Quick roundup of WordPress related stuff’s that happened this month in no particular order:

Weblog tools collection announced the second plugin competition.

WordPress celebrated it’s 5th ‘Birthday’ on the 25th May.

WordPress Garage wrote an interesting post about WordPress being a CPU Hog

Hack WordPress wrote a tutorial on featuring posts from specific categories

Lester Chan updated a bunch of his plugins

Matt updated his blog design with a beautiful new layout

& Woopra still hasn’t activated my analytics account.

Ozh has done it again, this time he has a created a fantastic plugin that uses colourlovers API to let you modify the colors of your WordPress admin. You can even generate a random pallette, modify and rotate colors until your hearts content and then save multiple styles.

Best of all anyone can use it without touching a line of code! Get the full low down and 3 minute video of the plugin in action HERE

I want to know what you the readers think makes a great theme. What do you look for in free and premium themes? Is there a specific theme style you have been looking for but hasn’t been covered. What elements make a great theme?

Help me create your ideal theme all you have to do is participate by sending me your suggestions. It’s that simple