Well this is certainly big big news for the WordPress theme community! Automattic announced earlier today that it is to start offering commercial WordPress themes to wordpress.com users. The story has been picked up amongst all the big tech blogs. Matt has also posted the back story to the new commercial Marketplace over on themeshaper. [...]

Ok folks, some great news this week for wordpress fans everywhere. Ian Stewart of themeshaper fame has joined Automattic – the good people who lead the wordpress project. This is big big news for the wordpress theme community. Ian has been a leader in the community for quite some time and is responsible for the [...]