News & Articles

• WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 (wordpress.org)
  WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 is ready for testing.
• WordCamp Europe Is Next Week! (strangework.com)
  The event takes place October 5th-7th in Leiden, Netherlands.
• WordPress Backend Design Study – An Alternative to MP6? (marketpress.com)
  The designer and usability expert Nick at marketpress.com did a design study on the coming WordPress backend design MP6 for version 3.7 and tried to analyze what can be done better and how!
• Polish your code (www.poststat.us)
  Your code doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, it probably won’t be. But it should be clean, documented, organized, and use proper syntax. It should be polished.
• A true WordPress entrepreneur (mattreport.com)
  Meet Syed Balkhi the man behind WPBeginner.com, one of the world’s largest free WordPress resources.
• New User Profile Design Coming to WordPress.org (www.wptavern.com)
  While many WordPress GSoC projects have focused on improving the core, Mert Yazicioglu submitted a proposal for enhancing profiles on WordPress.org.
• Why Is Explaining WordPress To Someone So Hard? (www.wptavern.com)
  Within the past 3-4 years, we’ve seen more improvements to WordPress that cover use cases far outside of blogging such as heavy content management, large social sites, taxonomies, custom post types, and dare I say post formats.

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Plugin News

• Use Gravity Forms To Create Surveys In WordPress (www.wpexplorer.com)
  Introduction to the Gravity Forms Surveys Addon.
• Slider Performance: Soliloquy vs WooSlider (chrislema.com)
  Comparing the new WooSlider (v2) against Soliloquy, in terms of performance.
• OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin (www.poststat.us)
  Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin that you don't have to hate.
• WP Comment Notes (And What We Can Learn From It) (tommcfarlin.com)
  Promote WP Comment Notes because it’s another example of not only a focused plugin, but one that came out of a need for someone and one that does one thing well.
• The Dangers of WordPress Plugins Ignorance (And What To Do About It) (www.woothemes.com)
  Plugin issues that cause your website to malfunction. Yet many of us continue to install and uninstall plugins with wild abandon, ignorant of the potential risks involved in doing so.
• Lessons I Learned from Selling 2 Commercial WordPress Products on Flippa (wplift.com)
  Some tips if you are thinking of selling a WordPress ( or any other type of ) website.
• Plugin to the Future (yoast.com)
  The number of people having a (WordPress based) website has grown enormously in the past decade. Also, the number of people wanting to make money with that website has grown. As a result, more and more functionality is needed.
• Create your own WordPress group buying website (wpdiscounts.com)
  The Groupon business model turned out to be a true revelation when it comes to online sales and promotions. Here's how to do it with WordPress.

Theme Releases

Earth 3.0 (www.wpexplorer.com)	Wintersong (www.studiopress.com)	ShowStopper (templatic.com)
Gazeti (www.wpzoom.com)

Theme News

• Free Medium-Inspired WordPress Themes (wpmu.org)
  Although not yet open to the public for blogging purposes, it has attracted a lot of attention, including attention from those in the WordPress community who would like to take inspiration from its style.
• Custom backgrounds and headers (justintadlock.com)
  The Custom Header Extended plugin allows you to create a custom header on a per-post basis.
• My Top 10 Favorite Free WordPress Themes (managewp.com)
  An eclectic range to ensure that there are options available to everyone from bloggers, to designers, to businesses.

Tutorials

• Improve Your WordPress Loading Speeds With These Simple Tips (www.elegantthemes.com)
  When it comes to websites, slow and steady definitely doesn’t win the race. Not only will slow websites frustrate and deter your visitors, they can also get dinged in search engine rankings.
• A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Sections, Settings, and Controls (wp.tutsplus.com)
  By the time you finish this article, you should have a clear understanding of the Theme Customizer, and how to begin introducing your own settings into existing sections, creating new sections, as well as some of the built-in controls that are available for us to use in our work.
• WordPress tip: author bio excerpt (www.wprecipes.com)
  Would you like to be able to show a short intro of the author bio instead of his complete bio? Here’s a code snippet to make an excerpt of the bio, with a link to the author page, where you can show the full bio.