Are you tired of content scrapper? If you have enabled your full feeds, they would easily pull your contents out from your feeds and then inject into their blog posts automatically. And also, they would pretend the contents are written by themselves. AntiLeech helps prevent content theft by sploggers. AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them. When they steal this content, it appears online just like normal, except now you’ve turned the tables on them and have provided them with useless content.

AntiLeech can detect a splogger bot using its User-Agent string, or by IP address. You can enter a User-Agent or an IP address into the Options panel of your WordPress blog. In addition to all of that, AntiLeech will produce a robots.txt output from the User-Agents that you’ve specified in the options page, assuming you don’t already have one. Download the plugin now and prevent RSS or content scrapper.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/AntiLeech

Trackbacks are the messages displayed in the comments list whenever another blog links back to one of your posts. If you use trackbacks on your blog, it is best if they are not mixed with the comments. The comments are a conversation between between real people. Having machine-generated links in the middle of that will only serve to disrupt the conversations.

ProBlogDesign has shared a method that will lift out all of the trackbacks, and then display them as a numbered list after the list of comments is finished. Once you have this done, customizing the trackbacks to appear however you want them to is simple.

P.S. Thank you Eli from Photoshopstar letting me know this lovely WordPress trick.

Source: Separating Trackbacks from Comments

We always want to release a Free WordPress Theme to WordPress community. And finally we have a clean and soft 3 column, widget-ready customizable WordPress theme called SilveRay.SilveRay has been tested on IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari for windows. You can download it for personal or commercial purpose as long as you keep the credit link at the footer of the template.

Features

3-Column Layout, Validated XHTML and CSS, Ads friendly, Widget-ready on both sides, SweetTitle tooltip installed, LiveClick installed, Serach bar at the top

Requirements

WordPress 2.3.3+

Download

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How do you get your new site in front of thousands of people? The best and easiest way is to get featured on CSS galleries. Being featured on CSS galleries can give you traffic increases of up to 5,000 uniques a day that last for several days. Once the initial spike ends, you will continue to see several hundred visits a day. CSS galleries are quickly becoming one of the first places professionals look when trying to find talented web designers.

You could randomly submit your site to one gallery and more than likely end up on many more. However, if you take a more structured approach to your submitting, you end up getting featured on more sites. There are some galleries that want to be the first to feature you, and probably won’t feature you if you have already been seen on too many other sites. The key is to submit and get listed on these first, then follow with the less picky sites. DesignReviver has a great list of CSS galleries and the order of submitting it, please view Promote Yourself Through CSS Galleries.

Source: Promote Yourself Through CSS Galleries

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? WordPress 2.5 will remain familiar to seasoned users while improving the experience for everyone. This isn’t just a fresh coat of paint, it’s very organized so that you can forget about the software and focus on your own creative pursuits. Here is a sneak peek of WordPress 2.5.

With the new design, the number of navigation options are cut in half, separating the primary functions (writing, managing posts and pages, editing the blog’s design, and managing comments) from secondary functions. This presents information at a more comfortable pace, revealing only the information that’s necessary. Everything you need is still there — just better organized.

The new write screen only displays the information that you’ll use most often. It displays the most common fields in a way that makes posting incredibly easy. Additional options are hidden away until you need them. The new Write screen anticipates the natural flow of the way you write, and is smart enough to remember the way you left it so that your preferred writing environment is always quickly available. The new visual editor even has a handy full-screen mode to help block out distractions while composing your newest post.

The Manage screens have been redesigned and unified so that now, managing your pages, posts, media, and comments all use similar, consistent interfaces. I am really looking forward to use WordPress 2.5.

Source: WordPress 2.5 Sneak Peek

Astereostudio has released his first Premium WordPress Theme titled simply “Market“. Market allows you to easily run your own Wordpress powered marketplace. There are many custom fields do much of the work for you - from setting a price to including that price, the name of the product, and other info and sending it all to Paypal for you. The theme can also easily be used as a way to showcase a portfolio as well. Below are some of the features found in this theme.

• Function over form - The market theme was designed to focus on its functionality as opposed to its design. The theme is intended to be customized to meet the needs of its specific store, so the design may seem fairly boring at first. But, with the power of css, you can do a lot with it.
• Hassle free integration - Using your admin email as specified in the Wordpress settings the buy now button will forward all payments to you.
• Custom fields working hard for you - The theme uses multiple custom fields including one for a large product image, additional product images, price, and specs.
• Thumbnail Generator - Code included and setup for you so thumbnails are all generated at the right sizes.
• Fancyzoom for thumbnail pop-ups - Fancyzoom is in use for product thumbnails on the single post / product view page.
• Multi-Pack Downloads - Download the standard Market theme install or a few other custom packages, such as one with the “buy now” option replaced with a “add to cart” option powered by FatFreeCart.

Market is available for just $40 USD in the form of a standard license. A Developers License is also available for $120 USD. Now, Astereostudio is very kind to give away 2 copies of Market standard license to us. All you have to do is leaving a comment under this post and tell us the reason you like using WordPress, and then you would have a chance of winning one of the 2 copies of Market Wordpress Theme immediately. The winners will be announced on 31th March 2008.

P.S. The Market theme now has a affiliate program with extremely competitive payouts of 50% per sale! This works on both the Standard License and the Developers License.

Probama Theme for WordPress is a timely Wordpress theme for supporters of Senator Barack Obama’s political career and presidential campaign. Built-in control panel options allow easy management of images, video, podcasts and other RSS info. I really love this Wordpress theme design. It looks so so nice and professional, at the same time, it keeps the simple layout which makes it very easy and comfortable to read. You do not have to be a fan of Barack Obama in order to use this theme, I am sure you can twist it a little bit to suit other topics of your blogs.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Worpdress 2.3.3+
Source: http://www.category4.com/2008/03/11/probama-theme…

When we are designing and coding our blog’s template, it is always good to seperate the representation from the content using CSS. There are a lot of CSS tricks we have to learn. However, I found 8 Premium One Line CSS Tips by CSS Globe particular useful. It shows us how to:

1. Vertical centering with line-height
2. Prevent oversized content to break fixed width floated layouts
3. Prevent line breaks in links
4. Always show Firefox scrollbar
5. Centering block elements horizontally
6. Remove vertical textarea scrollbar in IE
7. Force page breaks when printing your document
8. Remove active link borders

Source: 8 Premium One Line Css Tips

The Options theme was made with the idea of ongoing updates to the theme. Essentially, Justin Tadlock was tired of just making a new theme using the same old code but with a few adjustments. He would like to continue building upon the functionality while still offering new designs for the theme.

This theme comes packaged with two different stylesheets, Dark and Light, which you can choose through the theme options page. There are five sections, or blocks, on the home page layout. From the theme options page, you can choose from 14 different options for each of the sections.

• Five types of category sections.
• Three types of features sections.
• Two types of video sections.
• Excerpts.
• Full posts.
• Tags.
• Flickr photos.
• Two customizable sections.

The theme includes customizable, widget-ready sidebars. There are quite a few pre-built widgets for your use as well. And after all, this is FREE!

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/02/24/options-wordpress-theme

ThemeShaper has asked 11 people who have committed to thinking creatively about WordPress themes and what they mean. These are some of the people who will carry and lead WordPress theming into 3.0 and beyond. Some of these people will set the agenda for the future of WordPress themes. And this is what they think The Future of WordPress Themes will look like.

The WordPress platform has a bright future. And that future needs to be themed. Premium WordPress theme designers, Web Developers building custom themes and enthusiasts releasing free themes are going to help change WordPress in the next year—just like they did last year and the year before that. Whatever the future holds it’s going to be exciting.

Source: The Future of WordPress Themes