News & Articles

• Beta Testing For WordPress 3.5 – Beta 1 (wordpress.org)
  The first full beta for WordPress 3.5 (set to release in December) is now out and ready for you to play with.
• Your WordPress Disaster Recovery Plan (wpmu.org)
  When you're moving your websites on a new server, you need to update your my disaster recovery plan for your WordPress websites. Learn how.
• Does WordPress Keep Your Content Safe? (wpmu.org)
  Any content you produce in WordPress becomes available to you (and anyone else) across any device. And best of all, with WordPress’ “Save as Draft”, autosave, and revision history features, your content is totally safe and secure.…or is it?
• Why WordPress Is So Good (wp.tutsplus.com)
  There are a lot of questions that get consistently asked and which seem to really confuse people. That’s OK. WordPress is so flexible that there’s bound to be a lot of confusion.
• Should Themes Include Plugin-Style Functionality? (managewp.com)
  Theoretically speaking, themes dictate a WordPress website’s design and presentation, and plugins dictate its functionality. But this theory often does not translate into reality – themes often include plugin-style functionality, and to a lesser extent, plugins incorporate design factors.

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Plugin News

• MyMail Email Newsletter Plugin for WordPress (www.wpexplorer.com)
  MyMail is an email newsletter plugin for sale on Themeforest. This awesome plugin streamlines and simplifies the newsletter process from beginning to end.
• Love It Pro (www.wpexplorer.com)
  Love It Pro is WordPress plugin developed by Pippin and for sale on Mojo Themes. This is a nifty plugin that allows visitors to “Love” your posts and pages.
• Optimize Your WordPress Site for the Search Engines with All-in-One SEO Pro (ithemes.com)
  The All-in-One SEO Pro plugin — just got a big update with some great new features, including a Sitemap Generator.
• Jigoshop - six new extensions for discounts, shipping and more (jigoshop.com)
  Six new extensions are now available to customise your Jigoshop WordPress eCommerce business. They include Account Funds, Customer Discounts, easier ways to add Duplicate Products and PayPal Advanced Payments, plus a great new WordPress eCommerce theme which is Jigoshop compatible.
• Grid Columns WordPress Plugin (justintadlock.com)
  Grid Columns creates a single [column] shortcode for use in your post content (or other shortcode-ready areas) to allow you to create columnized content. It serves nothing more than that single function.
• Post Forking (wordpress.org)
  WordPress Post Forking allows users to “fork” or create an alternate version of content and in doing so, sets out to foster a more collaborative approach to WordPress content curation.
• Advanced Browser Check (wordpress.org)
  Tell IE users to change browser? Or your site is only for chrome? Now you choose what browsers should trigger a warning popup or not on your site.
• Favorite Plugins Widget (wordpress.org)
  Displays your favorite plugins from your WordPress.org profile along with star ratings and author info.
• Thin Out Revisions (wordpress.org)
  Thin Out Revisions is a plugin to thin out post/page revisions manually.
• Automatic Updater (wordpress.org)
  Automatically update WordPress, your themes and plugins! Never have to click the update button again!
• HTML5 Videos (wordpress.org)
  Easily embed HTML5 videos from the Media Library into posts and pages.
• 5 Attractive Weather Forecasts Plugins for WordPress (www.wpjedi.com)
  These 5 weather forecasts plugins for WordPress are attractive and offer your visitors with useful weather information.
• Introducing the Open Source Course Management System for WordPress Lovers (wpmu.org)
  WP-Courseware plugin is one of the most exciting new WordPress plugins on the market, especially if you’re training outsourcers or selling information products online.
• WordPress Plugin Development Resources (www.wpmayor.com)
  Some resources that will surely help you in developing WordPress plugins.

Theme Releases

Just Married (themefuse.com)	Auditorium (graphpaperpress.com)	Bright Economy (emptynestthemes.com)
Runo Lite (wordpress.org)	SimpleCorp (www.s5themes.com)	GamePress (wordpress.org)
Twenty Twelve (wordpress.org)	Pure Paradise (www.wpexplorer.com)	Slide (themify.me)
Exhibit (www.themeskingdom.com)

Theme News

• What WordPress Theme Developers Can Learn from Twenty Twelve (kovshenin.com)
  Without a doubt, Twenty Twelve is one of the best themes. It’s so simple, clean, good-looking and filled with so much awesomeness inside.
• HTML5 Blank WordPress Theme (html5blank.com)
  Todd Motto put together this great HTML5 Shell theme and is giving it to you, for free. The code is clean and semantic, something that many people seem to toss to the wayside with frameworks.
• New Themes Site (contemporealestatethemes.com)
  A new themes site is on the market. Also you will find awesome free plugins.
• WooThemes.com, Redesigned. (wpforce.com)
  A huge relaunch, WooThemes launched a new site and soon, new services.
• The State of WordPress Themes and ThemeForest (wpcandy.com)
  Read a quick survey of the WordPress theme landscape, how it is growing and see the author's point of view about where he sees ThemeForest fitting in.
• 30 Clean, Modern & Creative Responsive WordPress Themes 2012 (wplift.com)
  A roundup of 30 ultra-clean business and portfolio WordPress themes that are all responsive.

Plugin Reviews

Tutorials

• How to Create FAQ Page With Custom Post Types (colorlabsproject.com)
  In this tutorial you will learn to create a targeted FAQ section in the WordPress back end with custom post types, and add some styles to make it more stylish with CSS and a bit of jQuery.
• Create a Custom WordPress Login Without Plugins (line25.com)
  WordPress Logins are probably one of the least touched–upon subjects as far as WordPress theme design is concerned, but it can really help create a unique look and feel for a client’s website, or even your own! Here’s how to easily make a login of your own without the need of a plugin.
• How To Use WP_User_Query For WordPress User Queries (tommcfarlin.com)
  WordPress API has a tendency to introduce new functions for querying specific data in later releases. So for being aware of new methods, read a more detailed cover of WP_User_Query.
• 375 Million pageviews for 15$ a month (hubcitylabs.org)
  This is part of “Hackerspace Trials and Tribulations” series in which you can read about certain problems encountered while getting HubCityLabs off the ground, and the solutions found.
• Child Themes Basics and Creating Child Themes in WordPress (wp.tutsplus.com)
  In this tutorial you are going to see how one can create child themes for other themes to leverage on the code provided by the parent theme.