New plugins Amazon Express allows you to easily insert Amazon Associates links and Amazon product images, including images of book covers, into your WordPress posts. YoutubeNails creates a dynamic gallery of thumbnails of each post with YouTube videos displayed on the content linked to the post permalink. Updated plugins CleanCodeNZ Exclude Pages allows you to define the custom field to be attached to a page to be excluded from navigation and(or) search results. DukaPress is an open source and free to use e-commerce platform. Easy ReTweet is a WordPress Plugin which lets you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count. Simple Footnotes allows you to create simple, elegant footnotes on your site. Use the [ref] shortcode and the plugin takes care of the rest. Twitter Avatar Reloaded adds a new field to the comment form for the user’s Twitter username and uses […]

WordPress 3.0.5 and 3.1-RC4 have been released. Both releases address three security issues and add additional security enhancements, and 3.1-RC4 fixes “about two dozen additional bugs.” Both updates are available immediately via your Dashboard, but users updating to 3.0.5 will need to update to the latest release of Akismet again. Core developer Andrew Nacin hopes to minimize “the Akismet update dance” in WordPress 3.1 and put an end to it in WordPress 3.2.

Begi is a clean, minimal and highly customizable WordPress e-commerce theme. NicheWP is a two-column WordPress theme with an elegant design and search engine and Adsense optimization. THAT Live Music is perfect for music bloggers and music news websites. Torn is a visually exciting WordPress theme with the Navigation bar and Header image tearing on to the screen after opening the page.

WordPress.com has just launched their premium theme store, bringing premium theme developers and the first two of hopefully many premium themes to over 17 million WordPress.com blogs. Previously, WordPress.com users were limited to just over a hundred free themes with no ability to upload their own, thus cutting them off from the premium theme market. Now, premium theme developers have a chance to cash in on “the other WordPress” users. WordPress.com is starting their premium theme offerings with Headlines for $45 (available to self-hosted WordPress users for $70 with two “bonus” themes) and Shelf for $68 (also available to self-hosted WordPress users for $68). WordPress.com plans to increase their free and premium theme offerings “in a big way” this year, so this is definitely shaping up to be a game-changer in the premium theme market. (Disclosure: I also work at Automattic.)

New plugins Piclyf displays user’s picture stream utilizing Piclyf.com’s API. WPColorBox adds a ColorBox effect to all of your linked images automatically. Updated plugins DynamicWP Pop-Up Menu will put your menu icons in a stack, placed in the bottom right corner of your page. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.

WordPress is incredibly popular, and there are a few Android apps out there written specifically for WordPress, but certainly not as many as the there are for iOS. WordPress for Android – Of course, you have to start off the list with this app, the official WordPress app from Automattic. “WordPress for Android is an Open Source app that empowers you to write new posts, edit content, and manage comments with built-in notifications.” Requires a self-hosted WordPress or a WordPress.com blog. (Android Market) PostBot – “PostBot is an open-source WordPress client and supports multiple images in a post with thumbnail previews, sharing of images directly from Camera and Picture apps, editing existing posts, saving drafts locally, adding categories to a blog, and multiple blogs.” Requires a self-hosted WordPress or a WordPress.com blog. (Android Market) WP Stats – “Wp Stats is an app for your Android device that helps you to […]

Altis fx is clean and simple. XHTML/CSS code is optimized and search engine friendly. Sidebar is fixed at the top of the screen (when window height is less than sidebar height). AppleZoomExtended is 1000px wide with 2 columns, 9 widget areas, and about 40 theme options. The sidebar is designed for 300Px Adsense Ads. Retro Stripes is a blog-style layout with a portfolio and contact form. Best for bloggers, designers and photographers. zeeCompany is a simple and clean 2 column theme with great features: Colorpicker, Content Slider, Shortcodes, Dropdown Navigation, Costum Widgets (Tabs, Twitter), and more.

New plugins Debug Bar Console adds a PHP/MySQL console to the debug bar. (requires the Debug Bar plugin and WordPress 3.1) MaGiKS Proper PHP Include lets you easily, quickly, efficiently and safely insert PHP code into posts, pages and/or widgets, without disabling the Visual Editor. You simply upload a php file containing your code into your theme folder and use a WordPress shortcode to “include” that file into your posts/pages/widgets. WordPress Zendesk allows your WordPress users to sign into your Zendesk account with only a single click of the mouse. If they don’t have an account for your Zendesk yet, it will create one for them! Updated plugins Debug Bar adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information. A must for developers! (requires WordPress 3.1) WP Mobile Detector automatically detects if the visitor is using a standard mobile phone or a […]