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 [...]

Clockmaker Icon Generator is an Adobe AIR app that lets you generate cool CS3 style icons or Web 2.0 badges.
The app is simple to use enter the text you want to appear in icon and select the background color, it will generate the icon automagically. Click on the Create icon to save the icon [...]

Wordpress blogs running old versions of the Wordpress script are vulnerable to various hacker attacks, Donncha published an article on the same topic few days back. Today he has released a plugin called Wordpress Exploit Scanner, useful for wordpress users to check their blogs for any attacks.

Wordpress 2.6 beta 1 is released yesterday, the final version release of 2.6 is planned for mid-July. If you want to test this release you can get the Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 from here. 2.6 is coming with some nice and useful features like Gears support for caching of static files for faster admin page [...]

Some bloggers are worried about that All In One Seo Pack wordpress plugin would be no longer updated or supported by its author Uberdose. The fact is that this is the plugin most bloggers are relied for SEO of wordpress, and no surprise this is the most popular plugin in wordpress plugin directory after Akismet.
Weblogtools [...]

Ultimate Tag Warrior is really the ultimate wordpress plugin for tag management, but unfortunately it is no longer developed and not compatible with latest wordpress versions. My online buddy Keith Dsouza just released a tag management plugin called Better Tags Manager. As the name suggests it is better than some of the tag management plugins.
What [...]