Templatic.com has released a new theme based on P2 called GTD. GTD is meant for private use for collaborative teams of people. Asides from the default functionality supplied by P2, GTD has added file attachment and user notification functions. For many, the attachment addition to P2 makes this an incredibly simple tool to collaborate on projects with.

Death Note Two column theme for fans of Japanese animation Lumiere Lumiere is the first theme released by the newly created SlackrThemes. It has a bright color scheme with a clean and easy-to-read layout that’s optimized for SEO, has paginated posts and comments, widgetized sidebars, and all of the amenities that you would expect from a theme. Shofi Shofi Theme is grid based wordpress theme, powered by 960.gs framework 24 columns with features including Autograbbed Image and resize on the fly, Extra Ordinary Recent Post and Recent Comment, Widgets, Magazine style Ready2Launch A WordPress theme, with admin options page for customization, or as simple HTML/CSS page (No PHP/MySQL needed). Includes 6 themes and notes on customization. Techrey Three column theme with a widgetized left sidebar and a widgetized footer that you can customize to your hearts content. With gravatars on the front page, and all of the features you love. […]

There is no shortage of WordPress consultants to choose from when it comes time to pay for custom development work. If you are aiming towards becoming a WordPress consultant, I encourage you to check out these advanced power tips for template developers written by Jacob Goldman on SmashingMagazine.com Jacob does a nice job explaining all sorts of ways consultants can make tailored versions of WordPress. Everything from branding the back-end to modifying the contextual HELP drop-down menu so that it contains information specific to that theme. One of my favorite tips presented in the list is the first one, Customizing the Dashboard Widgets. This enables developers to add a dashboard widget that can contain support, contact and other information. If a custom solution were developed for me, a dashboard widget like this is what I would consider to be a nice touch. Also on the topic of WordPress and consultants, […]

New Plugins Thesis Style Box Make Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes for Thesis Users. Style CommentLuv Style commentators last blog post as displayed by the CommentLuv plugin. This plugin is also compatible with Thesis. Add Categories to Menu If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, you may have set up static pages for both a front page (e.g. “Home”) and a page to list your latest blog posts (e.g. “Blog”). The plugin allows you to add categories as links in a submenu. Taxonomy List Shortcode The Taxonomy List Shortcode plugin adds a shortcode to your WordPress installation which enables you to display multiple unordered lists containing every term of a given taxonomy. The list can be displayed in one to 5 columns – custom styles are provided. Revisionary With Revisionary in place, the meaning of the “edit_others” capability shifts […]

A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg posed a question on the WordPress Hackers Mailing list regarding a new developer portal. If there were to be a developer portal for WordPress, someplace where if you’re first getting started with hacking on WP, building plugins, creating themes, you could go and it’d have all the best resources in one place, what resources do you think would be important to have there? I encourage you to read the thread through the mailing list archive and voice your thoughts, ideas or suggestions. Alternatively, you can leave a comment on this post since I know Matt routinely checks out the feedback.

It’s a question I’m sure everyone reading this post can answer and I’m willing to bet most of the answers are different. WPShout.com has compiled a list of answers from 21 notable people throughout the WordPress community to figure out why they choose to use WordPress. Here is my answer to the question: The reason I chose WordPress is the same reason I continue to publish content through the software and that is through ease of use. The publishing process in WordPress was simple when compared to Joomla or Drupal. The process is in a logical order and doesn’t provide 100 different things I should do before I actually hit the publish button. This process has been refined in the two years I’ve been using WordPress so it’s even better today! Later on in the comments, there is one by Ozh that I whole heartily agree with. Interesting to see […]

Sunflower Bloom Two column theme based on the default WordPress theme. Also available are four other themes on the page. Punchcut A clean and versatile theme featuring two gorgeous fonts, hand crafted social icons, and a theme options page. Patagonia Patagonia is a clean and seo optimized wordpress theme with Theme Options. Patagonia Theme supports Tag clouds, categories, dynamic widgets, gravatars. Tandil Tandil is a very good looking WordPress theme with theme options. ScrapBook ScrapBook is a WordPress Theme with two Sidebars, 120 and 200 pixel wide, ideal for Adsense. There is also an Option Page to populate the Footer. Page in German

New Plugins Flood Defender This plugin prevents commenters to repetitively post comments into a post. Once a comment shows up (must be approved), the commenter will not be able to post another comment below it – he/she will have to wait until someone else posts another comment. Style Box Create a Styled Note box, Alert box, Help box, Tip Box, Important Box in your posts using classes. iRobots.txt SEO (IRSEO) A fully customizable robots.txt virtual file generator. IRSEO creates a highly optimized and secure robots.txt file straight out of the box. Users may choose to enable or disable specific user agents, directories or files using intuitive options, all of which include detailed instructions. Updated Plugins WP Archive-Sitemap Generator Generates simple Archives/Sitemap based on your blogs posts and pages. This is not another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a nice post sitemap or page sitemap generator. Now user can show total […]