Maxpower
Much is discussed regarding tagging, SEO, and the like. If you are looking to hedge your bet, and leverage all of your options, you may want to look at this plugin which takes your UTW or Jerome’s Keyword data and converts it to meta tags on your pages. The admin interface allows for customization of different templates and what you want for descriptions, etc.
The Daily Blitz
I see this request more and more in the support forums. Blog owners want their logged in users to redirect to something other than the dashboard. This plugin does just that, piggy backing on Owen’s Role’s Manager plugin. Also allows you to change the default “login” and “logout” text brackets, as well as the “Register” and “Site Admin” brackets.
In case you missed this last week, Owen offers up a tutorial on adding a “shelf” to your blog. For those not familiar with the “shelf”, it’s a AJAX-ified pulldown that you can add additional content to, but is “hidden” until the user clicks the tab (or what ever you use trigger the action). I’ve seen “shelves” contain an “about” section, flickr images, just about anything can be added. Well written tutorial, definitely worthy of a read and a del.ico.us bookmark.
On any given day, 40-50 of you are subscribed to this feed. I’d like to know what you’d like to see more of, less etc. Would you like all plugin updates, or just the ones I’ve filtered? Themes, all of the ones I look at, or just the ones that are unique enough (that is, not basic changes to the default theme)? I’ll be adding a bunch more content tonight, but was just wondering where I should focus, as I read quite a few sites looking for items to post. Your comments will be highly useful and appreciative.
RobLog
A bevy of changes to this popular WP plugin which allows for users to show books in their sidebar (or other places) of recommended or now reading. Now in 3.3 beta 2
Undersigned
The excellent theme viewer from undersigned is joining forces with the work shadow and others have done at themes.wordpress.net. More details can be found in this post from the forums. Also note this WP Station post calling on volunteers to help with the project.
io error
A public release of the newly written from the ground up version of the indispensable WP plugin. If you’ve not explored this plugin with your other comment spam fighters, now is the time to investigate.
Mindfaucet
A modified WordPress theme created to offer daily comic strips via a blog. New features include, searchable archives, comic tagger, header links and navigation as well as a new look, easy for customization. Another example of how versatile WP can be.
Well, well. Took a week off (again), and it seems there’s a flood of news to catch up on, so expect a flood of posts the next two days. One non-news related WP item I wanted to mention is The Dead Milkmen, a band which I was a huge fan of when I was in highschool, are running their sites on WP. The archives are especially cool, with little bits of this and that from the bands “boxes and boxes down in the basement”. The Moo cans are especially cool. Check them out for sure.
As has been discussed numerous times, the best way to “pay” for WordPress is to give back to the community by volunteering. One can help add to the documentation by helping with the Codex, answering questions in the forums, or if you are a coder, helping with bug fixes. Now another area is in need of help. In this post shadow, who has maintained the theme viewer as a neutral site to view the multitude of themes available, is seeking volunteers to help tag, list, and add more themes. So if you are a fan of the themes, and would like to chip in, visit the thread in the forums, see what needs done, and drop him an email (address available in thread)