After releasing Wordpress 2.6 one month ahead of the schedule, here is another cool new update from Wordpress. A theme directory, where you can browse, rate, preview and download themes from. ( Please note that this is only for self hosted Wordpress Blogs. )

Why is it important ?

It is important because there is nothing of this sort available elsewhere. Its important because, we really need something like this on Wordpress.

There are thousands of Wordpress themes available. Theme developers have their own download sites, preview blogs and rating options. Even though themes.wordpress.net is there, it is not functional at the moment.

How does it Work ?

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I have started blogging in Malayalam too !!

I find reading Malayalam blogs more interesting than actually writing blogs in Malayalam…. may be because I am not used to writing Malayalam online using the transliteration and similar stuff, where we write words using English letters which will be changed to the desired language automatically.

When I started reading Malayalam blogs, I found that most of them use Blogger.com since they have the transliteration feature, a feature which makes blogging in Indic languages really easy. Why don’t they just use Wordpress.org or Wordpress.com ? We really need more people start using Wordpress, to blog in Indic languages. Don’t you think so ?

Initially I started with Blogger itself, and then started copying the content to Wordpress and it worked perfect. Just that I typed everything using Blogger.com and then published it using Wordpress.org blog on this domain itself. ( sssh … secret .. I have another installation of Wordpress on this domain where I play with themes and now Malayalam Blogging )

If you install certain softwares, which enables transliteration on your computer, you can directly blog in Indic languages, using Wordpress platform. So I installed “Keyman” and started writing to Wordpress blog directly, in Malayalam.

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I am not a theme designer. So, when I say Malayalam Wordpress Themes, its not a new design that I am creating. But, I am trying to modify Wordpress themes to add little Malayalam to it . I am testing this on my dummy wordpress installation where I play with themes. I should install a blog just for Malayalam Wordpress Blogging.

Malayalam blogging community seems to have Ignored Wordpress almost completely.I should try to bring at least some of them to Wordpress platform ( let them bring the rest right ? ).

The reason for Malayalam Bloggers being attracted to Blogger, is the “Transliteration” feature it has. I do not know how to enable this feature for Wordpress. But, there should be some solution . I should find someone who is good with PHP who can make a plugin ( may be ? ) . Please leave a comment if you are someone, or if you know someone.

I need to make a “to do list” of things that I am going to do. Planning makes things easy right ? hmm well planning alone won’t make things easy. Don’t you think so ?