Several addons are available as zip files in the mailpress folder. They are in fact WordPress plugins interacting with MailPress. The basic idea is to keep the core of MailPress as stable as possible and to use the WordPress API to propose some add ons, making MailPress completely scalable to your needs.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.6+
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/

We have mentioned ElegantThemes a while ago, which provides WordPress themes of quality and integrity. Recently, they have released a new theme called eGamer. eGamer was designed with video game blogs in mind, however, it can certainly be adapted to any niche. This theme contains some advanced features as follows.

Video Embedding

When you make a post you can add a custom field with your desired video embed code (taken from a video streaming website such as youtube). This video is then displayed on your single post page below the rest of the content in its own box.

Post Ratings and Reviews

Whenever you make a post you will notice that a new section has been added below your text editor entitled “eGamer Rating settings.” Within the field just type a number between 0 and 5. Once you assign a rating a star-rating image is generated and placed on your post page below the title.

Thumbnail Images

For each post you can assign a single thumbnail image. This thumbnail image is automatically resized, cropped, and paced throughout the blog.

Featured Articles

You can choose featured articles for your blog which will be displayed through a javascript scroller on the homepage. These are set to rotate automatically, and can also be rotated by mouse click.

Advertisement Options

The theme comes with two optional advertisement areas. There are four 125×125 banner image spots that can be displayed in the sidebar, as well as a single 468×60 banner that is displayed at the top of the page. The banner images and URL’s are managed via the theme’s options page, and both nodes can be turned on and off at any time.

eGamer is the first Quality Premium WordPress theme for Gaming industry I have ever seen. Just join ElegantThemes, and you would be able to download eGame along with other Premium WordPress themes with the cost of $19.95/year only.

Pricing: $19.95/year membership
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/egamer/

Source: Installing WordPress Locally

1. Check the Connection
2. Check your (Vista) System
3. Check the Plugins
4. Check your Theme
5. Optimize Database Tables
6. Turn off Post Revisions
7. Implement Caching (WordPress Cache, MySQL Optimization, PHP Opcode Cache)
8. “MySQL server has gone away” workaround
9. Fixing posting not possible problem
10. Other reasons for slow posting

Source: WordPress Optimization Guide

Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribers consistently. Is there anything you can do about it? Any way to efficiently attract more RSS subscribers?

Sure there is. Many people wrote about this topic in the past, but DailyBlogTips wanted to give his take on the issue too. He wrote “50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers” as they were coming to his head, as briefly as possible. Apparently, Blog Perfume are doing most of the them now. Therefore, we have successfully gained over 2500 readers in the past months.

Source: 50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

• Search Every Page, Tag, Category
• Search non-password protected pages only
• Search Every Comment, approved comments
• Search Every Draft, Excerpt, Attachment
• Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
• Exclude Posts from search, Categories from search

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.1+
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.0+
Source: http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/plugin/

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/30/color-paper…

Nathan Rice has published “The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Theme Search Engine Optimization” which is a list of tips for bloggers that will help them embrace the natural flow of good SEO in the form of a well optimized theme. This guide can’t guarantee you first page rankings, and certainly can’t get you quality links, but it will teach you every step you must take to ensure that you’re site is completely search engine optimized. The post has been divided into the following topics.

• Generating a sitemap for Google
• Getting your site indexed by Google
• Getting Google to index and follow the right stuff
• Using Keyword-Rich Permalinks
• Optimizing your  <title></title>
• Optimizing your header tags
• Using META descriptions
• Using META keywords
• Keyword Density
• Deep Linking

Source: The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Theme Search Engine Optimization

With WPtouch you can customize many aspects of its appearance in the WPtouch admin panel, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your iPhone and iPod touch visitors, without modifying a single bit of code on your regular site.

The theme also includes the easy ability for visitors to switch back and forth between the WPtouch view and your site’s regular theme.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.1+
Source: http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/