• 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!

• A New Professional Theme by WPZOOM
  A new dark Premium WordPress theme, for those of you who are looking for a nice Portfolio theme, it can be interesting.

Plugin

• Redirection – Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe
  This plugin may not be useful to everyone as it can be rplaced by other methods that do not need a plugin for that, but for those of you who like plugins, and who are migrating pages from an old website, are changing the directory of your WordPress installation, or simply who manage affiliate links on your blog, it can be useful!

Tutorials

• 10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  Another compilation of useful small tutorials to style and customize the comments on your WordPress blog. Some of them are well known but that’s a nice post to keep in mind.
• Use jQuery to Jazz Up Your List of Latest Posts – Part 1 | Epic Alex :: Web Design
  A nice tutorial to combine jQuery and WordPress, and display a list of your latest posts with the possibility to show excerpts of these posts.
• 13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes | Web Design Ledger
  There are many WordPress cheatsheets all over the Internet, which sometimes makes it more diffuclt to fid a good one. But now you’ve got a list with all the best cheatsheets in one post!

News First!

• Yummthemes debacle and what we think – From The Couch | CSS Videos | Video Tutorials | Video Interviews
  Yesterday we saw quite a bit of activity on twitter about a new theme company, yummthemes, coming as a competitor to woothemes and Thesis among others.
  One theme has been introduced so far, osea, and it seems interesting even if we have no notions about the price or the conditions attached to that theme coming up in the middle of July.
  However the landing page announcing this new theme club seems a bit wrong to me, simply because it shows other WordPress theme developers as competitors when the WordPress community tries to avoid such approach by linking to each other and maintaining good relationship between themselves.
  Here is the opinion of the guys from the Couch! Make sure you check the comments as well as yummthemes’ owner has expressed his opinion about all this!

Then some nice tutorials:

• 10 incredibly cool WordPress shortcodes
  Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are a very easy way to display lot of things on your blog posts by inserting a very simple code.
• Creating Dashboard Widgets in Two Easy Steps | WooCamp
  Creating Dashboard Widgets is an easy thing to do, and can add some professional finish to your theme! Check how to do on WooCamp!
• WordPress Theme Template & Directory Structure
  It’s time for another episode of the WordPress theme tutorial series by themeshaper.com. Today, we will speak about what has to be in your theme.

And a nice WordPress theme:

• ElegantThemes – ePhoto WordPress Theme
  ePhoto was created for those looking to turn their blog into a photo gallery