WordPress Plugins & Themes

These are a few WordPress plugins you may find useful.

Baltic Amber Themes & Schemes for WordPress Administration Panel

Get it from WordPress Extend; Release post. Compatible with WordPress 2.5 or later.

This theme kit includes 8 basic themes, a random colour scheme generator and also a custom colour theme where you can specify two base colours and the rest of the magic is done by the plugin (including darker and lighter shade creation). Read More

Custom Function Widgets

Latest Version: 0.2 (May 15, 2008) — Download. Compatible with versions of WordPress that support sidebar widgets.

Create sidebar widgets without ever touching the theme’s files and use these widgets in any theme you like.

Many of the WordPress plugin authors don’t offer widgets, but only raw PHP functions (or hooks) which you have to insert into the theme’s template files. As the number of functions increases it becomes harder to manage it all, especially if you decide to uninstall some of them or add new ones. Read more