New plugins MultiTags displays correct tags when calling a tag-page with more than one tag. Register IP – Multiste helps you fight back against spam, troll, and sock puppet accounts by logging the IP address used at the time of creation. WooTumblog allows you to create a tumblr style blog. WP README Parser displays a WordPress plugin’s README file in XHTML format, for embedding in a post or page. Updated plugins BuddyPress allows you to build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Facebook Like for Tags allows you to automatically share to Facebook when posting new articles with specific tags or categories. Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu makes all admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Ultimate Post Type Manager is an easy to use custom post type manager. WordPress Twitter Forums […]

The latest version of BuddyPress, WordPress’ powerful “social network in a box” plugin, has been released. This long-awaited update improves compatibility with WordPress 3.0, adds some minor tweaks to the base theme, and resolves 91 issues! Now that Paul Gibbs and Boone Gorges have joined the team, the next major release is on track for the end of 2010. BuddyPress has been rapidly building its user base since 1.0 was released in April of 2009. Have you built something with BuddyPress? If so, we’d love to hear about it!

Atom is a new WordPress theme framework. Back My Book is a clean, well designed theme that has the key features every author needs. Fazio is a grey/blue theme which supports almost all of WordPress 3’s new features.

Automattic recently appeared on ICANN’s list of accredited registrars as ID #1531, meaning that the company is now a full-fledged accredited domain registrar. WordPress.com is one of Automattic’s most popular services, and domain mapping is one of their most popular upgrades, so this is potentially yet another game-changing move for the company. According to Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg, Automattic will continue to partner with GoDaddy until they have finished building tools to take advantage of their new registrar status over the next few months.

New plugins CleanCodeNZ Exclude Pages Plugin hides pages from navigation or other purposes using custom fields. CleanCodeNZ Favorite Posts Plugin uses Google Analytics API to get the stats of favorite posts of your WordPress blogs and list them in a table. Custom Metadata Manager provides an easy way to add custom fields to your object types Updated plugins AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. Events Manager is a full-featured event management solution for WordPress. GD Star Rating allows you to set up a rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. Update: There is currently a problem with the official plugin directory where some plugin […]

There are thousands of themes available for WordPress. Today, the largest collection of WordPress themes can still be found through the official Theme Directory and its Tag Filter, but two new directories have brought some new concepts to the plate when it comes to finding your next WordPress theme. WPCandy’s Theme Finder offers an elimination-style overview of available themes utilizing color, number of columns, and price (free v.s paid) as factors. Theme Garden’s Layout Browser offers a very comprehensive directory of themes based strictly on layout. While WPCandy’s Theme Finder is filled with mostly premium themes and Theme Garden’s Layout Browser is restricted solely to their theme marketplace, the two bring something new to a field that was long thought to be well saturated by the official Theme Directory. What do you think of these new theme directories? Do you think that some of these features should be added to […]

Blogum is a simple, grid based WordPress theme, designed in a modern and minimalist style. Clear Line is a clear and very lightweight theme. Codium is simple and minimalist, but fully customizable: change the background color, incorporate a background image, and add automatic post thumbnails on the homepage. DocOut Historical is a child theme of the default Twenty Ten theme with a great document outline. Fresh and Clean is a super minimal yet very elegant and modern WordPress theme.

Work is well underway on WordPress 3.1 and a quick update detailing the status of some of the new features as we approach the November 1st code freeze has been posted. The following features will more than likely be included in WordPress 3.1: Post Formats – “Allow denoting a post as a certain format. Some example formats are aside, gallery, link, quote. This will allow themes to style these posts according to format.” (ready to go, awaiting decision to include a UI that themes can enable) Theme Search/Filter – “Lift some of the search and browse ideas from the WordPress.com themes.php.” (still in first draft) Internal linking – “. . . you click a button for an internal link . . . and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content by title, date, author, etc. and select it for inclusion.” (patch provided) […]