[EDIT] Peter Westwood, one of the lead devs, in a comment below suggests against the use of this plugin because of the complexities of the setup process that might be ignored if users install and enable this plugin without following the steps. He points users to the Codex article that explains the setup. If the preliminary setup is that complex, code could be written to understand, walk people through and then validate those setup steps in the future. I am pretty sure the core is going to get more mature about this. So this is just the first step. Enable Multisite in WordPress 3.0 With One Click!: Sarah Gooding from WPMU.org notifies us of a plugin (which can be downloaded from the WordPress Repository) that will enable MultiSite functionality on your WordPress blog with just one click. Installation for the Enable MultiSite plugin seems relatively simple and the process to […]

New Plugins 123ContactForm for WordPress Contact Form plugin from 123ContactForm.com. It requires a free account on 123ContactForm. WP BTBuckets Integrates the BTBuckets service into your WordPress blog, giving your blog the ability to dynamically morph depending on who your visitors are. Now you can target your visitors based on their visiting behavior WordPress multiple user ad management plugin The plugin is ideal for blogs with multiple authors and acts as an incentive for making quality posts. When the add-on is enabled, users will have full control over the advertisements displayed on their own posts. Using a space pre-allocated by the blog administrator, authors will be able to display various forms of advertisements in addition to accepting Paypal donations GetSocial GetSocial adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts. WordTour WordTour offers you a no-fuss time-saving solution to events management and a whole lot more […]

Phone Your Blog — WordPress.com: Matt wrote a post yesterday about a new feature WordPress.com is testing using which a blogger on WordPress.com could get it set up, receive a special number and code and then call in to make a post. Interesting concept indeed. This is made possible by Twilio. Not yet available for self hosted WordPress blogs.

wp3theme WordPress 3.0 theme with 4 different styles and support for custom menus and custom backgrounds BuddyPress Colours Child theme for the Default BuddyPress 1.2 theme with just the colours in a stylesheet SimpleText   A simple theme for WordPress, sidebar on the left, in the theme used not standard fonts (js typeface), theme compatible with WordPress 3.0, to create a paging navigation use the plugin wp-pagenavi. Twist of Ten A fully compliant WordPress 3.0 theme. It supports all of the new features such as custom headers, custom background, custom menus etc. all of which are fully configurable in the admin control panel. The theme includes 8 brand new headers you can use in your theme, or you can upload your own

New Plugins Meteor Slides This plugin makes it simple to manage a slideshow with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides. The slideshow is powered by jQuery Cycle and has over twenty transition styles to choose from.  GetSocial GetSocial is a WordPress plugin that adds an intelligent, lightweight, quick to setup floating social media sharing box on your blog posts. Image-Based CAPTCHA from Confident Technologies Confident CAPTCHA™ is a unique, image-based CAPTCHA solution that stops spam and bots in a way that is easy and intuitive for your website visitors. Rather than forcing people to decipher warped and distorted characters or words, Confident CAPTCHA presents the visitor with a grid of randomly-generated pictures and simply asks them to click on specific pictures to verify that they are human and not a bot. Post Address Shortening With this Plugin you optimize your workflow as it enables you to auto-generate […]

Twenty Ten Inverted 2 column theme for WordPress 3.0 which has inverted colours of Top Ten Twenty Ten Blogging Inside Edition Twenty Ten Blogging Inside Edition WordPress 3.0 Theme is based on the new WordPress 3.0 default Theme with a few modifications. The Sidebar is optimized for Adsense 236px Ads. Changed sidebar with a different look&feel and with posts metadata grey frame to make the posts more compact SimpleText SimpleText – a simple theme for WordPress, sidebar on the left, in the theme used not standard fonts (js typeface), theme compatible with wordpress 3.0, to create a paging navigation use the plugin wp-pagenavi. Goodness Goodness is a two-column layout WordPress theme, with a righthand sidebar with a horizontal dropdown jQuery custom menu, a replaceable logo area, custom header and paged- and threaded- comments.

WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial. As an extension of the excellent walk through of the multisite functionality of WordPress 3.0 by our very own Klint Finley, Otto has put together a domain mapping tutorial that is receiving rave reviews. Follow the steps to map multiple domain blogs from within the same WordPress 3.0 install.

Actually this should not be a big surprise for those of us who frequent sites like this to see that the latest version of WordPress is moving out the door at this kind of pace. If you want to watch the parade of downloads then you should check out this site: http://wordpress.org/download/counter/ Personally I do not remember a similar download counter on past versions but that does not mean it did not exist.  Maybe someone from WordPress can comment on how this versions download pace compares to past updates. I think that would be interesting to know and compare. I grabbed this screenshot at 8:20 AM EDT just to give you a frame of reference I did some very rough calculations and watched the counter for 60 seconds to get an idea of just how fast those downloads are happening: 50 downloads per minute 3,000 downloads per hour 72,000 downloads […]