New plugins Color Scheme Every Theme lets you change the entire color scheme of the current theme via the theme customizer. Force ReAuthentication allows a site administrator to log out a user remotely. Updated plugins Branded Login Screen allows you to customize your login screen. Jetpack allows you to supercharge your WordPress site with powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users. Markdown on Save Improved processes your post with Markdown unless you tell it not to. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to escape the code or anything. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin displays a list of related entries on your site and feeds based on a unique algorithm.

Pyramid is a simple and clean theme. Studio is a responsive 1-column theme that includes a static page layout as well as a blog page. Teal is a responsive magazine theme. Zen is drenched in white with some paintings in the header and footer.

New plugins Emoji Emoticons provides support for Emoji Emoticons. SuperCPT provides insanely easy and attractive custom post types, custom post meta, and custom taxonomies. Updated plugins Confident CAPTCHA is a clickable, picture CAPTCHA that stops spam and malicious bots, while remaining very easy for people to solve. Font Emoticons replaces WordPress’ smileys with font-based emoticons. HotSpots draws a heat map of mouse clicks overlayed on your webpage allowing you to improve usability by analyzing user behaviour. Q2W3 Fixed Widget fixes positioning of the selected widgets when the page is scrolled down.

Earthen is a natural, neutral, earthy, and bright theme. InfoWay is a clean, simple, and elegant responsive theme. Photologger is a minimalist theme that is ideal for photo blogs, magazines, and portfolios. WP StrapSlider Lite is a responsive bootstrap theme.

The new default theme for WordPress 3.6, titled Twenty Thirteen, is making progress. This year’s default theme is overseen by Matt Mullenweg, and built by Joen Asmussen, Konstantin Obenland, and Lance Willett. The goal for Twenty Thirteen is to offer “a focus on blogging, and great support for post formats (which are getting attention on the backend in 3.6 as well).” If you’d like to see the theme in action, a demo site is available. One thing you’ll notice immediately is that the strong emphasis on whitespace, which has become commonplace in the default themes, is long-gone. Twenty Thirteen is making very bold use of its colors, offering a different color for each post format. The theme also lacks a sidebar by default. It’s designed to focus on blogging after all, so the designers prefer that you leave your widgets to the footer area, but it still does support a […]

New plugins Add featured image to RSS feed adds the featured image attached to your posts to the RSS feed. Theme Mentor is a cousin of the Theme-Check plugin getting deeper into the code analysis. Updated plugins Achievements for WordPress gamifies your WordPress site with challenges, badges, and points. Co-Authors Plus allows you to assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types via a search-as-you-type input box. Document Feedback allows you to get feedback from readers on the documentation you write.

Annotum Sans is a child theme of Annotum with a modern sans-serif style. Chunk is a straightforward theme with bold typography. Landscape is a simple responsive theme. Techy is a simple 2-column, bold, high contrast theme.

Some of you may remember that Posterous was acquired by Twitter almost a year ago. At the time, the future of the service was in doubt, and they have just announced today that the service will be shutting down on April 30. If you’re still with Posterous, it’s not too late to move your blog elsewhere. If you prefer hosted blogging services, like Posterous, you can move to WordPress.com following this guide and Squarespace following this guide. If you’d rather have more control over the hosting and permanence of your content, it might be time to find yourself a hosting provider so you can install and run WordPress yourself and use this importer to bring over your Posterous content. Don’t delay! The service will be completely shutting down on April 30, which means that you will not be able to edit or even view your Posterous blog past that date.