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inclusion, and explain why you think the site belongs. Someday you too might see your site among
the chosen.
Themes, Plug-Ins, and Places to Complain:
http://wordpress.org/extend
This page, shown in Figure E.9, is primarily devoted to the creativity and participation of the
WordPress community in developing the platform. It's the place to see (and download) user-
contributed themes and plug-ins, the place to offer ideas to the core team for future versions of
WordPress, and the place to anonymously complain (or kvetch, for those in a Yiddish mood) about
the WordPress software you already have.
Figure E.9
Enhance
your site
with themes
and plug-ins,
then offer
your own
ideas on how
to extend
WordPress.
We've devoted large chunks of previous chapters to working with the Free Themes Directory (see
Chapter 12, “The WordPress Toolkit: Themes”) and the Plug-in Directory (see Chapter 13, “The
WordPress Toolkit: Plug-Ins”). Let's look at the other parts of this area here.
WordPress Ideas: http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas
One day, you will wake up with the most brilliant idea for making your blog the best ever. You'll say
to yourself “Well, certainly WordPress can do this thing for me,” and search through the widgets
and settings to see what's there that you can bend to your will. Many times, you will find the right
combination to do what you want. But as brilliant and creative as you are, perhaps no one else has
thought of this exact thing before. When that happens, it's time to visit the Ideas page. This is a
marketplace of proposals and suggestions for WordPress.
