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! - […]

I’m a bit late with this one, but Premium News Themes has evolved to WooThemes a few days ago. The team now consists of Adii, Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester, and the new addition, Elliot Jay Stocks.
The name was changed to WooThemes, because with the old name, they were somewhat limited to releasing only news themes. […]

Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day, an event sponsored by WPCandy.com that is being used as a way to show appreciation to Automattic. If you are a WordPress lover, the folks over at WPCandy are inviting you to post about WordPress today! (e.g. why you love WordPress, thanking Automattic, etc.) They’ve also prepared a giveaway […]

Checkmate

CheckMate is a classic blog style template with a minimalist design packed with features and customizing options. This is one to definitely download and try out and includes a quick start guide to show you how to use some of the features.

Natural Power

Natural Power is a two column theme, widget ready, that comes with four […]

(Every now and then, I would like to write make money online posts)
TNX, pronounced “thanks”, is a text link advertising system that started only a few months ago and that already has more than 50,000 members! If you don’t know much about text link advertising, read the following paragraph:
Availability of unique and useful content on […]

Hey everyone, I apologize for the lack of updates. It’s been a month since I wrote my last post, but it seems that not much has changed over at WPDesigner. By the way, I haven’t sold this blog and I don’t plan to anytime soon. However, Moses, founder of WPThemesPlugin, has sold his and it […]

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 […]

I’m entered into a competition by Alpha Blog Designs and the prize is a custom WordPress theme, which I’m going to give out to one of my readers if I win!
Why am I posting about this if I still haven’t won? Because I need your help! I definitely need the support of my readers in […]

Smashing Magazine has released a free RSS feed icon set, which was designed by Dirceu Veiga from FastIcon.

The set contains 8 icons that can be used for private and commercial projects for free. According to the license agreement, the designer asks for an operable link to http://www.fasticon.com, with the link text: “Icons by: FastIcon.com”.
The Icons […]

Rainbow Feather v3 by h4×3d.com

Rainbow Feather is a fluid one-column wordpress theme. As the name suggests the colours in this theme are rainbow-ish. From blue, baby blue, to yellow, orange, white, blue gradient and pink, barbie pink to evil pink. Cool features include: Fancy web2.0 like headings (wet graphics), custom badges “read on” and “continue […]

Small Potato has just recently announced that WPDesigner has been sold and that the new owner is Pawel Ciszewski. There has been no introductions yet, but Small Potato left us with a few news: The $5 Themes Club will be continued (I still have coupons left!) and he will stick around and blog on WPDesigner […]

If you read other blogs about WordPress, you probably read about most of these, but might as well list them, right?

Small Potato announced that he’s selling WPDesigner because of lack of time and multiple personal reasons.
Dean J Robinson released Fluency, a plugin for WordPress 2.5+ that changes the look of the WordPress admin interface.
Probama, a […]