WordPress Plugin: Smart Unread Comments: Cookie based plugin that highlights comments unread by a visitor. Interesting twist, but too much overhead for a blog such as mine. Could be useful in dicussion based blogs.

WordPress Heatmap plugin: Create colored heat maps of your WordPress posts much like the WordPress tags plugin. Demo page: http://www.engadgeted.net/wp-content/demos/heatmap.php Thanks Christoph

Creating My Personal Information Manager Using WordPress: A very interesting step by step series of instructions (in three parts so far) of creating a PIM using WordPress. John runs Blogging Pro and is by no means new to WordPress.

WordPress Plugin: Comment Quicktags: Owen strikes again with a “comment quickags” plugin for WordPress. This adds the ability of commenters to use little clickable buttons to format XHTML in their comments. Thanks BloggingPro

Updated WYSIWYG Plugin For WordPress WYSI-Wordpress now uses the TinyMCE engine, a secure file upload/delete function with an image uploader/browser. Plugins for both WordPress 1.2 and 1.5+

Movalog: Quicktags for Comments: This is for a Movable Type blog, but if you can get around code, you could easily make it work on any blog tool, including WordPress. I vote that the default WordPress install allow quicktags in comment forms as well. Anyone up to rewriting this as a WordPress hack/plugin?

MyNetflix 1.0 WorPress Plugin Released Lets you display your NetFlix movie rentals and/or queue via a plugin for WordPress. I remember when the Netflix plugin for Movable Type was released, every other MT blog that I would visit would show that plugin. Thanks BloggingPro

WordPress Support for “nofollow”: Add Google rel=”nofollow” in legacy WordPress blogs.