Dark Tower is a dark blue theme. Little Baby is a simple light baby theme. Responsive is a responsive theme with 9 page templates, 9 widget areas, 4 menu areas, and theme options. Royal Oak is a rich, royal purple theme featuring the silhouette of a large, lush tree on a subtle silver wood grain background. Stripay is a simple theme with coloured stripes.

New plugins WordPress Review Engine is an all-in-one review system. Updated plugins CloudFlare ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform. Rename Media Files enables renaming of media files. Tallyopia Analytics provides analytics that you can embed into your site using shortcodes or view in your admin dashboard. WordPress Text Message allows people to subscribe to SMS text message updates of your web site via their cell phone. wp-Monalisa allows you to place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.

Angler is a highly customizable but simple theme. Light Blue Home is a simple light blue architecture theme. Modern Nature is a green nature theme. Skylark is a great starter theme for portfolio and business sites. Sundance is a minimalist video theme crafted with clean, elegant typography and close attention to detail. Utility is a basic theme of a simple setup for a simple blog or website.

Posterous, a popular hosted blogging platform, has been acquired by Twitter. The team behind Posterous assures that the service will not be disrupted, but will give “ample notice if [they] make any changes to the service,” and Sachin Agarwal (Posterous founder and CEO) is now a Product Manager for Twitter. It is not yet clear if Twitter intends to make use of the Posterous service or if this acquisition was intended to just bring the talent behind Posterous to Twitter’s ever-growing platform. If you’re concerned about the future of your Posterous Space, it’s not too late to switch to a self-hosted WordPress installation (where you have full control over your content) with this importer. If you prefer a hosted environment, like Posterous, you can move to WordPress.com following this handy guide.

New plugins Admium lets users sign up for recurring subscriptions to your site, and lets you make subscriber-only content. BusinessBites Button allows you to get paid to communicate with your visitors using built in time tracking and automated billing. Updated plugins FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Image Widget uses a native WordPress upload thickbox to add image widgets to your site.

Are you looking for a super-simple quick reference for WP_Query and all of its parameters? Loosely described, WP_Query is how WordPress displays posts defined by a variety of parameters, and keeping that of the available parameters can be a monumental task. It’s easy to forget all that you can do with WP_Query if you aren’t working with it every single day. Of course, this brings me to this handy Gist. It’s nothing flashy, but it is a super-simple text file listing and describing all the WP_Query parameters. I’m not sure how long this will be around, so you might want to download it ASAP for reference when you need it.

Brown World is a simple dark brown theme. My Life is a serene blogging theme that emphasizes your content with readable typography. Picochic is a neutral, light, clean and professional looking theme. Simple Black is a simple theme with a dark black design. Suede has two columns, fixed width, a left sidebar, and features a brilliant, vibrant orange-red, beige, tan, cream, brown, and taupe scheme.

New plugins bbPress Digest allows you to send daily digest with a forum’s active topics. PulseMaps Visitor Map Plugin allows you to see your visitors on a world map. User Login Statistics tracks registered users login statistics each day. WP App Maker allows you to generate and distribute an Android App for your WordPress blog. Updated plugins Image Widget uses a native WordPress upload thickbox to add image widgets to your site. Ultimate CMS is an easy to use plugin to create, customize, and manage custom post/page types, custom archives, and custom taxonomies.