Wordpress 2.7 has finally been released and this version is bearing the the name of legendary Jazz musician, John Coltrane. I am excited about this release and very eager to try it out, but not too eager as I will explain below.

Reason 1 - Plugins

Wordpress is a great core blog manager and makes blogging as easy as pie. Plugins are what takes Wordpress to that new level though, the CMS level that is. Without plugins Wordpress would be kind of bland and most sites would have identical features. Thankfully Wordpress has been designed to make plugin integration quite a breeze …

According to Google Trends, these are the top 10 countries that have searched up blogging over the last 5 years. At number 1 we have Singapore and number 10 the Netherlands.

To no surprise, China did not make the list.

Top 10

• 1. Singapore
• 2. Philippines
• 3. South Africa
• 4. Malaysia
• 5. India
• 6. United States
• 7. Canada
• 8. Australia
• 9. United Kingdom
• 10. Netherlands

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Marble Theme
Mt. Si Design has released a new theme titled Marble Theme. Marble Theme features rounded corners, two-columns, a fixed width and is widget ready.
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Mtsidesign.com has started moving all of the Demo themes over to a new Wordpress MU installation which allows the live demos on the site to be fully interactive. That means you can click …

I know there are lots of articles already out on the web in relation to this exact topic. The problem I found is not that these other articles didn’t do a good job of describing some great Wordpress plug-ins, it’s the fact that none of the them had half of the plug-ins I use.

These plug-ins are what I use on my site and are what I find useful for my blog, this does not mean that they are what everybody needs, but for a beginner I think they will help out a lot in customizing a blog. Feel free to …