Flourish is a lovely, simple, pastel theme with subtle decorative flourishes in the background and accents and features a vibrant, colorful image of needlework in the header.

Galaxy is a professional theme for corporate business websites and blogs.

Add To Post allows you to add additional content to either the start, end or both areas of your blog posts.

Rewrite Rules Inspector is a straightforward WordPress admin tool for inspecting your rewrite rules.

WP2Cloud seamlessly integrates with Amazon S3 to provide high availability, high reliability, quick and easy disaster recovery, and serving content in a highly scalable fashion.

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Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent.

Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.

Blossom is a very simple and colorful layout with a floral theme and faint pinstripe background in an earthy green.

Live Wire was designed with a mobile-first attitude, supports post formats, and is translation-ready.

Ad Code Manager allows you to manage your ad codes through the WordPress admin in a safe and easy way.

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FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website.

Simple Google Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Google based functionality you like to a WordPress blog.

Now that you’ve seen the video, head on over to Otto’s incredibly detailed post on how to bring support for the new customizer into your own themes.

Futuristica is a futuristic, modern, customizable, clean, and readable theme with a custom created background.

Lugada is a simple minimalist responsive two column theme with a built in slider.

Wheels is an eye-catching, lively, colorful theme on a dark background featuring an image of a classic, vintage pickup truck in bright blue against a sunset background of varying shades of orange.

SPD Shortcode Slider is a jQuery featured content slider controlled completely by shortcodes for easy template integration.

Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.

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Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.

Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool.

Less bugs, more polish, the same beta disclaimers. Download, test, report bugs. Thanks much. /ryan #thewholebrevitything

So, let’s break that down just a bit in case you’re not yet familiar with what’s going on. First, WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 has less bugs and is a bit snappier and cleaner than the previous beta releases, but the same disclaimers are still valid. This is not yet meant for live sites, but please do take a few swings at it on a test installation, especially if you are a plugin or theme developer. If you find any bugs, please report them, and contact the support forums if you need any help.

Simple Google Connect is a framework and series of sub-systems that let you add any sort of Google based functionality you like to a WordPress blog.

WP Coming Soon adds a coming soon page with a countdown clock.

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Email Log allows you to log all emails that are sent through WordPress.

Keyring provides a very hookable, completely customizable framework for connecting your WordPress site to an external service.

Social Login for WordPress lets your users log in and comment via their accounts with popular ID providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Live, and over 15 more.

We have a comment policy here, and it’s as follows:

Comments will be accepted if they meet the following conditions:

• The comment is not spam.
• The comment is not left solely to drive traffic elsewhere. (Yes, this is spam.)
• The comment is not widely off topic.
• The comment is not obscene or profane.
• The commenter has left a real name or proper screen name. (“Cheap Lawn Chairs” and “Joe @ MyCellPhoneTips.blah” are not real names).

We do use a broad list of moderation keywords, but if your comment is held for moderation and abides by our comment policy, it will be accepted shortly.

By submitting a comment here you agree to the above comment policy and grant this site a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution.

You might notice that we’ve added a handy link to it above our comment form by just editing the theme’s comments template. It’s just about as easy as typing the desired text above the form fields. If you’d rather not get your hands dirty in the template, and you have a WordPress blog, try Comment License.

So, do you have a comment policy? If so, we’d love to hear what it is! If you don’t, what guidelines do you use to manage comments on your blog?

Chess is a vibrant, bright, high contrast theme that would suit sites dealing with games, chess, or sales.

silverOrchid offers a wide range of customization possibilities with theme options, and is extremely simple to get up and running.

Sunspot is a sharp theme with subtle grid lines and sun-splashed accents.

Each post features a screenshot of a theme options panel in action followed by a breakdown of what makes it either so great or so terrible. There are definitely some eye-opening observations here, especially when it comes to the themes that have so many options they might as well be their own blogging platform. If you know of a theme options panel that’s either amazing or terrifying, Konstantin has a handy submission form for you to share in the joy or madness.

I Recommend This allows your visitors to simply recommend or like your posts instead of commenting.

WP Breaking News Mail allows you to send an email to your subscribers each time a post is published in one or more categories.

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Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you, so you can focus on more important things.

Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more.

Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool.

Shortcoder is a plugin which allows users to create a custom “shortcodes” and store HTML, Javascript and other snippets in it.

Super RSS is a jQuery based RSS reader widget, which displays the RSS feeds in the widget in an attractive way.

Twitter Avatar Reloaded adds a new field to the comment form to get the user’s Twitter usrename and uses it to replace the Gravatar with their Twitter avatar when the comment is displayed.

LaunchTime is a coming-soon page theme that you can use as a placeholder while waiting until your site is launched.

Silesia is a clean and elegant HTML5 theme.

SmartBiz is designed for corporate business websites and blogs.

Voyage is a peaceful, nautical theme that would suit personal blogs, sites about boating or sailing, or any other nautical related subject matter.

Zenon Lite is an all in one wordpress theme with 3 awesome fonts, slider, background image, and an easy to use theme options panel.

Donate Ribbon places a black “Donate” ribbon in the upper right corner of your blog with the option to set the link and link title.

Rickroll changes all of your embedded YouTube videos to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

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Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.

HTML5 MP3 Player with Playlist allows you to easily use the HTML5 audio element to enable audio playback in most browsers, with playlists.