Wordpress Enthusiasts have a reason to rejoice. WP 2.9 will be out in a couple of weeks. There are a host of changes planned.
Major new features for developers:
- comments meta table
- improved support for custom post types
- register_theme_directory() for additional theme locations
- back-ported JSON encode/decode for both PHP and JavaScript
and for users:
- oEmbed support
- “Trash” [...]

WP 2.6 is out early, almost a month ahead of schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS like tracking changes to every post and page and making it easier to post from anywhere on the web. Also, there are [...]

Marekki’s Watermark Plugin for Wordpress inserts your logo or text in your wp-upload pictures. You can watermark in two different ways.

Insert watermark while a picture will be uploaded, or
Insert watermarks on all chosen pictures from a directory [like wp-uploads] on your web-server.

Get Watermark plugin for Wodpress here.
Updated : June 06 . 2008
Marekki’s Watermark Plugin has [...]

Auto Delete Posts is a plugin to automatically delete posts after a set expiration date. The plugin deletes all posts regardless of category that are older than a set expiration date. [Source]
The expiration is set in number of days.
Download Auto Delete Posts v0.5 wordpress plugin.

Translate Widget for Wordpress
It adds little flags to your sidebar, which will take you to a translation of the current blog page. It uses Google Translate, but removes the frame, so it looks quite nice! Once you’re in one language, you can browse around the blog, and everything stays translated. You can just click on [...]

Get statistics like visitor’s browser type, OS, total hits etc. from the admin panel of your wordpress blog with WP-Shortstat plugin.

Wiki page for WP-ShortStat
Direct Download for WP-ShortStat