News & Articles

• WordPress Designer Magazine to Lauch August 2012 (www.wphub.com)
  WordPress Designer Magazine “is a carefully crafted collection of tips, tricks, interviews, case studies and latest news, all designed to help you do your WP business better.”
• Why relative URLs should be forbidden for web developers (yoast.com)
  All sorts of SEO problems on the web are caused by the use of relative URLs in links, canonicals and more. Here's why you shouldn’t use them and what you could do instead, as it might be simple things like this that hold you back from performing well with your website.
• 7 Quick Tips for Writing Great Headlines for Your WordPress Blog (wpmu.org)
  Want more readers and more engagement on your WordPress blog? If so, read this headline tips which I’ve gathered from four years of consistent headline testing for myself and my clients.
• WordPress “Post via e-mail” demystified (wpmu.org)
  “Dear WordPress, if I send you an email, would you be kind enough to post it?”

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Plugin News

• Theme Check (wordpress.org)
  A simple and easy way to test your theme for all the latest WordPress standards and practices. A great theme development tool!
• Who will be the next Support Guru? (eventespresso.com)
  If you like to figure out how things work, enjoy discovering bugs (in software) like an entomologist, have a crush on WordPress, want to make a difference and be part of a great team then you should be the next Event Espresso Support Guru.
• The All-New Getting Started with BackupBuddy eBook (ithemes.com)
  "Getting Started with BackupBuddy" handbook has just been completely updated to reflect all of the new features and UI enhancements in BackupBuddy 3.0.
• Why I Contributed To Easy Digital Downloads, What I Learned, & Why You Should, Too (tommcfarlin.com)
  Easy Digital Downloads is a free plugin for WordPress that makes it exceptionally easy to sell digital products through your WordPress-based site.
• Should You Open Source Your Plugins? (pippinsplugins.com)
  An open source project means that anyone can take and freely modify the source code, and also re-release it as a different product. WordPress is open source, as are the vast majority of WordPress plugins.
• Drag & Drop Featured Image (wordpress.org)
  Drag & Drop Featured Image is a plugin that replaces the default "Set featured image" metabox with a drop zone for faster uploads.
• oEmbed in Comments (wordpress.org)
  WordPress supports oEmbed, but only in post content. This adds oEmbed support to comments.
• Run External Crons (wordpress.org)
  Use WordPress internal cron system to hit external URLs on a scheduled basis.
• Author Post Ratings (wordpress.org)
  Allows a post author to assign a simple 1-5 star rating to a post, page, or custom post type, which will then be displayed on the post.
• Event Organiser Plugin for WordPress (www.wpjedi.com)
  Event Organiser is a script that uses a custom post type to handle events on your website.
• Raven releases free schema generation plugin for WordPress (wpcandy.com)
  Raven Internet Marketing Tools, the company behind some incredibly popular SEO and internet marking tools, has released a free WordPress plugin that makes creating schema data dead simple.
• Top 10 WordPress Plugins of the Month – August 2012 Edition (managewp.com)
  A Top 10 WordPress Plugins of August 2012.

Theme Releases

HomeQuest (themefuse.com)	Invisi (www.wpexplorer.com)	Viewed (www.wpexplorer.com)
Lucid (www.elegantthemes.com)	Craftiness (www.studiopress.com)	Viewpoint (themesorter.com)
Busy Bee (emptynestthemes.com)	Snapshot (wordpress.org)	Stack (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• 9 new themes and extensions for Jigoshop WordPress eCommerce (jigoshop.com)
  This week alone 9 more products are available, and there are two more big releases coming imminently.
• 7 Event Management WordPress Themes (wpin.me)
  Your a company or an individual you want to throw an event or market your exhibition stand, but worry about who will show? Well this collection of event management WordPress themes should help you find the right theme.
• 30 of the Latest WordPress eCommerce Themes for 2012 (wplift.com)
  A list of 30 New eCommerce WordPress Themes that are all from 2012; better yet, the majority of these themes are from the past 3 months!
• Manage your Listings with Realtor Theme (fearlessflyer.com)
  After you install the Realtor theme, you can go ahead and start creating your properties via the admin panel. The realtor theme uses custom post type – “Listings” for your properties.
• 30 WordPress Themes with Complete Custom Layout Options (wplift.com)
  Some more advanced themes that allows users to customize their theme including things like layout & content builders, multiple color options, typographic controls, widgetized regions and so on.
• Celebrity, Entertainment and Gossip Magazine WordPress Themes (wplift.com)
  Keeping up with the world of Entertainment and Gossip can be quite a feat. See a list of 30 Fun WordPress Themes for Entertainment and Gossip Magazines with tons of variety in design so you can find the right fit for your content and audience.

Plugin Reviews

Tutorials

• Tuts Tuesday: Optimizing Your WordPress Site Part 2 (www.paddsolutions.com)
  In this article you will learn how you can improve your WordPress site speed and performance using WordPress plugins, CDN and other best practices.
• WordPress Filesystem API: the right way to operate with local files (www.webdesignerdepot.com)
  One of hidden gems of WordPress that allows developers to perform operations with the local file system in a secure and robust way is the WordPress Filesystem API. It abstracts file manipulation functionality into a set of commonly requested methods so they can be used securely in different hosting environments.
• Learn How to Create WordPress Child Themes (fearlessflyer.com)
  “A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme, and allows you to modify, or add to, the functionality of that parent theme.”
• The WPLift Guide to Strengthening Login Security in WordPress (wplift.com)
  Some ways to strengthen the security of login page by obscuring access to it. Strengthening your login page protects you from some very common exploits and hacks.
• Random Quote Plugin With Custom Post Type (wp.tutsplus.com)
  This is the second part of creating a random quote plugin, but this time with custom post types.
• 5 Ways to Improve Your WordPress Blog Using Plugins (fearlessflyer.com)
  WordPress remains the most popular blogging and CMS platform on the Internet, and with plugins, a WordPress blog can be expanded to provide excellent functionality. Here are five must have plugins to improve your WordPress blog.