WP Plugin: Comment Timeout Reduce comment spam by automatically disabling comments on older blog entries after a certain period of time. Comments on ongoing discussions can be kept open.

WP Plugin: Comments Post Rewriter Prevents spambots sending their POST request to wp-comments-post.php by inserting a “authentication” code with JavaScript into wp-comments-post.php and writing it back to e.g. wp-comments-post.php?code=xxxxxxxxx. By xxxxxxx is a daily changed hash of several “server-unique” data. Now with an options page in your admin area and a binding to the SK2.

WP Theme: Zen Elegant three column WordPress theme with Sweet titles ( js and css ) by Dustindiaz, I Box ( js and css ) and place for the Flickr RSS plugin by Eightface.

Let me take this opportunity to wish all the readers of WLTC a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Have you made any New Year resolutions? If so add one to the list. If not, make a resolution to give the plugins that power our blogs a little attention. WordPress and Plugins WordPress is a very popular and excellent blogging system. While WordPress is self sufficient to run as a system for a novice blogger, the more advanced bloggers like to enhance its functionality using Plugins. There are already a few hundred, if not thousand plugins available today that do various tasks from enhancing your Admin panel to protecting you from spam to integrating some third-party service on your blog and more. This wide choice of plugins can be very “tempting” and we end up installing a lot of plugins without giving a second thought; many of these we rarely use. […]

WP Theme: The gathering Two column, clean, concise, modern, widget ready theme for WordPress.

WP Plugin: Fedafi RSS Track usage on your RSS feed and monetize your feed with the same plugin. Much like a hosted Feedburner

WP Theme: MegaPress Two column, lightweight, left sidebar theme for WordPress with blod fonts and a nice calming header. This theme is widget ready and comes with related posts installed.