WordPress founder looks into blogging’s future at BlogWorld Las Vegas: He recently saw a survey from Google, in which the search giant examined all of the http headers of Web. He found that .8 percent of those pages were powered by WordPress. Writeup on Matt’s opening keynote at the BlogWorld Expo at Las Vegas this morning.

404 Error Log allows the blog administrator to track 404 pages error generated by the blog, and save the reports into an HTML file or send it through email. (English download) Local Analytics is a WordPress plugin for integrating Google Analytics, the free web analysis service by Google, into your WordPress powered blog. TabStat allows you to monitor the status of and optimize your database tables.

Defensio Comment Spam Prevention: TechCrunch had a writeup on Defensio this morning and it is mostly an unbiased review of the features, benefits and weaknesses of Defensio as it stacks up beside Akismet. I had to check it out for myself. Here are some thoughts. Defensio is a spam prevention tool much like Akismet that seems to be aimed directly at the Akismet audience. Even the back end of the WordPress plugin seems to be Akismet-esque with the requirements of an API password for use. You sign up for the service, wait for an email, download the plugin, install, activate, add API key and then sit back. The major benefits touted over Akismet was a more streamlined ability to moderate comments by spamminess rather than date, and an open API that much like Akismet, can be used to check spamminess of any commenting system. The service also (apparently) adapts itself […]

Simplified ad management is rolling out now: The AdSense team had given everyone a sneak peek into their new AdSense management interface with which a publisher could tweak some of the parameters of an AdSense block without having to change the code. It is relatively simple to import your AdSense code from existing blocks and then tweak the settings. Changes take upto a minute to display and you cannot change the size of the block through this new interface. Look for it under the “Manage Ads” menu at the top when you are logged into AdSense. Have you used it yet? Do you like it?

Agneka Simple is an elegant, 3-column theme with information sidebar system. DivBlackis a 3-column, dark theme with yellow highlights. Dusplic is a 2-column, simple theme with light colors. Inrash is a 3-column, fluid-width theme with earth-tone colors. Minty is a 3-column, widget- and adsense-ready theme. OceanWide is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with artful, oceanic header. PocketT is a single-column theme that puts the focus on your blog’s content. Visionary is a theme with a versatile design especially for news/magazine sites.

Absolute Comments Manager gives you the ability to reply to comments from within the same page as where you manage them. Persistent Styles allows you to have styles that are supra-theme so you won’t lose them on upgrade/replacement of your theme. PhotoQ makes it easy to manage a photoblog. Plugin Maker takes the minimum set of information to create a plugin and writes to your plugin directory an empty plugin template php file ready to be edited and activated online through the WordPress admin plugin editor. Post Information aims to consolidate your post information into a collapsible panel (using script.aculo.us) that can save space on your page. WP-Super-Cache is a fast cache module for your WordPress installation.

Saturday Subscriber Count Drop?: If you were wondering what caused a huge drop in your subscriber count this morning in the Feedburner chicklet, their blog has an explanation. I figured Google was not returning their numbers correctly since subscriber details showed none from Google. The whole Feedburner chicklet thing is a little very narcissistic and might be less valuable/reliable than most of us would like to believe, but I am a sucker for stats. PS: Mr. Cashmore, you need a search form that is easy to find.

Cabaret is a creator of random poetry. ForumView enables you to display comments on your blog grouped by most recent discussion, like in forums. ‘Get Firefox’ Banner adds a Firefox banner with a customizable message to the top of your page if it is being viewed in IE6 or IE7. The Spacializer Widget uses Flash to let your readers visually mix music on your blog.