish list for the plugin repository. Olivier published a comment recommending a plugin called WATS or WordPress Advanced Ticketing System as a way of handling support on your own website.
After installation, users need to visit the Wats Options page within the Settings menu to configure the plugin. The top of the settings page has a donate button if you want to send a little coin to the plugin author which is not intrusive or bothersome. While configuring the plugin, you can click on each menu title to show detailed information about that settings group.

The only problems I met when configuring this plugin is the user interface. Like I mentioned above, you can click on the settings title to show a hidden message that gives more details for the settings group but it’s not obvious this can be [...]

New Plugins
NdB Currency
This plugin is used to exchange currency values online. Main use is for American weblogs to convert their Dollar amounts into Euro currency values. It’s an easy to install, activate and forget wordpress plugin.
WordPress Loop
The WordPress Loop widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show their content in any way they’d like. The widget has over 35 options to choose from. Customize your WordPress loop by one or more post types, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, authors, dates, custom fields, and a whole lot more!
Q2W3 Screen Options Hack Demo
This is a demo for WordPress plugin developers. It shows how to create your own form for Screen Options panel.
CMS
A collection of plugins to make WordPress feel more like a CMS. It has some small adjustments and some bigger ones. Also includes some other plugins like Multiple content blocks, Page manager and a [...]

For all of you looking to register your new blog domains, GoDaddy is having another domain sale as they often do.
Just enter BOWL2010 in the coupon form to see the discounted price of 99 cents along with the additional 18 cents ICANN fee. If any of you are aware of other coupons to lower the price, please post in the comments. Thanks SlickDeals
While we are on the subject, how did you name your blog? Was it based on the domain name you could register or did you think about it for a while?

Simple Magazine Red

Three column, fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready theme
TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation

Two column, widget ready theme (12 widgetized areas including 3 footer widget ready areas) with easy integration with twitter and FeedBurner
5 Free Wedding Wordpress Themes

Two column theme gravatar-enabled, widget-ready, and perfect for posting wedding pictures
Are you WordPress theme developer? Submit your themes to get them listed in these release posts.

Back in October, we told you about the new compatibility box that was added to the plugin pages within the repository. However, we’ve learned that this feature has one major drawback which is the crux behind this idea proposed by shinephp.
I propose to add the field e.g. ‘Problem description’ required for input if visitor click ‘Broken’ button in the Compatibility widget.
I’ve talked with a number of plugin developers and they have all said the same thing. The compatibility box is useless if feedback can not be tied to the rating. Sure, a support topic can be opened for the plugin but there is nothing tying that forum post to the broken rating. Mark Jaquith weighed in with an even better idea.
They should get a chance (or a mandate) to provide feedback, and that feedback should open a new support thread.
However, first, plugin authors need to be able to resolve support [...]

I have hard time understanding the basis of this article but I wanted to link to it because I know many in the WeblogToolsCollection audience are coders themselves and it would be interesting to see the conversation that arises from Andrew’s post. WordPress coders have no class. At least, that’s what Andrew says in his post that discusses object oriented code being used in a non-object oriented environment.
What do I mean by a non-object oriented environment? Well, firstly WordPress still does not require PHP5 for core code so there are limits to how many of the techniques it can use anyway. Secondly, WordPress has been around for a long time and has been developed by many contributors looking to achieve specific things with each patch without having a particular architecture imposed, except by committee.
WordPress developers tend to start as users who learn PHP in fits-and-starts when they need [...]

In a blog post titles “6 Steps to Kill Your Community“, Matt listed “Allow Spam Through” as the second step and “Don’t Participate in Comments” as the fourth step to killing your community. We treat comments and reader participation very seriously at Weblog Tools Collection. We highlight commenters, try to identify the frequent comments who participate willingly and heuristically remove nofollow tags from the links of commenters who participate in the community. I have personally chosen and thanked frequent commenter by providing them deeper access and rights to the various portals, elevating and applauding their presence within the community and have chosen most of my co-authors based on their participation and passion within the communities that I purvey. In short, I agree with Matt in that relevant comments and passionate participation are the lifeblood of any community.
But our little blog gets a lot of attention from spammers. We are listed [...]

New Plugins
PlaceWidget
PlaceWidget for Wordpress simplifies the process of adding a PlaceWidget to your Wordpress blog. You can create and configure your PlaceWidget right in the Wordpress Dashboard, then embed it in your sidebar with a standard Wordpress widget.
Category Ancestor
Category Ancestor is a plugin that adds a function you can use anywhere in your theme : get_category_ancestor($thecat) to retrieve the highest level parent of any category.
FAQ You
It is a simple FAQ plugin where you can create Categories and put Questions in them. You can easily insert them in a page with the WYSIWYG editor. Able to turn JavaScript on or off.
Free Stock Images Plugin
Spice up your blog with high quality free stock images & photos created by professional photographers and illustrators: Easy to use search interface with advanced filtering and Drag & Drop functionality.
Favicons
Choose a favicon to make your site eye-catching and easily recognizable by visitors. You can choose to use [...]