WP Themes: Zen Photo Themes Three column, glass button like modern theme for WordPress with a variety of flavors.

WP Theme: Nature Nouveau Two column, flowery and different theme for WordPress. This has been around for a while but I seem to have missed it. It does require the Random Links plugin to work correctly but is very different in flavor. View the theme and download here.

WP Theme: (Not so) Fresh A play on the Fresh WordPress theme with darker colors and a German and English versions. Not So Fresh is a two column, modern and slick theme. The first link is also a demo for the theme. Thanks BloggingPro

Google Ping: Google introduces their pinging service for blogs that will notify Google of changes. I am surprised to see very little discussion for this service but am not surprised with the lack of fanfare or threats of switching. Ping-O-Matic does such an amazing job (amazing == you set it and forget it; well if you use WordPress you don’t even need to set it) that I can never see myself switching.

WP Plugin: OpenID Incorporate OpenID into your WordPress blog. OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. Applications may use OpenID to assert identity ownership. The wpopenid plugin lets visitors to a WordPress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID Identity. Thanks Alex

WP Plugin: SIMILE Timeline Add an AJAXified timeline to your WordPress blog for a given category of your blog with this plugin. Uses the SIMILE DHTML widget for visualizing time based events.

WP Hack: comments.php template Highly flexible and customizeable comments template for WordPress with lots of added features used by various comment plugins and hack for WordPress. Very useful if you are about to restyle your comments but did not want to start from scratch.

I have re-written this article many times and have come close to posting it but have backed away because I felt my thoughts were either too antagonistic (which I strive to avoid) or were just too self serving (which I strive to avoid as well). However, I feel too strongly about this topic for me to ignore it forever, so here is the gist of my thoughts. I really like the word attribution and I find the lack of attribution disturbing. I bring this up because there are thousands of websites that absorb and regurgitate information published elsewhere for monetary gain without so much as a line stating where the original item was published. I used to have a major problem with them until I realized that there were just too many to deal with. There are lots of very good resources on how to deal with content theft. I […]