Faster blogging through Markdown takes you through writing posts using Markdown. Markdown is an easy to use plugin that lets you use simple text to automatically generate HTML for ordered lists, italics, bold, blockquotes etc.

WPG2 embeds the Gallery2 Application within the WordPress Application, allowing WordPress Authors to share photos uploaded into Gallery2 seamlessly into the WordPress Blog and Sidebar content. KQF adds feeds to posts, pages and much more. KQF allows you to customise the look and behaviour of feeds the way you like. KIN is just a simple notepad for jotting down notes and ideas. Post Terms List outputs the most frequent terms of a post.

iTheme is a two column theme with support for WordPress widgets and drag and drop sidebar and a Mac theme. Sweet Pea is a two column black theme with a good header. YGo Soo Simple is a three column widget enabled theme with lot of bright colors and backgrounds. CreamCheese is a two column, widget ready, right sidebar, fixed width theme. YGo Soothing is a 2 column theme designed to give a website type of look to wordpress blog or something like a “content management system”. (Contains Sponsored Links) Calm Nature is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme. (Contains Sponsored Links) LightBlue is a 2 column w3c validated theme, with a blue, brown and gray color scheme. (Contains Sponsored Links) Greenway is a new 2-column sleek, sophisticated, neat and clean, green and white, widget ready WordPress theme, with a right sidebar. (Contains Sponsored Links)

Name IM Online Plugin Page http://www.mutube.com/projects/wordpress/im-online Description A neat little WordPress Plugin and Widget to show your current online status on your blog. The plugin is powered via onlinestatus.org and supports most IM services including AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber (inc. Google Talk), Skype and ICQ. Features Support for nearly all major IM networks. Works as both a standard plugin and WordPress Widget. Automatically checks for status updates at regular intervals Intelligently switches between 6 status servers to ensure correct status info. Configurable icon-packs to tailor the display of status. Quick page load times – minimises activity and caches status. Review Installation wise, the plugin offers you two options, one a widget install, for those using the WordPress widget plugin. For others who don’t you will need to add the code manually into your template. This plugin is ideal for those who have several chat ids across various network and want […]

WordPress Silicon Valley Meetup at Google HQ (Friday, April 13, 2007): Grab your WordPress Schwag and head to the Silicon Valley Meetup at Google Headquarters. Ryan will be there. The organizers ask that you RSVP by the 11th of April. This is your chance to eat at Google (and do WordPress stuff, of course). 🙂

SEO Title Tag optimizes the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. WP Admin Bar Reloaded is displays links to the Administration Panel at the top of a blog’s page – but only for users who are logged in and have permission to view the given functions. ©Feed add coyright message, GUID for content-theft and ID of the Feed-Reader to your feed. (Page in German) Tab-U-Later eliminates tabs from the WordPress admin interface. jLanguage allows you to easily write multilingual posts and flag-icons are automaticly used when using the 40+ predefined languages. Widget Releases MyBlogLog Widget displays your MBL visitors and avatars in your sidebar. MyBlogLog Community Widget displays the communities you belong to in your sidebar.

Spin Me is a fixed width, two columns, widget ready theme with good accessibility. Dark Sunflower is a free, 2-column, widget-ready, brown-reddish theme featuring an image of dark sunflowers across the top. New Order is a sophisticated red and grey e-zine type theme with two columns, fixed width and plugin support. Nash WordPress theme designed with a three column fixed layout as a magazins style outfit for the front page with an additional footer. Demo Seven WordPress theme designed with a three column fluid layout, a fine blue colour scheme and shows the excerpts of the latest post on the frontpage. Demo NOcolors WordPress theme designed with a three column fluid layout with a grunge feeling, the recent post is featured at the frontpage. Demo Burnedpage is a tridimensional theme optimized for FireFox, IE7, IE6, IE5.5 and IE5.0 . It has fixed width, centered layout and right sidebar. (Contains Sponsored […]

Geared specifically at Google, today we are talking about the NOFOLLOW tag. There are dozens upon dozens of articles written on “should we use nofollow?” or “shouldn’t be we using nofollow?” among other questions as well. Today I am tackling the issue myself. NOFOLLOW is a tag that Google created as a means to fight back against spam on blogs. As of today, Google is the only search engine actively using the tag as an integral part of their algorithm. The NOFOLLOW tag simply tells Googlebot to not follow — aka don’t give any link love — to the link you have on your site with that tag. Yahoo! and MSN do not care whether a link has nofollow or not, they will follow the link you provide them. WordPress has, by default — and for a long time now — nofollow’ed all links to authors in comments. I finally […]