RockinPaper 3 Column is a blue and grey, clean and simple widgetized theme designed with a newspaper flair for reading and customization. RockinSoft is an elegant 2 column widgetized theme with rounded corners and soft colors. Bubbles is a two column theme available in four colors with and without adsense.

34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog: Darren had asked the question, Why do readers unsubscribe from your blog’s feed? and he tabulated the answers in the comments. Much of the answers are unsurprising but the top two reasons are too many posts and too few posts respectively. So the answer there might be to post just enough entries to keep people coming back and just few enough to keep from overwhelming them. I have found proof of that hypothesis in that the daily updates of plugins and themes on weblogtoolscollection.com works best in single consolidated posts. Other important factors included off topic posts, partial feeds and finally good content. I love Scoble’s comment on that post. There is a lot to be said for “do what you love, put stuff up you’d love to read, and the rest will fall into place.”

How to Start Your Own Blog takes a look at several blogging services both remote-hosted and self hosted. A good read for someone wanting to start their own blog.

RockinBizRed is a very clean, sleek, 2 column, widgetized theme designed with business blogs in mind using a nice red and gray color scheme. Note is a two column, widget ready theme reminiscent of a notice board or jotter. Klate2 is an update to the Klate theme based on the latest build of k2. It’s a minimalistic funky and retro theme with a pull out ajax shelf fat footer and includes sidebar modules. For WordPress 2.1 only. digitalPixel is a two-column widget-included theme based on K2 for wordpress. Includes custom-headers and Sidebar modules, live commenting and search, and other bits and pieces. Pride is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme by Ekta Paneri. Dropshadow is a two column, widget ready theme. Julian Klewes has released bonsai and corporateFK.

Ma.gnolia Widget allows you to display your ma.gnolia links in your sidebar similar to the del.icio.us sidebar widget. This widget uses SimpleXML and as such requires PHP5. Visualize Advanced Features will display the hidden buttons in the WordPress 2.1 WYSIWYG editor. Meyshan 6 acts as a place holder for any 6 plugins of your choice, in a very beautiful mini tabbed pages. onAirNow gets information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog. IWG Extended Author List expands your author-list at the post-page of every user that is allowed to show_in_authorlist.

My primary responsibility out here at Weblog Tools Collection is to keep a close eye on WordPress plugin and theme releases. One of the places I check regularly for theme releases is the WordPress Theme Viewer. I also keep track of updates via Google Alerts and more importantly our News section. I’ve lost track of the number of themes that I have downloaded, read about and previewed. While doing this, I have observed several different methods of promotion and distribution of themes by their authors; some highly effective and some so bad that I have had no option but to ignore the release. This WordPress Codex page has an indepth explanation on starting off with themes for public release to promoting them and is a recommended read. In this post I hope to address a few points that every theme author should consider when releasing a public theme. The Theme […]

Evanescence is a neat looking theme with two column fluid width layout and a widget ready right hand sidebar. Black-N-White is two column, widget ready theme. cgreen are two column, widget ready themes Headsetoptions and MandarinMusing. Wood is a two column, widget ready theme with a wood background. RockinBiz is a clean and sleek theme designed for business blogs and websites.

Top Level Categories allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category pages. Cardioblog it is a simple plugin for wordpress who shows in a graph of bars the whole of post writings in the month in course. import_wordpress allows you to import posts and linked files from a WordPress site to another WordPress site. babel allows you to write your blog in multilanguage, and switch between these with a simple click on a flag. HeadSpace2 allows you to add meta-data to your posts, pages, search results, archives, and categories. Meta data is added via a GUI, or can be automatically extracted from post content. Also allows modification to page titles, blog name, and per-post themes. Cimy User Extra Fields lets administrators add extra user fields for additional user details. MTW Word Count Counts words in a post, making it possible to display that word count on […]