Here are the best plugins and themes for wordpress blogs, we found interesting. We have hand picked them based on their utility and ease of installing. They are quick and should not run into installation errors. If one of them does, do let us know.
PLUGINS
- WP - Custom Title Colour plugin
This plugin gives you the ability to customise the title colour for any post via a panel in the sidebar of the write page. Handy for creating alerts, or drawing attention to a particular post.
It’s easy to install and works like…
There are 1000s of WordPress themes that are freely available to you. Many of these themes are widely used by blogs. The question of which theme you should use is mostly based on how good the theme looks, there are some other factors too which you should consider while choosing a theme.
Released a few days ago, the hope in dark theme from kalinawebdesigns has an adspot area built in and is widget ready. Worth a look if your on the lookout for a new skin for your wordpress blog.

Info & Download : here
I am a big fan of the designs from SoloStream. When I was redesigning BloggingTips I contacted Michael Pollack from Solostream for a quote for a new design. In the end I decided to change the design myself however I am planning on using one of his free themes soon for one of my blogs.
In addition to the Bosco theme I talked about last month, you can now also download the following themes for free.
Zeke 1.0 + Widgets

Hottie 1.0 + Widgets

Suhweet 1.0 + Widgets

Simplicity 1.0 + Widgets

Torn 2.0 +…