Everyone loves to get loads of traffic to their websites, however, websites get timed out or respond very slowly when many users try to access it at the same time. WordPress does a pretty good job of handling lots of users at once, however it in itself cannot help you manage all the traffic, and you need proper server setups and cache setup to scale to accommodate more users.

New Plugins More Money Provides a unified and intuitive interface to manage multiple ad providers on your blog. Currently supported are Chitika, BidVertiser, Clicksor, and, of course, AdSense. Author Box and other plugins Adds an author box below text when viewing a single article. Other plugins on the page include sm00sh URL shrink, Shortie Urly and Shorten2List ComparePress Use ComparePress to quickly add and manage a full SEO price comparison system on your existing blog or web site for free and start earning £20 or $30 per sale rather than a few pence or cents for text based ads. Nofollow Archives Adds the “nofollow” rel attribute to archive links. Easy Links Easy links manager helps you manage your links and check its reciprocal through the admin backend. Updated Plugins AVH Amazon The AVH Amazon plugin gives you the ability to add multiple widgets which will display one or more random […]

Mistral Mistral is a WordPress theme – a two-column layout, with a righthand sidebar. Plus a static pages menu, Cufon embedded fonts for widget headings, a replaceable logo area and paged- and threaded- comments. Splash Splash theme, a free wordpress theme with multi color splash background. The theme has a unique, simple design that will perfectly fit for your personal blogs, portfolio, corporate and can be a perfect fit for a unique magazine-style-blog. Kasrod A WordPress theme with 16million color options. This theme is designed intelligently to adapt to the the color selected by the user. Option to upload custom header makes your blog unique from other blogs using the same theme. 5 Free Fitness WordPress Themes Each is widget-ready, gravatar-enabled, and ready to be pushed to the limit.

Quotes 990px wide with 4 Sidebars and an Option Page to populate also the Footer. Two Sidebars on the right side 300px, one on the left side 160px, optimized for Adsense Ads. Two Sidebars are on top of the postings and below the Posting. Smash Smash is a free 2/3 column Professional premium level WordPress Theme. It looks very modern and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin options at the back end. With wide variety of tune able Theme options in the admin menu you don’t need to edit .php files manually to do basic theme adjustments. Jarrah   WordPress theme with two columns, four widget areas. The theme options include a removable bottom sidebar, category or page navigation, custom copyright notice. It comes with a lavalamp dropdown menu.

New Plugins WordPress Timeago Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, and all the big guns are using the fuzzy date/time of type “3 minutes ago”, “10 days ago” etc. Timeago plugin allows you to use the same format on your WordPress blogs. Twitter Avatar Reloaded Twitter avatar reloaded Plugin adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter usrename and stores it together with comments and using it replaces gravatar with twitter avatar when the comment is displayed. Click to Call Adding click to call (click2call) capability to your blog will enable users to call you directly from your website. Clients, buyers, or shoppers no longer need to leave your website or even their computer to initiate a phone call. WP eBay Ads Allows you to insert a listing of related eBay products, on the single post page by using a custom field called ebay_search. Image Zoomer Image zoomer […]

For quite some time I have been struggling to moderate comments on my technology blog, the problem is not only with an abundance of comments, but also with lots of trackbacks/pingbacks.

Simple Red Grunge   Widget-ready, gravatar-enabled theme subtly combining a neat and clean theme layout with some grungy effects Standa-Matic Left sidebar, 340px wide and widget ready. widget ready footer, 3 Footer Bars (Left-Middle and Right) Earthly  Earthly incorporates a color scheme designed for sites that require an eco-friendly or earthy theme.

New Plugins Custom Image Sizes Causes WordPress to create custom sizes for your images when you call wp_get_attachment_image() and related functions Hello in all Languages Hello in all Languages displays a “hello” word translated to the official language of the country the visitor’s IP belongs to. Chibipaint for WordPress This plugin integrates the java applet “Chibipaint” with WordPress. This allows the user to draw and save their drawings directly to the server. Features included are editing and mass deletion, editable preset and user-defined templates and canvas sizes. NdB_UserHidden Ndb_UserHidden hides parts of wordpress posts for unidentified end users. By surrounding private text with [hide] and [/hide] tags you can force guest users to register and login to view member-only content. This plugin is interesting for webmasters that want to expand their user base for newsletters and other purposes. For download sites it will force users to identify themselves before downloads […]