Wellblog is a theme that was designed for food and recipe bloggers. The theme is highly customizable and comes with 3 built-in skins (Black, Gray, Yellow). Each skin has a good color contrast that makes your posts and images stand out. The Wellblog theme also comes with Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube integration to keep your blog personal and updated. It is obviously cross-browser compatible and has a theme administration panel with ad banner management.
Regular fixes and updates will be provided to ensure compatibility with the latest version of WordPress and to make the theme even more awesome by adding new features.
I don’t think much happened this week, but last week, I forgot to mention that WordPress Community Podcast had Matt Cutts as a guest on their show. For the few people that don’t know, Matt Cutts is a software engineer at Google who heads the web spam team, which is part of search quality. In this interview, he answers a lot of interesting questions and shares his views on WordPress.
Now, going onto this week’s news. I only have one and it’s another interview. Aaron Brazell from Technosailor.com interviewed Brian Clark from Copyblogger because Brian recently left DIYThemes. If you don’t know of Brian Clark, DIYThemes, and/or Chris Pearson, this might not be that interesting to you. However, if you do, in my opinion, it’s a good read.
Chris Pearsonified announced this week through a tweet that Thesis now sports a split GPL license. For those that don’t know, this means that the PHP is GPLv2, and the CSS, JS, and images are proprietary. This announcement definitely got the whole community by surprise, but I’m sure that everyone is glad that this happened.
HTML5-ified Twenty Ten
Randy Jensen released a HTML5-ified version of Twenty Ten, the current default WordPress theme. Twenty Ten is already HTML5 ready, but Randy Jensen took the theme and made it as HTML5-ified as possible.
Side Blog Theme by Press75
Jason Schuller from Press75 released Side Blog, a free WordPress theme packed with custom options and widgets just like all his other themes.
The GPL debate is back once again. If I’m not mistaken, it started on Twitter. Then, Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com invited the two guys at the center of the debate, Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg, to a live interview where they discussed about the Thesis vs. GPL issue. I won’t share my thoughts, but Mark Jaquith, Ryan Boren, Jane Wells, John Saddington, and many more have posted their thoughts about this issue on their blogs.
DevPress
I’ve first heard about DevPress in a retweet from Tung Do (@tungdo), better known in the WordPress community as Small Potato. DevPress is a collaboration between Justin Tadlock, Ptah Dunbar, Tung Do, and Patrick Daly in which they will be providing professional WordPress themes and plugins. These are all known names in the community, except for Patrick Daly. However, I’m sure that he’s awesome as well since he was invited to the team by Justin. I’m definitely curious and excited to see what they’ve come up with. I think its launch will be in 2 weeks, so we won’t have to wait that long to see what they’ve been working on.
SimpleThe.me
By now, you should already know about ThemeGarden.com, which will return soon as a dedicated WordPress Theme Marketplace. Well, its founder, Jason Schuller, has just announced this week another project that he’s working on, SimpleThe.me. Just like DevPress, not much is known about it.
Nominate is a social voting theme that lets your visitors create accounts, submit articles, and vote on them. It basically lets you create a website similar to Digg. This is the first time that I’ve seen such a theme been released to the WordPress community. Nominate is actually the same theme that is used by WPVote.
