News & Articles
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Introducing ManageWP.org: The People-Powered WordPress Community (managewp.com)
We’re launching what we here at ManageWP consider our most significant contribution to the WordPress community. We call it ManageWP.org, and we’re hoping that you’ll find it to be your destination to share, vote, and discover incredible content related to all things WordPress. -
Is Responsive Design Obsession Holding WordPress Back? (wpmu.org)
Responsive design is the MVP, the prom queen and the hall-of-famer all rolled into one. But have we got to a point where responsive design is causing more harm than good? Is it now stifling innovation? Is it now actually holding WordPress back? -
“Challenge” Pilot Episode: A Big Thanks (mattreport.com)
Matt just finished recording the pilot episode of the Matt Report WordPress startup challenge. Some great entrepreneurs did a great job presenting and asking good questions. -
Mastering WordPress: How Long Should It Take? (tommcfarlin.com)
Here’s the thing: we applaud anyone and everyone who wants to work on mastering anything, let alone WordPress.Perhaps that sounds a bit idealistic, but we don’t think that’s here or there – people need to be good at what they do.
As much as we wish we could offer more positive advice, there’s only a handful of things that can be offered up. -
Ghost Launches to The Public (blog.ghost.org)
This first public release of Ghost represents code contributions from over 20 people, from every continent on earth with the exception of Antarctica (we're working on that one). We have successfully created the world's first fully functioning blogging platform built entirely with JavaScript. -
Potential Roadmap for WordPress Multisite (www.poststat.us)
If you use WordPress Multisite or have interest in it, you’ll want to read Andrew Nacin’s potential roadmap for the future of the project. It’s very promising, and he touches on many of the pain points for the current use cases for Multisite.
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Plugin News
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The Easiest WordPress Membership Plugin to Use (chrislema.com)
If you know a little something about something, and you are building a membership site you want to pass on to someone else, who may know less than you, and you don’t want them calling you all the time, then you too might want to build that solution on top of Exchange.
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Top 10 Free WordPress Plugins of the Month — October 2013 (managewp.com)
We have an eclectic mix of plugins for you this month.
The varied nature of this month’s selection made it difficult to order them, simply because they are all excellent in their own right.
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Getting Good at Support (pippinsplugins.com)
Providing top-notch support is not just about being good in dealing with customers, especially angry ones, or even being good at hunting down problems, whether they be in your own source code or the code someone else wrote. Top-notch support comes from balancing these two aspects and many more at the same time.
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Simple Google Maps for WordPress (www.poststat.us)
This new plugin is simple, caches the maps with the transients API, and works with any Google Map.
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Generatewp.com Introduced the "Plugin readme.txt Generator" (generatewp.com)
GenerateWP released new tool that allows wordpress plugin developers to create a valid readme.txt file. This new generator is a part of a growing set of usefull tools built for advanced developers and those who make their first steps in wordpress development.
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How To: Strengthen Your WordPress Login Process with Rublon: Free Plugin Review (wplift.com)
If you want to improve the security of your WordPress site then Rublon is a free service that will be of interest to you.
The service adds two-factor authentication to the login process for WordPress sites, as well as other platforms, in order to limit the fallout should your passwords become compromised.
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How to Localize a WordPress Plugin and Make it Translation Ready (wpmu.org)
Localizing your plugins makes sense if you want to reach the widest audience possible. After all, two-thirds of WordPress users live outside the US.
It only takes a little effort to make your plugins translation ready and is easier to do than you might think.
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Registering Multiple Default Backgrounds (justintadlock.com)
One of the awesome things WordPress theme authors can do is register multiple default header images. This allows their theme users to pick-and-choose from images that have been specifically optimized for the theme. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same thing about custom backgrounds, so this tutorial will show you how to do it.
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Displaying Information of a WordPress.org Plugin on Your Website (wp.tutsplus.com)
In this tutorial we will put the theory in action to create a simple plugin which will allow us to display details of any plugin hosted on WordPress.org on our WordPress website using shortcodes.
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How to Set Up the WordPress Backend in Your Language (wpmu.org)
About 30,000 people from 178 countries took part in this year’s WordPress survey, so a vast majority of people outside the US are using WordPress. And it makes sense that those people would want to use WordPress in their own language. In this post we’ll show you how to set up your WordPress backend in a language other than English.
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