Blue and White is a simple blue and white theme, suitable for any niche.

Blue Taste is a blue, clean, fresh, stylish, fixed width, and two column theme.

Feed Me, Seymour has dozens of possibilities when it comes to layout. One or two sidebars, multiple site widths, header logo and tons more.

Akismet was one of Automattic’s first projects, and after 5 years of sporting the same design, the entire site has received a major facelift.

On first glance, the new site presents Akismet’s benefits in a much clearer way, and offers clearer distinction between the free and paid licenses. Fans of the old spam stats will probably notice that they are no longer featured on the front page, but fear not, they have just been moved to the About page.

Akismet’s anti-spam offerings have continue to grow dramatically over the last 5 years. What began as a single WordPress plugin is now available in 24 plugins and 14 libraries.

What do you think of Akismet’s redesign? Do you use Akismet on your blog? If not, how do you protect your blog from spam?

New plugins

DynamicWP Fisheye Menu will build a Fisheye menu from a list of links.

Expiring Content Shortcode provides a shortcode to wrap around content, setting a date and time for it to disappear.

Updated plugins

All in One Webmaster has options to add Google, Bing, Alexa, Blog Catalog, Yahoo’s Webmaster and Analytics code (meta tags).

Facebook Members is a WordPress Social Plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.

FourSquare Integration allows you to view your last checkins as a list or on a Google map on Pages/Posts.

TagSpace lets visitors browse your WordPress categories and tags by flying through them in 3D.

Twitter Goodies shows your twitter profile/search tweets under your Sidebar Area (Widget), Post and/or Pages.

WP Archive-Sitemap Generator generates simple Archives/Sitemaps based on your blog’s posts and pages.

WP Google-Buzz automatically displays a Google Buzz button for every post and page.

Just a few days ago, I was trying to decide what to do with my significantly neglected WordPress.com blog, and I decided that I was going to start a food blog “just like everyone else on WordPress.com.” Well, it looks like I wasn’t alone in that far-reaching generalization.

Just in time for the food-filled fall and winter holidays, WordPress.com has launched the simply awesome and hunger-inspiring FoodPress.

FoodPress features the best food-related posts from WordPress.com’s network of over 14 million blogs. The posts are hand-picked “by scouring food-related tag pages like food, recipes, baking, cocktails, and more,” so don’t forget to tag your posts!

I hope that FoodPress is the first in a long line of GenrePressing WordPress.com blogs, and I hope that technology and photography are next.

What do you think of FoodPress, and what kind of GenrePressing blogs do you want to see next?

P.S. GenrePress – you heard it here first, though I am officially licensing the term under the GPL.

Codium Extend is a minimalist theme for WordPress and ready for all the WordPress 3.x features like custom menus, colors or background.

iStudio is a very stylish Macintosh-inspired theme.

Magazine Basic offers many different layout possibilities. Two custom widgets, featured posts and user login help you create a fully functioning magazine/newspaper style web site.

The WordPress mobile app for Nokia has been released and is now live on the Ovi Store.

Currently the app’s listing mentions that it only supports the N97 Mini and X6, but the development team is working on getting the app approved for “Symbian3 devices such as N8, C6, C7 and more.”

The Nokia app joins the ranks of the other popular WordPress mobile apps for Android, Blackberry, and iOS.

Do you use an N97 Mini and X6, and will you be installing the new mobile app?

New plugins

AdsCaptcha allows you to put CAPTCHA boxes for spam prevention, and also gain profit from it.

Content Slide allows you to create fully customizable jquery fading image slideshows anywhere within your WordPress site.

Travelmap helps you show your travels on a Google map in any post or page.

Updated plugins

Edit Flow improves the WordPress admin interface for a multi-user newsroom’s editorial workflow. (see the slides from the WordCamp Philly presentation)

Meteor Slides makes it simple to manage slideshows with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides.

Shorten2Ping sends status updates to Ping.fm everytime you publish a post, using your own domain, bit.ly, wp.me, su.pr, is.gd and others for shortened permalinks.

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre, Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch mobile devices.

The WordPress development team has applied to be a part of Google’s Code-in contest to encourage eager high school and secondary school students to contribute WordPress’ future.

The development team is currently compiling a task list and looking for suggestions from the community, which can be left as comments here.

Do you plan to be a part of Google’s Code-in contest, and will you claiming any of the WordPress tasks this year?

ManuEdian is a modern look design with a slider in the home page for your featured posts or the latest posts.

Platform is a drag-and-drop framework for WordPress.

Suburbia is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based magazine theme designed in a modern and minimalist style.

New plugins

Commenters lets you display images of persons who added comments to your blog posts.

Content by Permission adds a couple shortcodes where you can specify what permission is required to view the content.

Feedfabrik allows you to print your blog as a PDF or real book via Feedfabrik.

Hikari Krumo is a port of the Krumo debugging too.

Hikari Tools Framework is a development framework with tools to be used by other plugins, so that they don’t need to duplicate the same code over and over again.

In Their Language detects the user’s browser language preferences and attempts to switch your site/blog to that language.

Plugin Dependencies is a meta-plugin that enables regular plugins to define which other plugins they need to function properly.

Updated plugins

nrelate Related Content analyzes your website content and displays other related posts from your website.