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Gamezine is the latest free magazine wordpress theme for gamers, from jinsona designs. The theme has a dark grunge design with a fixed with 3 column layout. The theme is perfectly suitable for gamers and with some modification it will fit into any niche. The list of features include Magazine theme layout, with dark and grunge style. Multi-level drop-down javascript navigation menu.

Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin for Wordpress blogs that monitors your blog traffic for activity coming from social news or bookmarking sites. When someone clicks on a link to your blog on one of the major social news or bookmarking sites (currently Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Newsvine, Fark, Slashdot, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon), the plugin begins to log the visits to that page.

In this post, I will share the information to adorns your 404 pages to be visitor friendly by adding features. This feature will change the default look of 404 pages, actually you can put anything in your 404 pages even ads, but I’d rather to add something which have related to my blog like category, popular posts, most commented post and so on.

A great list of fantastic free themes from 2008 by design blog Made in Mundo.

Wordpress plugins are making worpdress easy to manage and are top reason of its popularity. Plugins can change wordrpess features and can be used to automate anyting.

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter.

My favourite 50 Premium WP Themes released in 2008.

As the year is coming to an end, perhaps it’s time for a different kind of “Top X” post. Instead of a list of new WP plugins to try out, here are the top plugin authors - the brilliant people who create outstanding tools and share them with the WordPress community. The list is ranked by the number of downloads from the wordpress.org plugin directory. Also check out the big Top 1000 table.

This post will highlight WordPress 2.7 HOW-TO get your theme working again by updating some settings and represent some of the best and significant features added to your Administration Panel.

Below is a list of links to the very best reading out there on Hacking Wordpress and building a better blog. I’ve also included a list of links to designers and others who are significantly advancing Wordpress through innovative theme development and plugins. If you know of a post or resource that I have not included yet, please add it in the comments!