News & Articles

• Restoring WordPress After a Crash (themefuse.com)
  Your WordPress blog has crashed … now what?!
• PressTrends Officially Launches (presstrends.io)
  Currently, PressTrends offers theme authors the ability to track adoption, usage, and interactions within themes and garner insights and trends from various metrics. This enables theme authors to learn what works and what doesn’t in an effort to built better themes and in the end, a better web.
• The Most Valuable WordPress Tool You’ll Use This Year Has Finally Launched (wpmu.org)
  ManageWP comes with more handy features than you could shake a stick at, but the one that really sets the bar is one-click login. ManageWP allows you to access every single one of your WordPress sites from a single location. That’s all of your Dashboards from one place. No logging in and out and fiddling about.
• Bad Behavior In The WordPress Community (www.wptavern.com)
  A number of people disagreed with Kevin John and his article ( regarding that he won't be using WordPress anymore) that he stated in a comment about receiving death threats as well as being hit by DDoS attacks performed to his website.
• One multi-task plugin vs. several single-task plugins? (justintadlock.com)
  A welcomed discussion about plugins. Should we use multiple small ones or just a big one that dose everything.
• WPTavern Watering Hole Still Open For Business (www.wptavern.com)
  This is just a friendly reminder that the WPTavern watering hole also known as the forum, is still open for business.
• The Worst Mistake Most WordPress Blogs Make and How To Fix It (managewp.com)
  Onsite Search is THE Prominent Navigation Aid. Unfortunately WordPress search is in a pour state, but there are solutions.

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Plugin News

• WordPress CMS Plugins (digwp.com)
  Here you’ll find an extensive round-up of CMS plugins for WordPress. Includes CMS plugins for better admin functionality, user-role management, custom content display, e-commerce & shopping carts, forums, newsletters, and more.
• WP Deals (wordpress.org)
  WP Deals is a special-for-deals plugin where you can make, post, and share deals all around the people.
• Introducing WP Stripe: A PayPal Alternative for WordPress (wpmu.org)
  Noel Tock has just released a WordPress plugin that will make it easy for you to use Stripe on your site for processing payments. WP Stripe gets you hooked up by handling the credit cards so that they go to Stripe’s secure environment and never hit your servers.
• How To: Add Custom Text Styles to WordPress Post Editor (wplift.com)
  Easy Custom Styles allows you to create unlimited styles in a visual interface for the end user to choose from.
• WordPress as a Project Management Tool: Free Plugins (wplift.com)
  Using WordPress as a project management tool.
• Increase Your Audience with a WordPress Translation Plugin (wpmu.org)
  Being able to easily translate a website into a different language can make a big difference in terms of attracting more visitors.
• Prevent Password Reset WordPress Plugin (justintadlock.com)
  Ability to reset the passwords of certain site administrators via the “lost password” form.
• Gravity Forms vs. Wufoo (Which is a better form management solution?) (www.wpbeginner.com)
  A comparison about two products: Gravity Forms (a wp plugin) and WuFoo (a SASS solution). Even they are so different they solve the same problem: form building.
• My first WordPress plugin, Toolbar Quick View (krogsgard.com)
  It’s essentially the same concept as the “+ New” menu items in the WordPress 3.3 toolbar, except that it directs you to the main edit.php screen (or equivalent for non-Post post types), rather than the add new post screen. It essentially eliminates one click from the front end.

Theme Releases

Famous (wordpress.org)	Pronto (www.wpexplorer.com)	VideoGrid (themefuse.com)
Angular (themesorter.com)	Aventador (themesorter.com)	Stockholm (themesorter.com)
Galaxy (themesorter.com)	Uber (themesorter.com)	MultiPress (themesorter.com)
Armonico (mintthemes.com)	Compra (mintthemes.com)	Convertible (www.elegantthemes.com)

Theme News

• Theme Options – Friend or Foe? (www.woothemes.com)
  WooThemes ask them self "are theme options always the answer?”.
• PSD to WordPress Services: Convert your Design to WordPress (wplift.com)
  If you are on a budget, this can be a great way to get your custom design up and running.
• Genesis Framework v1.8 Now Available (www.studiopress.com)
  Genesis 1.8 ships with a new default style on the front end. Other features include new SEO controls, new extendable classes for creating admin menus, possibility completely disable a navigation menu, color style options and other features/
• Free Blank WordPress Responsive Themes & Theme Frameworks (wplift.com)
  Take a look at blank responsive themes and theme frameworks you can use as a base to build your own responsive website.
• Twitter Bootstrap and WordPress Theme Frameworks (themeshaper.com)
  Make a starter theme for Your Own Use.
• 50+ WordPress Themes for Video Bloggers (www.1stwebdesigner.com)
  WP themes for video blogging pack in many custom features –special widgets to share videos, support for multiple formats and embeds, to name just a few!
• The WordPress Theme Files Execution Hierarchy (wp.tutsplus.com)
  This article will show the WordPress theme file execution hierarchy.
• Backbone 1.0 is here. Pop the Champagne! (colorlabsproject.com)
  The version 1.0 of Backbone Theme Framework is now available.
• Headway 3.0.5 Now Includes Responsive Grid Design Capabilities (headwaythemes.com)
  One of the most the most exciting features of Headway Themes 3.0.5 is the responsive options you have available at your finger tips.

Tutorials

• The Ultimate Quickstart Guide to Speeding Up Your WordPress Site (wp.tutsplus.com)
  This tutorial we covers all aspects of W3 caching, ySlow, Google page speed, CSS sprites & htaccess rules, to achieve a high ySlow
• Optional Markup for Optional Post Titles (themeshaper.com)
  Passing the opening and closing tags as parameters to the_title(). Doing so will allow this markup to be hidden when the title is empty.
• Canonical Redirect: Problem and Solutions (www.dev4press.com)
  You have noticed how WordPress can fix and redirect incorrect and incomplete URL’s to your blog, and how different way you can link content will always redirect to one based on permalinks settings? That is called canonical redirect, and it is part of WordPress since version 2.3.
• How to Build Multilingual WordPress Sites (www.ostraining.com)
  It is possible to build great multi-lingual sites with WordPress. The WP core is not multi-lingual but there are several plugins available including WPML, xili-language, Polylang, qTranslate, Transposh and Global Translator.
• Updated: Add Pinterest pin to Jetpack with jQuery (austinpassy.com)
  Adding Pinterest Button to your WordPress blog.
• WordPress tip: Speed up your blog by caching custom queries (www.wprecipes.com)
  Is your theme using custom queries? If yes, you should definitely use WordPress Transients API to cache the queries and consequently speed up your blog. This recipe will show you how to cache any custom queries.
• WordPress Theme Development Training Wheels: Day One (wp.tutsplus.com)
  Ready to learn how to make your first WordPress theme? This tutorial series will take a step by step approach, making use of a "learning theme" affectionately known as WordPress Training Wheels, to help teach the subject.
• Smarter Slugs ~!@$%^&*()={}<>[]? (digwp.com)
  See those crazy characters in the title of this post? Now see how they don’t appear in the post’s URL? That’s one of the finer details of the WordPress 3.3 update: smarter permalink slugs.