Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!: An interesting bunch of reasons why you should have a Facebook page for your blog or website. Sadly, I get addicted easily and once I got into Facebook, I could not stop. I created a page for this blog, created my profile and then started looking at their API which is incredible. It is a lot of fun to dabble in Facebook apps. Also, while I am at it, I apologize to the people that received a friend request (and either did not want to add me or were surprised by the request). My address book import did not go so well. Please ignore the request if you like. If you have a Facebook page and would like some exposure, please leave a comment here or on the Facebook page for Weblog Tools Collection. Do you have […]

Ajaxed WordPress harnesses the power of AJAX and WordPress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any WordPress based blog. Local Analytics is a WordPress plugin for integrating Google Analytics, the free web analysis service by Google, into your WordPress powered blog. WP-Spamfree is designed to stop automated comment spam.

DarkCell is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with dark color scheme. Neoclassical is a 3-column theme that features prominent, rotating header images. Partyround is a 2-column theme with a very fun design. SMW is a 2-column, skinnable theme that pays homage to Super Mario World. Snowman and Let It Snow are two winter-styled themes with 2-column layouts perfect for the approaching season. Sun is a bright, 3-column theme. Techozoic is a 2-column theme with a technological header. Tenaj is a 3-column theme with a stylish layout. Turkish Carpet is a 2-column theme with a very attractive design.

I cherish the ability to communicate and I try to praise and imitate those who have the ability to communicate ideas lucidly and with alacrity. With that intent in mind, here are the Ten Reasons to choose WordPress. Aimed at the non-technical, could-be blogger, I could not have created a more succinct and convincing list myself. I first found WordPress back when b2 was still alive, and had the WordPress bug bite me the minute I downloaded the zip file. I have not looked back since. What are your reasons for using WordPress?

WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier for OS X: After Matt made the post about the Windows system tray based comment moderation notifier for WordPress, Edward Dale wrote up a Python script to the same effect and used Growl to notify the user. There are instructions in the download.

Inbw is a 3-column, minimalistic theme designed for fast loading. Industrial is a simple 3-column theme with orange colors. Navigate is a clean and simple 2-column theme with 3-column footer. Overnight is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with dark colors and green highlights. Rhea is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that features a Lightbox sidebar gallery. Styleicious is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that features an AJAX-powered rating system. WoodPress is a very attractive 2-column theme with a hardwood background.

Author Highlight Extended Version prints out a user-specified class attribute if the comment was made by a registered user. WP-Kwiks is based on the Mootools example for a Kwicks menu and lets you use it for categories or pages. WordPress Uploader and Extractor helps you upload files to your server. Your YouTube Favorites lets you publicize and share the favorite videos you bookmarked on Youtube.

I would like to warn readers and WordPress users to NOT download themes from sites that have not developed the themes themselves. I urge news sites to link back to the original theme author’s download to keep things safe and consistent. There are too many sites out there distributing “premium WordPress themes for free” and their intentions are not good. This particular warning is thanks to an astute reader who pointed out another such site called blogstheme.com. They also provide “premium WordPress themes for free” but have modified the footer to suit themselves. The “WordPress” link in the footer of every theme distributed by that site links back to blogstheme.com and the downloads are not pristine as intended by the designers of the themes. The footers are also tainted with sponsored links that the original authors did not put there. I see a whole bunch of Small Potato’s themes on […]