StudioPress have announced on their website that all of their themes are WordPress 2.8 compatible.

The below themes have all been tested and are fully compatible with WordPress 2.8 – click to view the theme.

• Agent
• Album
• Allure
• Black Canvas
• Chrome
• Church
• Corporate
• Education
• Lifestyle
• Metro
• Streamline
• Tubular

Download it here.

All the best premium WordPress theme vendors should have compatibility checked their premium themes, so if you are looking for a WordPress theme for WordPress 2.8, I would expect all of the themes on this site to work fine.

WordPress 2.8 has multiple WordPress theme improvements.

What features can theme developers and general WordPress users expect to see, and which will affect them?

I have made a brief list here of the ones I am looking forward to the most, and you can always view the features list here.

WordPress 2.8 Features

• Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
• Add Documentation(function) lookup to Theme and Plugin editors
• Improved Widget user interface
• Add description field for tags
• Improved database performance
• Use SimplePie for widget and dashboard feeds
• TinyMCE 3.2.3
• Allow other taxonomies (e.g. post categories) to be used with wp_tag_cloud (Changeset 10554)
• Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
• Refactor filters to avoid potential XSS attacks
• Add wp_trim_excerpt() filter
• Add a function to output a generic widget anywhere in a template
• Let plugins use screen layout columns
• Consolidate plugin/theme/core upgrade/install functions