Tung Do also known as Small Potato seems to be slowly coming back to the WordPress community. For those who don’t know him, he was very respected by the community as the founder of WPdesigner.com which is now dead. I don’t know what his plans are, but he’s definitely designing again and you can find [...]

New version of WordPress is out! Version 2.8 “Baker,” named in honor of noted trumpeter Chet Baker, has been released with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Over 790 bugs has been fixed and major new improvements include:

Way faster to use because of changes in the way WordPress does style and scripting;
One click [...]

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

See original here: Hello world!

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In the past few weeks, WooThemes has released a few free WordPress themes that I recommend you to take a look at:
Snapshot
Snapshot is the framework-equivalent of their own showcase and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

Typebased
Typebased was designed by Armono Wibowo and it is a very clean and elegant [...]

In the past few weeks, WooThemes has released a few free WordPress themes that I recommend you to take a look at:
Snapshot
Snapshot is the framework-equivalent of their own showcase and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

Typebased
Typebased was designed by Armono Wibowo and it is a very clean and elegant [...]

Platformate is another theme by Michael Hutagalung and it was recently released. If you don’t remember or just don’t know, he released Arthemia Premium in August. Just like Arthemia Premium, Platformate has a theme admin panel that lets you easily modify and customize your theme.
Here are Platformate’s features:

Theme administration panel
Automatic thumbnail generation
5+ theme colors included
Popular [...]

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount. Before this news, I had never heard of IntenseDebate before. So, I went to their website and found out that “IntenseDebate is a comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog or website.” Some of the features are threading, reply-by-email, [...]

Matt Thomas, web designer at Automattic, has recently updated the logos and graphics page at WordPress.org. According to his blog, he was tired of seeing fake WordPress logos around the web.
In the page, you’ll find logos, buttons, and desktop wallpapers in various formats and sizes. The official WordPress colors are listed there as well. Show [...]

Arthemia Premium was recently released by Michael Hutagalung and as the name implies, it is the premium version of his very popular free theme, Arthemia. The main difference between both themes is the theme admin panel available in Arthemia Premium, which can be used to easily modify and customize your theme. From assigning category colors [...]

Arthemia Premium was recently released by Michael Hutagalung and as the name implies, it is the premium version of his very popular free theme, Arthemia. The main difference between both themes is the theme admin panel available in Arthemia Premium, which can be used to easily modify and customize your theme. From assigning category colors [...]

Smashing Magazine released two stunning free WordPress themes this past week:
Fervens

Fervens was designed by Elena Gafita and is supposed to stand for freshness. The theme has 3 columns of fixed width and it comes in 3 versions with the only difference being the column positions.
Infinity

Infinity was designed by Zhang Yichi and is based upon his [...]

WordPrezzie was launched last week by Nick Cernis and Hayley Thomas to provide WordPress themes, tutorials, custom design, and coding help.
So far, they have two WordPress themes and three tutorials up:

Changing Room - Free theme that displays a holding page;
Ice Cream Dream - Pro theme designed for style-conscious entrepreneurs and business owners;
Essential WordPress Plugins - [...]

WordPress version 2.6 is now available! This version has been named “Tyner” and it has been released almost a month ahead schedule. Want to know about the new features? The WordPress team prepared a brief video tour of version 2.6:

Here are the main new features in 2.6:

Post Revisions - Wiki-like tracking of edits;
Press This! - [...]

Another version of WordPress (2.5.1) is now available for download and it includes a very important security fix. In addition to the security fix, version 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:

Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who [...]

The Live Wire Series was released last month by Premium News and it consists of three different themes: Live Wire 2.0, Live Wire Edition, and Live Wire Style. Adii worked with Mark Forrester on these themes and according to Adii, Mark was the lead creative “director” for this project.
Adii and Mark packed these themes with [...]