Short list of scripts - most are for WordPress.com users, but some work for both. [ via hackwordpress ]

Smashing Magazine has their list of Premium WordPress Themes. I would pay for a theme under certain circumstances, but about a 99% I would modify it’s look and functionality afterwards to make it somewhat unique (just like a free theme I guess). Here’s another list, although it covers many from Smashing.

Smashing Magazine, the website of lists, has another list of100 Wordpress Themes. Not sure if they are all excellant. Most are worthy of note (my blog’s template is there). Great link to throw at a client who needs some Wordpress inspiration.

I’ve been using the Customizable Post Listings plugin from coffee2code for a while, but the old but still popular version (1.1 I think) doesn’t work with Wordpress 2.2 or 2.3.x. Stumbled on Lorelle’s site, where apparently the plugin has been updated. The direct link is here, although if that link breaks down the road I would go back to Lorelle’s site.

New, but the Contact Coldform already looks like a good plugin to tryout if you want to get easy and very customizable html forms on any post or page on your wordpress blog.

I keep forgetting this - good thing i stumbled on this tip on finding the current page slug when you are buliding a wordpress template.

$post_obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object();
$post_ID = $post_obj->ID;
$post_title = $post_obj->post_title;
$post_name = $post_obj->post_name;

Perishable Press presents a simple method for dramatically decreasing the size of your WordPress database by partially emptying old data from the WP-ShortStat. I personally use this plugin, so i’m bookmarking this for me to consider six months down the road.

WordPress 2.3.2 - - Get it ASAP, an urgent security release.

FancyTooltips is a WordPress Plugin that “replaces those boring little boxes that appear next to your mouse with a dynamic and impressive one”.

Smashing Magazine features Elena Gafita’s Dilectio Wordpress Template. It’s a nice 3-column template. Clean, but has provisions for widgets and other goodies. Hopefully this won’t be cloned a million times my this time next month.

The Neoclassical 3-Column Theme for WordPress - nice, clean. Worthy of a bookmark for my Wordpress template list.

Saw this on mashable today - Yahoo Shortcuts can suggest and add Maps, Finance, ok-to-use images and more to your blog posts. Not sure if this helps or adds content spam, so i’m bookmarking to check out later.

53 Top Blog Designs of 2007 from www.adii.co.za. I like most of the selections… some are a little predictable, some wondering if he wasn’t mentioning them just for the linkbacks (simplebits?) but overall a nice list. At the very least it’s a gateway to 53 sites you might want to add to your reading list.

I just installed this, because i’m starting to put php, javascript, and html code samples into my blog posts. This code markup plugin seems to be one of the few that work with WordPress 2.3.

Mashable’s nice collection of really nice plugins. Here’s another list of Wordpress plugins allowing you to control your Google Adsense ads (these might overlap). Thinking of putting some small ads on my blogs, only because i could use the few bucks. Have you seen the price of gas lately?

Another one of those social-bookmarking services for Wordpress, but appears to be one of the best.

A nice “how to build a wordpress theme” tutorial, covering what to build (and how). Building a Wordpress theme isn’t hard, but this might cover a few things one can forget to include. I personally make quite a few custom themes.

What level of education is required to understand your blog?

Some select blog / site designs, which might inspire me in my Wordpress projects the future.

I’ve been using wp-statpress for the past few days, and it’s one of those “simple but effective” plugins when you don’t need a billion numbers to look at.

FeedWordPress “syndicates content from newsfeeds that you choose into your WordPress webblog”. I wanted to import my feeds from another blog of mine, and this might do the trick.

Wphone seems to allow you to admin Wordpress via an iPhone or iTouch. Since I just picked up a 16GB iTouch, i’m anxious to try this out.