The speed at which WordPress development moves, never ceases to amaze me. The quality of themes, the power of the plugins and, of course, the reliability of the actual CMS, makes WP, by far and away, the most supported CMS ever. Having such a large community ensures that any resources released are of the highest quality, and this demonstrated in todays news round-up by the quality of the WordPress themes.

Dress Up Your Site with 15 Top WordPress Themes

These days, ads venture on the irreverent. They cater to your physical senses and bend your mind to what is possible. In this post, there are some of the most insanely good advertisements of recent memory, broken down into ambient, billboards, commercials and print.

Dress Up Your Site with 15 Top WordPress Themes

The Most Original & Inspirational WordPress Themes Out in November

This article is a collection of the most creative and fresh WordPress themes released in November.

The Most Original & Inspirational WordPress Themes Out in November

100 Premium Like But Free, Fresh WordPress Themes: Year 2009

In this collection, the author, has collected on amazing 100 top quality free WordPress themes. If the theme you are looking for is not in this collection, it doesn’t exist, I promise you.

100 Premium Like But Free, Fresh WordPress Themes: Year 2009

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

As far as CMSs go, WordPress is a phenomenon. And rightly so. It is a very powerful blogging and CMS tool that can be used to create almost any possible type of web site that you could possibly dream of. Still as with everything involved with web design and development, you need to learn and understand WP to fully unleash its power.
In this news edition we have collected the best WP tutorials, tips and themes, to help you with WordPress development.

7 Very Simple Tips and Tricks for getting More out of WordPress

In this post there are a few handy little tips that even the seasoned WP developers may not have heard of. There are, of course, some basic tips, the rest are very useful, like the pagination implementation tips and the styling author comments tips. There is a tip for separating comments and trackbacks, which is very helpful, but won’t work on most advanced themes (speaking from experience). A little bit more fine tuning is required. Overall, this is a great round-up of WordPress tips for getting more out of WordPress with very little effort.

7 Very Simple Tips and Tricks for getting More out of WordPress

45+ Excellent Fresh Free WordPress Themes Around

Keeping up with the release of free WordPress themes can feel like a full-time job, there seems to be several new themes released everyday. The easiest way to find the highest quality themes is by bookmarking a post like this. This post is not your traditional long list with all the available WordPress themes on the internet but its an refined collection of the best handpicked fresh WordPress themes.

45+ Excellent Fresh Free WordPress Themes Around

15 Unconventional Uses of WordPress in Action

WordPress is known as one of the most powerful open-source blogging platform, but it can be a lot more than just a blogging platform. We already know about using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), but WordPress is much more flexible than that. With the combined use of plugins, and hacks, WordPress can be manipulated into many unique and unconventional web sites. In this article, the author, highlights some of the most unconventional uses of WordPress and shows you how you can use WordPress in these unconventional ways as well. Cool.

15 Unconventional Uses of WordPress in Action

100+ Massive WordPress Tutorial Collection

In this post, from Tripwire Magazine, they have collated a collection of 100 and more resources and tutorials for WordPress. The post mainly focuses on version 2.7+ but most resources will be relevant for earlier and later versions as well.

100+ Massive WordPress Tutorial Collection

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

Picture your finished custom wordpress theme live on your server, completely unique and fresh. By the time you have finished reading the resources in this post that scenario will be a reality. People love custom themes, they make a blog come to life with a personality of its own. It’s no secret that they’ll reward it you for it through links, subscriptions and bookmarks.

Theme Design Lessons

How To Create A WordPress Theme From Scratch

Good walk through in detail on creation of themes.

The 5 Minute Theme

Fast way of making simple a simple wp theme.

Turn Any Web Template Into a Theme

This flash tutorial shows how to turn any web page into a wordpress theme. The flash movie is pretty distorted but gives a good idea of what can be achieved.

Mocking Up a Theme In Photoshop

A bit of self promotion! This tutorial shows how to mock up a modern theme in photoshop.

16 Lessons On Theme Creation

Covers all bases in detail, really comprehensive lessons on all aspects of WordPress theme creation from header to footer!

4 Step Theme Design Guide

Part 1 – Pulling it apart; Part 2 – Complete design, header, and footer; Part 3 – The sidebar; Part 4 – The content.

Basic Intoduction To Themes

Good post breaking down how the themes work for those new to WordPress.

Offical WordPress Documentation

The WordPress.org Codex with theme design documentation.

WordPress Templates For Redesign

Premium Theme Design with Thesis

Want a head start in your new theme design? Thesis will cost you $87 but it been typeset extremely well and is simple to customise the design for stunning results quickly. You’ll save the purchase price in design time with Thesis. (disclosure: URL contains our affiliate tracker)

Create Flexible Themes

Free to use selection of WordPress themes, good for customization.

100 Free Templates

Helpful Software and Cheats

Theme Editor For Dreamweaver

Now when you open a wordpress theme in Dreamweaver the whole thing is visable – legend.

Inspiration

We Love WP!

Showcase of WordPress powered websites.

Ready Made Swatches

Great selection of swatch and color scheme ready to choose from.

CSS Galleries

Go to the bottom of this post for links to lots of CSS galleries for design inspiration.

Freebies

Free Stock Images

381k free images, an awesome free collection.

Creative Commons Images at Flickr

50 million plus creative commons images for use, make sure to check the iicences for usage permissions.

Basic Theme Creator

Basic online theme design tool, change the element color in real time then save your theme.

More Theme Resouces

40 more resource links for WordPress theme design.

Free Social Icons

Free social icons to use on your blog.

Validation and Testing

w3c Validation Service

Well know and classic, but worth a mention.

Cross Browser Checking

View screenshots of your finished theme in all the browsers.