Answers.com and WordPress.com: If you own a WordPress.com blog, you can now embed links directly from Answers.com from within your editing interface with AnswerLink. Answers.com is an information and definition accumulation site that gets its information from places like Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary and they also provide the default definitions for Google.com in their searches. The interface and the underlying functionality was written by the inimitable Alex King and the interface is available through a small icon on the WordPress.com editing toolbar. Tony also links to a small how to on the Answers.com website. Hosted WordPress can also avail of AnswerLink with the AnswerLinks plugin that was also released by Alex.

ElegantBlue is a 2/3-column, widget-ready theme with support for tags and separated comments and trackbacks. Integral is a 2-column with light green, blue, and white colors. Jello Walla Mello is a news/magazine style theme with sub-page design for individual entries and separated comments and trackbacks. Linear is a simple, gridded theme for WordPress. Also check out Overshadowed and Verso by the same designer. Rihanna is a 3-column theme with lightweight design and built-in Flickr support. sIMPress is a 3-column theme that is compatible with WordPress 2.3 and supports ads and SEO. Tumblelog is another tumble-style theme that hugs the left side of the screen. Widejournal is a 3-column theme built on Sandbox with support for tags. Wine Cellar is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with support for tags.

Author Web displays the name of the author as a clickable link to the author’s website. WP-Oldpost displays an alert if the post is older than 1 year. Themes List creates a separate page that lists all the themes you’ve designed. Wassup Real-Time Visitors Tracking tracks your visitors in real time. WPhone allows you to use a custom admin interface while interacting with your WordPress install via your phone.

I receive requests from readers about plugins or modifications for WordPress that they could use on their own blogs. I have been able to find them existing plugins in the past but I also write about them so plugin authors can get a chance to know what their audience is looking for or if I cannot find a suitable solution through my grapevine. I had a few questions this week that I could not find appropriate answers for. If you have other questions, please leave a comment and I will add it to the list. In the future, if you have questions on products, plugins or themes you are looking for and cannot find, please Contact us through the contact form or send me an email and I will try to find it for you or accumulate them for a post like this. If you have an answer for these […]

Categories Autolink automatically converts categories names, when cited in posts or pages, into links to the same categories. Earthones replaces the default blue color scheme of your dashboard with a welcoming, natural green and brown environment. The Feedsmith Plugin has been updated to correct for a potential security vulnerability. This plugin automatically redirects your blog’s news feeds to your FeedBurner feed. Metakeywords uses the new native tagging from WordPress 2.3 to automatically create a meta-keyword-tag for articles and pages on your blog. One-click Framework allows your plugins and themes to update themselves to the latest versions, so the users are never using the old version. Power Thumbnail can help you make a custom thumbnail with give width, or height. It offers two kinds of thumbnail. Sidepic Widget puts an image on the sidebar with modifiable parameters for title, picture URL, CSS style, and comment. Vivtiger Image Resizer allows you to […]

72 Class is a 2-column, black-and-white, minimal theme. Ali Nazik is a 2-column, black-and-white theme. Dream in Infrared is a gorgeous theme with an elegant layout and support for WordPress 2.3 tags. WP-Glory is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with tag support, drop-down menus for sub-pages, and other features. Not a free theme. Inner Light is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with violet and white colors and tag support. Edited for NSFW content. Missille is a 2-column theme with a custom logo. Newspaperize is a 3-column, widget-ready theme designed for news blogs and sites. Nextgen is a 2-column, simple theme with soft, rounded corners. Also check out Flowery by the same designer. Reverence is a 2-column theme with dark, rich colors.

The Best WordPress Magazine Themes Available: Ryan puts together a list of ten magazine style WordPress themes and details the positives and negatives of each of these themes for this list. I am not sure if “The Best” is an appropriate title for the post but I like each and every theme that he points to. Some of the themes listed such as Brian Gardner’s Revolution are paid themes but Revolution is visually excellent and the popularity of the theme and the fact that he is successfully charging for it are both attestations to this model of theme publication. Definitely a post to check out if you are into smooth, clear and versatile themes that can pack a lot of good information into small screen spaces. While you are at it, check out Charity’s “Creating a Magazine Style Theme by Example“.

Digg saturation: Patrick from Blogstorm came up with a way to rank websites using a Digg saturation value that he come up with by searching Google with a specific URI. Apparently Google really likes sites that are Dugg. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adigg.com+weblogtoolscollection.com To check your own Digg saturation, just replace weblogtoolscollection.com above with your own blogs’ URI. What is your Digg saturation?