New plugins LoginRadius (Social Login) for WordPress enables social login on WordPress websites. WPToFacebook lets you choose contents (manually or automatically) to be shown in one or more tabs on a Facebook Page. Updated plugins Artiss Draft List displays a list of your draft and/or scheduled posts and/or pages. Business Hours Plugin allows you to post your daily working hours and show it to your visitors in a configurable and templatable widget. CloudFlare ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform. Debug Bar adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information. Exploit Scanner searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames. Hotfix provides unofficial fixes for selected WordPress bugs, so you don’t have to wait for the […]

WordPress 3.3 was released just 4 days ago, and it has now been downloaded over 1 million times, surpassing the record previously held by WordPress 3.2. Given some rough math, that’s about 250,000 downloads of WordPress each day! If you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 3.3 yet, or you have never tried WordPress, now’s the perfect time to give it a shot. Let’s see what sort of record download numbers we can bring WordPress 3.3 to in its first week!

Black with Orange is a detail oriented theme with modern and decent design. The following themes are not new, but have been updated for WordPress 3.3. DroidPress is inspired by the popular Android mobile phone operating system by Google. Suffusion is an elegant, versatile and browser-safe theme with a power-packed set of options. Twenty Eleven is sophisticated, lightweight, and adaptable. Twenty Ten is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable.

WordPress 3.3 was released just two days ago, and several plugins have been updated since then to correct compatibility issues with the latest WordPress release. Considering this, today is probably a good day to check for plugin updates on your WordPress installation, even if you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 3.3 yet. There are too many to list overall, but here are some of the more popular plugins which have received compatibility updates for WordPress 3.3 since its release: All in One SEO Pack – Support for WordPress 3.3. BuddyPress – Intended to fix some cosmetic issues with the new WordPress 3.3 toolbar, and is a recommended update for all existing BuddyPress 1.5/1.5.1 and WordPress 3.3 installations. Login Logo – Support for WordPress 3.3. Postie – Removed get_user_by function to make compatible with wp 3.3 – now requires 2.8+. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam – WP 3.3 compatibility fix as wp_enqueue_script was called […]

New plugins Admin Bar Backend Search provides various search forms in the Dashboard. WP-ImageZoom enables you to view details of large images. Updated plugins Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Scripts n Styles allows Admin users the ability to add custom CSS (at the bottom of the head tag) and JavaScript (at the bottom of the body tag) directly into individual Post, Pages or any other registered custom post types. 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 3.3 is finally here and ready to be downloaded or upgraded to from the Updates section of your blog’s Dashboard. Of all the changes, the most noticeable are the simplified toolbar (formerly known as the admin bar), the new drag and drop media uploader with support for multiple files, hover-powered Dashboard menus (no more wasted clicks), better help menus, a new Tumblr importer, and a complete introductory welcome page for new users. For developers, there’s a new version of jQuery, better help screen hooks, and a new editor API. If you’re running into trouble after upgrading to WordPress 3.3, there is a master list of known issues and FAQs on the forums which will be updated regularly, and the kind volunteers in the support forums will be more than happy to help you with any of your troubles.

WordPress 3.3 RC 3 has been released. There were just a few things to fix, so the final 3.3 release should be right around the corner. If you’re a plugin or theme developer, and you haven’t tested your products against WordPress 3.3 yet, you my have just a few days (if not hours) left before the final release is public. Andrew Nacin has provided an outstanding WordPress 3.3 field guide for developers and Mika Epstein has provided an awesome WordPress 3.3 known issue and FAQ master list. As always, feel free to report any bugs that you find and contact the support forums if you need any help.

Blue with Grey is a details-oriented theme with modern and decent design. Simply Graphic is a clean, crisp theme using graphic elements and sharp lines. Terminally is a HTML5 and CSS3 theme inspired by the popular Mac SSH client, Terminal.