WordPress 2.7 RC1 is available for download

WordPress 2.7 RC1 is available for download. This version introduces a completely revamped Admin Panel.

Read more about it on lab209.

Popularity: 36% [?]

WordPress 2.6.5 released

WordPress 2.6.5 has been released and is considered a mandatory security upgrade.

It containes 1 security fix and 3 bug fixes. The changes are limited to only 2 files, so you can update those 2 files manually as well.

Get WordPress 2.6.5.

Popularity: 38% [?]

WordPress 2.6 Downloaded over 3 million times

WordPress 2.6 has been downloaded over 3 million times. All I can say is wow!

(via @Archit)

Popularity: 27% [?]

Premium News Theme available for free now!

The original Premium News Theme is now available as a free download from WooThemes.

If you couldn’t afford to buy this earlier, now is your chance to grab this theme and give your blog a face lift.

Visit the WooThemes website to get more details on this theme.

Popularity: 23% [?]

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 available…

The title says it all…

The first public beta of WordPress 2.7 is now available for download. It sports a completely new visual UI design.

Read more at lab209.

Popularity: 22% [?]

Revolution Theme goes open source

Brian Gardner has taken the Revolution Themes open source. Yes! You heard that right. The popular range of Revolution Themes are now in a new avatar at RevolutionTwo where many new themes will be available as open source free downloads. You can get it customized at a price though.

Brian has done this to align himself with the entire WordPress open source movement.

There are 10 themes available currently.

Popularity: 20% [?]

WordPress 2.6.3 released

WordPress 2.6.3 has been released today with a fix in the Snoopy library.

This is a low risk vulnerability, but I would still highly recommend that you go ahead and upgrade your existing 2.6.2 installation with this release.

The good part is that only 2 files need to be replaced if you want to do a quick upgrade.

Popularity: 21% [?]

Notify social networks with PingPressFM

PingPressFM is a free WordPress plugin, that allows you to notify all social networks supported by Ping.fm of your new blog posts.

This is the quickest way to alert all your social networking friends. Just focus on writing, and leave the rest to this plugin and Ping.fm!

The plugin was developed by SoldOutActivist.

Popularity: 20% [?]

Automattic Acquires IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate has been acquired by Automattic for an undisclosed amount.

We should see features from the IntenseDebate plugin making it into WordPress.com and WordPress in their future releases. This is surely making WordPress a more complete and all-rounded package with some great features delivered right out of the box.

For the time being, IntenseDebate is re-entering Private Beta so that they can rework on their integration with WordPress.

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Popularity: 14% [?]

Official WordPress Logos & Graphics

If you are looking for official WordPress logos & graphics to use on your blog, you should visit the WordPress Logo’s page which provides a fairly large list of images in various resolutions.

A small set of these images is shown below.

Popularity: 11% [?]

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