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News & Articles
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WordPress for Android 2.8 Released, New Beta Testers Needed (wptavern.com)
WordPress for Android shipped its 2.8 release late last night. This milestone includes 55 closed issues. This release is packed full of many small bug fixes, better language support, and performance improvements. Here is the list with the highlights. -
The Cost of Running a WordPress Website (www.poststat.us)
A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive.
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Prelaunch Checklist: 10 Things To Do Before Launching your WordPress Site (wplift.com)
Once you have your new site or theme finished, content has been checked and everything is good to go, there are a few more steps you should take to really get your site ready for visitors. That is what we will be sharing with you today, we present our 10 step launch checklist. -
How an English Lit. Grad. Who Didn’t Know PHP from FTP Bootstrapped a Successful WordPress Company (premium.wpmudev.org)
James Farmer was a university lecturer in education design loitering around WordPress forums for scraps of code when he saw the potential in Multisite. Now he runs the largest WordPress plugin store, WPMU DEV. This is the story of how it all started.
Sponsored by
Plugin News
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Isolating Styles When Creating a Theme-Specific Plugin (tommcfarlin.com)
Generally speaking, one of the nicest things about WordPress is that we can change the look, feel, and presentation of our blogs and web sites through the use of themes. We can then extend or remove functionality based on the plugins that we install. Read this article to see what options you do have.
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Create A Custom WordPress Admin Experience With Adminimize (wptavern.com)
Over the years, WordPress has added features, menus, and options throughout the backend. Adminimize by Frank Bültge and Inpsyde GmbH makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.
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Official WordPress Plugin for the Add to Homescreen Javascript Plugin (wptavern.com)
Add to Homescreen is an open source project, developed by Matteo Spinelli, that allows website owners to include the add to home screen call-out for mobile devices. The Javascript plugin is self-contained, dependency-free, and often recommended.
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WP Rocket Launches Commercial Caching Plugin for WordPress (wptavern.com)
WP Rocket is a new commercial caching plugin for WordPress that launched exclusively in the French market eight months ago. It’s created and supported by Julio Potier, Jonathan Buttigieg, and Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier, a small group of Frenchmen with a passion for website optimization.
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Introducing the FastLine Page Builder plugin for WordPress! (themes.fastlinemedia.com)
The Page Builder is a drag and drop layout system that works on the front-end of WordPress and allows you to create beautiful layouts without having to write any code. If you haven’t already, take a look at the demo to see it in action!
Theme Releases
Theme News
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A Strategy for Organizing WordPress Theme Functions (tommcfarlin.com)
Talking about how to best organize the files that make up a WordPress theme is a lengthy series unto itself, and it brings with it a level of subjectivity that’s not worth trying to discuss in a single post, but we'll start at this point. -
Crocoblock Theme Club Review: A New Theme Club with 60 Themes (wplift.com)
Crocoblock has currently has 60 themes available and they aim to add another 2 each week. They have the lofty goal of becoming the largest theme club and at a growth rate of 2 themes per week, this does seem possible. Today we are going to look at what the club and some of the themes on offer. -
Save Time Building WordPress Customizer Controls (wptavern.com)
Adding controls to WordPress’ theme customizer can be somewhat tedious and there are many tutorials dedicated to creating your own controls. WordPress Theme Customizer Custom Controls is a project on Github that provides a collection of ready-made controls that you can drop right into your theme.
Tutorials
Podcasts and Videos
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Using Plugins… or not. Time to retire this discussion (thewpchick.com)
There are so many factors that go into someone’s choice to use (or not use) a plugin that we really think it’s best to try to stick with a ‘best practices’ for plugins and do what you feel is right for you, your site and your business (if in fact your WordPress site is for your business also). Check this podcast to find more!
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Gallery on WordPress: Envira versus Max Galleria (www.youtube.com)
Matt returns to the studio space as the guys do their first VS session in a while.
What is the best WordPress photo gallery plugin? Find out as Envira Gallery takes on Max Galleria!
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179 – Quickly Format Your Posts Using Markdown (yourwebsiteengineer.com)
Markdown lets you compose posts and comments with links, lists, and other styles using regular characters and punctuation marks. Markdown is used by writers and bloggers who want a quick and easy way to write rich text, without having to take their hands off the keyboard, and without learning a lot of complicated codes and shortcuts.
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A WordPress Hosting Panel #16 (wpbacon.com)
If you’re interested in choosing the best WordPress host, learning more about what to expect when you self-host your own WordPress site, or just finding out about how the hosting business works, this is a podcast you can’t possibly miss.
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