News & Articles

• Automattic to Make $45 Million This Year (allthingsd.com)
  WordPress now powers 70 million sites, up from 35 million sites a year ago. Almost half of the biggest blogs in the world are hosted by WordPress.com or run on their own versions of the open-source WordPress platform.
• You Don’t Need Any Plugins (halfelf.org)
  Out of the box, WordPress has all the major tools you need to start publishing.
• PressNomics is the first conference focused on the WordPress economy (wpcandy.com)
  Page.ly, along with a group of sponsors and partially announced list of speakers, have announced a new WordPress conference this morning called PressNomics.
• Shop Talk Show - With Ian Stewart (shoptalkshow.com)
  Ian Stewart was a special guest on the podcast by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert, ShopTalk. Ian discussed many web topics, including WordPress (obviously!).
• 201 WordPress Books (lorelle.wordpress.com)
  In 2012, according to Amazon.com, 56 books are scheduled to be published, re-released as new editions, or have been published so far this year.
• WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 (wordpress.org)
  Less bugs, more polish, the same beta disclaimers. Download, test, report bugs.
• 10 Things That The Distraction Free Editor Doesn’t Get Right (wpmu.org)
  Although the distraction free editor is a better option to the visual editor, that does not make it perfect.
• 44 Websites to Help You Improve Your Knowledge of WordPress (www.1stwebdesigner.com)
  Take a look at some blogs and websites that cover WordPress.

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Plugin News

• Effortless Google Maps (wordpress.org)
  Put Google Maps on any page or post with a simple shortcode or widget.
• CalPress Event Calendar – The Ultimate Calendar Plugin? (wordpress.org)
  CalPress event calendar makes publishing , managing and ticketing events simple.
• Jetpack plugin upgrades to include Grunion Contact Form (wpcandy.com)
  Keeping pace with their practice of adding a new enhancement every couple of versions, 1.3 adds a new contact form feature to the bunch.
• Posts 2 Posts Version 1.3 (scribu.net)
  In this release, Scribu focused on making the API more uniform; everything works for both posts-to-posts and posts-to-users connections now.
• Plugin Launch: Typecase, A Web Font Manager (upthemes.com)
  An easy-to-use typography manager with over 200 custom fonts from Google Web Fonts.
• The plugin directory’s licensing guidelines have been updated (wpdevel.wordpress.com)
  The plugin directory’s licensing guidelines have been updated. The guidelines will now allow code that is licensed under (or compatible with) version 3 of the GPL.
• Headway Connect integrates Jigoshop with Headway Themes (jigoshop.com)
  Jigoshop can now be used with all Headway Themes to provide eCommerce with their great drag-and-drop WordPress framework which allows you to create your own layout via their visual editor.
• Import/Export Options Now Available With Widget Logic (www.wptavern.com)
  The latest release of Widget Logic, now has the option to import and export options. The options are saved to a text file which contains all of the conditional logic.
• GChart: Dynamic Charts for WordPress (themefortress.com)
  If your daily workflow deals with charts a lot, you may want to have some really useful and simple tools in hand.

Theme Releases

WP Lofty (themeforest.net)	Diary (peaxl.com)	Decor 1.0 Child Theme Now Available (www.studiopress.com)
silverOrchid (gazpo.com)	Sunspot (wordpress.org)	SquareGrid (themesorter.com)
Glory (themesorter.com)	Poise (themesorter.com)	Papuros (colorlabsproject.com)

Theme News

• New in WordPress 3.4: Theme Customizer (upthemes.com)
  Much of the focus of the upcoming WordPress 3.4 release involves Themes and the Appearance Settings user interface.
• Peaxl V2 and Diary released (peaxl.com)
  Peaxl Theme Shop launched a new design and an really cool Tumblr style theme that uses Post Formats in a really nice new way.
• Announcing ThemeFurnace: A New WordPress Theme Shop (wplift.com)
  A new theme shop ThemeFurnace is now live! There are 4 themes available at the moment at a cost of $49.
• ThemeThrift: Pay What You Want for WordPress Themes (wpmu.org)
  ThemeThrift is a new creation by Jake Caputo of Design Crumbs with a bit of an unorthodox pricing structure.
• 30 of the Best WordPress Themes for Freelancers 2012 (wplift.com)
  You need to be able to show your portfolio, the products/services you offer, and convert customers and leads through an effective landing page or call to action. To that aim here are some of the best freelance and creative small studio themes from 2012.
• Theme Options Gallery: The Best (and the Worst) Theme Options Screens Around (themeshaper.com)
  If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Konstantin Kovshenin’s Theme Options Gallery.
• A PressTrends Inspired Rant (From a developer who uses it!) (wpcandy.com)
  Jake Caputo talks about why he includes PressTrends in all of his themes and the problems that it has brought to the surface.
• Child Themes – What They Are, How to Use Them, and Why (themefuse.com)
  Child themes are the recommended way of making modifications to a theme.
• Framework shortcode exploit has been fixed (www.woothemes.com)
  WooThemes recommends all users update their themes to the latest version (V5.3.12).

Tutorials

• Remove Redundant Image Sizes And Files In WordPress (www.deluxeblogtips.com)
  Each WordPress theme has a bundle of image sizes, and everytime we switch theme, we’ll use other image sizes. That will lead us to a problem of redundant image files left in WordPress folder!
• Optimizing WordPress Loading Speed With header.php & .htaccess (wp.tutsplus.com)
  Website loading speed matters a lot for every blog/website, especially for people with shared hosting – which is the cheapest available hosting service. Here are a few .htaccess and header.php tricks to increase your website loading speed by 50-70%
• Using WordPress as an Intranet (wp.tutsplus.com)
  When we talk about WordPress we usually associate it with either being a blogging platform or just another content management system, but what about as an Intranet?
• Display Time Since Published in WordPress (bavotasan.com)
  This is just a little snippet that allows your to display the time since your post was published.
• Adding Google+ Meta Tags in WordPress (bavotasan.com)
  If you’ve decided to include a Google+ button on your WordPress site, it’s also suggested that you add a few new meta tags to your header so that you can customize exactly what appears when people share your page on Google+.
• Attach Unattached Media Files (digwp.com)
  Attaching any unattached media files that you may have floating around is a good way to keep things organized and running smooth.
• Stop your WordPress users resetting their password (www.tcbarrett.com)
  Now sure why you would want to do that, but there it is!
• A Better wp_link_pages() for WordPress (bavotasan.com)
  If you’ve written a long post, WordPress provides the quicktag so you can divide it into multiple pages. All you need to do is make sure that the theme you are using has included the wp_link_pages()