This is a fantastic new plugin for WordPress which does a great job of optimizing your blog for the search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo.

The plugin does several things at once in order to do the Search Engine Optimization (‘SEO’ for short) for your WordPress blog;

The plugin optimizes all your blog titles for you. Post titles are hugely important for SEO and with this plugin these will be re-written on the fly, with the actual post title coming first, then your blog name. E.g. the post title for this post will become something like ‘All In One SEO Plugin | Blogcarta.com’ instead of the default method of having the blog title first and the post title second, ‘Blogcarta.com | All In One SEO Plugin‘. This also means there will be no more Archive, etc, in your title.

Secondly, categories for a post will get output as Meta keywords. Since posts are already tagged with categories they will be automatically added as Meta keywords. Additional keywords can be added in the Write Post page in the admin area. Also with this plugin post excerpts will become the Meta description for the post.

Thirdly, pages that are just fillers (category pages etc.) will automatically get a content=”noindex,follow” to avoid the duplicate content issue in the search engines.

This is a very effective plugin and well worth adding to your blog. It’s simply a matter of uploading the plugin and activating it to give your blog a great SEO boost.

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To download the All In One SEO Pack visit; http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/

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This great new theme is called Glossy Blue and is a very techy looking, Mac style WordPress theme which features the excellent Web 2 Mini icons, from nDesign-Studio.com. The best thing about this theme is it’s great use of Web 2.0 colors and is an ideal theme for any technology-related blog or even a general website. The theme is widget ready and has been tested on both WordPress 2.0 and 2.1.

The Glossy Blue theme contains all required template files such as index or category view, search, comments, 404 error page, single view and a static page template. Another great feature is that it contains a print.css file within the theme to ensure that your blog page looks great when you print it out!

The designers ndesign-studio.com have also included a Photoshop PSD file if you wish to further customize this great theme.

To download the Glossy Blue theme and the PSD file (if required) please visit; http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/glossyblue/

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I just came across a nice new theme by Pilkster on his new themey.com blog which has a great look and is based on the look and feel of the brand new Apple iPhone. As you can see from the screenshot the theme is a single column theme but it is very eye-catching and professional looking. The normal sidebar contents are displayed below all of the posts.

The iPhone theme is built on the famous K2 structure which makes it easy to adapt to suit your needs and it also should support a wide variety of plugins out of the box. The theme also supports pagination and has a built-in options page. This is a nice theme that’s sure to be popular.

For a full and comprehensive review of the iPhone theme you can visit the Theme Critic.

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The popular theme TypoXP Reloaded has recently been updated and the latest 1.1 version is a really accomplished theme with built in support for a lot of popular plugins.

TypoXP Reloaded is a cleanly coded, two and/or three column, fixed width WordPress theme with valid XHTML. It is also Widget Ready. The theme features both SEO optimization and Google Adsense optimization bulit into the theme which definitely makes the choice of using this theme a whole lot easier,

I believe this theme has to be considered as one of the better WordPress themes yet released.

So, check out the TypoXP Reloaded theme now. It will be worth it. The page also gives details of the huge range of plugins supported by this theme.

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Newfangled is a new and sleek-looking WordPress Theme by headsetoptions.org which features a 3 column layout with nice rounded corners on each of the sidebars. It’s a very Web 2.0 looking theme which seems to be an ever-increasing trend with a lot of newer WordPress themes.

The Newfangled theme is also widget ready which is great for easy configurartion of the left and right sidebar of your blog layout. This theme could make for a nice, all-purpose theme for use with your own blogs or even as a business type site because it features a professional Web 2.0 look and feel. Overall, this is a clean and sleek-looking theme that’s well worth having a look at.

To download the Newfangled Theme please visit; Download. You can also test run the theme here. Have fun!

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The latest stable release of WordPress Version 2.1.3 is now available for download. This release include fixes for several minor XSS issues and one major XML-RPC issue. The WordPress development team has taken dozens of precautions with their servers and systems since the problems with the 2.1.1 release version being hacked. This new version includes a full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against such future problems.

To download the latest WordPress 2.1.3 Version please visit the WordPress Download Page.

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