WPWebHost, a company I’m happy to say is a sponsor of Theme Playground, has launched a contest over at their blog.

The WordPress Design Awards is a little competition between WordPress site designs, in a few different categories. I went ahead and submitted Theme Playground to the Modern and Elegant category, since I think I have a decent shot at winning that one.

If you have a WordPress site design, it might be worth adding your site to the mix and taking a crack at the winnings (some case and free hosting). Deadline’s March 22nd.

Sounds like there is a WordPress theme design contest going on over at Colorlabs for money, if you’re into that sort of thing (I’m not). Reminds me of a related discussion over at David Airey’s blog, where he specifically talked about logo design competitions.

An interesting read over at ThemeShaper. I wasn’t even aware of child themes and this sort of use. Awesome.

Thanks to the ongoing pestering from me, Scott Andreas has thankfully released Bloglet, his stylish minimalist theme. He uses it himself, so you know he has put some care into it.

Adam Brown has a nice little post detailing how to (with simple PHP) add a class to the first post on your blog page.

Thanks, Adam.

The WordPress theme design deadline has been extended again, and the new “deadline” is December 19. I’m not complaining—it just give me more time to work on my submission NewsPlay.

Any fans of Alex King’s work with Share This, a popular WordPress Plugin used to share pages via email, is now available in version two. This version allows for sharing via IM and texting. It looks really cool, with some backend customization options and stat tracking as well. Look for more coverage of it in the next few days.

WordPress Candy and Liquidcity have released a PDF with lots of quick reference tags and calls for WordPress.

A great little tutorial went up recently by Charity at Design Adaptations, all about how to feature a post without it repeating in your main entries list. Great stuff. I also believe Charity’s new design may be up for review soon…

The Blog Herald has some news up about an announcement made at WordCamp Argentina. Even more interesting than the announcement was the commentary from David Peralty. I already commented on it, and would encourage you to head over and check it out as well.