Admiral Two column, widget and gravatar ready theme, with detection of visitors from search engines Copacetix This theme features Widgets, a clean readable css file, and printer friendly style sheet, variable title tags, multiple layouts, random homepage photos, minimal images to load, h1 titles on pages and posts, and many other specific things that I think make up a usable WordPress theme. The Thematic Theme Framework Thematic is a WordPress Theme Framework perfect for the beginner blogger and experienced developers looking for a solid design platform. Version 0.9 is a complete re-think of the front end and a major refinement of the back end. 13 Widget ready areas (with options for more). It supports gravatars, threaded comments, and sticky posts. There’s a simple Theme Options page. And layout possibilities for 1, 2 or 3-column layouts. Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to us.

New Plugins WP Content Filter Filter out any profanity and any other keywords specified on the Plugin options page. Tooltips Simple filter plugin that allows you to use tooltips for words / phrases. Parallel Load Load Javascript files in parallel by using document.write tag. WP Hooks WP Hooks is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add JavaScript, HTML, or other code to your header and footer without modifying your theme. WP_Reactions WP_Reactions is a plugin that allows blog authors to gather a reader’s gut reaction after reading a post. Posts reminder Posts reminder notifies you when you forget to write a post on the current day. Social Actions For Posts A plugin conntecting your blog with Social Actions displaying related social actions as widget for each post. Updated Plugins TwitPlusNNNF This plugin allows you to twit your newly published / edited wordpress posts. “Post to twitter” form is […]

One thing I’ve loved about WordPress 2.7.x is the ability to install plugins directly from the WordPress Plugin Repository. You don’t need to visit the individual site and instead just search for the plugin you want and then download, install and activate it. However, even now, you need to go to your WP-Admin to install your plugins. Improved Plugin Installation helps overcome this problem. Description: This plugin is an improvement to the current WP 2.7 plugin installation methods. It allows you to install one or more plugins simply by typing the names of the plugins or the download URLs in a textarea. This means you can install all your favorite wordpress plugins in one go! Furthermore, a bookmarklet is included which lets you install plugins directly from an external site. Review: Firstly, I love the plugin page. I’ve always encouraged authors to write detailed plugin pages on their blogs as […]

New Plugins CB-Featured CB-Featured is a highly customizable featured content plugin which will display your selected posts with a nice scrolling and bouncing effect anywhere within your WordPress theme. The plugin was created from jCarousel and developed by CyberBlog.net SexyBookmarks WP Social Bookmark Menu (aka: SexyBookmarks) is a WordPress plugin that inserts menu of social bookmarking site icons in each of your blog post to make it easier for your reader to bookmarks your blog. You can watch this plugin in action in this blog. Admin Show Sticky Adds a new column to the posts table in the admin to display if a post is sticky or not. Determining what posts are sticky or not should be easier than editing each post or comparing a list of posts displayed on your site to the list in the Edit Posts table in the admin. This plugin will add a new column […]

Soho Serenity It’s a Multi Column (1 sidebar, 2 main content colums, 2 right hand sections and 3 footer sections all widgetized) fixed width theme loosely inspired by the art galleries of Soho New York and is perfect for a showcase/portfolio or scrapbook type site. It features an author info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap, Blog Post and full width No Sidebars page templates. BlogTimes The BlogTimes WP theme includes an magazine style layout, twelve recent posts and an options panel for the front area, that gives you full control over the frontpage content. Angley 2 Column, advertisement ready theme with dynamic page navigation and included PSD. Aligned Fixed width, Two column, Widget ready theme with rotating headers, placement for Google Adsense and 125×125 ads in sidebar Theme author? Submit your theme for our daily releases.

New Plugins PJW Query Child Of Allows you to use query_posts to list the children of a page. Christian Jokes Christian Jokes widget will fetch the latest or random joke from christian-jokes.net website, and display them on your blog. wp-starbox This plugin adds voting functionality for posts. Visitors can vote for the post and against. My CDN Helps you offloading javascript, css and theme files to your own CDN network. This plugin only handles url rewriting not actual file transferring. Estimated Reading Time This plugin estimates the time it would take for a slightly below average reader to a slightly above average reader to read your post. PJW Page Excerpt Allows you to edit excerpts for Pages. Align RSS Images Scans your RSS feed and ensures that every image has the correct alignment and margin settings. 30bwidget A simple plugin that provides shortcodes and sidebar widgets to integrate 30Boxes.com calendars […]

Yashfa Yashfa is 2 columns layout and created with simplicity and grid based design with a lot of featured and good looking layout. Widget and gravatar ready with support for threaded and paged comments, separated trackbacks and comments and custom header support. WhiteBeans WhiteBeans is simply a WordPress theme framework. Currently is a simple white and orange two column theme. Actively being developed. Indy Premium Indy Premium is SEO-optimized, 3-column, ad-ready, WordPress 2.7 compatible with widgetized sidebars and footer. Magazeen Two column, feature rich magazine style theme Zack 990 Zack 990 is a variation on Ocular Professor. Inspired by the Boston Globe’s Big Picture, Zack 990 is designed exclusively for photo and video bloggers.   Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to us.

The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins.: Demetris has a written a very nice, well illustrated and explained tutorial on the WordPress excerpt and how to manipulate it to take full advantage of it. WordPress excerpts, which are not excerpts, make a WordPress site easier to browse and its content easier to discover. In addition, when also used as META descriptions, good excerpts bring more and better traffic from search engines. Topics discussed include: What is the WordPress excerpt Why write excerpts in WordPress How to write excerpts WordPress Excerpt Editor Excerpts as META descriptions Notes, Miscellaneous Links In Demetris’ style, the tutorial is very well written and well fleshed out.