News & Articles

• WordPress 3.4 – Important Things You Need to Know (www.1stwebdesigner.com)
  A close look at some of the major additions of WordPress 3.4- released few days back, codenamed “Green” after the guitarist Grant Green.
• WordPress 3.4.1 Released (wordpress.org)
  Besides fixing a few security issues, this release fixes 18 other bugs, including issues with page template detection, category permalinks, and compatibility with certain server setups.
• Hello world! (wprealm.com)
  WP Realm is a soon-to-be-launched blog concerning all things WordPress. This is a non-commercial community blog, focusing on the WordPress community worldwide, and redressing a current imbalance in WordPress blogs that are too often US-centric.
• WordPress themes in top 1 million websites (hackertarget.com)
  WordPress themes have been extracted from analysis of the worlds top 1 million websites .
• How WordPress Handles Dashes and Hyphens (markjaquith.wordpress.com)
  An article about how WordPress handles the conversion of hyphens to dashes.
• WordCamp Columbus Is Coming (2012.columbus.wordcamp.org)
  In just a couple of weeks Columbus will be hosting WordCamp 2012, a fabulous WordPress event for the budding Columbus WordPress community.
• When’s the best time to post new content on a blog? (wpliving.net)
  Knowing when to post new content requires good knowledge of your audience demographic and that in turn requires you to monitor your blog traffic with an analytics tool.
• SEO: How To Promote Your Blog – 12 Simple Steps (www.wpmayor.com)
  Divvy HQ have created a helpful 12-step “Blog Post Promotion Checklist” you can follow for each blog post you write.
• 8 Places to Hire WordPress Designers or Developers (colorlabsproject.com)
  Hiring a WordPress expert, either as a developer or designer, will remove the hassle and the large number of wasted hours in dealing with amateurs.
• 5 Tips to Glue Your WordPress Site to Google Page One (wpmu.org)
  The only thing harder than getting your WordPress Website to the first page of the Google search results is keeping it there through all of these aggressive Google updates.
• How to Plan Your WordPress Website (wpmu.org)
  An article about how to plan your WordPress Site.
• The 100 WordPress Related Blogs You Need In Your Life (www.wpkube.com)
  Blogs that can provide excellent tutorials and tips that will help you manage the WordPress-powered websites.

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Plugin News

• Automatic Syndication to Facebook and Twitter Using WordPress (colorlabsproject.com)
  NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster, Twitter Tools and WPBook.
• Soliloquy – A Premium Responsive jQuery Slider (www.doitwithwp.com)
  There are a good number of slider plugins out there, but finding a decent one is harder than you might think. They’re usually poorly coded, have way too many, or few, options. That’s where Soliloquy comes in.
• Sugar Event Calendar for WordPress (pippinsplugins.com)
  Sugar Event Calendar is a sweet, simple event calendar plugin for WordPress.
• Easy Graphs (technosailor.com)
  Everyone likes data visualizations so I wrote a plugin that will make the quick and secure creation of Pie Charts, Bar Charts and Line Charts easy. The answer is: Easy Graphs.
• WPMU Bar Plugin (theme.fm)
  WpMuBar plugin provides your visitors with smart upper bar menu that can be used for quick and simple navigation between your sites.
• List Of WordPress Plugin Frameworks (w-shadow.com)
  For plugin developers desiring an easier way to perform common tasks, a little more structure in their code, or perhaps even a dash of MVC goodness, here is a list of WordPress plugin frameworks.
• Retina Images for WordPress (www.cssigniter.com)
  A plugin that lets you generate and serve retina friendly images to your visitors.
• WordPress GPS (wordpress.org)
  Help people navigate through the WordPress backend thanks to the pretty WordPress Pointers.
• DropBox Plugin That Lets You Copy Media Files Into WordPress (wpsites.net)
  Pretty cool plugin which lets you copy images from Dropbox into WordPress.
• Download a Video Thumbnail and Set as the Featured Image (wpforce.com)
  How to Download a Video Thumbnail and Set as the Featured Image.
• Add Search to bbPress WordPress Plugin (www.wproots.com)
  Search bbPress works by extending the default WordPress search to include the bbPress custom post types.

Theme Releases

Convention (www.wpzoom.com)	FitnessMag (www.wpexplorer.com)	CreativeGrid Pro (blog.frogsthemes.com)
Autos Pro (blog.frogsthemes.com)	Petition Pro (blog.frogsthemes.com)	Bespoke Pro (blog.frogsthemes.com)
BusinessAgency (magazine3.com)	Inspired 1.0 Child Theme (www.studiopress.com)	Green Earth (themesorter.com)
CStar Design (themesorter.com)	Catch Box (wordpress.org)	Hot Radio (emptynestthemes.com)
FlipFlop (www.woothemes.com)

Theme News

• Top 3 Corporate WordPress Themes (all4wordpress.com)
  Top 3 Corporate WordPress Themes esp. designed for business, salon and wedding planners.
• 10 Attractive Themes for Corporate Sites (www.wpjedi.com)
  When it comes to promoting your corporation online, you need to put your best foot forward. Having a good looking website may not be everything but it does give your business more credibility.
• Resume Themes: 8 WordPress Themes To Help You Grab That Job! (wpmu.org)
  Your resume is a snapshot of you, what you can do, what you’re good at and what you wish to accomplish in your career. Thankfully, we live in times where the internet can allow us to present all that information with some style.

Tutorials

• 3 Simple Ways to Cut Back Spam on Your WordPress Blog or Website (www.bobwp.com)
  We all get it, and all hate it. SPAM! Well,WordPress has 3 simple ways to cut down on the spam that gets through.
• Give Your Customers Driving Directions With the Google Maps API (wp.tutsplus.com)
  Instead of just showing your business location on a Google Map, why not offer your users the opportunity to get driving directions on the same page?
• Add Shortcut Links to the Toolbar (digwp.com)
  WordPress makes it easy to add custom stuff to the Toolbar. This is a great way to personalize the look and feel of the WP Admin with custom menus, links, or whatever makes sense.
• Easily Embed Gists Into Your Post (www.wprecipes.com)
  Github gists are a great way to create and share code snippets, and many developers are using Github.
• Build a Slideshow Plugin for WordPress (wp.tutsplus.com)
  This tutorial shows how to, in different ways, include one of the most popular and used jQuery slideshows, Nivo Slider.
• Adding a Separator To The WordPress Menu (tommcfarlin.com)
  Adding a separator to the WordPress menu isn’t difficult and though there are a variety of ways to do it.
• Do-It-Yourself Caching Methods With WordPress (wp.smashingmagazine.com)
  Using internal caching methods for objects and database results is a good development practice, so that your plugin doesn’t depend on which cache plugins the end user has.
• How to Add Audio (Music) to a WordPress Site (themefuse.com)
  How to include audio in your blog.
• How to Create WordPress Custom Post Type (www.themewarrior.com)
  Learn how to create custom post type in WordPress in an easy and simple way.
• Adding Google Web Fonts in WordPress Themes (www.wpbeginner.com)
  How to add Google Web Fonts in your WordPress themes the RIGHT way, optimized for performance.
• How to Add Signature or Ads after Post Content in WordPress (www.wpbeginner.com)
  How to add signature after post content in WordPress.
• How To: Add Images for Tags & Show Trending Topics like Mashable (wplift.com)
  Learn how to display tags as trending topics in the sidebar with images.
• Translate WordPress Part I: Getting Started and Adding Support for a Language (wprealm.com)
  WordPress’s strings are all automatically loaded to an installation of an online translation tool, called GlotPress. This installation lives at Translate WordPress. A tutorial about how WordPress is translated.