News & Articles

• Dear Jetpack: I really want to love you, but you make it so hard! (krogsgard.com)
  Some notes and frustrations about Jetpack. While we all felt some of the things discussed, the value is in the comments with Matt Mullenweg addressing each question individually.
• WordPress Tips For Newbies To Help You Avoid Common Pitfalls (wpsites.net)
  Some of the most common pitfalls many newbies may not be aware of and the best solutions to help avoid the frustration technical problems can cause and help save time down the track.
• FIRST LOOK: WordPress Designer Magazine (wpdm.co)
  The first edition of this magazine will be free, but moving forward it will be a paid subscription to the magazine. The team is working towards an August 17th deadline for editorial content to be ready for the first edition.
• ColorLabs’ 3rd Birthday Celebration (colorlabsproject.com)
  21 July, marked the exact date three years ago that ColorLabs & Company (was ColorLabs Project) was launched.
• Why Every Small Business Needs a WordPress Blog for Their Social Media Strategy (www.wpbeginner.com)
  Here’s good news if you’re a small business owner: social media has helped to level the playing field.
• ManageWP.com: The Ultimate WordPress Dashboard (wpforce.com)
  If you were wondering what's all the fuss about ManageWP go ahead and read this review by WPForce.
• 50 of the Best WordPress Tips, Guides and Tutorials (managewp.com)
  One of the greatest things about WordPress is that there is always something new to learn. Enjoy this top 50 post relating to WordPress.
• WP Engine launches seamless integration with git (wpengine.com)
  WP Engine announces Git-Push-to-Deploy, bringing integrated version control to their Managed WordPress Hosting Platform.

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Plugin News

• Candy Social Widget Plugin (www.wpexplorer.com)
  A very simple plugin - “Candy Social Icons” - that will allow you to have those awesome social icons on your site as well.
• WordPress User Approval, now available for Profile Builder Pro (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  Version 1.1.40 of Profile Builder Pro plugin, with a new and awesome feature: WordPress User Approval by Admins.
• Gravity Forms – The Only WordPress Form Plugin You Need (www.doitwithwp.com)
  Gravity Forms - an extremely flexible and powerful plugin, which can be used to do just about anything form-related.
• Introducing The Elegant Themes Builder Plugin (www.elegantthemes.com)
  The Elegant Themes Builder is a plugin that provides some incredible tools for structuring the content on your page.
• WP Help For Creating Documentation Within WordPress (tommcfarlin.com)
  A plugin which gives you all the power of WordPress to create, edit, and arrange your documentation.
• Error Log Monitor (w-shadow.com)
  Error Log Monitor – a plugin that lets you easily view the most recent messages from your PHP error log in your Dashboard, and can even send you automatic email notifications about new errors.
• How to Add a Beautiful Gallery Carousel in WordPress without Jetpack (www.wpbeginner.com)
  An article, about how to add a beautiful gallery carousel in WordPress without JetPack.
• ChartBoot (wordpress.org)
  ChartBoot for WordPress Plugin allows to create, edit and embed Google Charts in WordPress Posts and/or Pages.
• WordPress Plugin Development Strategies (www.wproots.com)
  When you begin building a WordPress plugin, there are a lot of things you need to keep in mind: the functionality of the plugin, the target audience, how it is going to be distributed, how you are going to provide support for it, etc.
• 9 Plugins To Add Advertising On Your Blog (wpmu.org)
  Advertising can be a great way to monetize your blog, and if done the right way, it can even enhance your design, rather than stick out like a sore thumb.

Theme Releases

Pegasus (www.wpexplorer.com)	Nocturn (colorlabsproject.com)	Arcanum (quirm.net)
Pragma (themesorter.com)	Avid (themesorter.com)	Innov8tive (themesorter.com)
Embrace (www.simplesites4u.com)	Snowberry (wordpress.org)	Max (gazpo.com)
Spray (emptynestthemes.com)	Shutter (www.wpjedi.com)	Kopitiam (www.simplywp.net)
Pilot Fish (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• Launch Effect is now responsive! (launcheffectapp.com)
  Both Launch Effect Lite and Premium are fully responsive and look great on mobile devices!
• 10 WordPress Themes Bars, Hotels, and Cafes (www.wpjedi.com)
  Here are 10 themes you can use to build an online presence for your bar, hotel, inn, or coffee shop.
• Yamidoo Magazine 2.0 Released! (www.wpzoom.com)
  The new version is a slight redesign of the theme, but not a complete one.
• Zoom Framework v1.3 Released! (www.wpzoom.com)
  The new version of the platform on which are based most of WPZoom`s themes, and which starting with this version will be called Zoom Framework.
• 30 New WordPress Themes for Creative Businesses 2012 (wplift.com)
  30 of the best WordPress Themes for Creative Businesses. Check them out!
• 10 Free WordPress Video Themes (wpmu.org)
  You want to run a video site. You want to run it on WordPress. You want a theme that will help you do that. And you want that theme for free.
• Why Bloggers and Developers Should Understand WordPress Frameworks (tommcfarlin.com)
  One of the nicest things about WordPress is the ability to customize the look and feel of pages by applying customized page templates.

Plugin Reviews

Tutorials

• The Complete Guide to WordPress Editing: Part 1 (www.pingable.org)
  Whether you’re completely new or have been blogging for a while now, you’re probably still not using everything available to you as a blogger on WordPress.
• WordPress Post From Front End (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  A tutorial about how to post from Front End in WordPress.
• How to Add a “Reading Mode” to Your Posts (www.problogdesign.com)
  A tutorial that shows you a simple way to add a distraction-free “Reading Mode” to your blog.
• How to Create a Stunning Product Tour with SlideDeck 2 in WordPress (www.wpbeginner.com)
  This powerful plugin makes it super-simple to create awesome sliders in minutes, without a single line of code required.
• How to Monitor Server Uptime in WordPress (www.wpbeginner.com)
  Do you think your WordPress site never goes down while you sleep? What would happen if it stopped responding in the middle of the night while the other side of the world wants to access your blog?
• How to Add Google+ Verified Authorship to your WordPress Blog (www.wpkube.com)
  A tutorial about Google+ rel=”author” tag and how to implement it on your WordPress blog.
• WordPress Roles and Capabilities: A Real Life Example (wp.tutsplus.com)
  This is a three-part series tutorial covering the WordPress users, roles and capabilities topic. The series will cover the architecture and design of user roles in WordPress.