xentek

Of all of the open source tools out there, WordPress has got to be my favorite. It has a clean and well documented API, a slick Admin Console, and a development philosophy that matches my own. Its highly customizable and extensible, and many would argue, the defacto standard for blogging software.

In the course of working with this system, xentek has created a number of plugins, styles and themes to enhance and extend what this highly capable system can accomplish out of the box.

• FlareSmith
  This lightweight plugin is designed to help integrate the FeedFlare javascript snippet from FeedBurner into your WordPress site - without the need to edit any of your theme files.
• WP-Orphanage
  If you are using the shared table trick to link multiple WordPress installations together, then you probably have ‘orphan’ users. Users without out any role or capabilities assigned. This plugin automatically fixes this for you by promoting them to the ’subscriber’ role in a couple of clever ways.