Yesterday wordpress.com released the official version of their stats plugin for wordpress.org

Official Announcement : here
Download Plugin : here

Here is what wordpress has to say about it

People love their stats. Here on WordPress.com, the most popular page in the dashboard after the home page is blog stats. We now have a plugin that allows you to get WordPress.com stats no matter where you host your blog.

One of the biggest complaints we hear when people switch to hosting their own blog is that they miss the stats system. (The others are that they miss…

As i noted last week, i leave next saturday to travel for 4 weeks around beautiful New Zealand I will be checking up on the blog as much as i can however clearly i can’t always get connected to the net. Therefore i have been writing posts for when i am away and have so far written about a dozen or so posts for when im travelling. Im hoping to at least double that this week so that there is a post published every day when im away. It’s been frustrating…

Future BloggingTips author Small Potato has finally updated WPDesigner with the sites new look.

It really is an impressive design and is another good example of what u can do with wordpress. If your looking for some hints on making your own theme there is a great tutorial on the site here.

Performancing have released a new clean wordpress theme called Gangway. It’s a very well designed theme which im sure would suit a lot of blogs out there (though i recommend modifying it a little to suit your blog).

Name of Theme : Gangway
Download : here
Demo : here

This plugin was released the other week. It’s a plugin which allows you to add your skype status to your blog. There are various buttons you can display

Show Call - Show the call me button.
Show Add - Show the add me to skype button.
Show Chat - Show the chat with me button.
Show Info - Show the view my profile button.
Show Voicemail - Show the leave me a voicemail button.
Show Sendfile - Show the send me a file button.

I use skype all the time but im not sure if im too keen on adding a skype button…