The promotion lasts until 12 midnight by the end of today, October 22nd. Here are some key facts of the promotion

• 40% off of your invoice
• This is for new and existing customers so everyone is invited
• All domain names will be only $5!

Are you looking for a modern, professional and new WordPress theme?

Free & Easy Blog and WPlook have joined together to provide an excellent opportunity to win 3 premium WordPress themes for free. You need just to participate in the contest and you could be among those lucky winners.

Here are some of the themes you could win:

An elegant and attractive WordPress Theme Delicacy is perfectly suited for companies in the food industry. The theme is packed with awesome functionality as it has a reservation system that allows your customer to book a table online.

ChicStyle is a stylish WordPress magazine that is addressed to all who love talking about fashion, lifestyle, health, gossips and other. Among the most interesting features integrated into this theme you can find easy customisation and responsive design that allows for easy viewing on mobile devices and tablets.

DailyPost PRO is designed for personal Blogs. It is highly customizable and can be viewed on computers, tables, and mobile devices.

BlogoLife PRO is a simple and perfect theme for personal blogging that supports post formats, and several customization options, including custom background, custom header, and multiple color schemes. The theme makes it easy to customize the Blog to fit your needs.

Illusion is a smart and stylish WordPress magazine, designed especially for entertaiment, fashion and news. With 5 widgetized regions and the customization functionality of the WPlook option panel, your blog will have the look to attract readers.

How to Participate?
There are just two steps you need to follow in order to take part:
1. Like WPLook on Facebook
2. Post a comment here explaining why you want to win a theme from WPLook

This giveaway will end on 25th of June 2012 and 3 lucky winners will be announced on this article and will be contacted via e-mails.

Good luck to everyone!

This release includes significant improvements to theme customization, custom headers, Twitter embeds, and image captions — here’s a short clip with the highlights:

For Users

The biggest change in 3.4 is the theme customizer which allows you to play around with various looks and settings for your current theme or one you’re thinking about switching to without publishing those changes to the whole world. For themes that support it, you can change colors, backgrounds, and of course custom image headers. We have more planned for the customizer down the road.

Throughout the rest of the admin you’ll notice tweaks to make your everyday life easier. For example, if you have lots of themes we’ve made it quicker to browse them all at once without paging. We’ve made it possible to use images from your media library to populate custom headers, and for you to choose the height and width of your header images.

We’ve expanded our embed support to include tweets: just put a Twitter permalink on its own line in the post editor and we’ll turn it into a beautiful embedded Tweet. And finally, image captions have been improved to allow HTML, like links, in them.

For Developers

There are hundreds of under-the-hood improvements in this release, notably in the XML-RPC, themes, and custom header APIs, and significant performance improvements in WP_Query and the translation system. The Codex has a pretty good summary of the developer features, and you can always dive into Trac directly.

We’ve also put together a busy developer’s field guide to the new APIs in 3.4.

As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.

If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.4 in May. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version. If you want to be a beta tester, you should check out the Codex article on how to report bugs.

Here’s some of what’s new:

• Theme Customizer with Previewer
• Flexible Custom Header Sizes
• Selecting Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library
• Better experience searching for and choosing a theme

And some of the under-the-hood changes:

• New XML-RPC API for external and mobile applications
• New API for registering theme support for custom headers and backgrounds
• Performance improvements to WP_Query by splitting the query (Please test!)
• Internationalization improvements (improved performance and locale support)
• Performance and API improvements when working with lists of installed themes
• Support for installing child themes from the WordPress Themes Directory

Remember, if you find something you think is a bug, report it! You can bring it up in the alpha/beta forum, you can email it to the wp-testers list, or if you’ve confirmed that other people are experiencing the same bug, you can report it on the WordPress Core Trac. (We recommend starting in the forum or on the mailing list.)

Theme and plugin authors, if you haven’t been following the 3.4 development cycle, please start now so that you can update your themes and plugins to be compatible with the newest version of WordPress.

We have a high respect of  Themefuse because their themes have a very clean look to them and you can tell they took time making sure they the themes that they produce are of high quality.Another reason why Themefuse is great is due to the fact that when we approached them about being a sponsor of a giveaway on our site they quickly agreed and allowed us to giveaway a free WordPress theme to our readers.

Also on WP Candy they have an ongoing competition similar to NCAA March Madness but with WordPress theme companies and Themefuse made it to the finals beating out some of the seasoned veterans in the WordPress community the competition is still taking place so you can vote for them to ensure they win. Below is an example of some of the themes Themefuse has created:

Open your functions.php file for your theme and enter the code shown below:

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'my_custom_dashboard_widgets');

function my_custom_dashboard_widgets() {
global $wp_meta_boxes;

wp_add_dashboard_widget( 'custom_help_widget', 'Free & Easy Blog Support', 'custom_dashboard_help');
}

function custom_dashboard_help() {
echo '<p>This is where you can add the text for the dashboard widget. Using HTML will work as well. Contact us <a href= "mailto:support@freeandeasyblog.com">here</a>. For WordPress News & Tutorials visit: <a href="http://www.freeandeasyblog.com" target="_blank">Free & Easy Blog</a></p>';
}

This code is an example and of course you can customize it with our own information. If you would like to learn how to do more customizations to your dashboard visit the WordPress Codex: Dashboard Widgets API

Don’t know if this will help, but you have to admit this is cool and simple.
Here is an example of what the above code will produce:

WordPress 3.1.2 is now available and is a security release for all previous WordPress versions.

This release addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts.

The issue was discovered by a member of our security team, WordPress developer Andrew Nacin, with Benjamin Balter.

We suggest you update to 3.1.2 promptly, especially if you allow users to register as contributors or if you have untrusted users. This release also fixes a few bugs that missed the boat for version 3.1.2.

Download 3.1.2 or update automatically from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

WordPress 3.1.1 is now available. This maintenance and security release fixes almost thirty issues in 3.1, including:

• Some security hardening to media uploads
• Performance improvements
• Fixes for IIS6 support
• Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks
• Fixes for various query and taxonomy edge cases that caused some plugin compatibility issues

Version 3.1.1 also addresses three security issues discovered by WordPress core developers Jon Cave and Peter Westwood, of our security team. The first hardens CSRF prevention in the media uploader. The second avoids a PHP crash in certain environments when handling devilishly devised links in comments, and the third addresses an XSS flaw.

We suggest you update to 3.1.1 promptly. Download 3.1.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

Remember to backup your website files, database and content before upgrading to the new version of WordPress.