PElegant is a 3-column theme with a basket weave background. Ranting Pink is a 2-column theme designed for Pink for October. Trevilian Way is a very sharp-looking theme with a magazine-style layout.

Integrate Drupal with WordPress: These two competing platforms now have a common bond. This Drupal module will allow you to run/administer a WordPress blog from inside Drupal as a module. The author claims that the module is tested with Drupal 5 and WordPress 2.2.1. In looking through the code, I see no reason why it would not work with 2.3 but I have not tested it. So if you are a Drupal user with a WordPress blog or if you are a WordPress user with a Drupal installation, this is your chance to run the roost from one perch. Features include a single level sign on and synchronization of profile data between WordPress and Drupal.

More appropriately, does Techmeme Leaderboard threaten Technorati’s Pop Blogs? Technorati’s descension from their once heralded position has not been lost on me. I think this might be the death knell but I do not understand the point behind the other observations. In reading through the commentary, it seems that everyone agrees that Technorati is on the chopping block but the people that were on Technorati’s Pop list and not on the Techmeme Leaderboard have a more negative take on the new product. The epitaphs levelled at Technorati range from “Attacking Technorati’s Stronghold” to the new bandwagon of “Techmeme list heralds the death of blogging“. Duncan claims that taken in context, this means that “ … New verticals (are) on the way“. You can follow the rest of the conversation on Techmeme. The primary theme of all this diatribe is that multiple author blogs have better coverage, content and attention and […]

Admanager enables you to make better use of banner management features on your WordPress blog. Favicon Manager allows you to manage the favicon image for your WordPress installation. Get Recent Comments displays excerpts of the most recent comments and/or trackbacks that have been posted to the articles in your blog. Multi-Image Uploader uploads five images at the same time using AJAX, shows image size, and previews realtime before uploading. (English download) New User Email Setup provides a basic interface so that admins can define a custom email that is sent to users when the first register. Report Comments provides a way for visitors to report inappropriate comments on a WordPress powered site. Sabre prevents spambots from registering on your blog. Single Bookmark Category List Widget displays links from a bookmark category within unordered lists (<ul> tag).TDO Mini-Forms allows you to add a form to your website that allows non-registered users […]

Crystal is a 2-column, widget-ready, black theme with support for WordPress 2.3 tags. Effercio Blue is a 2-column blue theme that’s WordPress 2.3-ready and supports inline asides. Eighteen is a single-column theme designed with Mac users in mind. Hexed is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with black colors and WordPress 2.3 tagging support. October Pink, SimplyPink, and Wishlist are three more Pink for October themes with various layouts and designs. Pink Adaptations is a 2-column theme designed for Pink for October. YUI-Mainstream is a 2-column Pink for October theme.

Scriblio was released as a public Beta yesterday. For those that have not heard of Scriblio yet,from their about page, it is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Scriblio, is completely built on top of WordPress, is highly searchable and offers all the versatility and rich content capabilities of WordPress to the management of Library content. An example site built with Scriblio is the Lamson Library of Plymouth State University. Amazing!

GaMerZ’s WordPress Plugins Updated: If you are a fan of Lester’s plugins and have updated your blog to WordPress 2.3, you might want to check them out again. If you have never seen his list of plugins, it might be time to take a gander. I use a few of his plugins and have had nothing but good things to say about them. He has updated all his plugins to make them WordPress 2.3 compatible though some of them are not backwards compatible anymore. The 2 new plugins that he added to this mass release are WP-DownloadManager and WP-PluginsUsed.

Classy wp_list_pages adds classes to the LI tags generated by WordPress f wp_list_pages() function. Cleaner Dashboard removes WordPress News and Other WordPress News from your dashboard and makes the dashboard sidebar more horizontal, with four columns instead of the default one. Tags4Page allows you to insert tags on pages. Who’s Linking Me? shows backlinks to your blog from Technorati. WordPress Upgrade Preflight Check attempts to check your other plugins and themes for problems that may cause errors when upgrading to WordPress 2.3. WordShout creates a live shoutbox, using AJAX as a backend.