CleanMag is a very clean and minimal blogging theme that is perfect for minimalistic bloggers. Dot-B is a simple, fresh and dot-decorated theme with a lot of basic theme-custom options. Triton Lite is an all in one theme with 3 fonts, a slider, and an easy to use theme options panel. Vibrant is a bright theme featuring vibrant, earthy tones of orange and green with pale yellow article areas, and available in both one column and two column versions.

Are you having trouble decided if WordPress will be the right solution for your next amazing site, or do you have a boss or client who’s refusing to accept WordPress as a viable platform? Sara Rosso gave a great intro to the WordPress Ecosystem at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco. She covers some of the heavy-hitters using WordPress, how big of an audience some of them are reaching, and why they decided to make the switch (if they did move from another platform), as well as how the overall community works.

New plugins Advanced Custom Sort allows you to create custom-ordered groups of posts. HD Webplayer Plugin enables you to embed HD Webplayer on your WordPress websites. Updated plugins Drafts Dropdown adds a Drafts tab to the admin bar so that you can quickly access your draft blog posts. Dynamic Wigets gives you full control on which pages your widgets will appear. WordPress SEO is an all in one solution to search engine optimize your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and much more.

It’s Saturday, which means that it’s probably time to tinker with WordPress again, just don’t break anything. Just as a precautionary measure, here’s a great presentation from Hanni Ross at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco on the five most common ways to break and fix your blog.

Gynix is a beige and black theme with a large featured post area. Khaki evokes a homey, comfortable, natural feeling featuring cotton khaki denim fabric in warm gold colors. NatureFox is a modern theme with a natural landscape design.

Are you eager to know what’s going on in the minds of the WordPress core developers? This Q&A with the core developers themselves was a great treat for those present at this year’s WordCamp San Francisco and has a wealth of intriguing questions from the community. It’s definitely worth the hour if you’re interested in some of the recent and future WordPress decisions and plans.

New plugins CapyBar will show how many people are online on your website and will also allow you to chat with them. Jetpack Lite is a fork of Jetpack by WordPress.com containing only Stats and WP.me Shortlinks modules. Updated plugins CommentLuv allows to reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment.

If you’re a WordPress user, you probably noticed an option at Settings -> Discussion, which states “Before a comment appears, comment author must have a previously approved comment.” This was pretty much the bulk of our anti-spam measures here, and while not a single bit of spam made it through, the sheer volume of pending comments (almost all spam) were driving us nuts. A few days ago, we shifted gears with tremendous results, and I though you folks might be interested. We decided to do away with the above setting and rely entirely on Akismet, Cookies for Comments, and the built-in moderation list and blacklist at Settings -> Discussion for any that snuck through. Prior to this change, we had an average of 5 pending comments each hour, and an average of 4.8 of those were spam. Now, we don’t have to monitor pending comments, and we only see an […]