Blog Oh Blog v2.0 is a 3-column, widget-ready, minimalistic theme with support for a sitemap and sIFR. Kubrick 3-C is a the popular Kubrick theme in a 3-column, widget-ready layout. Maggiociondolo is a 3-column, minimalist theme built on Sandbox. Restaurant is a 2-column, simple theme that comes in two varieties – AJAX and no AJAX. Synergy is a 2-column, dark-grey theme with blue header and highlights.

Amazon Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon’s catalogue to your wordpress blog. BackupWordPress is a Backup & Recovery Suite for your WordPress website. Delink Comment Author adds a link that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment to the bottom of your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page. Impress allows your to display/share your blog statistics with your readers. Kontera Integration lets you enable or disable Kontera ads on a post-by-post basis. Mini-Slides lets you create individually styled mini-slides in your posts and lets you set the default template to be used site-wide. Search Unleashed extends the standard WordPress search and provides a full text search with wildcards, logical operations, and highlighting across posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, and meta-data. Shashin lets you display Picasa images anywhere in your WordPress site. Sign-out Reminder displays a reminder to users […]

ACSearch adds auto-completion to the WordPress search field. Add to Any Subscribe Button lets readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader. Duplicate Sidebar Widgets allows a WordPress user to duplicate or copy sidebar widgets and use them on multiple sidebars or use the widgets more than once in the same sidebar. WP Mail SMTP replaces the in-built wp_mail() function with a duplicate function which uses SMTP to localhost instead of PHP mail. this.player is a a small player written in Flash that allows you to use simple tags to embed FLV, SWF and MP3 files into WordPress posts.

All Season is a suite of 3-column, widget-ready themes designed to allow bloggers to change their themes on a seasonal, monthly basis. There are currently three themes in the suite with nine more planned for future release. Independence Day is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with Author Page designed in celebration of Indian Independence Day. Luxury is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with a dark-yellow color scheme and a patterned background. Mubin is a 2-column theme with a black header and a modern look. Pumpkin Red is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with red and orange colors. Simple Grey is a 2-column, widget-ready, minimalistic theme with simple, XHTML-valid code. Tigopedia Reloaded is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a Web 2.0-style look and a database-free design.

This tip isn’t very specific to WordPress, but something I realized only a few days ago. If you have an article that is ranking well in the search engines, let’s say “wordpress skins” or “picasa web tips“, either of those searches may generate a decent amount of traffic for either Weblogtoolscollection.com or Ginside.com. Well, let me back up a second here. I recently installed the Firestats plugin and it’s been amazing. It’s capable of providing me with the recent referrers, so I can see where my traffic is coming from, and also provide a list of my top posts. So what I did was I took some of those top posts and analyzed them for what keyword they were ranking really well for. I then wrote another article with the similar theme and makeup with keywords to generate some fresh content. I noticed that I was in the top10 for […]

2001 is a 3-column, dark theme with a prominently-placed Hal 9000 to keep your readers company. iPhone is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that brings your iPhone to your blog. Limau Orange is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a simple layout and concise dimensions. Whitespace is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with a minimalistic design.

Advanced Permalinks extends the default permalink functionality and allows you to create different permalink structures for each post on your site. Bloglines Blogroll enables you to integrate your favorite feeds in wordpress on the sidebar. Del.icio.us for WordPress displays your latest del.icio.us bookmarks in your WordPress blog. StatusPress posts your Facebook status to your WordPress blog. GX Calendar Date Style allows you to easily display your post time and datestamps in a little calendar graphic. Headspace manages meta-data and handles a wide range of SEO tasks. WordPress Language Translator has been updated to work with WordPress 2.2.2. Last.fm for WordPress displays your Last.fm recently listened tracks in your WordPress blog. Login Lockdown restricts the number of times someone can enter the incorrect password while logging into WordPress within a short period. The Sphere Related Content plugin has been updated to include politics-related widgets to your site. Summarize This will add […]

The Art of Stress-free Blogging : This post on Web Worker Daily reminds me of why I should be reading that blog more often. If you have heard of or read the ever-popular productivity book Getting Things Done, by David Allen, you will enjoy this post by Leo Babuata. He goes through the steps to perform and outlines the common gotchas and missteps to avoid. I use the “email bookmarks, thoughts and lists” bit all the time but I use the draft feature in GMail instead of crowding my inbox. I also tend to have spurts of “processing times” when I do stuff related to blogging but since I am so pressed for time, their start and end times tend to vary wildly depending on the day. I “process to empty” twice a day and have schooled myself to do a brain dump every couple of hours either into my […]