New plugins Cross-Promotion Content Recommendations drives a fresh new audience to your site by cross-promoting your posts with other related bloggers. Upload Photo to Facebook uploads photos to your Facebook profile. Updated plugins BFT Autoresponder allows scheduling of automated autoresponder messages and managing a mailing list. HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning. WP Marketplace is a full-featured shopping cart/e-commerce system that is extremely easy to install and even easier to maintain.

Classic ChalkBoard is a whimsical theme emulating a classic school chalkboard, complete with a bottom-resting eraser and chalk. IceChimp is a free “coming soon” theme. Sleek is an attractive, clean, and professional theme.

WordPress 3.5.1 has been released. This is both a security and maintenance release, fixing 37 bugs. In particular, this release fixes a bug which could cause HTML elements to be unexpectedly removed by the Editor, fixes a bug which caused HTML elements to be unexpectedly removed from scheduled posts, provides workarounds for certain misconfigurations which could prevent JavaScript from loading in the Dashboard, and fixes three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and one server-side request forgery vulnerability. If you have trouble automatically updating to WordPress 3.5.1, you may be on an IIS server and will need to follow these instructions. This is a security release, so it is recommended for all users. If you run into trouble with WordPress 3.5.1, stop by the master list of known issues and post to the support forums if your problem isn’t covered there.

New plugins Post From Frontend allows users to create and manage posts, and edit profile info, from the frontend. Post-to-Post Links II lets you easily create a link to another post, page, tag, or category on your site. WP-IRC provides a sidebar widget that can be used to display the number of users currently online in any IRC channel. Updated plugins Liveblog provides quick and simple blogging for following fast-paced events. WordPress Download Manager helps you to manage, track and control file downloads from your WordPress site.

Color Palette is a simple colourful theme. Stand Tall is a strikingly simple, minimal, high contrast theme with a bold accent of brilliant red fonts in the headings and other strategic places. Whispy is a sharp, lime-ish theme.

Since the announcement of WordPress 3.6’s areas of focus, there has been an incredible amount of progress in just a short amount of time. Menus have received a simplified UI by way of breaking elements up into two separate screens, a few extra hooks, and some accessibility tweaks. Post Formats will be getting some UI tweaks around theme usage and expectations of data. Editorial Flow will focus on how custom statuses relate to post types, the transition between statuses, and working with existing statuses. Autosave will focus on how to safely lock a post and still allow user control, autosaving to the browser’s local storage, and offering better warnings for login expirations. Revisions will focus on author attribution issues and improved usability. If you aren’t already following along with the Make WordPress Core blog, I highly recommend doing so now, especially if you’re a plugin or theme developer, or just […]

New plugins EXIF Columns adds columns to the Media Library for EXIF metadata. Post Meta Inspector is a quick and easy way to see post meta associated with any given post. Updated plugins Cookies for Comments sets a cookie on a random URL that is then checked when a comment is posted. If the cookie is missing the comment is marked as spam. 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. Markdown on Save Improved processes your post with Markdown unless you tell it not to. Rewrite Rules Inspector is a straightforward WordPress admin tool for inspecting your rewrite rules. Safe Report Comments gives your visitors the ability to report a comment as inappropriate. Watu […]

Baris is a responsive and minimalist. Blue Steel is a responsive fluid layout, enhanced with html5 goodness and the jQuery framework. Celestial – Lite is a responsive theme incorporating crisp lines and great colours to enhance the look and functionality of your website.