Ease is a simple red and white theme. Nomad is an attractive professional, business or blog theme with an unusual, very narrow orientation and design. Sensitive is fully responsive theme using Twitter Bootstrap and a Metro-styled accent. Visual is a dark minimalist theme for displaying photos and images.

The impending release of WordPress 3.6 has been pushed back one more week to April 29. At this time, WordPress 3.6 is not yet feature complete (meaning that all intended new features have not been entirely finished), so the decision was made to push the first beta release back two weeks to March 27 and the final release back one week to April 29. This will allow the team time to focus on finalizing the in-progress new features so that they (and the brave folks who enjoy running beta software) can simply focus on testing and bug fixing rather than polishing up partial features.

New plugins Easy Media Gallery is designed to display portfolios and various media types including gallery sets, single images, google maps, video, audio, and links with ease and elegance. ytlink provides a preview image for embedded YouTube videos. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. Genericon’d enables easy use of the Genericons icon font set from within WordPress. Icons can be inserted using either HTML or a shortcode. Keyring provides a very hookable, completely customizable framework for connecting your WordPress site to an external service. WP All Import makes it easy to import any XML or CSV file into your WordPress site.

There has been a lot of talk lately about working from home and maintaining a distributed workforce. Web-based software, like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, are taking over the publishing industry and allow you to work from anywhere with an internet connection. Though, even though they can be managed  from home, working from home and maintaining a distributed workforce is not yet broadly acknowledged in society as a successful and efficient alternative to working in an office. Despite working with software that doesn’t need to be tied to one specific workstation, you could still find yourself tied to a desk in cubicle. I work full-time for Automattic and have the pleasure of both working from home and setting my own hours. After all, I only need a browser, an email client, and IRC client, and Skype to do my job. A desk is nice, but there’s no one saying that said desk has to be […]

Attitude is a simple, clean, and responsive retina-ready theme. Catch Everest is a simple, clean, and responsive theme. Liberus is an ideal business related theme that is relatively simple and would suit any blog or website. Stitch is an elegant, modern theme with optional fixed header.

New plugins WP-AntiSpambot adds a shortcode that can be used to stop spambots from harvesting emails entered into your WordPress editor while creating pages or posts. Zone Manager (Zoninator) is designed to help you curate your content by assigning and ordering stories within zones that you can create, edit, and delete. Updated plugins Contemplate allows you to create unlimited shortcodes containing any text/HTML you like. Genericon’d enables easy use of the Genericons icon font set from within WordPress. Icons can be inserted using either HTML or a shortcode. Safe Report Comments gives your visitors the ability to report a comment as inappropriate.

Chun is a free responsive HTML5 boilerplate theme. Opus Primus is designed and developed to be extensible and easily modified, based in the principles of decisions not options. Superhero features full-bleed featured posts and featured images, a fixed header, and subtle CSS3 transitions.

New plugins eShop Shipping Extension overrides eShop’s default shipping methods, interacting directly with Canada Post, UPS, USPS, Fedex, and Correios for real-time shipping rates and services. Genericon’d enables easy use of the Genericons icon font set from within WordPress. Icons can be inserted using either HTML or a shortcode. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. Facebook makes your site deeply social by integrating functionality from Facebook. Posterous Importer imports posts, comments, tags, and attachments from a Posterous.com blog. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows you to easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to escape the code or anything. Watu allows you to create exams with unlimited questions and answers, and define grades based on collected points.