I’ve also added some handy new plugins:

The Flickr widget allows you to show photos from your Flickr account in your blog sidebar.

More Privacy Options lets you customize the level of privacy of your entire blog. You can now limit access to only logged-in Smith users, or you can limit it to a specific group of people whom you select. This will allow us to use Wordpress for course blogs which are visible to course members only.

My Page Order lets you set the order in which pages appear in the page list widget.  Under Pages, you’ll see an additional menu item that lets you easily drag your page list to reorder it.

To change the theme of your blog, go to Design → Themes. Click on the theme you want to use and then click on the Activate button in the upper-right corner of the preview window.

This post also demonstrates a new plugin, WordPress Lightbox Gallery. This plugin automatically makes your galleries into Lightbox galleries if you have it enabled. Click on a thumbnail above to see the plugin in action.

To add a lightbox to an image that is not in a gallery, add the atribute rel="lightbox" to the <a> tag around on your image.

To activate the WordPress Lightbox Gallery plugin, go to Manage → Plugins.

New plugins include:

Photo Dropper

Photo Dropper is a Wordpress plugin that lets you add Flickr photos to your posts. It searches for Creative Commons licensed photos – images that are licensed for shared use – and lets you drop them into your posts – right from your dashboard with just 1 click.

Google Maps Quicktag

While editing your post, you can quickly pop-open Google Maps from the editor and generate your map through the Maps interface, or quickly grab the link to a map you’ve already prepared in My Maps. Then, you can copy the code given for embedding and paste it directly into the HTML editor. (You can also use this plugin to embed any “embeddable” content from another website.)