Purple Sky is two column, fluid width, widget ready theme. Preview. Redoable 1.1 is a two/three column hybrid version of K2 with lots of features built in. I really like the middle column asides and the colors are interesting. wpjeriko01.2 is a two column, widget ready theme for WordPress with rounded edges and featured posts. There are two color options available for this theme and there are screenshots and previews available at the link.

CNET beta API: The initial dataset will include CNET’s full catalog of technology products and software titles.This is the same dataset that drives the highly trafficked sites of CNET Reviews, Shopper.com and Download.com. Over time, the API will add news articles, community content, blog posts and full product reviews. CNET introduced a REST API to allow users to tap into their rich content. At this time it is limited to the above sites but will be expanded into news, blogs and other community content. Their Dashboard is interesting but is there a real use for the community (yet) beside just increased exposure for CNET content?

Bloody Gray is a light two column theme with shades of red and gray. BBT is a two column theme with a blue scheme. Say It 2 is a light weight, two column theme with a dynamic color chooser. Petlover is a 2-column,widget-ready,fixed width theme that is based on a design by WDD. Natheless is a simple two column Preview. Red Matrix Pill is a widget-ready, one-column, WordPress-style, half-hearted adaptation of the red pill in the movie The Matrix. Preview.

Site Unavailable allows you to make your blog temporarily unavailable to your users. It is still accessible by the administrator accounts. Comment Analysis contains a suite of functions which examine the comments on your blog. Category Overload provides an alternate administrative interface for managing categories in WordPress. Docs and download. ClassyBody adds contextually intelligent CSS classes to your BODY tag, giving the more high-powered designers out there much greater control of the CSS of a given WordPress page. FirstRSS and SideRSS will let you insert an RSS feed into a template with only one line of code. Throttle is a WordPress implementation of a bandwidth limiting throttle. It provides the framework to monitor and report current site load to your site’s plugins or themes, allowing them to limit non-essential elements until load reduces. KML Viewer converts links to a KML file (as used by Google Maps and Google Earth) into […]

Stat Traq provides detailed statistics in a nice graphical format. It tracks hits, pageviews, sessions, browser details etc. wordTube will display your own videos, images or sound files on your blog. WordPress Passwords adds a site-wide password to your posts and pages without the need of .htaccess, users or security levels. Import New Blogger imports posts and comments from the new Blogger to your WordPress blog. Top Posts by Category displays your best posts, as determined by the number of visits to the post or number of comments. FreshTags is a context-sensitive tagging-based navigation system originally for Blogger. Distributed Social Networking lets you publish hCards, blogrolls as XFN, allow public/private profiles and adds a messaging system. Category Converter lets you condense categories on your blog into a shorter list. Seems really useful if over time you want an updated category list while maintaining the posts. Slightbox is a combination of […]

Small Potato has released Handy Man and Sharp 14. Spitfire and Fractal are single column, dark scheme and three column blue scheme WordPress themes by Milo. 2tenths is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme by headsetoptions based on a template by SimplyGold. Say It is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme. Preview. Cutline has been upgraded to support WordPress 2.1 completely.

WP Custom Fields Contest: Aaron Brazell, techie extraordinaire from Technosailor (also responsible for the technology strategy and implementations for b5media) is sponsoring a “Custom Fields” Contest for WordPress. Basically, it is a contest to show off the best use of Custom Fields implementation in a WordPress Blog. The results will be judged on visual aesthetics, code examples and SEO benefits derived from the custom use of Custom Fields in WordPress. He will be offering cash prizes totalling $200 and is looking for sponsors and other cash and prizes for the contest. The last date to enter the contest is February 28th. It looks like he has some stellar help in judging the contest and that should make his life (and the contest) a lot easier on turn around time. I remember how excited I was to find custom fields in the CVS when I was working on Pictorialis and used […]

Blinkx It – Related Videos: Add an AJAXified link to your blog posts that lets users search relevant videos from Blinkx, the video search engine. Videos are searched from MySpace, Google Video, YouTube and news outlets. Blinkx It will go live on Thursday.