New plugins Dynamic Forms allows you to create custom web forms, easily add forms to blog posts or web pages, and collect information from a database. WP Teacher allows teachers to intergrate course content into thier personal website to enhance student learning. Updated plugins Automatic Updater will automatically download and install plugin, theme, and core updates as soon as they become available. Watu allows you to create exams with unlimited questions and answers, and define grades based on collected points.

Accord is an ideal theme for the autumn season, with a colorful scenic photo of a forest trail in the fall, using the rich, earthy colors of gold, orange, red, green, yellow, and brown. Eureka is a single column microblogging theme with customizable footer, menu and theme colors along with support for all post formats.

New plugins Login Security Solution is simple way to lock down login security for multisite and regular WordPress installations. PanoPress allows easy embedding of 360° Panoramas & Virtual Tours created with a variety of applications using Flash & HTML5. Updated plugins P2 Resolved Posts is a lightweight GTD plugin for WordPress and the P2 theme which allows you to mark a thread as “unresolved” when there’s something needing to be finished, and mark it as “resolved” when it’s been finished. Social Web Links will display elegant icons of your social profiles on a sidebar widget. Twitter Tools creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Haunted House is a Halloween theme for your blog. Mystic has a simple, moody, ethereal quality to its look using subtle transparencies and neutral metallics such as gold and silver as font colors. Uridimmu has several widget areas and allows per-post layouts.

A week ago, we made a few minor changes here, most notably a switch to Jetpack Comments. Since then, spam has dropped dramatically. Prior to the change, we received an average of 10,000 spam comments a day. After Jetpack Comments, we have received a grand total of 429 spam comments for the entire week. So, that’s a drop from an average of 10,000 per day to an average of 61 per day, 9,939 less spam comments per day. Jetpack Comments makes use of javascript and iframes, which are both a bit too complicated for most spam bots, and that does line up with the almost complete lack of obvious bot-generated spam in our spam queue. Besides the comforting bot-breaking ability of Jetpack Comments, I have a feeling that our change from a basic form element comment form to the comment_form tag finally enabled our other anti-spam plugins to work properly. […]

New plugins HTML5 Video Player with Playlist allows you to easily use the HTML5 video element to enable native video playback within the browser. WP-antiProxy will fetch and auto-correct the client’s IP address in the event that he is hidden behind a proxy or load balancer. Updated plugins Automatic Updater will automatically download and install plugin, theme, and core updates as soon as they become available. Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Twitter Tools creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

WordPress 3.5 Beta 2 has been released. Since the first beta, this beta has added new interfaces for image galleries and front page settings, as well as a new image editing API. As before, this is not yet meant for live sites, but please do try it on a test installation, especially if you are a plugin or theme developer. If you run into any bugs, please check the known and fixed issues first, report them if they have not already been reported or fixed, and visit the support forums if you need any help.

Cascade is an all-purpose, responsive (mobile friendly) theme with 12 optional layouts, per post layouts, multiple drop down menus, 12 widget areas, support for all 10 post formats, and mobile compatible menus. Gommero is simple, elegant, and easily customizable.