Boring, Boring WordPress: Why WP is Falling Behind (wpmu.org) Yet more confirmation that while Medium is reinventing how we publish online, people are freaking out about Ghost purely because it offers a nice, simple experience. WordPress continues to persist with an interface that looks like a database application from 2005, with some quasi-modern color changes.
WP Elevation Official Launch (www.wpelevation.com) WP Elevation, the world’s 1st business accelerator program designed specifically for WordPress consultants is now officially launched and is accepting new members, WP Elevation is now open to the general WordPress consulting community.
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Plugin News
The Future of WordPress Plugin Development (chrislema.com) If you’ve read the latest news from Gravity Forms about their latest beta release, you’ll see that they’re building a plugin platform. Their latest API will begin the process of letting others do even more on top of the base of Gravity Forms. Future versions will go further.
Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 1 Released (www.gravityhelp.com) We are extremely please to announce the availability of Gravity Forms v1.8 Beta 1. This release introduces a major new enhancements such as drag-n-drop Multi-File Uploads.
You will also notice UI refinements, WordPress heartbeat integration, form trash, and other enhancements.
Advanced WordPress Menus: Plugins to Improve and Enhance the WP Menu System (wplift.com) These plugins allow you to enhance and improve the current WordPress menu system. In most cases they allow you to increase the amount of content and different types of information you can display in your dropdown menus, in order to make them more useful to your readers and visitors.
15 Gorgeous Fullscreen Video WordPress Themes (wpmu.org) While there are countless fullscreen photography WordPress themes available, fullscreen video themes are few and far between, especially ones that are fully responsive.
Houston, A Pretty P2 Child Theme (www.poststat.us) James Koster, of WooThemes, has designed a nice little child theme for P2 called Houston. I like it. It’s much more pleasant to look at than the default P2 theme.
DevPress: All About WordPress Development (torquemag.io) It is time for the third installment of our ongoing series, #ThemeThursday. Today, we’ll be taking a look at yet another impressive but lesser known WordPress premium theme provider—DevPress.
10 Free WordPress Themes Based on the Foundation Framework (www.wptavern.com) At the beginning of this year there were just a handful of WordPress themes available for Zurb’s Foundation framework. Most of these were basic starter themes for developers. As we near the end of 2013, Foundation is rapidly becoming more popular with front-end developers.
Tutorials
Customizing the WordPress Admin – Adding Styling (wp.tutsplus.com) In this tutorial you’ll learn how to add some styling and branding to your admin screens. Specifically you’ll learn how to: customize the admin screen footer and style it, style admin menus, style links and buttons.
How to Move a Live WordPress Site to Local Server (www.wpbeginner.com) Whether you are moving your WordPress site to a new domain, or from WordPress.com to self hosted WordPress, or to your localhost, it is highly recommended that you backup your entire website first. You're going to learn how to that with this tutorial.
How To Set the WordPress Core Auto-Updates in Your wp-config.php (generatewp.com) GenerateWP.com updates it's "wp-config.php generator" with some new options (under updates tab) that allows you to (1) enable/disable file-modification from the dashboard (2) turn on/off the auto core updates (3) add/remove the plugin/theme editor in the admin. Another great tool to harden your wordpress site security.
Podcasts and Videos
Episode 54: Brian Gardner of Copyblogger Founder of StudioPress (mattreport.com) If you don’t know who Brian is, where the heck have you been? He’s the first WordPress entrepreneur to pioneer the premium theme business as we know it today. He started StudioPress over six years ago as a passion project and soon became the de facto site to purchase premium WordPress themes.
Week in WordPress episode 17 (slocumstudio.com) Matt and Scott are joined by Brian Krogsgard of “Poststat.us” as they talk about the implication of automatic updates in security as well as browser support and the state of Woocommerce.
WPWeekly Episode 126 – Catching Up With Cory Miller From iThemes (www.wptavern.com) In this episode, we caught up with Cory Miller of iThemes.com. Then we progressed into the future and visited various milestones along the way such as the release of the Flexx theme, Builder, PluginBuddy, Backup Buddy, Webdesign.com, and iThemes Exchange.