I don’t think much happened this week, but last week, I forgot to mention that WordPress Community Podcast had Matt Cutts as a guest on their show. For the few people that don’t know, Matt Cutts is a software engineer at Google who heads the web spam team, which is part of search quality. In [...]

Thesis is Now Under a Split GPL License
Chris Pearsonified announced this week through a tweet that Thesis now sports a split GPL license. For those that don’t know, this means that the PHP is GPLv2, and the CSS, JS, and images are proprietary. This announcement definitely got the whole community by surprise, but I’m sure [...]

GPL Debate
The GPL debate is back once again. If I’m not mistaken, it started on Twitter. Then, Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com invited the two guys at the center of the debate, Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg, to a live interview where they discussed about the Thesis vs. GPL issue. I won’t share my thoughts, but [...]

Nominate is a social voting theme that lets your visitors create accounts, submit articles, and vote on them. It basically lets you create a website similar to Digg. This is the first time that I’ve seen such a theme been released to the WordPress community. Nominate is actually the same theme that is used by [...]

Wellblog is a theme that was designed for food and recipe bloggers. The theme is highly customizable and comes with 3 built-in skins (Black, Gray, Yellow). Each skin has a good color contrast that makes your posts and images stand out. The Wellblog theme also comes with Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube integration to keep your [...]

Check my new blog over at http://thewpninja.com!
Also for those that don’t know and are looking for WordPress inspiration, check my css gallery.

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See the original post: New Blog: The WP Ninja

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WordPress 2.6.5 has just been released and it fixes one security problem and three bugs. It’s recommended that everyone upgrade to this release.
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Read the original here: WordPress 2.6.5

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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! - [...]