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K2 is an advanced template for the blogging engine WordPress developed by Michael Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Zeo, Steve Lam and Ben Sherratt.

It won't make you coffee, sing songs of sweet regret or sit at your bedside when you're ill, but it might make life just a tad bit easier for you.

Think of it this way: Where WordPress is everything that goes on behind the scenes, K2 is everything that reaches the readers of your blog.

WordPress itself takes care of authenticating users, fetching and sending data to and from the database and provides you with the backend administration interface.

K2 on the other hand is the frontend of WordPress. It's main concern is displaying the data fetches through WordPress in the right way at the right time. Furthermore, where more basic themes like Kubrick have little situational awareness, K2 cares about you and is always trying to make sure you are presented with exactly the tools and data you need."

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The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced themers will drool at the rich semantic markup and profusion of classes, dynamically generated by a few functions.

More generally, the Sandbox is

• for WordPress 2.0+.
• valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
• widgets-friendly.
• got a “skins” menu.
• a one, two, and three column theme.
• beautiful on the inside.

But it’s so much more so, and much of it is in the readme.html file, like tables of all the various semantic classes and instructions on how to create a skin for the Sandbox. Get it with the download below."

If you use Wordpress this is a great way to put widgets onto your blog. There is also a link off the page to a Widget site that has a listing of supported widgets.

Creates and updates sitemap.xml files automatically for submission to Google Sitemaps (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en). A must have when trying to promote your site.