WP Theme: The Hobbit is a single column WordPress theme based on the character Hobbit made famous by Lord of the Rings movie. Its worth a look.

Screencast on Editing a WP Theme Screencast on various methods to edit a wordpress theme with a lot of examples of good looking WordPress blogs. While you are at it, check out WordPress Garden from Sadish. Boy those are some nicely designed blogs!

This is the sixth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki from Deacon’s Blog Discernment in the Blogdom of God* Or, can blogging make me a saint? By Rev. Deacon Jim Konicki The world of faith blogs is fascinating in its depth; and in what it, as a tool, can allow you to accomplish. Faith blogging has unlocked the world of faith to seekers and researchers in levels unprecedented since the great efforts at Christian evangelization that occurred between the 15th and 18th century. There are several aspects to this depth. The Personal and Public Nature of Faith Blogging As […]

WP Themes: 5 from Themeporter Five new themes from Themeporter. Most of them are two column but have a pre-Wordpess history and look very polished and usable. I personally really like Sunrise (that I have linked to before) and Big Pencil Themes

WP Plugin: Custom Admin Menu This plugin will let you customize just about everything having to do with the organization of your WordPress administration. You can relabel and rearrange menu items. You can create sub-sub-sub-menus, or nest menus as deeply as you want! You can change the parent of a submenu item, or move a submenu item to the top-level menu. You can move something from the top-level menu to a submenu. You can hide any menu or submenu item. There is also a screencast for those interested in seeing its functionality. Nicely done and a very cool plugin with a multitude of possibilities and one of those few pieces of code that made me say to myself, “I wonder what this looks like inside?”. The power of this plugin is not only in using it for your own WordPress blog to bring most often used items to the top, […]

WP Theme: Sunrise WordPress Theme Two column, red header, dark on light theme for WordPress with widgets support. There is no WordPress demo but the original theme is here.

Gravatar Replacement? With Gravatar’s Outage and Suckage (apparently the word was used as a comment in testing), Should A New Avatar System Take Its Place? Some nice research into what is available and the possibilities.

WP Theme: Gold Coast Two column, blue and white, light, well made, tropical theme for WordPress that catches your eye.