ClickTale Heatmaps: Much like CrazyEgg, ClickTale promises to help you understand how users interact with your site to gain insights into maximizing usability of your site. In addition to cool heatmaps, ClickTale will offer videos of user actions including mouse movements and judging from their beta questionnaire, they are still feeling around for pricing models. Mashable has a nice writeup with screenshots. User action videos would be tres cool!

Genki Announcement lets you display an announcement to you blog visitors. WP Social Bookmarks is a plugin that will allow you to insert links to social bookmark sites in your WordPress posts. ClickBank Affiliate Plus allows you to add clickbank products to your posts and enabled to earn from ClickBank affliate program while people reading your posts. Genki Pre-publish Reminder will display a reminder list on your Post Admin page.

Aquatic Adventures is a two column widget ready, customizable theme with jQuery support. Bees is a simple two column, widget ready, fixed width theme. RockinGreen Leaf is a two-column, widget-ready, green theme designed for crisp simplicity. Bowling is a two column, fixed width theme with a big bowling lanes header and a widget enabled right-hand sidebar. 2CWhite is a two column theme with plenty of white space, a black header and touches of green. Simple Sweet is a three column, fluid width, optimized for fast loading and for visitors with inbuilt support to send you an email when your site receives a 404. Melon is a two column WordPress theme with a right-hand sidebar and a juicy color scheme. Ideal is a two column, orange and blue, widget ready theme. Tarento is a three column, fixed width, widget ready with nice looking design elements.

Let me kick off the Plugin a Day series with one of my favorite and indeed a must have plugin for all WordPress blogs. Name: Spam Karma 2 Plugin Page: http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/ Description: Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for WordPress. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters. How it works: SK2 comes feature packed with everything you need to keep your blog spam free. It includes a whole arsenal of filters that incoming comment has to go through. Each of these filters assigns a score called karma. Comments which end up with a negative karma are flagged as spam. Some of the inbuilt filters include javascript payload, link count, page load time (stopwatch), post age and blacklists. My Review: I’ve been using spam karma right from its early days and have been a loyal […]

This is part three of the Link Building series here on WeblogToolsCollection. I will be touching on some final thoughts of actually how to build links to your site. The initial first two posts were some background notes for everyone to learn about how linking works and how outbound linking works. I will touch on two major areas. What you should be doing and what you shouldn’t be doing. Link Building and what you should be doing Link building takes finesse, creativity, and social engineering. Why do I say social engineering? I say that because it takes networking and talking with new people. Be a friend, be a co-worker, be an associate. These are some of my secrets of how I’ve built my network of websites.

Auto Slimbox is a plugin to add slimbox feature for your wordpress powered website. Adsense Manager allows you to create, modify and position Adsense Ads from within the WordPress admin panel. Allows unlimited Ad templates with defaults and individual settings. Dugg Widget will display your past 10 dugg stories. Custom Comment Text allows the customization of comment text (e.g. “5 comments”) generated by Template Tag comments_popup_link(). The customization is set per Post basis. Jon’s Geolocation Plugin provides a fast and lightweight method to determine a visitor’s location down to a city level from their IP address. The HitsLink plugin for WordPress lets you easily add HitsLink’s web tracking script to your site AWStats Xtended Info inserts the awstats_misc_tracker.js into each page WordPress serves, allowing AWStats to track additional items including screen size, Flash, PDF and Java support among other things.

Blackout is a two column, black and white widget ready theme. Lorem Ipsum is a clean and crisp three column theme. RockinRuby is a 2 column theme with a text header displaying the title of your blog, tab links to display you wordpress pages, and a replaceable image header. Digital Pop is a bright and colourful 3 column theme for WordPress based on Fen’s NewFeel theme. It comes complete with editable header graphics and is Google Adsense ready. Magnus Opus is a two column, fixed width, widget ready, gray theme. Earthy is a two column, widget ready theme in brown and beige shades. Vanilla is a two column, brown and beige theme with a big vanilla header. Orange is a widget ready, two column theme with a bright orange color scheme and top navigation. Raindrops is a three column, widget ready, fixed width theme with right and left sidebars. WordPress […]

Starting Monday and all through April, Weblog Tools Collection will be featuring several WordPress plugins. This isn’t a contest but instead a showcase of the talent of our web developers. Every day (except Sundays) we will be reviewing a plugin. This will be in addition to our daily plugin release posts. What we will be looking at Besides a general description and feature listing of the plugin, we will also be asking our readers to suggest feature improvements and state what else they would want the plugin to do. This would work as a great group brainstorming session to improve your plugin. How to submit If you would like to have your plugin reviewed during this month, send an email to wltc@ajaydsouza.com with the following details: Subject: APAD: Plugin Name Make sure you mention APAD in the subject of your email, so that my email filter can label it correctly. […]