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Old 03-22-2010, 09:04 AM  
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wordpress monday: free theme and some cool plugins you may not know about

Smash Theme

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Smash is a free 2/3 column Professional premium level Wordpress Theme. It
looks very modern and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin
options at the back end. With wide variety of tune able Theme options in
the admin menu you don.t need to edit .php files manually to do basic
theme adjustments


Full Feature List:

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.Modern & Elegant look
.Fast loading structure
.Fully SEO optimized structure
.Jquery powered tool tips on Subscribe icons and form
.Sidebar 125 x 125 ads support
.Social icons integrated
.Admin options page to adjust theme settings
.Adjust Twitter, Facebook, Email form via Theme options
.Sidebar ads ajdustment via Theme options
.Image header logo via Theme options
.Google analytics integration via Theme options
.Hide or display Social icons on posts via Theme options
.Exclude pages & categories from navigation via Theme options
.Jquery popped out Email subscription form (Facebook style)
.Twitter, Rss, Facebook buttons pre-installed
.Thumbnail support for homepage and posts
.Tradiotional Email subscription form available
.Optimized 404 page to save lost visitors
.Supports comments threading and paging
.Fully designed and fabricated Comment form
.Fully WP 3.0 support (upcoming version)
.Premium Quality
.Fixed Width
.Two versions . 2 Colums and 3 Columns
http://smashingupdates.com/smash-pre...rdpress-theme/

Cool Plugins:
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Category Icons (good for having a niche thumb for each category)

http://www.category-icons.com/

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Easily assign images to categories
Robogallery

http://www.robogalleryplugin.com/

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Simple photo gallery plugin for WordPress yet with much needed options
Date Me

http://www.ardamis.com/2007/06/25/ad..._get_archives/

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plugin for adding the post date to wp_get_archives

The WordPress function wp_get_archives(.type=postbypost.) displays a
lovely list of posts, but won.t show the date of each post. This plugin
adds each post.s date to those .postbypost. lists
Tesimonials Manager

http://www.profitplugs.com/testimoni...ger-wordpress/

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Testimonials Manager is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage and
display testimonials for your blog, product or service. It can be used to
build your portfolio or to encourage readers to subscribe / buy your
products
Colabpress

http://webdevstudios.com/support/wor...s/collabpress/

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Adds task management functionality to WordPress including project and task
creation, comments, email notifications, and more!
Nextgen public uploader (good for image submissions)

http://webdevstudios.com/support/wor...blic-uploader/

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The NextGEN Public Uploader plugin for WordPress allows users to upload
images from the frontend of your blog to a specified gallery.
Author box plugin

http://new2wp.com/noob/wordpress-plu...x-version-1-0/

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Authors can then add their Twitter name, if they choose, and using the
other existing fields they can add their URL to their website, with a
little blurb about themselves in the biographical info box, and obviously
their email address
Timeago

http://wpsplash.com/wordpress-timeag...-dates-plugin/

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Twitter like fuzzy dates in wordpress
Gigpress

http://gigpress.com/

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GigPress is a powerful WordPress plugin designed for musicians and other
performers. Manage all of your upcoming and past performances right from
within the WordPress admin, and display them on your site using simple
shortcodes, PHP template tags, or the GigPress widget on your
WordPress-powered website.
Lates posts by category

http://blogsessive.com/blogging-tool...egory-archive/

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One technique that is most common with WordPress magazine or news style
themes is the display of an archive of the latest posts by category, as
simple titles or with post excerpts. This is useful for the previously
mentioned theme styles, but not only. It can be used to set up custom blog
homepages, 404 pages, landing pages or even a special archive page.
Private Messages

http://hontap.blogspot.com/2009/10/p...wordpress.html

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This plugin allows users of WordPress blog send private messages (PM) to each other. The number of PM can be controlled in plugin option page.

Otherwise, an email will be sent to user when a new PM is received. Email template is full-controlled
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