Automattic, the company behind wordpress acquired IntenseDebate, one of the comment enhancement systems. IntenseDebate launched last year with features like ratings, comment threading, OpenID support etc. IntenseDebate provides community features likevoting, reputation, profiles, reply by email among others.
Automattic says that InteseDebate will stay as an independent service, much like Akismet Automattic’s other product. In [...]

WPtouch is a wordpress plugin that shows a iPhone optimized theme when opened on iPhone or iPod touch. The plugin formats your blog wordpress blog with an iPhone application-style theme, it only shows up when opened through an iPhone.
Install the plugin as any other wordpress plugin, after installation go to settings and Wo Touch [...]

Grunge design is gaining popularity among designers, this is becoming a trend in web designing and so in wordpress themes. At the moment there are not many free wordpress themes in grungy style, but with the popularity of the design we may see more in the near future. Grunge designs usually contains dirty, rugged, irregular, [...]

WP125 is a plugin for managing 125×125 ads on your Wordpress blog. If you are selling 125 ads yourself for your blog this plugin will help you to manage and track those ads effectively.
Download the plugin and install, once installed it will add a “Ads” menu to the wordpress admin, from here you can [...]

Wordpress for iPhone App is now available from iPhone App store as promised earlier. Wordpress for iPhone app works with both wordpress.com blogs and self hosted wordpress blogs. “You can write posts, upload photos and edit your wordpress blogs from your iPhone or iPod Touch.”
You need to be running Wordpress 2.5.1 version or higher to [...]

Wordpress official theme directory stopped accepting new themes long back and it is almost dead. Today they re opened the directory at Wordpress extend, plugins directory is also located here.
Matt promised a theme marketplace in November 2007 but that never been released and there is no news on the progress of the project so far. [...]

Wordpress 2.6 is released with some awesome features and with some bug fixes.
Wordpress now supports version tracking, you can track the changes made to a post or page like wikipedia or version control system. This feature is important for multi author blogs, you can track the changes made by others.
Another important feature added [...]

Now the new iPhone and iPhone App store are live there are so many applications for you to install in your new iPhone. Our favorite blogging software Wordpress is not left behind, a new Wordpress for iPhone is launching soon for those who want to blog from their iPhone.
Wordpress app for iPhone will support [...]