WP 1.5 Theme: Bricks: A bluish three column theme for WordPress 1.5

This plugin for WordPress 1.5 allows a blog user to safely and easily share the contents of their “moderation keys” and “blacklist” with other trusted bloggers. This method is a very powerful way of disseminating spam identifiers and has been proven to be very effective in preventing comment spam. Installation is really simple. Just download the file, unzip it and drop it into the wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress 1.5 blog. Activate it in your plugin manager and look under Options->Blacklist Peers. There you will find information on the plugin and the Peering interface. In simple terms, every blog has a unique “Peer ID” that is used to allow other blogs to exchange blacklist and moderation key information with it. This Peer ID can be discretely distributed among trusted peers. A list of all blogs that are in a WordPress blog’s “Links”, and have an XFN relationships defined, are displayed […]

SECURITY WARNING: PLEASE RE-DOWNLOAD THIS HACK IF YOU ARE USING IT, A VERY SERIOUS VULNERABILITY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AND FIXED. David Merwin has modified my Contextual Search hack for WordPress to work with WordPress 1.5. This is now offered as [EDIT] a zip file [EDIT] and installation is quite simple. The feature set remains the same as before. Text based “fuzzy” searches within WordPress A nice Google like interface which is very customizeable Search results with decreasing relevance to search topic Trap for words which are less than four letters long, the search then gets routed through the default WP search “Next results” button which shows the next 10 (or less) results in relevance Download Advanced Contextual Search for WordPress 1.5 Please leave bugs and comments here. I am sure David will check this often.

WordPress Theme: Spirit!: Nice 3 column Green(ish) theme for WordPress 1.5. The link above also serves as the test bed for this theme.

WordPress 1.5 Theme: CleanBreeze: Clean interface with lots of extra features such as support for popular plugins.

BitFontMaker: Painstakingly create your own fonts by clicking on small squares on a grid. Awesome for those that have a LOT of time on their hands but a cool application nonetheless. Created fonts can be downloaded. Thanks LifeHackther through Kottke

New WordPress theme: headspace by Fernando_Graphicos is a WordPress 1.5 theme based wholly on Kubrick but looks very different. Two columns.

I need a few good people to help beta test something I have been working on. Some sticky requirements include the need to be somewhat available through email or on IM or IRC to provide live feedback and a working WordPress 1.5 install to play with. I foresee testing times between 6 and midnight tonight, times are EST. Please leave a comment or email me if you are willing to participate and thank you if you are.