News & Articles

• PressLabs Raises the Bar in WordPress Hosting with Global Geo-Serving (www.presslabs.com)
  PressLabs is pioneering in the field of WordPress hosting by announcing the new geo-serving hosting package called Helium, running on a premium custom infrastructure deployed in 5 data centers on 4 continents. It has been developed together with early adopters and it has delivered more than ten billion page views so far to their readers.
• Pantheon for WordPress: A Website Hosting and Management Platform (www.poststat.us)
  Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren’t just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting.
• The Church of WordPress (knowmike.com)
  Mike Jordan wrote an excellent post on the future of the WordPress community. His post is an excellent call to all of us to remember our collective origins, and to work hard to ensure our community doesn’t grow in a way that shuns newcomers.
• Who’s Hiring in WordPress? (Spring 2014 Edition) (www.poststat.us)
  This is the fifth “Who’s hiring” post, and previous ones were very encouraging. With Spring in the air, I figured it’s a good time to do this again, as we’ve seen a number of job advertisements of quality brands seeking developers and designers in the last couple of weeks.
• Analyzing Your Audience (yoast.com)
  Yoast began as a WordPress blog, but is currently much more than just a blog. The aim of today's article is how to get knowing the preferences of your public and how it allows you to adapt your marketing and sales strategies.
• Why Showing The WordPress Username Is Not A Security Risk (wptavern.com)
  Some argue the leaking of usernames is a security risk. Dion Hulse, a core contributor to WordPress, explained the reasoning behind leaked usernames, included in this article.

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Plugin News

• Unmasking “Free” Premium WordPress Plugins (blog.sucuri.net)
  In this post, we’ll talk about “patched” malicious premium plugins. We’ll talk about what they do, how they work, and about websites that build their businesses around stolen WordPress themes and plugins.
• 10 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Pages (premium.wpmudev.org)
  Today we’re going to take a look at 10 different Page related plugins that will hopefully spur some ideas and get you thinking about the creative possibilities Pages offer.
• Give WordPress Smilies a Face Lift: New Plugin Adds WordPress.com Emoticons to Self-Hosted Sites (wptavern.com)
  The New WordPress.com Smileys plugin is hosted on github. If you view the code for the plugin, you can see the whole list of smilies included. It works in just the same way as the emoticons on WordPress.com.
• BuddyPress 2.0 To Add Signups Administration Screen (wptavern.com)
  BuddyPress 2.0 will include a new “Manage Signups” screen in the WordPress admin for tracking the status of pending accounts. This enhancement helps community administrators moderate registrations and help facilitate the signup process for new users who are experiencing difficulty.

Theme Releases

Modern Business (wordpress.org)

Lynette (www.bluchic.com)

Drop (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• Single Page WordPress Themes: A Collection of Free & Premium Examples (wplift.com)
  Single page WordPress themes are a great way to quickly put up a site which doesn’t require huge amounts of information to be added. We have hand-picked over 30 fresh examples of one page themes for you today, which include a number of nice free themes and many more premium themes.
• First WordPress Multilanguage Theme Released on Themeforest (www.wpmayor.com)
  Have you ever heard of a theme has built in front-end and back-end multilingual support for over 14 languages? No? Us neither, but there’s one out!
• What to Look for in a Responsive WordPress Theme (www.wpdailythemes.com)
  A responsive theme makes your content easier for mobile users to absorb and relate to. The question is, just what should you be looking for when trying to choose one of these themes? Read on to find out.
• The7 Review: A Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme (wplift.com)
  Today we are going to take a look at some of the best features of this theme, as well as seeing how easy it is to use in our review of The7 theme.
• Casper: A Free Ghost-Style WordPress Theme Based on Underscores (wptavern.com)
  Casper is a new theme for WordPress that is essentially a port of the default blogging theme for Ghost. Lacy Morrow built the theme using Underscores as a base. Morrow said that the goal for his theme was to approximate Ghost’s default theme while incorporating WordPress-specific features.
• ThemeCheck.org: A Free WordPress Theme Validation Service (wptavern.com)
  ThemeCheck.org is a new site that provides a free validation service for WordPress and Joomla themes. Visitors can upload themes and templates and the service will analyze the files and run tests to verify security and code quality.

Tutorials

• Show Custom Fields in WordPress (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  How to show custom fields in WordPress is one of the hardest thing to understand by non-technical users. This article comes in help by showing you different ways of displaying those custom fields and transform your website from static pages to a proper CMS
• 5 Ways to Synchronise WordPress Uploads Across Environments (polevaultweb.com)
  Iain Poulson has written a nice tutorial summarizing five different ways to sync uploads / media across WordPress environments.
• Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Types (code.tutsplus.com)
  If you are interested in learning object-oriented programming in PHP and you do consider yourself a beginner, then we're going to continue the series in this article by talking about some of the data types that PHP offers.
• How To Make a WordPress Landing Page Template w/ Gravity Forms (penguininitiatives.com)
  The following article is a great step-by-step guide to making your own custom landing page template in WordPress with Gravity Forms.

Podcasts and Videos

• Episode #26 – Chris Ducker (www.wpelevation.com)
  In this episode you are going to learn the importance of building a virtual team and surrounding yourself with some people who can help you scale your business and take your business to the next level.
• WPWeekly Episode 142 – Interview With The Founder Of OSTraining, Steve Burge (wptavern.com)
  We talked about the future of WordPress as well as the move towards front-end editing. Will it help users edit their content without having to navigate the back-end of WordPress or will it cause more confusion?