Katesgasis.com has just released an updated Sideblog Plugin v3.0 for WordPress. This plugin puts a series of short posts that are usually 1 to 2 sentences in length, in your blog sidebar. The plugin allows multiple categories of posts to be published to the sidebar.

What’s really cool about Sideblog Plugin v3.0 is that it is now Widget enabled! This means it is ultra-easy to setup if your theme supports widgets. With a Sidebar Widget theme just activate the plugin, select the categories that you want to appear in the sidebar and drop the Sideblog widget to where you want it. It can, however, still be used on themes which do not support sidebar widgets, by adding one line of code to the sidebar.php theme file.

Download: Sideblog Plugin v3.0

Current Version: 3.0

Plugin Author: katesgasis.com

Widget: Yes

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Elliott Back has released a plugin called WP Autoblog that allow you to automatically post to your WordPress blog from any RSS, ATOM or XML feed. The plugin will creates these new posts in the proper assigned categories and publish either excerpts or full feeds.

WP Autoblog Plugin Features

This plugin basically converts RSS, ATOM or XML feeds into WordPress posts. This plugin has several features which include;

• Automatic publishing
• RSS .92, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom support
• Multiple categories
• Cronless cron jobs
• Optional source attribution
• Optional find and replace
• Optional excerpt republishing

In common usage it could be used to run an aggregator site where a collection of your favorite feeds can be posted to your WordPress blog (if the terms of the feed creators allow this). However, the power of this plugin means that it can be abused, as it could be used by spammers to push high-profit keyword posts into their blogs. Whatever the issues, this is an easy plugin to setup and use straight away.

Download

You can download WP Autoblog as a zip file here: wp-autoblog.zip. It will always be linked to the latest version of the wordpress plugin.

Installation

Unzip and copy the wp-autoblog folder to your …/wp-content/plugins/ directory. Then, activate in the administrative interface. Make sure the wp-autoblog/cache directory is writable. Then, an options panel will appear under Options/WP Autoblog, where you can configure the plugin.

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MW 1.1 is a wordpress theme from Monetizing the Web. This theme has a clean feel and has many inbuilt features. The most useful feature is the easy ad management. The theme allows you to easily insert your own Ad units in the header (728×90), after the first two article blocks, at the bottom (468×60). These ad units are handled seperately in four ad.php files for easy editing.

The MW 1.1 theme has many inbuilt features:

• Option to choose between 17 color schemes:
• Show full text or summary in front page, archives and search.
• Option to show the summary at the top of single posts.
• Clean, simple and classic look.
• 2-column, fixed width, centered layout with left sidebar.
• Favicon preinstalled
• Features modules: last articles, related articles
• Subscription options (Bloglines, Feedster, Google Reader).
• Digg, Del.icio.us and Furl links after articles.
• Comments: automatically highlights trackbacks and author comments.
• Integrated gravatars.

Download: MW 1.1

Current Version: 1.1

Theme Author: Javier Garci­a

Required plugins: None

Widgets Supported: No

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Kaushal Sheth has just released a new WordPress theme called Sky3c. This is a 3column version of Kaushal’s Anthosia theme. The theme has a nice zen feel about it with crisp, off-black text and also each sidebar section uses a graphic as well as text .

No extra plugins are required to use this theme. The theme supports Widgets for easy changing of the overall layout. All the widgets we tested worked great. The theme is slick and fast-loading, with a nice menu bar for WordPress pages under the main header.

Download: Sky3c

Current Version: 1.0

Theme Author: Kaushal Sheth

Required plugins: None

Widgets Supported: Yes

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