wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#188 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - January 22, 2015
News & Articles
The End Of WordPress As We Know It (monitive.com) WordPress is the number one choice for Content Management Systems. It’s well structured, easy to extend, themeable, very well documented and has a huge community around it.
So why doesn’t this make it perfect for blogs?
The Philanthropic Side of The WordPress Community (wptavern.com) Whether it’s businesses participating in charity work or individuals who need financial assistance, the WordPress community has repeatedly shown how generous it is. Here’s at look at some WordPress businesses that participate in philanthropy and individuals who experienced the community’s generosity first hand.
Calling People Out in the WordPress Community (wptavern.com) The founder of WP Site Care, Ryan Sullivan, explains how a negative SEO campaign nearly took his business offline. Sullivan shares details behind the attack, how it affected the bottom line, and says it was someone in the WordPress community who orchestrated the attack.
Archive WordPress Content with the Archived Post Status Plugin (wptavern.com) Archived Post Status adds more flexibility for using WordPress as a CMS. The plugin adds a new post status that enables posts and pages to be archived. This effectively allows you to unpublish content without having to send it back to draft status.
The 10 Most Popular Free and Responsive WordPress Themes Reviewed (premium.wpmudev.org) Just because a theme’s responsive doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for you. So how do you navigate your way through hundreds of responsive themes to find the right one for you?
Hopefully this post will help you. We’ve looked at 10 of the most popular responsive themes in the theme repository and reviewed them
Announcing Hexagone (wptheming.com) 2015 will be a transformative year for language support in WordPress. New APIs are in the works for wordpress.org which should make translation easier, and new features in WordPress core will add better support for those languages. Check out a new project that will become the best source for WordPress themes and tutorials in French.
Loading WordPress Posts Dynamically With AJAX (premium.wpmudev.org) AJAX has become all the rage in the past couple of years and for good reason. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a way to have a “conversation” with the server and display the results without reloading the page. We’ll look at why AJAX is used and, starting with a simple example, building AJAX loading functionality into Twenty Fifteen.
Combining Underscores With Bootstrap to Create a Theme Framework: Introduction (code.tutsplus.com) WordPress theme frameworks have been a hot topic for a while. Whether you should be using one is no longer the question. The benefits of using a theme framework cannot be denied and there are many, many frameworks out there; some are free, some premium.
The question is, which one should you use?