Your Revolution is another magazine-style Wordpress theme created for those bloggers that is looking for something special and with the ambition to evolve. The clean style of this theme, along with the *understandable* coding will enable bloggers to easily modify the look to suit their needs.

Features:

• Magazine-style homepage layout, with various sub-page layouts for the single post, archives and static pages
• 300 x 250 Advertisement Spot below the sidebar (edit ad300×250.php)

Pricing: $79
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.adii.co.za/2007/10/08/your-revolution-is-here-too/

The Block Magazine is a magazine-styled Wordpress theme created for news-type sites with a lot of content. The homepage displays the first two posts in the loop and then the next 5 posts in the sidebar. This theme uses two custom fields: Thumb and LargeThumb (the fields are case sensitive!). The values of Thumb and ThumbLarge needs to be the http location of the images attached to each post. Thumb is for the small image (64×64 pixels) and ThumbLarge is for the featured, larger image (440 pixels in width).

Features:

• Magazine-style homepage layout, with various sub-page layouts for the single post, archives and static pages
• Domtab integrated into the sidebar to display either Recent Articles, Popular Articles or Most Commented Articles
• Seperate RSS 2.0 feeds for All Articles, Featured Articles and Comments
• Easy-to-edit “About” section at the top of the sidebar (edit about.php)
• 300 x 250 Advertisement Spot below the sidebar (edit ad300×250.php)

Pricing: $79
Requirements: Most Commented Plugin, Popularity Contest Plugin
Source: http://www.adii.co.za/2007/10/08/the-block-magazine-is-here/

We have a great three column theme for you called Illacrimo. Created by Design Disease, and released on LifeSpy. It is the third free theme that Bloggy Network has released. Illacrimo has a strong color set, that should appeal to many, and works well with the plugins we have included in the download file, or without.

Supporting plugins like:

• Gravatar
• FlickrRSS
• Pagenavi

Make sure you put them in the right place and activate them if you want the full Illacrimo experience.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.lifespy.com/2007/illacrimo-theme-release/

Subscribers-only plugin lets you mark posts for subscribers-only. You can mark all posts in a category as subscriber-only, or mark individual posts regardless of category, or both. You define which roles are allowed to read subscriber-only posts. No template modifications are required.

When a post is marked as subscriber-only and your home page displays excerpts then the excerpt will be shown along with an optional “Subscribers-only” banner that you define. When a reader clicks on the link to go to the individual post page they must be logged in to read the post. If a person is not logged in then they will be presented a link to login or register.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://edwards.org/2006/03/07/subscribers-only-plugin…

WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns. WP-o-Matic aims to provide a very wide range of features. Currently, these are:

Features

• Campaigs Feeds and all settings and options are now organized into campaigns for the perfect organization and comfort.
• Multiple feeds / categories: it’s possible to add as many feeds as you want, and add them to as many categories as you want. It’s not obstrusive, so you can also write your own posts to any of those categories.
• Every form of XML syndication supported. This includes RSS 0.91 and RSS 1.0 formats, the popular RSS 2.0 format, and the emerging Atom.
• Feed autodiscovery, which lets you add feeds without even knowing the exact URL. (Thanks Simplepie!)
• Unix cron and Wordpress cron jobs For maximum performance, you can make the RSS fetching process be called by a Unix cron job, or simply let Wordpress handle it.
• Comfortable interface. The admin is powered by a state of the art ajaxy interface that lets you handle your feeds with ease. Updated!
• Images caching for extreme performance and hotlinking bypassing.
• Words Rewriting. Want to replace the word “Poker” with “Texas Holdem”? We have it covered. Want to use regular expressions? We have it covered.
• Words Relinking. Define custom links for words you specify.
• Post templating. Define a global header and footer for the posts, or even for a specific feed. Add ads
• Campaigns import/export using OPML files. Easily import hundreds of feeds into new or existing campaigns.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-10-to-be-released/

Using Wp-SlimStat you can see detailed stats of your wordpress blog. It also filter details and stats using the filter form inside Details panel. Just type a domain (say google.com), choose “domain” radio-button, and submit data. The plugin will show you information related on that filter string. The same thing can be done with search strings, or referers. Here are the most important things about this plugin:

• imports wp-shortstat tables and data
• halved db size compared to wp-shortstat
• liquid layout: optimized for 1024×768 and 800×600
• metatags to show stats on your blog
• fully localizable
• improved browser and platform detection
• tracks Wordpress search form
• displays post titles for given resources
• shows visitors and unique IPs, not just hits
• use of a local ip-to-country database

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://dev.duechiacchiere.it/

sNews is a completely free, standards compliant, PHP and MySQL driven content management system. Consisting of only one small core file, sNews is extremely lightweight, easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface.

With sNews you can create a website that consists of dynamic pages and have a blog at the same time. sNews has a front page option and categories for you to categorize your articles. Corporate CMS or a personal blog - your choice.

sNews uses search engine friendly URLs throughout, to make your website truly loved by Google and other search engines (as well as your visitors). This makes a sNews driven site highly Search Engine Optimized from the get-go and will greatly assist in your site obtaining a good SEO ranking.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://snewscms.com/

SilverStripe is a Content Management the way it was meant to be. It is powerful enough for any website or intranet design and simple enough for anyone to use with the following main features.

• Simple. Intuitive and user-friendly
• Flexible coding framework (MVC)
• Scalable. From 1 page to a million
• Fast. As responsive as a desktop app thanks to native Ajax support
• Standards Compliant. Fully XHTML compliant
• Modular. Easy to extend
• Template Freedom. No restrictions on the look and feel of your site
• Open source. It’s free (BSD) and you can contribute to the project.
• Cross platform (Windows/Linux/Mac) and easy to install (PHP based)

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.silverstripe.com/

It’s not so easy finding quality graphic design authors. So to make things easier for you, here David Airey has presented his top 50 graphic design blogs. He has categorised these blogs by their Google PageRank (PR), which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a website / blog.

Source: http://www.davidairey.com/top-50-graphic-design-blogs/

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That’s where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.

It can help you spread a link on 34 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!

• It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
• It helps you increase your traffic.
• Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
• Best of all, it’s free!

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.socialmarker.com/