News & Articles

• The WordPress Hosting Review: Results (wpshout.com)
  With the help of 252 WPShout readers, here's a comprehensive and independent review of the best hosts for building WordPress powered sites. These are the results.
• WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2 (wordpress.org)
  The second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available!
• The 7 Cardinal Sins of Localizing WordPress Plugins and Themes (genesisthemes.de)
  Read on, about some nightmares seen within WordPress code broken down to seven cardinal sins regarding the localizing/internationalization of WordPress plugins and themes.
• WordPress 3.3 Field Guide for Developers (nacin.com)
  These posts are a mixture of tutorials and API documentation what’s new and what’s changed in 3.3.
• HACKED! Is Your WordPress Site Being Turned into a Cheap Luxury Store? (wpmu.org)
  One of the Incsub team was very upset yesterday to discover that his WordPress site had been hacked. Somehow, a brand new WordPress install had been set up within his WordPress installation.
• Learn WordPress For Free With These 10 Great Resources (wpmu.org)
  The most inspiring thing about WordPress is that anyone can learn and master it, without spending a cent, in a relatively short period of time.
• ThemeForest grew by a whole ThemeForest in 2011 (wpcandy.com)
  ThemeForest approximately doubled in size this year.
• The Rise in WordPress Popularity (weblogtoolscollection.com)
  The popularity of WordPress has soared as of late, surpassing other CMS such as Joomla and Drupal in general usage.
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Plugin News

• Types and Views 0.9.1 with Tons of New Features (wp-types.com)
  Types and Views let you create complex WordPress websites without touching PHP.
• Measuring impact of plugins on WordPress loading (www.dev4press.com)
  A must read article on the the speed, memory resources, queries and hooks various plugins.
• WordPress Plugin Development Essentials: New Premium Course (net.tutsplus.com)
  In this Tuts+ Premium course, you start from the absolute basics, and work you way up to more advanced topics and techniques.
• WP Super Cache 1.0 (ocaoimh.ie)
  One of the most popular caching plugins for WordPress reaches version 1.0. Wohooo!
• Pricing Table (wordpress.org)
  WordPress Pricing Table plugin will help the admin to publish pricing table on WordPress page or post content.
• To Fight Spam With Akismet Or With An Alternative? (www.1stwebdesigner.com)
  Alternatives to Akismet.
• BuddyPress – Jigoshop Integration now available (jigoshop.com)
  You can now integrate Jigoshop and BuddyPress to enable a shop solution for your own community or social network.
• WordPress Plugin Boilerplate (moreco.de)
  File Organization, Documented Code, API Implementation, Action and Filter References.

Theme Releases

ColorWay (wordpress.org)	Jeans (wordpress.org)	Sportedge (themefuse.com)
Hstudio (themesorter.com)	Zeences (themesorter.com)	Scope (themesorter.com)
TechCompass (www.wpzoom.com)	Beveled (www.woothemes.com)

Theme News

• Win $1000 in cash from ThemeFuse (deals.themefuse.com)
  ThemeFuse has an awesome deal this December. All you need to do is buy one of their WordPress themes this December and you will automatically get a chance to win one of those great prizes!
• Save 44% on (Virtually) Everything at iThemes (ithemes.com)
  All you have to do is use coupon code TK4412 before Monday, December 12, 2011, and you’ll gain access to all these valuable tools, plus any new ones developed during your license year.
• Headway 3 Now Available (headwaythemes.com)
  Entirely new code base written from the ground up.
• Power Your Band Website with a WordPress Band Theme (wplift.com)
  A review of Dark & Gritty and The Grammy Theme by Foxhound themes.
• 10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme (wp.smashingmagazine.com)
  10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and optimize your WordPress theme.
• Holiday Bundle (bavotasan.com)
  For the month of December, you can now get Magazine Premium, Magazine Flow and Arturo all for only $99.99.
• WPBundle - Our 1st Birthday Discounts & Giveaway (www.wpbundle.com)
  For the next two days you can get any individual theme for $15, these purchases come with all child theme variations for free. Or you can get the full bundle for only $115. These deals will save you $35 and $75, expiring on December the 9th at midnight.
• Wordless (github.com)
  Wordless is an opinionated WordPress plugin that dramatically speeds up and enhances your custom themes creation.

Tutorials

• Debug enqueued Scripts and Styles in WordPress (wpengineer.com)
  WordPress can easily manage scripts and style sheets, a prerequisite is the use of the opportunities around wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style(). A small function can help and returns the built-in scripts and styles.
• Advent Calendar – WordPress Editor: Preserve the scroll position (wpengineer.com)
  Every time you save a post the scroll position of the editor will be on top again. If you want to continue writing the post you have first to find he old position again. To avoid this behavior here's a code snippet.
• Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress (wp.smashingmagazine.com)
  This article goes over Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service and guides you to implementing a WordPress plugin that backs up your WordPress database to Amazon’s S3 cloud.
• 11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site (wp.tutsplus.com)
  Tips includes protecting files, login restriction, WordPress admin restriction, database protection, etc.
• 10 Quick Tips: Optimizing & Speeding Up Your WordPress Site (wp.tutsplus.com)
  How to optimize your site to run as fast as it possibly can.
• Understanding Dynamic WordPress links (www.wproots.com)
  Most commonly used URL functions with example usages.