New plugins Flickr Blog This to Draft Post will make a draft post to your blog instead of publishing via Flickr’s “Blog This” function. Ice Visual Revisions adds revision tracking to the visual editor. Minify automagically concatenates JS and CSS files that are output in wp_head() and wp_footer(). Updated plugins CloudFlare ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform. Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Developing a WordPress plugin is hard work, and by the time you’re done, the little details can sometimes be overlooked, like the appearance of the plugin’s icon in the Dashboard. I have used plenty of plugins in my time, and quite a few had pixelated icons or icons that just didn’t seem to look right overall. By the way, have you noticed that the default Dashboard icons are not colored until you hover or click on them? Yeah, now try to ignore the few plugins you have installed with constantly colored icons. To help new developers with their plugin icons, Matthias Kretschmann has created a handy template for WordPress admin icons with tons of tips. Now, no more excuses, get some good looking icons into your next plugin update.

Soar features a dove in flight on a very simple, elegant dark charcoal grey background. SpringFestival is a retro style celebration of Chinese history.

The official WordPress.org Plugin Directory has received a rather significant redesign. With over 19,000 plugins listed, the team took some time to revisit this highly popular destination for the millions of folks using WordPress. Right off the bat, you should notice a new ability to to mark your preferred plugins as Favorites. Each plugin page now has a new Support tab populated with the plugins’s support thread, and a super-handy chart showing you the resolved vs. open thread count so you can see at a glance how well supported a plugin is. Finally, there is much more focus on the authors this time around and some improved styling over all. What do you think of the newly redesigned plugin directory?

New plugins Config Constants allows you to modify WP_DEBUG and other wp-config.php constants directly in the WordPress admin rather than manually editing them. Password Protected is a very simple way to quickly password protect your WordPress site with a single password. Updated plugins Redirection allows you to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files. StatComm provides realtime statistics on your blog, collecting information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS and more.

Code Poet has just relaunched, and it is now so much more than the directory of WordPress professionals that it was before. If you build anything with WordPress, Code Poet is now on the fast track to be your one stop shop for resources and information. Today, Code Poet features free eBooks from WordPress professionals, interviews with WordPress professionals, useful resources from the WordPress community, and a handy quiz to test your WordPress knowledge. As you can imagine, Code Poet is gearing up to be a massive resource build by WordPress professionals for WordPress professionals and aspiring power users. If you’re still looking to hire someone, the Code Poet Directory still exists, and aspiring Code Poets can still apply to be part of the prestigious directory. Head over to the new Code Poet, grab a free eBook for the road, and take the quiz right away. How did you do […]

Art Blogazine is a simple and minimalist theme with HTML5 markup. Outline is a beautiful, simple, elegant, monochrome theme for blogs or websites with a simple floral motif in the header. Phire is a modern and easily customizable dark theme. WPstart is a simple parent theme allowing you to create any type of website you want.

New plugins Monster Widget provides a quick and easy method of adding all core widgets to a sidebar for testing purposes. Updated plugins 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. Yepty is yet another pay per click advertising plugin.