Assign Categories is a wordpress plugin which allows you to assign one or more Categories to multiple posts with a single click. A few days ago while working on one of my blogs, i deleted a few categories and added some new ones. The default functionality allowed me to edit each post and assign categories. If there are a lot of posts, this task would be too tedious and will take a lot of time. This is where this plugin comes in handy.

A good Wordpress theme with professional layout, SEO optimized is quite hard to find. But you will find these features in the free Wordpress theme SEO Blog. The theme has been developed by Mani Karthik of Daily SEO Blog. It is a 3 column Wordpress theme having a right sidebar and a three column footer.

Social Bookmark Link Creator is nice web service which allows you to create code for social bookmarks such as Digg, SU, Spurl etc which you can add to your Blog/Website.

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Keeping it clean and simple is the what every blogger should keep in mind. This tutorial will help you to do that. A list of related posts and bookmark after every post might help boost your traffic. Here is a guide to help you create it for your WordPress blog.

The latest version of Wordpress , Wordpress 2.3 codenamed “Dexter” is out now . This release features some new and exciting features .The release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dextor Gordon. Here are the new features of this release .

Native tagging support: It allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. Importers for plugins such as UTW , Bunny’s technorati tag etc are also included .
The new update notificationlets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of …

With so many security flaws being found in Wordpress , it becomes necessary to update wordpress and take a backup of your blog . BackupWordpress is a plugin that will allow you to perform automatic backup of your blog at scheduled times . It can even mail you the backups at your specified email .
This plugin operates in two modes

Easy Mode : This is a simple mode in which you have to specify the backup directory , the backup schedule and settings related to email
Advanced Mode : In this mode …

There are times when we would like to represent some statistical data in our blog through the use of tables. Tables can be created in WYSIWYG editor through the use of html tags but it is not easy for basic users who dont have much knowledge of html. Even for advanced users , it will be time consuming. Luckily plugins are there to make our life easier .
WP-Table is a plugin by Alex Rabethat lets you create and manage html tables for wordpress. You can also change the look and feel of …

The best thing about Wordpress is that its functionality can be increased by the use of various plugins that are available all over the internet. I was looking for a plugin that can display Recent Entries from a specific category in the sidebar , that when i came across it.
Customizable Post Listings is a plugin by Scott Reilly that can display Recent Posts , Recent commented posts , Random posts etc in a customizable manner . The best thing is that the post searches can be narrowed by using Category …

Wordpress 2.1 “Ella” has been finally released . Along with 550 bug fixes , it includes any new and cool features . Some of them are

Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
The new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
The completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
The admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled

And lots more …. .
I would be upgrading …

Seems like this year is going to be known as the “year of bugs” for us Wordpress users . Just 11 days ago Wordpress 2.0.6 was releases to fix a security issue and now another is out to deal with a bug in certain versions of PHP which can cause a security vulnerability . So it is recommended that you upgrade to ver 2.0.7
But it is good to see that they have fixed the bug very quickly . Lets hope we dont see anymore before Wordpress 2.1 comes out ..