Deux Milles Douze is a Twenty Twelve child theme which includes a front page template with a its own widgets, an optional display font, styling for post formats on both index and single views, and an optional no-sidebar page template. WP Eden is a pure CSS theme. WPSimplicity is a nice and clean theme that gives your blog a classy look.

Less than an hour ago, WordPress 3.5 passed 1 million downloads! That’s not bad for an update which was released just a bit over two days ago. In fact, it’s yet another record for the popular blogging platform! Watch to the download counter, and you just might see it break 2 million soon. If you have not updated to WordPress 3.5 yet, why not help the download counter reach 2 million today? You can safely update from Dashboard -> Updates or download and update manually. Make sure that you check out the new features, stop by the master list of known issues if you run into trouble, and post to the support forums if your problem isn’t covered there.

New plugins ImageMapper allows you to create interactive and visual image maps with the Visual editor. WP-Elasticsearch replaces the default WordPress search with ElasticSearch. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Batcache uses Memcached to store and serve rendered pages. bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress, available for the first time ever as a plugin. BuddyPress lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. It’s a social network in a box. Facebook makes your site deeply social by integrating functionality from Facebook. Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Additionally, the […]

WordPress 3.5 is finally here! All users can now safely update from Dashboard -> Updates or download and update manually, though you should probably backup first, just in case. This release is packed with plenty of new features, like a completely redesigned media manager, the new default Twenty Twelve theme, support for Retina (HiDPI) displays in the Dashboard, and better accessibility for screen readers and touch devices. If you run into trouble with WordPress 3.5, stop by the master list of known issues and post to the support forums if your problem isn’t covered there.

Color Block is a responsive, clean, colorful and very readable theme. ePublishing is a simple theme with a cool sticky post design and nice typography. Nifty is a user-friendly advanced theme framework.

WordPress 3.5 RC 6 has been released. The team is very close to releasing WordPress 3.5, but had to push it back another day with a sixth release candidate (they were very busy over the weekend) to fix how TinyMCE (the Visual editor tab) handles “ridiculous object and embed tags.” To sum it all up in one handy and concise Tweet, this: WordPress 3.5 now runs a custom TinyMCE schema tailored to the HTML5 living standard. We audited the whole spec to keep your content intact. — Daryl Koopersmith (@koop) December 10, 2012 So, if you’re a fan of using crazy embeds in your posts, particularly HTML5 bits, please test this RC. To test it, place your crazy embed in the Text editor tab, switch back to the Visual editor tab to make sure that it’s still there, switch back to the Text editor tab to make sure it isn’t […]

New plugins Fonts adds more fonts and font size control to the Visual editor tab. WP Social Share helps you and your users to share blog posts directly from your blog. Updated plugins Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Facebook makes your site deeply social by integrating functionality from Facebook. HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning.

Aesthete is a responsive theme designed to suit fashion, style, or beauty blogs and websites. Moonset is a responsive, vibrant, abstract theme, reminiscent of a silvery moon rising over the colorful horizon. Noteworthy is designed for news and magazine style blogs, and photo galleries. Poloray is a flexible mobile-friendly theme. SemPress is a highly semantic HTML5 responsive theme.