Bright Side is a brand new 3 Column, widget ready WordPress theme with a very nice header image.

The theme features a left and right sidebar and has a large white content area with a blue background. The theme has been created by Headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing.com.

Also, I really like the page navigation on the upper right of this theme and the way the search box has been hard coded into the header. Very nice!

Overall, Bright Side is a very neat and clean-looking Wordpress theme that can easily be adapted to suit your own blog, or even just using the theme as it is.

To download this and more themes by Mandarin Musing please visit here.

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The developers of WordPress have just released a new WordPress Plugin Directory where you can download all the plugins that have been submitted to the development plugin site wp-plugins.org, all from one place!

This new extend section of Wordpress.org features a complete Plugins Directory where you can browse, download, rate and comment on all of your favorite plugins. The home page has a

• Featured Plugin section,
• Most Popular Plugin section,
• Newest Plugins section and also a
• Recently Added plugins section.

There is also a very cool Most Popular Tags section which shows the top plugins per section (tag) at this very moment. These tags are very revealing as it clearly illustrates the popularity of Skype and of the social networking aspect of Wordpress blogging. Some of the current Popular Tags include; skype plugins, sociable plugins, digg buttons and interestingly, mobilerss plugins.

I highly recommend that you check out the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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A new version of Wordpress has been released within the last couple of hours. It seems that the previous 2.1.1 version was hacked within the past 3-4 days, and because of that, the entire 2.1.1 version has been deemed dangerous. It’s highly recommended that anyone running 2.1.1, or if you know someone who is, should upgrade to the latest WordPress 2.1.2 version, as soon as possible.

The latest Wordpress 2.1.2 Version is now available for download on the official WordPress download page.

To find out what happened and why this is a very important release, visit the WordPress Development blog.

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