Minimalizine is a simple and responsive theme. Reflection is an attractive, clean, professional, and neutral theme. Something Fishy is an illustrated landscape theme with parallax scrolling effects, a responsive, mobile-friendly layout, featured images, multiple widget areas, custom menu support, and a whole lotta cute.

New plugins Custom Javascript Editor allows you to add custom Javascript to your site from an editor in the WordPress admin. Twitter2Posts imports tweets from your Twitter account as posts within a special category. WP Social Stats is a powerful social analytics tool that tracks the performance of your blog posts and pages at Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, and Stumbleupon. Updated plugins CampTix Event Ticketing is an easy to use and flexible event ticketing plugin. Jetpack allows you to supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users. Tinypass is a simple, powerful plugin that allows any online publisher to easily sell access to any type of content, whether it’s a blog post, a site subscription, a digital download, or even a pay-per-view video. WP Super Cache is a very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files.

You may not notice offhand, but we made some rather significant under-the-hood changes over the weekend. Despite often drooling like fan boys over the latest and greatest WordPress features, much of this theme has been hard-coded. For those of you who aren’t familiar with what “hard-coded” is, it means that the sidebar was just HTML in the theme’s sidebar template, not widgets, and the navigation menu was just HTML in the theme’s header template, not a custom menu. Why did we do this? Because it was easy, fast, and we didn’t need to change anything. Well, as WordPress continues to mature, more features are implemented as widgets. As we began desiring some of these, it became clear that the sidebar needed to be widgetized, and the existing modules (or non-widgets) needed to be switched over to widgets. Are you stuck with a theme that isn’t widgetized? If so, don’t worry, […]

Arbor is a clean, highly readable theme with sans serif typography. Discussion is designed on a notice board using push pins and sheets. San Francisco is a mobile-optimized theme.

New plugins Advanced Browser Check gives you the option to give a visitor of your site a warning popup if they use a browser that you don’t support on your site. Favorite Plugins Widget displays your favorite plugins from your WordPress.org profile along with star ratings and author info. Thin Out Revisions helps you thin out post/page revisions manually. Updated plugins Yet Another Related Posts Plugin displays a list of related entries on your site and feeds based on a unique algorithm. Ultimate TinyMCE beefs up your visual editor with a plethora of advanced options.

Bright Economy is a simple, minimalist, highly readable theme with clean, sans serif typography. Runo Lite has been made especially for poets and writers. Twenty Twelve is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device.

New plugins Automatic Updater will automatically download and install plugin, theme, and core updates as soon as they become available. HTML5 Videos allows you to easily embed HTML5 videos from the Media Library into posts and pages. Updated plugins Automatic Post Tagger automatically adds user-specified tags to posts. Jetpack allows you to supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users. Pushover Notifications allows your WordPress blog to send push notifications for events happening on your blog straight to your iOS/Android device. WordPress SEO is an all in one solution to search engine optimize your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and much more.

WordPress 3.5 Beta 1 has been released and can be easily upgraded to with the Beta Tester plugin. This is the first beta release, so it’s not recommended for live sites, but plugin and theme developers, and anyone with a keen eye for bugs, are encouraged to try it out now. This new release includes tons of changes to how images are handled, a new color picker, keyboard navigation, support for favorited plugins from the official directory, and much more. 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. Twenty Twelve, the new default theme for WordPress 3.5, has also been released separately and is available for anyone running WordPress 3.4.2 or higher.