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News & Articles
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WordPress 3.8.1 Maintenance Release (wordpress.org)
After six weeks and more than 9.3 million downloads of WordPress 3.8, we’re pleased to announce WordPress 3.8.1 is now available. -
You Won’t Have To Become A WordPress Expert Once You See This (chrislema.com)
But just because it’s awesome doesn’t mean it’s always easy. A lot of it is easy, but it’s the stuff you want to tweak that always seems to be more difficult, right? So today we want to share with you some support options you have, so that you don’t have to become a WordPress expert. -
Rethinking The WordPress Editor (torquemag.io)
Jay Hoffman has some good thoughts over on Torque about what lies ahead for the WordPress content creation experience. Between content blocks and front-end editing, writing a post in WordPress two years from now will not be like it is today. -
How to Save Time When Writing in WordPress (www.woothemes.com)
Finding time to write your next blog post can be a challenge. We’re all on tight deadlines and over-scheduled, aren’t we? So, without further adieu, here are some things that help me to write faster and more efficiently in WordPress. A nice side effect of these tips? You’ll produce better content, too. -
WordPress, Openness, and Communication (wptavern.com)
If you were in a leadership role within the WordPress.org project, what ideas, tools, or suggestions would you put in place to make communication accessible and easier for all contributors? -
High Demand For WordPress Education Prompts Treehouse to Launch New Beginner’s Course (wptavern.com)
Treehouse offers technology education courses in a virtual environment to help users pick up new skills. Membership to the site offers access to various tracks of study that include topics such as iOS and Android development, web design, PHP, Rails development and more.
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Plugin News
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Write Plugins That Scratch An Itch (pippinsplugins.com)
After writing and maintaining 100+ plugins, we’ve discovered that there is one definite category of plugins that are the most enjoyable to build and maintain, and those are ones that are built for yourself to satisfy a personal need or desire. Plugins that scratch an itch.
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Developer Plugins I Can’t Live Without (torquemag.io)
When you’ve been developing for WordPress for a while, you get into a bit of a flow, and you end up reaching for the same tools again and again. And if you’ve reviewed as many plugins as I have, you probably will come across quite a few useful ones. They’ve helped me out quite a bit, and I’m hoping they might help you all too. Here they are, in reverse alphabetical order.
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Behind The Scenes In The WordPress Plugin Directory With Mika Epstein (wptavern.com)
How does someone get involved with reviewing plugins for WordPress? For Mika it was in the vein with something she’d be doing already. She has a passion for helping plugins play nice with WordPress.
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New Plugin: Post Connector (yoast.com)
Sometimes you just want to relate posts directly to posts. There are loads of reasons why you’d want to do this, for instance I might want to relate plugins to this post as I talk about them. This functionality is exactly what our new plugin Post Connector offers.
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WordPress SEO Premium 1.0 (yoast.com)
We’re very proud to bring this release to you today: WordPress SEO premium 1.0 is here. This premium version adds a redirect module to the WordPress SEO plugin that allows you to manage your redirects from within your WordPress installation.
Theme Releases
Theme News
Tutorials
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Migrating Multiple Blogs into WordPress Multisite (premium.wpmudev.org)
Managing multiple WordPress installations can be a drag. Remembering different sets of usernames and passwords, and having to install plugins and themes over and over again. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
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How To Customize The WordPress Theme Customizer Defaults (www.poststat.us)
Over the last couple of years, there have been a few really great resources written for utilizing the theme customizer and extending it. There are a few we think you should read if you are getting serious about the customizer.
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Using WordPress For Web Application Development: Available Features, Part 7: Caching (wp.tutsplus.com)
When it comes to applications, we hate waiting. We get frustrated when things don’t perform fast enough, or we have to wait longer than we believe that we should.
To that end, most modern web development frameworks make it possible to implement some type of caching through the use of certain APIs, and WordPress—though a foundation—is no different.
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Creating a WordPress Theme from Static HTML – Adding Widgets (wp.tutsplus.com)
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to register widget areas in your theme and display them in various locations. You’ll add a widget area to the header for contact details (or whatever you’d like!) and to the sidebar for sidebar widgets.
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Using WordPress For Web Application Development: Available Features, Part 6: URL Rewriting (or Routes) (wp.tutsplus.com)
One of the nicest things about modern web application development frameworks is that they provide a way to generate really clean routes—or URL schemes—that map to the conceptual model of how the application is structured, and you will gain an insight on how to do that.
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The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress SEO by Yoast: Final Tweaking (wp.tutsplus.com)
In this tutorial, you will learn the final steps to configuring the WordPress SEO plugin with the ultimate goal of making it as rock-solid as possible for your blog.
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Members-Only for WordPress, Part 1: User Roles (www.barrelny.com)
We want to show how easy it is to create a members-only system—a way to make exclusive content available for your registered users.
Podcasts and Videos
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