What’s Your Take On the GPL Argument Between Matt and Thesis?

If you have been on Twitter today, you might have come across a huge argument between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and Thesis theme developer Chris Pearson. Matt is unhappy that unlike other premium themes, Thesis does not distribute/sell their themes under the GPL licensing system.
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WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”

Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow [...]

WordPress Theme Releases for 04/19

Reflections
Perfect for photofolio blogs or websites using WordPress. Support threaded comments and pretty simple to use. Page in Malay
Homage
Homage is a two-column layout WordPress theme, with a right-hand sidebar. Plus a static pages menu, a replaceable logo area and paged- and threaded- comments.
K9
K2 inspired theme for WordPress. Key features include: widgets support, custom header, threaded
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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/28

ET Starter
Looking to create your own WordPress theme? Then ‘ET-Starter’ is the perfect theme for your project.
GPeece
The GPeece Real Estate Theme, clean style for a real estate site with the brandnew GPeece WordPress Theme theme, featuring a two column fixed theme layout, spiced up version of the GPeece 3.17 WordPress Theme, enabled with pagenavi, frontpage
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WordPress Theme Releases for 03/24

Mistral
Mistral is a WordPress theme – a two-column layout, with a righthand sidebar. Plus a static pages menu, Cufon embedded fonts for widget headings, a replaceable logo area and paged- and threaded- comments.
Splash
Splash theme, a free wordpress theme with multi color splash background. The theme has a unique, simple design that will perfectly fit for
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Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!

A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle
Menus
There’s been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with [...]

WordPress Theme Releases for 03/13

Sky Light
A combination blue dark and black color, with sky image as a background
Magazine theme
The theme has widgetized header, front page, sidebars, and single posts. For better SEO results, the theme uses custom fields to pull images to the front page.
Simple Things
Fixed width, 2 column theme with a minimalistic style and a touch of typography
Chirp
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Where Is The Line Drawn?

Cory Miller who is one of the guys behind iThemes.com has published a long but excellent piece regarding his thoughts on why there needs to be a commercial WordPress plugin market. Honestly, I think Cory’s post has been the best on the subject and I don’t disagree with much of what he said. In terms
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WordPress Theme Releases for 02/07

Neoclassical
Two column revamped version of the Neoclassical theme with support for automatic thumbnail generation and 125×125 ads
ProSmooth Series
A professionally designed classy and clean design with a smooth and elegant accented color scheme. Designed to be light weight and fast loading, featuring a fixed width centered layout that’s compatible with the latest wordpress and widget ready.
Unfocus
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WordPress Theme Releases for 01/26

Simple Magazine Red
Three column, fixed width, widget ready and gravatar ready theme
TNT Dark Green Golden Temptation
Two column, widget ready theme (12 widgetized areas including 3 footer widget ready areas) with easy integration with twitter and FeedBurner
5 Free Wedding Wordpress Themes
Two column theme gravatar-enabled, widget-ready, and perfect for posting wedding pictures
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