Yahoo Sidebar Link Badge Widget For WordPress displays the SiteExplorer Badge on your blog. WP-Amazon will allow you to search Amazon as you compose your post or page entry and add links to the products on Amazon. PHPlist Helper will render a auto-login link to phplist and can render a subscription input form within a template. Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your del.icio.us bookmarks to your blog. WP_Identicon provides a small persistent randomly assembled geometric symbol for each user based on their email or IP address. Live Sync allows you to synchronize WordPress posts to Live Spaces, facilitating MetaWeblog API.

Themeorrhea is a clean, two column theme with white, green and blue color scheme. Neonix is a single column, fixed width theme by Thilak with a green color scheme. Preview. BBRose is a two column, fixed width rose theme by Kapikua. Blue Steel is a three column, fixed width, widget ready WordPress theme by Milo. Also check out Summer.

iMP Links is a wordpress plugin that displayed your link collection from in two columns without table. Using unordered list with CSS styling. Persistent Styles allows you to have styles that are supra-theme so you won’t lose them on upgrade/replacement of your theme. WikiMap adds a map with a location to your post, add a map-page to your blog or turn your blog into a fullscreen map-community.

After much deliberation and tallying, here are the winners of the Blogging Essay Competition from Weblogtoolscollection.com First Prize of $150 goes to The Private Intellectual for the essay Re-thinking Weblog Advertising. Second Prize of $50 goes to Bes Zain for the essay Importance of Transparency in Blogging An honorable mention goes to Ronald Huereca for the essay Things you should avoid blogging about for attracting the most attention in the competition. His entry was viewed well over 5000 times. Congratulations to the winners.  All the entries were superb. I will email the winners seperately. Thanks to everyone for participating and for helping to rate the essays.

Single Bookmark Category List displays links in a bookmark (aka blogroll) category within an unordered list tag. Simple Tagging Widget is a Widget plugin to show a tag cloud generated by the WordPress plugin ‘Simple Tagging’. Only works with ‘Sidebar Widgets Plugin’ installed. Post/Comments Time creates a chart that shows the number of posts and comments for the hours of a day. SL Study Motivation enables you to use your WordPress Blog as an Motivator for your Studies. Simple Trackback Validation Plugin for WordPress 2.x performs a simple but very effective test on all incoming trackbacks in order to stop trackback spam. Multi Column Category List generates an alphabetical listing of your WordPress categories in multiple columns. You can choose the number of columns to display, with an option to split up the list of categories by letter.

Zero is a simple one column WordPress theme.Gray Wolf is a simple yet powerful XHTML 1.0 Strict theme for WordPress with support for gravatar, wp page navi and widgets. Preview. Nonzero Red is a new three-column, fixed width widget ready WordPress theme. Small Potato has released Half Life, WPD Expanded, Patriotic and Signs. Infinito is a two column, brown scheme theme for WordPress.

Bloggers keep day jobs: A penny for your thoughts? Kevin Vahey has done a good deal better, turning a personal gripe into $1,000 a year of supplemental income. An interesting article in the Monitor about bloggers, contextual advertising and revenues from blogs. Darren is referenced heavily and there is some discussion of the breakdown of Google’s revenue from AdSense and the distribution of the money thereof. In related news, have you heard of the AdSense ‘Custom Placement Packs’ Program? From all the buzz in the advertising sphere, the 125×125 blog ad segment is about to heat up tremendously. This competition among advertisers and advertising service providers is going to be very good for bloggers.

Multi Column Category List Display your Category lists in multiple columns inside WordPress. There are many other features associated with this plugin such as custom headers to help separate the plugins. Feed Styler is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add style (sheets) to your feeds much like Feedburner does for theirs. Just a word of caution: this will also style the feeds that people view on their feedreaders and many users might not want their feeds styled. Yahoo! Static Maps renders a static inline Yahoo! map when a post has Address, City and State custom fields defined. No javascript required for this plugin.