Debashish at Null Pointer releases a new WordPress plugin (widget), Author Spotlight. Useful for group blogs, it is free but you can send me a donation if you like it.

The Goal: Your current blog at abc.blogspot.com is hosted on the Blogger platform but you now want to move this blog from Blogger to WordPress (self-hosted) with a personal domain name (say abc.com).

Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration offers a detailed and simple guisw to switching from Blogger to WordPress…without losing Google traffic. Having done it with his extremely popular tech blog, Amit’s advice is invaluable for those wishing to make the jump.

There was a time when owning a site and running a self-hosted blog software was fun; and that was before ‘blog’ as a word officially entered the dictionary. Today, running a self-hosted blog site is a full-time job, requiring ‘constant vigilance,’ as John Gruber puts it, and is definitely not for the faint-hearted.

In light of the hack attacks on self-hosted WordPress sites, Chetan Kunte offers a brief guide on hardening your blog security. A tad geeky, but he assures me that it isn’t as hard as it looks. I immediately implemented one suggestion and I already feel safer . If there was one word advice for WordPress-fearing bloggers, it is – upgrade.

Delhi Bloggers Bloc is organizing India’s first WordCamp with Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and a special surprise guest who happens to be a very popular blogger in the U.S. The event is scheduled for next weekend so register as soon as possible. I’m told that the registration fees include lunch and tea/coffee.

Chetan has a nifty fix to make your otherwise uninteresting dateline linkable to your archives.