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Wordpress is the best blogging system in the earth today. You have thousands of plugins and widgets, and thousands of themes and templates to try whatever you want, mind it all that for absolutely free. Further enhance and upgrade your blog, here are some of the greatest script and hack, which will help you to modify your Wordpress look and feel right from commenting system to administration. Some of the cool feature includes easily enhancing your Wordpress with lots of ajax.

• WP HowTo: ButtonSnap How To Add buttons to the Wordpress Editor for your Plugin / Theme using the ButtonSnap Class Library from RedAlt (Owen) and the Sawchuk Buttons Plugin. Installation is not a snap but might produce some worthwhile results
• WP Hack: comments.php template Highly flexible and customizeable comments template for Wordpress with lots of added features used by various comment plugins and hack for Wordpress. Very useful if you are about to restyle your comments but did not want to start from scratch.
• WP Comments built with Yahoo! UI Weird cool, highly AJAXed Wordpress commenting system built with Yahoo! UI. The experience is definitely worth a clickthrough though I am really not sure of the usability of many of the features. Looks more like a showcase for the Yahoo UI capabilities and the programming capabilities of the author than actual functional improvements. However, it seems to be very well accepted by the public and is definitely full of eye candy!
• Read Cleaning up your Post Screen on how you can remove unwanted clutter on your post screen. You need to be comfortable editting WordPress core files.
• SlideShowPro and WordPress Integerate SlideshowPro within your Wordpress blog. SlideshowPro is a flash slideshow component for Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8.
• WP Hack: Yet another photoblog Convert any Wordpress theme for your blog into a full featured photoblog theme with YAPB. The author claims that it is a non-invasive Wordpress plugin which integerates useful photoblogging features such as thumbnail creation and exif tagging

� WP Hack: AjaxWp Enhance and adorn your Wordpress blog with AJAX goodness. From the documentation that I could find on the site, it looks like AJAXWP will add AJAX functionality to your existing theme without any required modifications but you can get a lot more from the package by delving under the covers. The author�s blog is an example of AJAXWP�s capabilities. (3)

• � Cloaking to Stop Scraping How to cloak your blog content from known content theives. This is a little extreme but it did have very good results in this case.

WP hack: Widgetizing Themes Modify your themes to work with the cool Wordpress.com widgets for the sidebar. Explanation of widgets on the Automattic page.
[EDIT] Widgets Plugin with demonstrations from Andy.

• Posting to WP Via SMS Text Message: Post to your Wordpress blog by Texting from your cellphone. This is somewhat of a tutorial to set this up for Nokia phones