News & Articles

• About the “Lock in Effect” in WordPress Themes and Plugins (kovshenin.com)
  Konstantin Kovshenin has a great post on the lock-in effect. When you go to switch themes you find that your content is tied into the theme (or plugin) you’ve been using. Not good.
• Help Stop SOPA/PIPA (wordpress.org)
  WordPress.org campaigns against SOPA/PIPA.
• WordPress has left the building (kevinjohngallagher.com)
  Developer Kevinjohn Gallagher moves away from WordPress due to the lack of advanced CMS functionality.
• How WordPress Changed Content Management (managewp.com)
  WordPress did not create the concept of content management. Such systems have been around since before the internet was a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye. But true innovation rarely effects the greatest change. WordPress took an existing concept, made it highly useable, and introduced it to the masses (free of charge).
• WP-Snippets Gets a New, Responsive Design with Favorites and Filtering (wp-snippets.com)
  WP-Snippets is one of our favorite resources for WordPress code snippets and they’ve just announced a complete redesign.
• When Is It Worth Paying for a WordPress Theme or Plugin? (maxfoundry.com)
  Here are some things to consider whether is worth paying for a WordPress plugin or theme.
• My Experience In Running A WordPress Meetup (www.wptavern.com)
  Jeff Chandler's experience organizing a WordPress Meetup.
• Embracing The Spirit Of Open Source With WordPress Trac (wpmu.org)
  You can have a hand in maintaining the world’s most popular content management system.
• WordPress is more than blogging software: How we built our Client Area with WordPress (clickwp.com)
  Case in point – the new ClickWP Client Area. It was built over the last 2–3 weeks with little actual coding.

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Plugin News

• Introducing Hierarchy: Even More CMS for WordPress (mondaybynoon.com)
  In an ideal world, CPT editing would be directly integrated within your Pages structure (as Pages are the basis of your URL structure) and not need a dedicated sidebar menu entry. That’s the short version of exactly what Hierarchy does.
• Nano Plugin (www.gab.ro)
  Nano plugins provide a simple way to add simple functionality to your WordPress site, directly via an administration menu.
• Edit Flow 0.7 now available, brings modular architecture and various improvements (wpcandy.com)
  Automattician and Edit Flow lead developer Daniel Bachhuber announced the launch of version 0.7 of Edit Flow.
• Plugin Repository Should Have A Favorites Button (www.wptavern.com)
  Now THAT’S a good idea!
• How To: Add a Map to WordPress: Plugins, Examples & Advice (wplift.com)
  Adding maps to your WordPress blog post is really simple, you can just go to the Google Maps and get the embed code or use Google Maps API to quickly display static maps. But sometimes you want to do more with maps.
• Head to Head: Yoast’s WordPress SEO vs All in One SEO Pack (wplift.com)
  There are currently two very popular WordPress plugins to help you strengthen your site’s search engine friendliness. Yoast’s WordPress SEO Plugin and the Grand old Daddy of SEO plugins, All in One SEO Pack.
• BuddyPress 1.5.3 brings fixes for WordPress 3.3+ (wpcandy.com)
  BuddyPress 1.5.3 is now available as a fix for those running WordPress 3.3+
• Paul Gibbs begins work to unlock Achievements plugin level 3.0 (wpcandy.com)
  Achievements, a BuddyPress plugin authored by Paul Gibbs, takes user loyalty to the next level.
• CodeCanyon Yearly Roundup! Eleven Fantastic WordPress Plugins from 2011 (wp.tutsplus.com)
  Of the several hundred plugins available on CodeCanyon in 2011, these are just a few of the most popular and highest rated ones.
• 20 Free WordPress Plugins That Every User Should Have (managewp.com)
  Regardless of whether you are just a beginner, or a seasoned WordPress expert, there is something for everyone in this list. Enjoy!

Theme Releases

Primecut (themesorter.com)	Empire (themesorter.com)	Splendid (www.wpzoom.com)
Artisan (themeforest.net)

Theme News

• 20 WordPress Magazine Themes for Technology & Gadget Sites (wplift.com)
  Technology and gadget blogs are huge online, blogs such as Engadget and Gizmodo garner millions of eyeballs each month with breaking news and inside knowledge of the latest tech. Smaller sites run by one or a small group of bloggers are also flourishing and making a good living covering these subjects, as always WordPress is the perfect tool to manage this type of website and there are many themes designed with this niche in mind.
• 13 Free & Premium WordPress Job Board Themes & Plugins 2012 (wplift.com)
  There are online job boards for all kinds of different niches these days and more and more of them are being powered by WordPress, the CMS is perfect for the job.
• Genesis v1.8 Beta Now Available (www.studiopress.com)
  Genesis 1.8 Beta is now available for users to test.
• Theme.ly is coming, a marketplace where designers and devs can team up (wpcandy.com)
  Themely, will be a new theme marketplace where designers and developers can team up and sell WordPress themes together.
• WINNERS ANNOUNCED for our $3000 December Contest (themefuse.com)
  ThemeFuse announces the winners for their December Contest.
• Celebrating 4 Years at iThemes (ithemes.com)
  This month, iThemes celebrates 4 years of serving their customer community.
• ThemeForest Yearly Roundup! The Best WordPress Themes of 2011 (wp.tutsplus.com)
  A bunch of the best WordPress themes from 2011 on ThemeForest.
• WordPress Bootstrap - v1.0 Released (320press.com)
  Version 1.0 of the WordPress Bootstrap theme is now available to download on Github.

Tutorials

• WordPress development with NetBeans IDE (www.dev4press.com)
  A comfortable and powerful development environment is essential, and now, no other solution comes close to the power of NetBeans.
• Debug WordPress rewrite rules matching (www.dev4press.com)
  With introduction of custom post types, additional templates WordPress loads and maybe custom rewrite rules websites can use, it can be a bit confusing what happens when WP loads and resolves the URL. Sometimes you will end up on wrong page, and here is to find out why.
• How to build a network navigation menu (www.wprecipes.com)
  Multisites networks are definitely a great feature introduced in WP 3.0+. In this recipe, you’re going to learn how you can create a “network” navigation menu, which list all sites on your network.
• Get Current Admin Screen Information In WordPress 3.3 (www.deluxeblogtips.com)
  There’re a couple of variables can help us determining which admin screen we’re seeing: $pagenow for current page ID, $typenow for current post type, etc. But using these variables requires us a huge afford to combine them just to get the correct information we want. Fortunately, since version 3.3, WordPress gives us a more completed solution with WP_Screen class which turns out the best way to get current admin screen information with ease of use.
• The WordPress Gallery Shortcode: A Comprehensive Overview (wp.tutsplus.com)
  In this tutorial you will be covering a specific WordPress shortcode, and the different ways to use it.
• How to Use the New Genesis Admin Class: Metabox Example (wpsmith.net)
  With Genesis 1.8, StudioPress unveils their new Admin Class. Genesis Plugins and Child Theme Developers alike can use this class to create option pages and even extend existing option pages.
• bbPress Shortcodes Directory (www.wproots.com)
  If you are working with bbPress or are thinking about using bbPress as your website’s support forum, I would highly recommend becoming familiar with the following shortcodes for displaying your forum content.