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SmashingApps comes up with an awesome list of 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free Wordpress Themes.

This is quite impressive and covers an array of different layout styles. From the site:

This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes which are not less than premium themes and you may consider any of these themes as per your need before going to purchase any paid premium theme.

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I post quite a few things on my blog every day. I also submit all my links using del.icio.us and through some dark magic, have my links automatically posted on different blogs every night. Once you learn this tip, you’ll appear to blog frequently.

Because I use Wordpress I wanted a way to publish my del.icio.us links to my Blogger account everyday.

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Wordpress.com hosted sites have a stats plugin that most people find instantly useful. One of the biggest complaints heard is that once you take Wordpress to your own host… you lose the stats system. There is of course Google Analytics, and Shortstats… each are good in their own right. One of the problems with these systems is that they can slow down your site because they’re writing to a database.

Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface.

Installing this stats plugin is much like installing Akismet, all you need is to put in your API Key and the rest is automatic. You can find your API key on your Wordpress.com’s profile page.

Once it’s running it’ll begin collecting information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It’ll also add a link to your dashboard which allows you to see all your stats on a single page. Less is more.

Finally, because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account. In fact, it’s one of the fastest stats system, hosted or not hosted, that you can use.

Download the Stats Plugin here.