No Directory adds NOODP and NOYDIR meta tags to the header of your theme to force the search engines to use your own description and title for your site, instead of the one that is in DMOZ or the Yahoo directory. Selig-Stats provides you with a number of filters that can be used directly within your posts / pages in order to display some statistics like post count, comment count etc. Technorati Rank utilizes the Technorati API to display your blog information (Rank, Links, Blogs Linking) and an Add to Favorites all in simple display. CodeHighlighter uses GeSHi to highlight syntax for source code. Book Cover displays the book cover image from ISBN. WordPress AdSense Deluxe+ Widget is a widgetized version of AdSense Deluxe+ Plugin Attach Links is a Word Press plugin that allows you to attach one or more external links to each post. They will be shown in […]

Ahem, based on Hemmed is a 2-column, widget-ready theme with navigation bar and Hemmingway-style bottom bar. Green Thoughts is a three column, green and black WordPress theme inspired by Half-Life and Green Lantern. Puritan is a clean two column WordPress theme suitable for extending with stylesheets for print and handheld devices, proper use of title for better SEO among other features. Little Red Star has released New Day, Rock Princess and Neon Nights. headsetoptions.org and Mandarin Musing have released Butterfly and Rubyx. Lifebits is a minimalist theme designed for WordPress with smart screen-resolution detection and ajax search.

Top 6 Most Prolific Bloggers – 1000 posts or more – looking for the top 100: This can be a slippery slope. I am not so sure that post count really makes for “prolific”ity but this is my post number 2113 on this blog. How many posts do you have? Thanks Darren Speedlinking

mod_security is a well known web application firewall for Apache that is easy to setup and provides a fair amount of protection from web malware and can even provide some protection from comment spam. The benefits of mod_security have been discussed over and over again and with the recent unforeseen problems with WordPress (In case you have not heard about it, if you have not upgraded your WordPress 2.1.1 installation, you need to do it NOW), mod_security would have provided a level of security if it was installed. Since I had to install mod_security on one of my servers, the steps are fresh in my mind and worth a post. All of the steps below are assuming that you have some sort of a LAMP installation over which you have complete control. If you are on a shared host on LAMP, you will have to ask your provider to install […]

Upgrade WordPress via Shell guides you to upgrading your existing WordPress installation to the latest one if you have shell access to your hosting account. And if you haven’t upgraded to 2.1.2 yet, then please do so immediately to ensure that your WordPress 2.1 installation doesn’t get compromised.

FeedBurner Stats is a plugin which gives you FeedBurner Stats without redirecting your users the FeedBurner feeds. So, you keep your subscribers on your site but still get the stats. Post Templates lets you create templates for your posts so that you don’t spend time copy-pasting the same code across different posts. phpBB recent topics lists of recent phpBB threads or Topics displayed in WordPress. Pinky and the Brain displays a random Brain word in the top right corner, similar to Hello Dolly. The download link doesn’t to be working right now

ColourFull Wall is a black minimalist theme, highly customisable, lightning fast, easy to deploy and use while supporting the vast majority of plugins out there. It is SEO optimised coming with a built-in sitemap and archives page template. More little nifty goodies are built down into it like some quick shooting stats of the blog and bookmark link in the posts. Studiengang-Verzeichnis has released three themes viz. Theme1, Blue and Clean and Red and Clean. Psalm 8 is a two column widget ready theme by Joni.

Feedburner Feed Stats is a simple plugin that I put together with the ideas (and some of the code) from an article that I was reading yesterday for a WordPress hack of sorts. The idea is good and the code is simple. Since a lot of people like the subscriber statistics offered by Feedburner but want to continue to offer feeds directly through WordPress, if there was a way to pass on every feed request made to WordPress transparently onto Feedburner, Feedburner would be able to gather subscription data. 45n5 came up with the concept and some of the code for the WordPress hack. I took some of that code, some more code from transparent proxy scripts, added a smattering of more code on suggestions from Eric Lunt along with the plugin framework that was already built by Steve Smith and am ready to alpha test my version of the […]