News & Articles

• AppPresser: A Foundation for Using WordPress To Make Mobile Apps (www.poststat.us)
  AppPresser is a collaborative effort between Scott Bolinger, Brad Williams, Brian Messenlehner, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson. AppPresser is a foundation for people to use WordPress based tools to build mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms.
• One Touch Deployments and Staging Environments for WordPress (chrislema.com)
  In enterprise software development you develop solutions on your own personal computer. So when you’re done, you want to push it up to the production server. But guess what? Things break. Because the production environment isn’t the same as your computer. And that’s why we create staging environments.
• Episode 53: Josh Strebel of Page.ly, PressNomics and Matt Report Pro (mattreport.com)
  If you’re interested in attending PressNomics or learning what it’s all about, check out my review here. Loads of good comments there too. So what’s up in episode 53? See below.
• Introducing Pressware – Custom WordPress Development and Services (tommcfarlin.com)
  Remember about Pressware? We're proud to finally be releasing the landing page and the official launch of the brand.
• Interview with Vladimir Prelovac of ManageWP.org (torquemag.io)
  Community-powered WordPress news aggregation site ManageWP.org has been in action for one week and people are loving it!
• WordPress 3.7 Release Candidate 2 (wordpress.org)
  The second release candidate of WordPress 3.7 is now available for testing!

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Plugin News

• Top 6 Translation Plugins for Your WordPress Site (wpmu.org)
  One of the easiest ways to translate your WordPress site and backend is with a plugin, but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed when you start searching for the right plugin, plus it can be tricky because not all translation tools are equally effective and each works differently. Today we’re going to look at six free and premium plugins for translating your WordPress site.
• Pricing WordPress Plugins (or “The Dangers of The App Store Model") (tommcfarlin.com)
  So as WordPress continues to grow and the economy around it does as well, let’s do what we can not to drive down the prices of the work we’re doing. It’s good stuff! I don’t care if you’re a competitor or not – build quality software, charge accordingly, and let’s not undermine ourselves or our users. We’re the ones that have the ability to set those prices.
• Plugmatter Feature Box - A WP Plugin to Create Email Opt-in Feature Boxes for Your Site (plugmatter.com)
  Plugmatter Feature Box plugin helps you create non-intrusive, professional looking opt-in feature boxes to collect email addresses and build your list.
• Pulse: An Example WordPress Plugin Using the Heartbeat API (www.wptavern.com)
  This plugin doesn’t actually perform any specific function, except to show you how you can interact with the WordPress Heartbeat API. It’s a learning tool to help developers get started building their own plugins.
• Plugin Readme File Generator (www.poststat.us)
  GenerateWP has released a plugin readme file generator. This is the 17th tool released by GenerateWP, yet another user-friendly tool for WordPress developers that allows you easily create valid readme.txt files for your plugin.

Theme Releases

FlatShop (www.wpexplorer.com)	Real Church (www.wpexplorer.com)	Bueno (wordpress.org)
Aldehyde (wordpress.org)	Gold (wordpress.org)	WP FlatThirteen (wordpress.org)
Central (wordpress.org)	Wordpost (wordpress.org)	Alhena Lite (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• A New Builder Theme: Paige (ithemes.com)
  Another new Builder theme is here! Introducing Paige, a clear, crisp theme that functions nicely as a personal or business website. Paige also includes Exchange-ready styling, so you can easily set up your online store.
• Red Hot WordPress Themes by Theme Furnace (torquemag.io)
  As of now, Theme Furnace has 16 themes in its collection, including a couple of free ones. The themes cater to a wide variety of genres, including blog, portfolio, corporate, and so on. Most of the themes seem to have minimal design which, of course, is a good thing.
• 9 Fresh Directory Themes for WordPress (www.wpmayor.com)
  Here are some of great directory themes that we’ve come across on the web. Not only can these themes help you build that perfect directory website, but could also be used to develop sites for personal ads, travel guides, real estate listings and more. Tell us what you think.
• Don't Update Your Theme (themeshaper.com)
  Konstantin Obenland talks about the concept of the Underscores (_s) theme being unversioned, and how theme authors shouldn’t worry too much about updating their themes based off of _s every time _s updates.

Tutorials

• Customizing the WordPress Admin – Listings Screens (wp.tutsplus.com)
  Customizing the post listing screens in WordPress is very straightforward – you can easily remove columns as you wish and amend the styling to make better use of the space. This will make the screens less confusing for your users, as they won’t see columns which don’t contain metadata.
• A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: A Methodology for Sections, Settings, and Controls (wp.tutsplus.com)
  In this article, we’re going to take a look at what’s required to introduce our own section and a variety of settings and controls. This article will cover a methodology that can be followed for implementing new settings and controls, and how to apply this methodology for introducing a new section, setting, and control.
• How To Turn Any WordPress Site Into An Issues-based Magazine (wpmu.org)
  In offline publishing, regular periodic publishing is the dominant model be it the daily newspaper or the quarterly journal. Online, however, this approach has barely got a toehold and yet publishing in issues would be beneficial to many sites. Turning your WordPress site into an issues-based online publication is not hard. Check it out!
• How To Style Github Gist Code Embeds in WordPress (wpsites.net)
  In this post, we’ll show you the before and after results for styling different elements when embedding code in WordPress using Githubs Gists.