News & Articles

• WordPress 3.3 “Sonny” (wordpress.org)
  The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard.
• 5 Places to Find a Good WordPress Developer or Designer (wpmu.org)
  Despite the limitless DIY possibilities that WordPress offers, at some point many folk will still want to hire a developer or designer to take their site to the next level.
• The Manage WP Interview: Vladimir Prelovac (wpmu.org)
  An interview with Vladimir Prelovac about Manage WP.
• My 2 cents about the WordPress 3.3 post editor (dotsandthoughts.be)
  A web/UI designer from Belgium, has published his idea for moving the Upload/Insert icon from above the WYSIWYG editor and into the toolbar.
• WP LifeGuard swims into WordPress Video Tutorials (wpcandy.com)
  The recently launched service offers over 30 WordPress videos (many of them free) and say they’ll be adding more as they go along.
• First (After)Taste: WordPress 3.3 on the iPad (wpcandy.com)
  Among the new features that WordPress 3.3 brings to the table is iPad/table compatibility. If you don’t have a tablet or iPad to try this out, this video will show you what you’re missing.
• Everything we know about the newly released WordPress 3.3 (wpcandy.com)
  WPCandy goes over every new thing in WordPress 3.3
• WordPress Benchmark: 3.0 vs 3.1 vs 3.2 vs 3.3 (www.dev4press.com)
  WordPress now has 4 versions in 3.x line. With slow adoption rate for previous two major versions, despite great 3.2 release, question is will the new WordPress 3.3 manage to persuade users to upgrade? This benchmark will try to give, at least, partial answer to that.
• WordPress Security: Seven Ways I Could Hack Into Your WordPress Site (markmaunder.com)
  If I was going to hack your WordPress blog or website, here are the first seven things I would try and how you could prevent me from getting in.
• Troubleshooting WordPress 3.3 - Master List (wordpress.org)
  If you're having an issue with WP 3.3 you should check out this master list of issues curated by @ipstenu

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Theme News

• WordPress Sidebars as Menus: Part 3 (tech.ipstenu.org)
  Part 3 of the search for the perfect sidebar management system in WordPress backend.
• 21 Free WordPress Portfolio Themes (wpmu.org)
  Need a WordPress portfolio theme to present your graphic work or photos in an uncluttered and attractive way? No problem. There are 21 WordPress portfolio themes for you here.
• A Step Back for the Team, A Step Forward for DevPress (devpress.com)
  After months of inconsistent collaboration, DevPress is left with one remaining co-founder, — Tung Do. Justin Tadlock, Patrick Daly, and Ptah Dunbar are going to pursue personal projects.
• iThemes Builder Turns 2 (ithemes.com)
  iThemes Builder turns two this week!
• Kriesi: The First Author to Sell $1,000,000 Worth of Items (notes.envato.com)
  Kriesi is the first Envato author to reach Power Elite level! Kriesi has been a member of the Envato community for 3 years, in that time he has amassed a following of 4,088 community members and almost 32,000 sales!

Theme Releases

Dark Diamond (themesorter.com)	Victoria (themesorter.com)	Volt (themesorter.com)
Portofolio (themesorter.com)	AppifyWP (themesorter.com)	Cleanex (themesorter.com)
Notebook (themesorter.com)	JobJockey (colorlabsproject.com)	Sliding (www.woothemes.com)

Plugin News

• 9 Fun Web Tools You can Embed in Your WordPress Blog (wpmu.org)
  Embedding is a great way to increase the flexibility of your blog. There are embeddable tools and applications out there that are beyond the day-to-day standards.
• Known plugin compatibility and dev issues with WordPress 3.3 (wpcandy.com)
  With the release of a new major version of WordPress, there are bound to be issues with themes and plugins out in the wild.
• The 12 Days of Attachments Pro (mondaybynoon.com)
  To celebrate the holiday (and the release of WordPress 3.3) Iron to Iron will be giving away free copies of Attachments Pro for the next 12 days!
• Case Study: Behind the Scenes Look of List25 – Plugins and Hacks (www.wpbeginner.com)
  In this article, you will go behind the scenes of List25 and see the plugins and hacks that they are using to power that site.
• Profile Builder version 1.1.13 is officially out (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  This version basically improved the code behind the plugin, certain parts being rewritten. One feature that we added in this version is the possibility to have a custom name to your user fields (before they were uniquely generated by the plugin).

Tutorials

• How to Reuse the Post Editor in WordPress 3.3 (www.presscoders.com)
  The great new function wp_editor() is a game changer. You can now easily reuse the built-in editor, used on posts and pages.
• How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure (yoast.com)
  Yoast writes another great article about SEO and WordPress, this time permalinks.
• Activate WordPress Plugins Automatically via a Function (wpengineer.com)
  WordPress stores the active Plugins in the database table options, field activate_plugins, so it is easy to change this value to activate various Plugins by WordPress; either as a Plugin solution after setting up a new installation or because some Plugins need some other Plugins.
• Comment Length Limiter (wpengineer.com)
  This snippet automatically inserts a div tag below the text field and updates the character count when the user types.
• Adding an oEmbed Provider to WordPress (technosailor.com)
  If you want to register an oEmbed video site that is, say, at (randomly) http:/myvideosite.com and your videos are of the format http://myvideosite.com/video/*, it’s as simple as adding a function in your plugin.
• WordPress tip: Increased height of the excerpt field (www.wprecipes.com)
  The “excerpt” field allow you to write a quick excerpt in order to introduce your posts. By default, the field is about 50px tall. Want to make it bigger? No problem, just use this recipe.
• Getting Loopy – Ajax Powered Loops with jQuery and WordPress (wp.tutsplus.com)
  In this tutorial, you will get a starting point for creating AJAX interaction in your blog.
• Integrating with Multiple WordPress Media Uploaders (maxfoundry.com)
  Nice tutorial on using the built in Media Uploaders in WordPress.
• Displaying Theme Data with WordPress (digwp.com)
  A cool trick you can do with WordPress is display information directly from your theme’s style.css stylesheet.
• WordPress Optimization Guide By Dreamhost (www.wptavern.com)
  Dreamhost has a section on their Wiki explaining detailed ways on how to optimize WordPress using such tools as WP Super Cache, Nocache, Fcgi, and various combinations of the latter.