You may notice that some popular websites add an “email this article to friend” link at the bottom of the article. This is to let people recommend the article to their friends. Adding such feature in other CMS are very easy, but how about add this features in a Wordpress blog?

There is a Wordpress plugin called WP-Email developed by Lester Chan, which add such feature to your Wordpress blog.

Before users can forward your article to their friends, they have to enter a verification code, which will greatly avoid spamming and will reduce your server usage also.

There are a lot of options which you can configure. For example, you can set your email template, SMTP options, and even a log file to keep track emails being sent by your users.

As a conclusion, this is a must have plugin if you seriously want to let your readers recommend your articles to their friends.

Design Disease launched a Wordpress Premium Themes marketplace, which you can buy and sell your premium themes there.

The site just launched and there are totally 7 themes that you can buy there. The site provides a very detail description for each themes and you can try run them before buy. Among the seven themes, i personally like Perfection very much and it is the featured theme now.

This site has a very attractive affiliate program which you can earn up to 40% for every referrer that buy their themes. Besides this, you are able to submit your themes for sell once you register.

So, make sure you register and start promoting their service!

We just talked about Wordpress 2.7 RC2 yesterday, and it seems like the final version of Wordpress 2.7 had been released today!

You may go download the final version of Wordpress 2.7, or use the built in update tool to upgrade from the release candidate versions.

Once you upgrade to version 2.7, that means you can upgrade to later version without using FTP. All you have to do is use the built in update tool!

So, grab your Wordpress 2.7 now!

We had tried Wordpress 2.7 RC1 last week and here comes RC2 version. Since the release candidate versions are pretty stable, you may upgrade your Wordpress to RC2 if you haven’t upgrade to RC1 last week.

For those users who had upgraded to RC1, you can use the built in updater to download and install RC2 on your system.

Normally before the final version release, a software will have few release candidate versions. So, i guess we may get our final Wordpress 2.7 before 2009. Let us upgrade and enjoy the new features now!

Download: Wordpress 2.7 RC2

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPres. Bloggers can use this plugin to inform readers about new post published, or inform subscribers about new events and updates.

Various canfiguration can be set by the administrators. For example, you can exlude certain categories post, set the email format to either plain text or HTML. The format of the email can also be customised.

Administrator can subscribe or unsubscribe users, and create a form for readers to subscribe. Although we may use Feedburner to let our readers receive new post through email, but this plugin enable us to have more controls to our readers and.

Download: Subscribe2