WP Theme: Black Kryptonite Two column, light on dark, left sidebar theme for WordPress with focus on standards compliance, speed and reability.

WP Theme: Preow Two column, white on black border, rin-like header image theme for WordPress that looks polished. Looks like the original came from SixShooterMedia where you can find a few more free, modern looking, standards compliant templates to be converted to WordPress themes.

WP Plugin: Limited Use Password Send a “limited use” password to a password protected post on your WordPress blog with this plugin without sharing the actual password.

Kubrick Glossy Header Images I like the blue one.

WP Plugin: Image Gallery Simply build small galleries within your WordPress posts from photographs uploaded to a folder on your server. Judging from the code, I assume GD is is needed, but is not mentioned in the author’s post. Example galleries here.

Blogging is more fun when it is quick, painless and still creates satisfying results. I use quite a few browser and WordPress tools and tricks to make life simpler. Some of these are built into WordPress (and might be lesser known) while others I have developed out of necessity or as a learning challenge. I often wonder if there are new ways to use old tools or new methods to make an old task simpler or more bearable. I have a feeling that most WordPress bloggers have a few of these up their sleeve. But since these have become habits, they rarely get shared with others. I know that I would not sing the praises of “Press It” after using it constantly for four years, but maybe I should. So if you are using WordPress, look for the little “Press It” Bookmarklet at the bottom of the “Write Post” page. […]

Mouseover Transparent Dock: Create a transparent (semi) dock-like menu on your page/blog with Javascript. I can see this becoming common on newer themes. Pretty cool if you are into this kind of thing. The only issue I see with this is that you have to let the user know that this exists, otherwise it would never occur to me know mouse over the header to get a new menu. Thanks Javascript Weblog

Feed Collectors: From their about page … Feed Collectors is a new web tool that collects and socializes your feeds. So, it is a private Technorati of sorts? Thus the name Pulverati(look at the end of this post)? This is still in private beta but it sure would be an interesting way to skim hundreds of feeds to find clouds of information needed. Thanks to a link from Pulverati