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The recent update of Liveblog 1.2 couldn’t be better timed as I was looking for something to use in the upcoming WordCamp events in January, especially since we’re trying to find livebloggers for the actual events. The recent update provides a number of compatibility features for 3.5 and introducing new hooks and filters for customization. You can see a full number of changes here in the changelog. You can see a very simple overview of the power of this plugin after the jump as well as my own experimentations:

Themes Kingdom has released a new modern, slick, and very clean looking design for WordPress.com users called Widely. It boasts some of the following: Featured content slider Four widget areas on the footer Featured images Custom header options Custom background options HTML elements And more This theme looks like a perfect choice for those that are looking for a very visual first impression via the featured content slider and then moving into more focused content buckets. Keeping the design simple just focuses the user and reader on the stuff that matters – your content.