News & Articles

• WordPress 3.7 “Basie” (wordpress.org)
  Version 3.7 of WordPress, named “Basie” in honor of Count Basie, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. This release features some of the most important architectural updates we’ve made to date.
• Don’t Fear The Auto Update (halfelf.org)
  The automatic background updates for WordPress are for minor updates only. We’re not talking about auto-upgrading people from 3.7 to 3.8, but just 3.7 to 3.7.1 – These are small, minor, updates.
• Get To Know the New Functions in WordPress 3.7 (www.poststat.us)
  The fabulous documentation site, QueryPosts, has you covered with the new functions added to WordPress 3.7. Take a look around and jump right to the source to get familiar with the new things to play with in your next project.
• Why Schema.org Is Crucial to WordPress (torquemag.io)
  Recently, there have been a number of articles discussing the new Hummingbird upgrade on Google Search. Many of you have probably already heard that because of this change, it will be more important to use Schema.org in your site’s syntax in the future.
• The Dark Economy: A Look at the Shadier WordPress Products & Businesses (wplift.com)
  There is no doubting that WordPress is an amazing tool and has been used by millions of people in many good ways, there are also people who use it in more nefarious ways – a darker side to WordPress. There are people who seek to generate income and build profits at the expense of their morals and this is what today’s post is about.
• Co-Creating A Better Support Experience (torquemag.io)
  Too often, product support is seen as simply a way to correct users who just can’t seem to do things properly. But what if we saw support as a way to educate users, and more importantly find the the difference between a developer’s concept of what a plugin or other product can do and what users think it can do?

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Plugin News

• Promote Your Plugin or Theme by Adding it to the WPLift Directory (wplift.com)
  Promote your WordPress product or your theme or plugin on WPLift where it is searchable and discoverable by tag and category.
• Akismet Celebrates Huge Spam Blocking Milestone (www.wptavern.com)
  Akismet is celebrating a huge milestone today. According to its spam counter, it has now blocked over 100,000,000,000 spam messages. Thanks to a number of libraries and an API, Akismet can be used on different content management systems as well as services.
• Why The WordPress Plugin Version Pie Chart Disappeared (www.wptavern.com)
  About three years ago, WordPress introduced pie charts and a stats API to the plugin repository. The API provided a method to getting access to the data. Unfortunately, the API along with the Pie charts have been temporarily removed.
• WordPress Core Developers Release Plugin To Test Automatic Background Updates (www.wptavern.com)
  Over the weekend, WordPress developers Andrew Nacin and Dion Hulse released an official WordPress.org plugin that enables users to test their sites’ compatibility with the background updates feature, introduced in WordPress 3.7.
• The Ultimate List of Premium WordPress Booking & Reservation Plugins (restaurantthemes101.com)
  We know by now that WordPress is incredibly functional and easy to use, therefor I’ve dug up 12 awesome premium WordPress booking and reservation plugins, and we’ll try to explain why each one of them is fantastic, and what it can be used for.
• CoSchedule Is Live! (coschedule.com)
  Simply stated, the drag-and-drop calendar is better than cake. It is the most sought-after feature from our early adopters, and one that is obviously difficult to perfect. We think we’ve nailed it, and our users tend to agree.

Theme Releases

Beautiful Blogging (www.wpexplorer.com)	Charity+ (www.wpexplorer.com)	Milano (milano.themoholics.com)
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Theme News

• iThemes Builder – Getting Past Shiny Stuff Syndrome (chrislema.com)
  When was the last time you've checked on Builder? Here you have 5 reasons to do it again.
• WordPress Themes that Are High Resolution – Ready for Your Retina Displays (fearlessflyer.com)
  Theme developers have followed today’s display standards, by creating some of the most visually appealing themes that money can buy. Check out this collection of WordPress themes that are retina ready.
• Lessons Learned from Building and Supporting a (Fairly) Popular WordPress Theme (kovshenin.com)
  If you’ve never released a theme to WordPress.org before, it’s a good idea to review the guidelines before you get started, and pay extra attention to the footer credit link and licensing rules.
• Why You Should Never Add Analytics Code to Your WordPress Theme (www.wptavern.com)
  Site analytics are not a theme feature and simply do not belong in your theme. Analytics has nothing to do with your website’s design. Even if Google tells you to add this to the header of your site, do not directly edit your theme.
• How To Find Live Examples Of Sites Using A WordPress Theme (www.wptavern.com)
  WPShout.com has a great article that explains how to easily find websites that are using the theme you’re thinking about buying or using.

Jobs post your own job

• JS master (www.mailpoet.com)
  MailPoet, a newsletter plugin, is looking for a JS ace to make its visual editor an awesome experience.

Tutorials

• How To Implement A Paywall On Your WordPress Site (wpmu.org)
  Publishers from the New York Times to Australia’s Fairfax Media are implementing a variety of models as they start to charge for access to content. In this article, we’ll look at the paywall models available and how to implement them on your WordPress site.
• Ensuring Your Theme Has Retina Support (wp.tutsplus.com)
  With all of the high resolution screens available today, it only makes sense that your WordPress theme includes support for displaying higher quality images. That means adding functionality to create these images on top of a way to load the right one depending on the screen resolution of the end user.
• How to Implement Post Status Transitions for Custom Web Applications (wp.tutsplus.com)
  Post status transitions are a very powerful way of adding new features or managing the work flow in applications, but there are some drawbacks with this technique. Consider a situation where you need to send a large number of notifications in a single post status transition.
• A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: A Methodology for Sections, Settings, and Controls – Part 2 (wp.tutsplus.com)
  In the last article, we defined a simple methodology for everything that’s required to establish a new Section, Settings, and Controls within the Theme Customizer. In this article, we’re going to continue with doing more of the same; however, we’re going to be adding new settings and controls into the existing section.
• How to Install WordPress Plugins Directly From Github (www.wptavern.com)
  Using a plugin from github traditionally requires you to visit github, search for the plugin, download the zip file and upload it to your site to install, but know there's an easier way.

Podcasts and Videos

• Week in WordPress Episode 16 (www.youtube.com)
  Want to get a step ahead in the WordPress world? Take a look on his week's panel of discussion presented by Matt & Scott with their guests Andrew Norcross, Chris Lema, Tom McFarlin.