Comfy news theme is a free news / magazine style theme for WordPress. It looks really clean, stunning and professional. Comfy comes with many features, some of them are basic magazine features such as dropdown navigation, feedburner subscription, advertisement spots, featured entries, ajax tabs, widget-ready, gravatars built-in, and more.

One important feature is that your visitors have full control over your home page and sidebar widgets, utilized jQuery to make the widgets fully controllable, you can minimize, maximize, or close any widget from homepage. Comfy displays posts from your selected categories, the user can easily increase/reduce the number of stories shown to him on home page which makes your blog look like a real news site.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.gabfire.com/comfy-wordpress-news-theme-is-released/

Many blogs out there can only produce a couple articles a week while their visitors ask for loads more. It’s sometimes a good idea to add related articles from other blogs to your sidebar. Adding them manually takes lots of time we don’t have.

With this new Community News plugin you allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/

WP WebHost is a web hosting for WordPress Users. They tailor made the servers and configuration for WordPress. Now you can get the best compatibility and maximum performance for every of your WordPress-powered site hosted with them. WP WebHost differs from other hosting companies by providing WordPress-related issues support. They will help you on any WordPress installation, configuration, plugins and themes issue.

You can install new WordPress on your site with just a click of your mouse through their Control Panel. They also invest heavily in ensuring our servers are not overloaded, have the fastest network connections, and guarantee 99.9% of network uptime. If you are not, within 100 days from when your initial order was placed, you’ll get your money back.

WP WebHost seemed new and too good to be true. Are you sure are not one of those ‘overnight hosting companies’? They can assure you – they are not. WP WebHost started in 2007 and backed by a reputable international hosting company – Exabytes Network. They are an award-winning hosting company, having been in the industry for more than 7 years with more than 20,000 satisfied customer.

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Popurls is, as described by its founder, the ultimate source for the latest web buzz and news and a daily must-read for me. Ericulous thought maybe he can do something based on that model to keep track of the buzz in Singapore and thus OneNews was born. This also showcase the power of Wordpress being more than a blog software. You can easily create a single-page news aggregator like Popurls or multiple-pages news aggregator like Alltop.

Pricing: Single License – $49, Multiple License – $199
Requirements: -
Source: http://ericulous.com/2007/06/11/popurls-clone-using-wordpress/

Zemanta is a revolutionary new platform for accelerating on-line content production for any web user. Any user-created text (a blog post, article or web page) is directly “read” by Zemanta, which recognizes all contextual content. Zemanta then combs the web for the most relevant images, smart links, keywords and text, instantly serving these results to the user to enrich and inform their content. What’s more, Zemanta can be deployed on all major content publishing platforms and web browsers through a simple plug-in.

Simple point & click enrichment of your blog posts (and emails). In real-time, while you type. They suggest tags, links, photos, and related articles. You save time and aspirin.

Source: http://www.zemanta.com/

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again. Snazzy Archives simply lets you express yourself and your blog. You can select different layouts and special effects, Snazzy archives will make sure your content stands out.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/snazzy-archives

Smashing Magazine has released 2 free high-quality WordPress magazine-themes. The themes include full PSD-templates and can be used without any restrictions whatsoever. The designer would like to reflect the vintage, old-style look and thus look attractive, unusual and memorable. The result is the Vintage WordPress theme, a 2-column theme with various illustrations and icons.

The theme is available for free download and can be used for any purposes without any restrictions whatsoever. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.7+
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/28/vintage-and-blues-wordpress-themes/

Google has acquired Feedburner in 2007, and they have started migrating the feeds hosted on Feedburner to Google’s servers recently. Google also announced that they expect to get all the feeds transferred by February 28, and they mentioned that after that day Feedburner feeds will start reporting a 404. So most of us should have already migrated our feed to Google’s servers.

Because of the migiration, Google has released a new API for the feed stats which makes our Feed Analysis does not work properly. Therefore, we have decided using the new API for Feed Analysis, which makes migrated feeds work properly. However, if you have not migrate your feeds to Google’s servers, Feed Analysis will no longer work for you, please do the migration as soon as possible. Go and analysis your Google feeds now.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating.

Multi rating is almost completed. You can check out Multi Sets panel where you can build multi rating sets. Each element of the set has different weight for calculating overall rating. Each post can have one instance of each rating set, and sets will support almost everything regular rating supports.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.gdstarrating.com/

Anarchy Media Player 2.5 for WordPress, WordPressMu and Standalone Javascript will play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp as well as Windows wmv, avi and asf files, in the appropriate player on your web page.

The WordPress versions also add buttons to the Rich Text Editor for embedding Flash swf and Director dcr movies as well as YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, DailyMotion, Revver, Metacafe, MySpace, Apple iTunes iMix, and GoEar players.

Various options are available in config.php, including enabling both the Director editor button and wysiwyg extensions to the rich text editor (latter disabled by default as it may conflict with other wysiwyg plugins in some installs). Config.php also allows download links to be turned on or off, restrict use of the script to your domains, change the colour styling of the mp3 player, set site Quicktime version, video player sizes and so on.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player