A few interesting WordPress plugins have been released in the last three months and here we are with an article featuring these cool ones from the sea of plugins that appear in the WordPress plugin directory.

The plugins that you will find here are for various purposes and for various people. Don’t expect them to be for exclusively for designers or developers, they are firstly for bloggers.

WP Live CSS Editor

Edit, preview changes and save all your project’s CSS stylesheets live in the browser. A CSS live Editor that allows you to preview realtime CSS changes and then save the CSS back while keeping dated backups.
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WordPress gives you the opportunity to create a portfolio easily with the help of a theme specially designed for this. By using a portfolio WordPress theme you can create and administrate a showcase of your work with little effort no matter what you do for a living. If you’re a developer or designer it is likely that you’ll create from scratch your own portfolio, designing and coding it, but if you’re a photographer, architect or anything else you will need one of these WordPress themes, free or premium, according to your budget and your needs.

Free themes

Good free portfolio WordPress themes are hard to find, to be more specific, quality ones, but I’ve selected a few of them, the ones that actually deserve some attention.

AutoFocus+ WordPress Theme

AutoFocus+ is a clean and simple WordPress theme developed for photographers looking to showcase their work. A slight departure from the original verision, AutoFocus+ takes things a bit further by providing stronger markup, better browser support, and Theme options that enable you to customize various elements of the theme without ever touching code. It’s also designed on an 800px, 8 column grid which truly allows your images to shine. This new version also boasts a sharper typographic approach with a 22px baseline grid, and a Garamond/Helvetica (Times/Arial for you PC users) font stack that’s much easier to read. I’ve also ported over the back-end to Thematic, one of (if not) the strongest WordPress theming frameworks to date. That means AutoFocus+ and Thematic come together to make for a pretty slick theme that can be used for almost any type of site.

BlueBubble WordPress Theme

Features
– 8 Different Styles/Colors
– New User Profile Fields – add Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.
– Advanced Theme Options Panel – Control everything from one location.
– Updated design using CSS and new CSS3 elements.
– ColorBox image popup for Portfolio items.
– Author Details box with list of their posts – all in one place!
– Custom color for author comments.
– New Contact Form:
– JQuery Form Field Validation
– Users can send themselves a copy of email.
– Animated thamk-you message when email successfully sends.
– Connect your Twitter account and show latest posts.
– Social Media icons – button links provided for 16 popular social media types. Easy to add from Theme Options Panel.
– Automatic image resizing for Portfolio items – same as previous versions of BlueBubble.
– Support for Search Engine Optimization in Theme Options – add Meta content and more!
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If you’re tired of all the WordPress themes with rich graphics that would slow the site down or clutter it you can choose a simple but not simplistic WordPress theme, a minimalistic one that will satisfy your needs.

In this article you will find the best free minimalist WordPress themes that have been released so far and I’m sure you’ll find what you want in here if you’re a minimalist enthusiast.

MagZine WordPress Theme

MagZine is a magazine styled WordPress theme that is easy to use and configure.

Features

• Magazine Style
• Easy to Configure Category Shows Up
• Auto Generated Thumbnail
• Support WordPress 2.7 Feature / Threaded Comments
• Main Graphics / Photo Section
• Configure-able within Theme Options

Satoshi WordPress Theme

Satoshi is a clean and minimal portfolio WordPress theme that’s ideal for showcasing project work.

It comes with a range of professional page templates including a custom front page, a stylish blog design, a portfolio page, and a fully functional contact form.

It’s also packed with other great features such as drop-down menus, Google Analytics integration, and the ability to easily upload your own logo.
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When talking about WordPress, staying up to date with the latest things is a must. This rule applies when talking about WordPress plugins too, considering the large number of new plugins that are launched on a weekly basis. The most interesting ones that I’ve seen released in the last weeks are here in this article, with a few awesome ones that were launched previously.

GPP Slideshow

The GPP Slideshow plugin for WordPress allows you to create minimalist image slideshows using the new Gallery post type or using WordPress’ built in shortcode on Posts and Pages. The plugin comes with a Widget for easily inserting a specific gallery into any widgetized are on your theme.
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Seeing the same old WordPress themes through various articles becomes annoying at some point and that’s why it’s always a pleasure to see new WordPress themes, with new features and using trending styles like the cuber slider, for example, which has become a common thing nowadays. Since WordPress themes are released very often, you don’t have the time and patience to filter them all to pick the ones that stand out of the crowd. In this article you’ll have a chance to take a look at the fresh WordPress themes released lately and maybe download and use them for your site.

Gameliso Magazine

Features:

• Content slider built in
• Cross browser compatibility IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
• Admin Page Options
• WordPress 3.0 menu system supported + backwarkd compatability
• 2 Columns
• 2 Sidebars
• Pages menu
• Exclude pages menu option
• Threaded comments, Trackbacks & Pingbacks are separated
• Gravatar ready
• RSS ready, Twitter ready, Subscription ready
• Post thumbnails (automatic image resizing)
• Page navigation included, no plugin required
• Google Analytics code script can be inserted
• Widget ready
• Readme included
• PSD Logo included
• WP 3.0 ready

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