• WordPress: Output Clean and Valid HTML Code
  Here is a little function which automatically filters the content coming from the post. The results are amazing, htmLawed cleans and filters all the bad content and makes the pages validate again right away!
  This tip allows you to clean additional html added inside the posts when writing articles!

• WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release
  You have probably already seen it in your WordPres dashboards, the 2.8.5 version of WordPress is here!

  The headline changes in this release are:
  * A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
  * Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
  * Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
  * Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

  We would recommend that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.

• Slidefolio WordPress Theme Review | Theme Lab
  Slidefolio is a free gallery WordPress theme, with posts displayed in a slideshow format. Check it out; it is easdy to use and perfect to use as photoblog.
• 10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques « Smashing Magazine
  Another great smashing magazine article, that lists 10 useful WordPress code snippets, hacks and tips to help you create a WordPress theme that stands out from the crowd.

• PremiumThemes.net is going GPL | PremiumThemes.net
  From today, all current and future products at PremiumThemes.net will be embracing GPL. That’s another Premium theme marketplace turning to GPL!

• WooThemes |  We Love Boobs
  It’s undeniable that all of us have important women in our lives, without whom life just wouldn’t be as awesomeDuring the month of October, woothemes will be donating a percentage of their proceeds to a local South African breast cancer charity.:
  - 20% of total sales of any of our Business themes;
  - 100% of the sales of two new themes (to be released in October) which have been designed by top female designers – Veerle Pieters & Sarah Parmenter.

• All wordpress.com themes are here! – automattic.com
  All wordpress.com themes can be downloaded from automattic. If you like one of them in particular, head to that page!

Discussion about future of Free WordPress themes

• Are Free WordPress Themes Dead? | Theme Lab
  Alex Denning over at WPShout brings up an interesting point in his post titled Free WordPress Themes? Forget it. It’s Over. Basically, he argues that free WordPress themes aren’t getting the love and attention they used to, mostly due to commercial themes taking all the spotlight.And you, what do you think? Go give your opinion!

And a great article listing all 33 WordPress plugins you could use to enhancing commenting functions on your blog!

• 33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials
  33 WordPress plugins, which can be used effectively to power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security

• Members: WordPress Plugin
  Members plugin is a user, role, and content management plugin. Its purpose is to make WordPress a more powerful CMS by giving you fine-grain control over the users of your site.

• Introducing the Core Blog Theme for WordPress : Brian Gardner
  Brian Gardner release a free WordPress theme, simple and clean, but with options to make it fit to your needs. Go have a look!

• WooThemes | Daily Edition
  Another great them from Woothemes, coming in 16 delicious flavours and lots of other features.
  * A neat javascript home page featured slider, with thumbnail previews of previous/next slides on hover over the dots.
  * A “talking points” home page that can display posts according to tags, in order of most commented to least commented. A great way to highlight posts gathering dust in the archives.
  * A customizable home page layout with options to specify how many full width blog posts and how many “box” posts you would like to display.
  * A javascript home page video player with thumbnail hover effect.
  * Daily Edition has been localized and includes a .po file for easy translations to be made of the theme

  I have to say, Woothemes keeps surprising me every time I discover a new theme release! Keep up the good work guys!