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Green, yellow, and red can’t go together? The Ethiopians must be terribly insulted. Google for green, yellow, and red images, and I think you find several attractive examples (along with ugly ones). How well any set of colors goes together depends on the exact color coordinates, and the relative positions, shapes, on sizes of the colored objects, and the ...

Some quick ideas: Piece of paper with a plus sign on it. Pencil icon to represent "Compose", could be on paper as well. Plus sign within a button that is a color that stands out. If the page is all white with hints of blue, make the button a green color for example. A plus sign in a speech bubble. Any of these ideas with the text "New Thread", "New Post" ...

Assuming that wordpress are the people who have reserched this the best I thought it worth taking a look at what they use. They use a pin icon to illustrate 'post'. Going with the theame that the blog is more like a noticeboard than anything thats actually posted. The other examples I have seen are all a little too generic to really comunicate what you are ...

You have a flipped hierarchy issue. The buttons are visually more prominent, but the content they link to is secondary to the content above. So, one option would be to reverse that hierarchy. Make the current buttons plain links instead and then style the list of links above to look more like a navigation list. Perhaps something like this: ...

You'd probably get more of what you're looking for over at UX StackExchange. Nonetheless ... I would turn these into menus rather than modules on the page. The three headings would be the top nav and the list of links would drop down. I think that would make your concept much more apparent to the user. You could keep your thumbnails in the menu, if you're ...

"Red", "Yellow", "Green" leave a lot of room for interpretation so you have a good chance to find a combination that works well. For your aesthetics problem I took your "red" and "green" color and put it into the color blender. Then I chose pHSL as the color model for blending. This already improved the color set. Next I tried different "reds" and "greens" ...

It depends a bit on how large you want the icon te be displayed and still be recognisable. Ideas that pop up in my mind are a fountain pen (or maybe just the pen's nib), a set of radially arranged lines or a star over a blank sheet of paper. A traditional 'new document' icon might also work: a rectangle with a dog ear on the bottom right corner.