All plants want is a little water, a little sun, and a little company. And in return they’ll grow and change and reward you occasionally with explosions of beauty.

Nice JavaScript found on TechCrunch that lets you learn what is being copied off your site and how to leverage this behavior into more traffic, higher search rank and more.

Keeps track of unmoderated and spam comments, and puts a little WordPress icon next to your search bar, with a badge for the number of comments you currently have to deal with.

Tumblr has released a beta backup tool for Mac users called Tumblr Backup. Very simple and straightforward tool which exports flat HTML files that can be viewed in any browser, with a very basic style. No Windows version yet.

Good minimal design is more than just white backgrounds and text-centered design.

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time and mandating that testimonials reflect typical results.

The FTC will require that writers on the Web clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. The commission also said advertisers featuring testimonials that claim dramatic results cannot hide behind disclaimers that the results aren't typical.

In WordPress each Role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called Capabilities. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles – called Roles and their Capabilities. Also you can create new Roles and Capabilities. If you use this Plugin to manage your Wordpress, Users can belong to only one role and can have individual capabilities assigned to them outside of the context of a role.

LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive.

Socialite allows your Wordpress posts to publish to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. Each social networking site can be enabled or disabled for publishing, and each is configured separately with their own options. Support for Short URL services such as zz.gd and Tinyurl.com is also supported. Socialite requires PHP 5.0.0 or greater.

SiXX Wordpress Microblog theme is a microblog theme with focus on the conversation. The aimed purpose with the theme is for companies and teams to get their internal communication going in a much more open, searchable and informal way. This theme is built on top of the Automattic Prologue theme, maybe it should be called an extension of the prologue theme.

Laconica is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

The new Sticky Posts feature that will allow you to take any story, or stories, you’ve published and place them at the top of your homepage without editing the timestamp

Simple code and CSS to build the common navigational scheme with parent pages on top and child pages (if they exist) on bottom

WordPress can also be used as a CMS to power websites other than blogs. Membership Directory, Business Directory, Ffffound Clone, Job Board, Techmeme News Clone, Email Newsletter, Forums, Contact Manager, Wiki, Review Site, E-Commerce, Pressmark (Delicious clone)

Animated 3D sphere of words with this Flash-based tag cloud plugin for WordPress.