Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

Features:

• Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
• No PHP skills or file changes needed
• User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
• Available in many languages
• Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
• Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
• Tells Ask.com, Google and YAHOO about changes via ping
• Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
• Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 1.5+
Source: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml…

Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system and it is both free and open source.

When it comes to publishing on the internet, beginners and experts alike are met with a bothersome paradox: word processors and graphics applications allow anyone to do a pretty good job of managing text and images on a personal computer, but to make these available to the worldwide web – a seemingly similar environment of documents and destinations – ease of use vanishes behind sudden requirements for multilingual programming skills, proficiency in computer-based graphic design, and, ultimately, the patience of a saint.

Those who soldier on anyway may find themselves further held back by the web’s purported inflexibility with written language, with its reluctance to cope with all but the plainest of text, or by the unpredictable results brought about by using “WYSIWYG“ web editors.

Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome these and other hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.

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

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites or blogs
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce applications
• Resource directories
• Social Networking sites

Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL (”General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Drupal is free to download and use. If you like what Drupal promises for you, please work with us to expand and refine Drupal to suit your specific needs.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://drupal.org/

Google AdSense matches ads to your site’s content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them. There are two types of ads provided by Google.

AdSense for content

Automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.

AdSense for search

Allows website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.

Type: CPC and CPM
Source: https://www.google.com/adsense

WPCandy decided to make this WordPress Help Sheet with Liquidicty. Well, in the past they made two other Help Sheets on CSS and XHTML. WPCandy really liked the style they used in their PDFs, so I got a hold of the AI file, and edited it away to best fit WordPress.

The WordPress Help Sheet includes the following:

• Basic Template Files
• PHP Snippets for the Header
• PHP Snippets for the Templates
• And Extra Stuff for WordPress

Different language are also avalibe on WordPress Help Sheet in Spanish, WordPress Help Sheet in Romanian, WordPress Help Sheet in Portugues.

Source: http://wpcandy.com/the-wordpress-help-sheet

To be an A-List Celebrity in Hollywood, it’s all about the amount of Vanity Fair, GQ, and People Magazine covers you can score. To be an A-List Bloglebrity on the Internet, it’s all about the amount of link love you can score.

This Technorati widget Kineda has created, computes your bloglebrity status based on four influential groupings. Are You an A-List Bloglebrity?

Groupings Explained:

The Low Authority Group [D-List Bloggers]
(3-9 blogs linking in the last 6 months)

The Middle Authority Group [C-List Bloggers]
(10-99 blogs linking in the last 6 months)

The High Authority Group [B-List Bloggers]
(100-499 blogs linking in the last 6 months)

The Very High Authority Group [A-List Bloggers]
(500 or more blogs linking in the last 6 months)

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.kineda.com/are-you-an-a-list-bloglebrity/

ProBlogger is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium. Darren Rowse started it in September 2004 mainly because I wanted to keep a record of what I was learning about blogging for money. Since then I’ve added over well over 3500 articles, tips, tutorials and case studies to my archives here.

As Darren Rowse’s blogs have grown in popularity and have begun to generate income Blogging has grown from a hobby (some would say an obsession), to a part time job through to a fully fledged business in recent times. He has slowly built his blogging into a income source that has enabled me to dedicate more and more time to the medium to the point where he is currently a full time blogger – a ProBlogger.

Source: http://www.problogger.net/

Zeke 1.0 + Widgets is a 3-column, widget-ready WordPress theme. It’s built to work with WordPress versions 2.1 and above. Use of this theme requires WordPress Sidebar Widgets. Sidebar Widgets are now built into WP versions 2.2 and above. If you are not using WP 2.2 or above, you will need to use the Sidebar Widgets plugin found here.

Pricing: Personal Edition (Free), Developer Edition ($129.00), Exclusive Edition ($799.00)
Requirements:Wordpress 2.2+, Sidebar Widget
Source: http://www.solostream.com/2007/06/17/worpdress-blog-theme-zeke…

What Others Are Saying allows you to display the most recent post of your favourite blogs somewhere on your site. It utilises the RSS link field from the blogroll for each of your links. If the RSS link exists it attempts to get the last post from it. It then displays the most recent X number of posts depending on your settings. Each blog can have one post in the list.

The plugin simply outputs the post and site name wrapped in a list item, so you would need to insert the above code into either an unordered or ordered list, and also give it a header. So that people don’t need to edit the plugin file to change their markup.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0.7+
Source: http://www.stuffbysarah.net/blog/wordpress-plugins/what-others-are-saying/

WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. We are proud to offer you a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. WordPress is publishing software with a focus on ease of use, speed and a great user experience. WordPress is blessed with an active community, which is the heart of open source software. It has the following excellent main features.

Locally Installed

WordPress is designed to be installed on your own web server, or shared hosting account, which gives you complete control over the weblog. Unlike third-party hosted services, you can be sure of being able to access and modify everything related to your weblog, in case you need to. This also means that you can install WordPress on your desktop or home computer, or even on an Intranet.

User management

WordPress uses user-levels to control user-access to different features, so you can restrict the ability of individual users to create or modify content in your weblog, by changing their user-level.

Dynamic page generation

No rebuilding of all your pages each time you update your weblog, or any aspect of it. All pages are generated using the database and the templates each time a page from your weblog is requested by a viewer. This means that updating your weblog, or its design is as fast as possible, and required server storage space usage is minimal.

Template Driven Design

WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically. You can control the presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Editor tool and the Template Tags.

Moderation

For the control freak in all of us, WordPress provides an array of moderation options. You can moderate

• all comments before they appear on the blog
• comments with specific words in them
• comments posted from specific IP addresses
• comments containing more than some specified number of links.

All these moderation options keep spammers and vandals in check.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://wordpress.org