News & Articles

• Spam: What You Need to Know to Protect Your WordPress Blog (www.wpexplorer.com)
  Spam is a major irritant — whether it is arriving in your email inbox or plaguing your blog. Take an in-depth look at the issue of spam on WordPress blogs, and how it can be managed and prevented.
• WordPress Featured in Wall Street Journal (lorelle.wordpress.com)
  Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, WordPress.com, the self-hosted version of WordPress, was featured on the Wall Street Journal Business talking about the fact that WordPress now supports 14% of all websites in the world, approximately 1 in 6 globally.
• A Case Study on WordPress Projects (tommcfarlin.com)
  An article by Tom McFarin which will make you think about how you should present your work on your own site.
• Why Use WordPress? (managewp.com)
  WordPress is free, and that is awesome. But is it the best solution? How often do you actually ponder whether or not one of the many free alternatives out there is a superior option?

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Plugin News

• Tevolution (templatic.com)
  Tevolution is a WordPress plugin that enables advanced functionality in our themes. Some of the features it enables include custom post types, monetization options, custom fields.
• Advanced Page Manager (wordpress.org)
  A new way to create, move, edit and publish your pages for your favorite CMS.
• HiDPI Gravatars (wordpress.org)
  Enables high resolution Gravatar images on any browser that supports them.
• Block Bad Queries (BBQ) (perishablepress.com)
  Block Bad Queries (BBQ) is a simple script that protects your website against malicious URL requests.
• Sliding Widgets (wordpress.org)
  WordPress Sliding Widgets Plugin will help your to create a sliding widget area dynamically.
• WordPress Custom Post Types Debate – Functions.php or Plugins? (www.wpbeginner.com)
  In this article, Syed Balkhi will debate whether WordPress Custom Post Types belong in functions.php file or in plugins.
• 5 WordPress Watermark Plugins: Protect Images or Get Free Advertising (wpmu.org)
  Watermarking your images tends to serve one of two very important purposes. See five best free WordPress watermarking plugins we could find. Some allow you place text watermarks. Some allow image watermarks. And some allow both.
• Freelancer Widgets Bundle (wpmu.org)
  The concept behind Freelancer Widgets Bundle is pretty simple - an assortment of widgets that could in fact be utilized by any number of people.
• Create Custom Email and Webinar Signup Forms with Elevatr (wpmu.org)
  Elevatr allows you to create custom email forms and custom webinar registration forms and sign up subscribers without ever having to pass them to a third-party site.

Theme Releases

Workality (www.workality.ca)	Epsilon (www.wpexplorer.com)	Gallery Church (www.wpexplorer.com)
Market (emptynestthemes.com)	Nusantara (wordpress.org)	Publish (wordpress.org)
Rundown (wordpress.org)	Seekr (wpin.me)	Cosmox (wpin.me)

Theme News

• Nightlife and Tevolution are now available! (templatic.com)
  Two weeks ago Templatic released Tevolution. After two (more) weeks of rigorous testing, the plugin and Nightlife are ready for the spotlight!
• 5 Unique Personal Blog Themes (managewp.com)
  5 unique premium personal blog themes with styles and features are well worth the price.
• A Perfect WordPress Theme Part 1 – Bloated is Bad (thematosoup.com)
  The ones that register shortcodes, custom post types, custom taxonomies, handle your SEO, Google Analytics code and who knows what else. A theme that does all that is not a perfect WordPress theme, it is a bloated one at best.

Plugin Reviews

Tutorials

• How to Create a Widget Plugin for WordPress (www.wpexplorer.com)
  WordPress is an amazing Content Management System with many great features such as widgets. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your own widgets within a small plugin.
• Building a Simple Announcements Plugin for WordPress (wp.tutsplus.com)
  In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a plugin that displays custom site-wide announcements across the top of the page, with the ability to schedule messages to appear between two given dates.
• How To: Add Responsive Photo & Video Galleries to WordPress (wplift.com)
  Launched just the other day is a new plugin from the folks at Max Foundry, called Max Galleria which is aiming to compete with NextGen. In this tutorial, you are going to take a look at how to install it and create a gallery.
• How To Add Next Page Break Links In WordPress Post Editor (wpsites.net)
  You can create one long post and break up the posts into separate pages. These shorter posts will all be linked together like a series however they’ll all be displayed, indexed and assigned to the one title. Sound good?
• How to Add Conditional Menus to WordPress (wpmu.org)
  If Menu is the latest plugin written to extend WordPress navigation menus. When the plugin is enabled, each menu item will get a new checkbox option to “Enable Conditional Logic”.