Benjamin Sterling Galleries uses your current flickr and/or picasa web photo album, the power of WordPress and jQuery, and some jQuery gallery plugins to embed your photos into your site/post. WordPress Admin Reminder Plugin adds a reminder tip (in large red letters) in the top right corner of your WordPress admin pages.

Ministério da Cultura: Brazilian Ministry of Culture uses WordPress to manage their site. I really like the way they have put together various features and plugins to make the site more usable. Since I was introduced to BRIC, I have started to notice how the BRIC countries have started to become more involved in online media and publication.

The Next Social Network: WordPress Nice article on WordPress as the next Social Network with a look at blogs being more important than an integrated social networking space. I personally like blogs better than any of the other social networking tools that I use but they serve their own purpose. I would have to work harder to achieve the same results as LinkedIn if I were to use a blog for that purpose. I guess if I were to look for the next killer app, which these alpha users seem to be doing, I would be looking at blogs (and WordPress) as well.

Adsense Manager has been updated to include the new features added recently by Google. Crossroads interfaces with Flickr, Lightbox, Greybox and Highslide image galleries, adding thumbnails and Flickr photo comments to your blog entries. Minimalist Gallery allows you to display an image gallery in posts or pages. Social Dropdown displays several social bookmarking options in a dropdown.

Gridline Lite is a 3-column, minimalistic theme that also comes in two other styles. Insan is a 3-column theme with a very clean, professional layout and design. More Than Multiple Widgets is a 2-column theme that six different widgetized areas throughout the header, sidebar, and footer. Structure is a news/magazine-style theme with built-in video and image features and re-arrangeable content blocks.

Ant Eksiler of Turk Hit Box is giving away free custom WordPress themes. I’ve seen an example or two of his work, and it looks very good – good enough, in fact, that I’ve put a request of my own in. There is a catch, though. From Ant’s blog: What’s the catch? Well, there’s always a catch. To be eligible for a Free Custom WordPress Theme, you should meet this criteria: You blog should have at least a Pagerank of 4. Your blog must be older than 8 months. Your rss subscriber count should be more than 50. You cannot remove the footer link, “designed by Turk Hit Box”. If you meet those criteria and are interested in a professionally designed theme, then go check out Ant’s site and put your request in.

FeedEntryHeader allows you to add a copyright statement and a link to the original article, to the top of your feed entries. Latest Post Category allows you to display the latest entries created in each category of your blog. Opt-In uses a form to collect email addresses from users for the sake of sending mass mailings. Pipholic Latest Edited Widget lets you easily display which entries you’ve edited recently. Tags Autolink automatically turns every tag name, when used in posts and pages, into a link the to the same tag archive. Theme Test Drive lets you test out a theme while your users view only the default theme. Voice Comments lets your readers record voice comments on your blog.

BlueBreeze is a 2-column, blue theme with stylish header. SEO-Design is a 3-column theme that is Adsense-ready and SEO-optimized. (Hidden advertising.) xplosive is a 3-column, professional-looking theme. Also check out Merry Christmas and Limit by the same designer.