Graphene theme for WordPress 3.0 is a stylish new WordPress theme with lots of customizable options. One of the nicest features is a built-in Twitter widget, it’s very nice. The theme also has a customizable header and background which can changed to anything you like.

Other features include;

*built-in AdSense placement

*an AddThis social sharing button

*A custom menu can also be created allowing for drop-down navigation of up to 5 levels deep

*threaded comments of up to 10 levels deep.

*A one-column, full-width page template without the sidebar is included.

The theme has been tested and compatible with IE8, IE7, IE6, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.

To download the theme, you can visit the Graphene theme page.

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WordPress 3.0.1 has been released and is now available for download. It is a maintenance release which addresses about 50 minor issues. According to the WordPress team, the previous WordPress Version 3.0 was one of the best and most stable releases that WordPress has ever had.

To download this latest version you can visit the  3.0.1 download page or you can update automatically from the Dashboard Admin section in your site’s admin area.

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Dirty Blue is a recently updated WordPress theme that has a unusual look but is very usable as your own blog theme. As the name suggests, Dirty Blue is dark blue color theme featuring high and moderate contrast colors, cross-browser compatibility and valid HTML.

The theme is certainly eye-catching and it is the first official free theme release by Blogtap.net.

Theme Features

• Two column layout
• Ghastly blue background glow
• Dazzling dark blue color theme with high and moderate contrast colors
• Cross-browser compatibility
• Valid HTML Transitional 1.0

Download

To download the theme your can visit the Dirty Blue Theme page or visit the authors website at Blogtap.net. The current version is v1.4.

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The Regal Theme has recently been updated to version 1.8. It is a nice, clean WordPress theme with an optional magazine layout with two columns.

It is a fixed width theme and of course, is widget ready. The theme has valid CSS and valid XHTML and is compatible with wordpress 2.9.2+.

The Regal WordPress Theme is designed by Gauson Design and can be downloaded here.

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WordPress 3.0 has finally been released after nearly a half a year of work by 218 contributors and it is now available for download or for  upgrade from within your admin dashboard!

Some of the major new features of this release includes a new default theme called Twenty Ten. So it’s Bye, bye to the old Kubrick theme but hello to a newer and modern theme which shows off a lot cool stuff such as typography, etc.

As users we will appreciate the new lighter interface with contextual help on every screen. Another nice touch is the bulk update feature so you can upgrade multiple plugins at once with a single click and loads more interface improvements.

Check out the video and see the new WordPress 3.0 in action for yourself;

First impressions are great about this WordPress 3 release so far. I’ve tested the RC3 release candidate and by the speed the official WordPress 3 has followed, I can assume the developers are confident too. The interface seems zippier to use which is good and I’m sure there’s loads of tweaks included as well.

To download WordPress 3.0 you can visit the wordpress.org download page.

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Redirection is a plugin to manage 301 redirections on your WordPress blog, and has just been updated to version 2.1.27. As well as 301 redirection, this plugin keeps track of all your 404 errors and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is also useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Some of the new features include;

• 404 error monitoring – capturing a log of 404 errors
• Custom ‘pass-through’ redirections allowing you to pass a URL through to another page, file, or website.
• Full logs for all redirected URLs
• All URLs can be redirected, not just ones that don’t exist
• Redirection methods – redirect based upon login status, redirect to random pages, redirect based upon the referrer!

Existing features of the Redirection plugin include:

• Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post’s URL changes
• Manually add 301, 302, and 307 redirections for a WordPress post, or for any other file
• Full regular expression support
• Apache .htaccess is not required – works entirely inside WordPress
• Strip or add www to all your WordPress pages
• Redirect index.php, index.html, and index.htm access
• Redirection statistics telling you how many times a redirection has occurred, when it last happened, who tried to do it, and where they found your URL
• Fully localized

To download the Redirection plugin you can visit the wordress plugin page. For more information about this plugin and the extentive options available you visit the authors Redirection Plugin page.

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A great new WordPress theme called Calotropis is now available. The WP theme has a wonderful amount of selectable layout options such as; right or left sidebar or no sidebar, magazine style or traditional style, and many more options.

In fact, it’s hard to believe that this is a free wordpress theme because of all of the theme options that are available, it’s like it’s a premium theme!

The latest 1.1.1 version of the Calotropis Theme has added more new features. A tabbed column widget is included and a new Favicon feature, which means you can set your own desired favicon. If not set, the default favicon used, very handy.

You can download 1.1.1RC version of the Calotropis Theme here or visit the main Calotropis Theme page for the latest updates.

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myMag is a new magazine style WordPress theme which has lovely Javascript effects such as Slideshow, Article Sliders, News ticker, Image Mouseover Effects, Dropdown Menu and lots more.

The theme offers 3 widget-ready sidebars, 2 or 3 columns layout, a big option set with custom logo uploader, 3 colour schemes, display options, advertising options and more. The theme also supports the latest WordPress features such as Post Thumbnails and many more.

The myMag Theme comes with a lot of features and an eye-catching design. It literally makes your WordPress blog look like a professional website!

To get this theme you can visit the myMag WordPress Theme download page or go to the wp-themix.org page for support and instructions.

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The Google XML Sitemaps Plugin is a great addition to your blog. It generates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With this sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.

The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Also, it automatically notifies all major search engines every time you create a new post on your blog. More information about what XML-Sitemaps are and how they can help you to get indexed by the major search engines can be found at Sitemaps.org and the searchenginewatch blog.

To download you can visit the Google XML Sitemaps Plugin WordPress page or visit the authors website here.

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zBench is new, fast-loading WordPress theme that uses small images, instead of big fancy headers images, to speed up your blog loading time. It is designed and created by zwwooooo.

zBench is also a WordPress theme without any plugins needed. It has built in support for plugins like WP Page Numbers, WP-PostViews, wp-utf8-excerpt, Related Posts, Simple Tags and WP-PageNavi.

The author’s site is in a foreign language so it may be tricky to chat to the author if  you have problems with this, but I have used it and it really is a solid theme to work with.

Current version: 1.0.1

Demo: http://demo.zww.me/?wptheme=zBench

Download: zBench WordPress Theme

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